英语词汇“tendentious”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

A Somerset Maugham story is always a story, not a literary experiment or tendentious social document. Review | ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z

The argument that destruction is justified by the jobs created during construction is especially tendentious: all building work employs people, so any planning application might be justified on this basis. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z

He remains a tendentious superstar, but a superstar nonetheless. Ye Is Running Out of Platforms 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

A similarly tendentious attitude pervades Mr. Stone’s treatment of the April 2002 coup that briefly toppled Mr. Chávez. Oliver Stone?s Latin America in ?South of the Border? 2010-06-26T01:42:00Z

Ford's historical and travel writing is vivid, often tendentious and always personal. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z

Because if those lines are not tendentious twaddle, they have a hell of a lot in common with it. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z

But while Martel’s novel has a deep and sometimes tendentious concern with religion and philosophy, Chakrabarti’s adaptation engages with these questions only glancingly. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

It should elicit no surprise, then, that this biography comes across as markedly tendentious. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

It’s tendentious to mention it in every review, but I am thinking about it while writing every line of every review. Soft Children Confront a Hard World in Maile Meloy’s New Novel 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

But “Americans” succeeds without being tendentious or bland. Review | The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

In the end, it’s not enough to power this tendentious novel through to its unsurprising conclusion. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z

“Spring” is tendentious at times, but it taps deeply into our contemporary unease. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

This tendentious vision meshes with the film’s view of American institutions over all. “Peppermint,” Reviewed: Jennifer Garner Stars in an Ignorant, Racist Drug-Trade Revenge Film 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

But the equation of Vegas, the gambling Mecca, with western values strikes me as tendentious. Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-12T17:31:11Z

“Innocents” is more ambitious and tendentious than earlier Spiotta novels like “Eat the Document” and “Stone Arabia.” Review: Dana Spiotta’s ‘Innocents and Others’ Explores the Dynamics Between Life and Art 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z

The weaknesses of “The X-Files”—tendentious dialogue, an alien conspiracy that made no sense—were obvious from the beginning. A Return to the Nostalgia of “The X-Files” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z

What would you tell critics who might say that the documentary is tendentious because of that clear perspective, if not manipulative? Director Amy Berg on Why the Adnan Syed Case Still Matters 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

But Armando and his wife seldom leap off the page as characters; their motives remain opaque, tendentious. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

Perhaps everything was, at some level – although I do find some of the claims made about his later work as tantalising as they are tendentious. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z

But in the end, its tone isn’t tendentious so much as encouraging, even sweet, and hopeful in a hard-earned way. Review: ‘Colin in Black & White’ Finds Kaepernick Before He Took a Knee 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

This combination of words and pictures may be tendentious, but it’s a reminder that photographers with a conscience have more than one tool at their disposal. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Such a conceit — a projection of a perspective from ancient Judea onto the lifestyle of a contemporary secular New York Jew — might strike some readers as tendentious or random, but it’s not. An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

"Zinn is tendentious and strident and polemical and oversimplifies everything, the others are obviously all worse." ArtsBeat: And the Worst Book of History Is ... 2012-07-16T20:00:21Z

Artists have no such strictures, though tendentious artists who make work without a higher truth may find their work unmasked and marginalized. Perspective | The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Of Gods and Men Spiritual drama – or tendentious piece of Catholic proselytising? The best films for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

In any case, it is a tendentious reading of any ancient text that would apply modern standards of plausibility to myth. The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

The omission matters because it undermines the film’s integrity, helping to turn what might have been a vivid and thoughtful ethical drama into a flat, tendentious history lecture. | 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z

“But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Front Runner’ and ‘The Emoji Movie’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Most innovatively, it served as metaphor, expressing the productions’ ideas about African-American history with greater eloquence, subtlety and direct appeal than their sometimes tendentious scripts. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

“Half the country” may oppose the moon mission, but here Chazelle offers a peculiar, tendentious, and self-revealing cinematic interpretation of that phrase in the form of a montage. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

Every chapter is a fresh surprise, nothing goes on too long and the emphasis on family values confers a — slightly tendentious — “It’s a Wonderful Life” charm. Perspective | ‘A Wrinkle in Time’: Let’s hope the movie is better than the book 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z

It's ambitious, frequently tendentious and, at two and quarter hours, perhaps too long. The Gospel According to the Other Mary – review 2013-03-17T19:07:10Z

It is “tendentious at best and totally contrived at worst”. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Most of the Trump references in American fiction thus far read like tendentious tweets. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

They're this tendentious record of power, of getting people to conform. 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z

But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z

As history, though, it’s another story — at once tendentious and undercooked, proposing a reductive, essentially conspiratorial account of recent events. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z

Though Boyle’s direction of “Steve Jobs” is largely invisible, he offers a neat little visual gimmick to reinforce Sorkin’s tendentious view of Jobs—and of technology. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Of course, all autobiographical works are secretly tendentious, quietly adjusting history to fit a certain hypothesis or to justify a life. Review | A tale of a family bound by food — and hunger 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Indeed, “The Father” was written as a retort to “A Doll’s House,” which Strindberg described as “swinery,” filled with logical potholes and tendentious argument. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

“It’s not a wonderful book — I find it to be Shaw at his most tendentious and annoying — but it’s a great title.” Kushner’s ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide’ Finds a Niche at the Shaw Festival 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

“The Roosevelt thing is a bit of spin,” says New York Magazine’s liberal stalwart Jonathan Chait, “or at least a tendentious effort by the left to turn Roosevelt into usable history.” Bernie Sanders is often called a liberal. He’d beg to differ. Who is actually a liberal? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Clever compositions enliven the shots of cameras and control rooms, where screens within screens transmit tendentious opinions to the American people. “The Loudest Voice” Eviscerates Roger Ailes and Fox News 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z

“Most history curricula in the past have been either tendentious in a liberal posture or just boring.” Florida adds PragerU to K-12 curricula, Texas may follow 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z

Like the origins of the Cold War, the legacy of the Versailles Treaty has been subject to so much revisionism, tendentious pleading and misinformation that closer examination is warranted. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z

It said that the WWF had waged "tendentious" campaigns against the energy, oil and natural gas industries, which it said were aimed at "shackling" Russia's economic development. Russia bans WWF, citing 'threats' from fossil fuel campaigns 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z

A right-wing judge with an established anti-Obamacare record accepted a tendentious interpretation of the biblical “word of God” to deny accessible and affordable healthcare to the entire country. Column: How right-wing judge-shopping in Texas is erasing Americans' rights everywhere 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z

Fox’s lies are tendentious; their goal, as with Trump and a long line of fascists and autocrats, is to inflame the grievances and prejudices of voters who feel left behind. Dominion’s suit reveals a cynical, complicit Fox 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z

The drafters based this assertion partially on a tendentious and cherry-picked misreading of a study of Oregon Medicaid enrollees published in 2012. Column: Anti-poverty programs work. Why are Democrats letting them wither? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

But Newitz is not tendentious so much as concerned with conveying the granular texture of life as it is lived. Review | ‘The Terraformers’ is a dazzling look at the distant future 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

But the military dictatorship, newly emboldened by its victory, called the American official’s statement “false and tendentious, an offense to the Argentine people and harmful to ties between both states.” The World Cup that left human rights behind 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

It would also leave fiscal policy as the primary driver of any recession response, with decisions made more difficult by divided rule and the beginnings of what could be a tendentious presidential election cycle. Potentially divided U.S. government tees up tough economic debates for 2023 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z

That was the lesson in Chile, which rejected a tendentious constitutional reform in September and sent president Gabriel Boric’s approval ratings tumbling. Opinion | Bolsonaro beats the polls — and plunges Brazil into more uncertainty 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z

Nor would one expect any such value judgment from the CBO, which sedulously adheres to its duty of analysis, devoid of tendentious commentary. Column: Student debt relief might cost $420 billion. That's a bargain 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z

She was arrested while on holiday in Saudi Araba in January 2021, and was found guilty of "providing succour to those seeking to disrupt public order" and "publishing false and tendentious rumours". Nourah al-Qahtani: Saudi woman jailed for 45 years for social media posts 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z

But it remains trapped in a hermetic, tendentious womb of its own. Review | ‘Crimes of the Future’ is meant to shock. Instead, it’s just tedious. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z

Beyond the issue of tendentious legal theories lies the unresolved question of the states. Opinion | The Whole Point of the Constitution Was to Weaken the States 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

"The matters presented are predominantly historical ... and the accounts of these matters are based on partial, inaccurate, or selective information taken out of context, resulting in tendentious interpretations of the bank's business conduct." Credit Suisse denies wrongdoing after client data leaked to media 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z

The bait she dangles to draw out a response can be highly tendentious. The Liberal Activist Who Targets Republicans With a MAGA Masquerade 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Within a week, we would have been drowning in breathless TV segments, tendentious op-eds, and mawkish lectures about the sanctity of democracy in the United States. Kyrsten Sinema doesn't need to be saved by Republicans 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Rarely did they proclaim tendentious personal and political positions they held, and never did my White students state that they felt attacked for their race. Opinion | There’s nothing to fear in talking about racism 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z

His day-in-day-out pattern of outrageous lies, ridiculous claims and tendentious misinformation was not the issue, Clegg said. Opinion | Facebook kicked the Trump can down the road again. Enjoy the respite. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

What remains of the lab-leak theory is half-truths, misrepresentations, and tendentious conjecture. Column: The lab-leak origin claim for COVID-19 is in the news, but it's still fact-free 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Right-wing news outlets in the United States published tendentious and thinly sourced reports that the virus may have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, famous in the scientific community for researching coronaviruses in bats. WHO report leaves unsettled ‘lab-leak’ theory on origins of covid pandemic 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

There is something tendentious, question-begging and contradictory about the terms “real,” “realism” and “reality.” I'm Agonizing over My Naive Realism 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z

The government warned “against the tendentious coverage of events by certain media, likely to stir up hatred and violence.” Violent Senegal protests supporting opposition leader kill 1 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z

But after some brassy assertions in the preface, Ghazvinian’s uneven and often tendentious account only compounds the confusion. Review | America and Iran, from fascination to antagonism 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

“While the Brownshirts are well remembered in contemporary Western society, the history of far-left paramilitaries in the German interwar years has faded to memory,” Ngo writes, in the tendentious, pedantic tone of a Wikipedia enthusiast. Review: Andy Ngo's new book still pretends antifa's the real enemy 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

The 1776 report, while tendentious, might still provide a basis for a fuller discussion of our history. Opinion | Trump’s 1776 report holds some value 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z

He said too often investigative reporting was being replaced by a “standard, often tendentious narrative” not capable of grasping problems and aspirations at the grassroots level. And now, a reading from an email according to St. Paul 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

He added that he reserves the right to pursue legal actions against “those who spread tendentious rumors and defamation that target me personally and the financial reputation of Lebanon.” Lebanon central bank governor denies transfer of capital 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

They are afraid they will be seen as biased or tendentious. Don Corleone with an unlimited "get out of jail" card 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Suspecting someone would say something tendentious, he declined to attend. He Wanted to Count Every Vote in Philadelphia. His Party Had Other Ideas. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

"As politically partisan a speech as I've ever seen from a justice: arrogant, tendentious, and sloppy," Harry Litman, a former U.S. Justice Samuel Alito called out for highly “partisan” speech on COVID-19 rules and same-sex marriage 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

Advertising for ballot measures is an especially malodorous corner of political speech, often tendentious and deceptive. Column: California's ballot measures will produce a deluge of special-interest cash 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

"This tendentious and tedious report undermines human rights by giving a pass to terrorists and it proves once again why America was right to leave" the UN Human Rights Council in 2018, she added. US strike on Soleimani was unlawful - UN expert 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

In recent years, Raoult has amused himself, it seems, by staking out tendentious scientific claims, sometimes in territories that are well beyond the scope of his expertise. He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

The commission’s “biased and tendentious comments against India are not new,” he said. Religious freedoms in India deteriorated last year, U.S. government watchdog says 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

But the middle of a worldwide health emergency is not the time to be making tendentious accusations. Opinion | No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there. 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

This tendentious reading of U.S. history ignores reality. Opinion | William Barr’s America vs. reality in 2020 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z

Limbaugh’s remarks were the latest tendentious turn in a career in which he’s won an adoring audience among millions of conservative listeners, but condemnation from others for comments considered racist, sexist and offensive. Limbaugh draws bipartisan condemnation for Buttigieg remarks 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

“The left, aided by an onslaught of tendentious media reporting, has engaged in a campaign of histrionics unjustified by the measured steps taken,” he wrote. William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Even by current G.O.P. standards, though, the impeachment report that the House Republicans put out on Monday is an extraordinarily cynical and tendentious document. The House Republicans’ Shameless Impeachment Report 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Given that such advertising is by its nature biased, tendentious and hard to check, Twitter is behaving as a good publisher should. Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated | Simon Jenkins 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Lacking any substantive defense, Trump and his allies will probably rely on slander, diversions, and a tendentious reading of the partial transcript of Trump’s July 25th call with Zelensky. What Can We Expect from Televised Impeachment Hearings? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

To come across it in the Stanford edition, free of Förster-Nietzsche’s tendentious and often deceptive editorial practices, is a bracing shock: Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

“The decision in question is indeed a collection of lies, wrong shortcuts and tendentious amalgam,” said the former Hungarian justice minister, who is also a lawyer. Hungary, Romania nominees rejected for EU top jobs again 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

Depending on the reader, these connections are either entertaining and insightful or wild and tendentious, even misleading. Review | Why do we assume people are telling us the truth? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z

Or it could simply mean an embattled legality, maintained through some of the tactics other outcast interests have used: lobbying, regulatory capture, the funding of tendentious research. Opinion | Do We Really Want a Microsoft of Marijuana? 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z

The Johnson administration’s tendentious means of escalating the war, including the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, was unworthy of either the purported cause or the public trust. Trump ratings on economy start to slide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

The accusations are often tendentious and not linked to anything the person in question actually said or did, but rather statements made by others with whom they are seemingly associated. Opinion | Appraising the B.D.S. Movement 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Basquiat can readily be deemed heroic from either angle, but he presents no convenient opportunity for tendentious interpretation. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z

The love “Indecent” bears toward “God of Vengeance” is sometimes tendentious. Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z

Alas, the report, once Barr permitted its released, appeared not to directly challenge this highly tendentious spin. Robert Mueller made clear: he couldn't have indicted Trump even if he wanted to | Lawrence Douglas 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Flood wrote one of the most tendentious attacks on the Mueller report, calling it “part ‘truth commission’ report and part law school exam paper”. Trump's lawyers: does serving the president mean undermining justice? 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Comparisons with “Oleanna” are unavoidable, but Burgess is a far less tendentious playwright than David Mamet. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

At the center of the operation was an organization based in St. Petersburg, called the Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that churned out tendentious and manipulative posts and images. Through email leaks and propaganda, Russians sought to elect Trump, Mueller finds 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

A longtime influencer of education worldwide, and a colossus of breakthrough, tendentious teaching methods whose roots began right here in Eugene. Remembering Siegfried ‘Zig’ Engelmann’s legacy of learning 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

“The coverage of the investigation did include embarrassments - specious chyrons, tendentious talking heads and retracted scoops, among them,” Columbia’s Coll wrote. News industry leaders fighting back against claims by Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

Often, there was a personal appeal from Kotleba not to believe the “tendentious opinions” about him in the media. How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

As Marx noted, most articles in the genre "actually contain counterarguments — many of which are solid, some shoddy or tendentious, but few of which really fit in a 'fact-check' frame." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. the "fact-checkers": Challenging the boundaries of conventional wisdom 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

He declined to pledge he would recuse himself from the probe if the Justice Department ethics office said he should because of his tendentious memo. Opinion | The many red flags raised by William Barr’s hearing 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

After the release of the United Nations report, the government called its contents “fallacious, tendentious and motivated.” Kashmiri Teenagers Are Dying to Protect Militants 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Indeed MacCulloch’s recurrent use of the term “traditionalist” to describe Cromwell’s contemporaries who retained a conscientious loyalty to the mainstream of Western Christendom occasionally seems somewhat tendentious. Review | The many mysteries of the powerful and deadly Thomas Cromwell 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

In a detailed chapter on environmental policy, Cass rails against EPA regulations and the tendentious use of cost-benefit calculations for hastening the industrial sector’s decline. “The Once and Future Worker” is Romney loyalist, Oren Cass’s labor theory of value 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z

If the electorate is made up largely of partisan voters, Tusks believes, we end up electing tendentious, uncompromising politicians who do not represent the more moderate will of the people. The Campaign for Mobile-Phone Voting Is Getting a Midterm Test 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

The ban on Yan’s work is de facto rather than official, and his less tendentious titles remain somewhat available. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The answer to his dreams is the U.S. tearing itself apart over tendentious, partisan claims of “treason,” which ought to have some cheerleaders of this meme thinking twice. Trump Delivers on Russia 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

Within minutes of the report’s release, the Indian government rejected the contents, calling them “fallacious, tendentious and motivated.” Kashmir Government in Turmoil as Coalition Breaks Down 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

“The basic thing that is going on is a highly tendentious, cherry-picked, ‘we know what the conclusion is’” use of intelligence, Pillar said. Trump's Iran move reminds some of run-up to Iraq war 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Then prime minister, Erdogan was already caricatured for his long-winded and tendentious populism. Sermons and Shouted Insults: How Erdogan Keeps Turkey Spellbound 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

It's certainly no more politically tendentious that what one would find in American schools. How Viktor Orban Bends Hungarian Society to His Will 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

It should be titled "Border Patrol Disputes Partisan Senate Findings on Border Wall" You have taken an objective journalist's report and tainted it with a tendentious title. What Border Agents Say They Want (It’s Not a Wall) 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z

He relies on highly tendentious interlocutors to interpret this alien field for him. You can deny environmental calamity – until you check the facts | George Monbiot 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

Ditto tendentious claims backed up by distorted data. Scholars Get The Real Scoop on ‘Fake News’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z

And lowering the top rate took political courage amid tendentious attacks from left and right. A Tax Reform for Growth 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

Times comments tend to be proportionally more relevant and insightful and less tendentious inversely proportional to how many there are. Saudi Arabia Orders Its Citizens Out of Lebanon, Raising Fears of War 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Heer’s article, “The Dirtbag Left and the Problem of Dominance Politics,” latched onto a different passage from the podcast, first absolving it from tendentious misreadings, then deeming it problematic on deeper, murkier grounds. Radicals can’t afford to play nice: The long, honorable and sometimes pornographic history of the “dirtbag left” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

It’s a tendentious question, especially when addressed to someone who is at that moment reading a novel about such people and finding them very easy to believe in. A Novel of the Sacred and the Profane in Jamaica 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

That historical account would be as self-serving and tendentious, in its own way, as our current glorious one. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

Yet, with Harari’s move from mostly prehistoric cultural history to modern cultural history, even the most complacent reader becomes uneasy encountering historical and empirical claims so coarse, bizarre, or tendentious. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Howard’s claim that these players were insufficiently committed was tendentious at best, but his understanding of the basic Klinsmann project is correct. US Soccer needs to be open and honest about dual nationals | David Rudin 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Or it presents a tendentious interpretation of the facts. Who’s to blame for fake news? America’s real newsrooms. 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z

WikiLeaks was later accused of tendentious editing, but the clip would be shocking in any guise. Modern Opera Thrives in L.A. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Sometimes subjects are treated in a tendentious manner, reflecting the biases or limited knowledge of the writer. The Politics of ‘The Shallows’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

In reality, Harari maintains, we have merely a self-deluding, “narrating self,” one that recites obviously tendentious stories, shaped by our evolutionary history to help us cope with life. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But however wrong the old revolutionary was about the new thinking, hanging a full biography off such a weighted title seems a little tendentious. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z

Perhaps my recollection is naive and revisionist, but the atmosphere around our arguments then, tendentious as they were, was not filled with nativism, paranoia and rank scapegoating. 15 years later, Trump plays to darkest 9/11 fears 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Many bright and otherwise fair-minded people find themselves defending a favored candidate for reasons they would find silly or tendentious if that candidate weren’t running for high office. 2016 should make us rethink our approach to politicians 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Clinton earned Four Pinocchios for a fanciful and tendentious claim that illegal immigrants, as a group, pay more in taxes than some corporations. Trump versus Clinton: The Pinocchio count so far 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

After two years of investigation, however, such tendentious implications are all that remain of the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration told rescuers to “stand down” or otherwise deliberately abandoned Americans on the ground. The dangerous delusion that the Americans in Benghazi could have been saved 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

A less tendentious reading of the exit polls, they’d say, is that nearly all Democrats think terrorism is a problem, but most believe domestic concerns, such as income inequality, deserve more attention. Are Democrats Soft on Terror? 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z

“This is a tendentious reading of a very complex transaction,” Mr. Rúa said of the judge’s decision. Kirchner Charged in Central-Bank Case 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z

As my colleague Scott Eric Kaufman writes, Webb’s treatment of Jackson is itself laughably tendentious and guilty of the sort of historical cherry-picking he accuses Jackson’s critics of practicing. Jim Webb’s sad Andrew Jackson apologia: Pining for the bad old days of Democratic politics 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, in a letter to the Times, former Chancellor Nigel Lawson attacks the Treasury report as "highly tendentious and spuriously quantified". Newspaper headlines: Brexit figures row, 'superstar' nun and remembering Ronnie Corbett - BBC News 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

First off, there’s the tendentious argument that the Republicans’ 2014 Senate victories carry the same mandate as the two national victories Obama won. Rock-paper-scissor SCOTUS: Orrin Hatch has a new ludicrous justification for obstructionism 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

Like all Trump pitches, this one would be over-the-top, tendentious, totally oblivious to valid countervailing considerations and arguments. The Trump campaign speech that could beat Clinton this fall 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

However, in early December, a new, more tendentious wing celebrating China's "victory in the anti-fascist war and the trials of Japanese war criminals" was unveiled. USC-based project aims to keep memory of Nanjing massacre alive 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

But in her campaign’s zealousness to attack Sanders this week, Clinton and her staff made a series of claims about Sanders’ proposal that many found tendentious. Four things to watch at the final Democratic debate before Iowa 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

We agree that history can’t be changed, and to answer the governor’s tendentious rhetorical question, we wouldn’t get rid of statues of George Washington because he was a slave owner. It’s time to retire Maryland’s state song 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z

Dramatic crises—for which evidence tends to be anecdotal, subjective, invisible, tendentious and sometimes fabricated—are trumpeted on the basis of incompetently designed studies, poorly understood statistics, or semantic legerdemain. Liberalism’s Imaginary Enemies 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

We would argue in mitigation that this was at worst an attempt to respond in kind to another tendentious line of attack from her opponents: that she is indifferent to Wall Street’s need for regulation. Hillary Clinton pays an unfair price for a nuanced policy response 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

Yes, when a candidate’s raison d’etre is biography, the accuracy of his purported life story is fair game — even if some of the Carson flyspecking has been tendentious. Carson’s real scandal is his ignorance 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

It added that the publication did not help "in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions." Pope pledges to continue reforms in face of leaks, says stealing documents was 'a crime' 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth but, rather, generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions. Why the New Vatican Leaks Scandal Is Different 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

“Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said. New books allege mismanagement, excess at the Vatican 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

It also added that “publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions.” Vatican’s Financial Troubles Run Deep, According to New Book 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

“Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said in a statement. Vatican arrests two advisers over alleged links to leaked documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions,” the Vatican said. 2 Members of Pope Francis' Financial Reform Committee Arrested for Leaking Documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to the establishment of clarity and truth, but rather to the creation of confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said in the statement. Vatican Arrests 2 in Connection With Leaked Documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“Publications of this kind don’t help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but instead to generate confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said in a statement. Vatican Arrests 2 in Connection With Leaked Documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

“Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion, and partial and tendentious interpretations,” it said. Vatican arrests two over alleged leaks 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

There is no surer applause line at a GOP debate than to attack the media, and the moderators walked into the trap with tendentious questions based on liberal talking points. GOP Debate Impressions 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z

These tendentious categories have been nationalized for so long that they seem natural to nearly all Americans. How the South Won the Civil War 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

But at times Vine turns tendentious, even polemical. The costs of maintaining our bases overseas 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Minutes earlier he called the AP’s report “tendentious” and said the military rejected corruption in its ranks. Peru to investigate cocaine 'air bridge' where smuggler planes are ignored 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Yaalon’s office, Channel 2 said, also said he would not speak about meetings of the inner cabinet “and distorted and tendentious accounts, in particular.” Israel Came Close to Attacking Iran, Ex-Defense Minister Says 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

Still, Ellis, who served on a panel to examine the LHC's safety, says he doesn't think it's possible to stop theorists from presenting such argument in tendentious ways. Tiny black holes could trigger collapse of universe—except that they don't 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z

Despite the misgivings of a Republican majority and the Israel lobby’s tendentious muscle, Congress will probably pass the Iran nuclear deal. Does This Form Mean That McDonald's Will Soon Open in Iran? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Its official Facebook page warned that Egypt is now fighting on two fronts: on the ground and in “a tendentious and fierce war, run by foreign media”. Editor Sisi 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

In towns along the border, boastful, taunting, and tendentious banners and placards, or narcomantas, were routinely hung up next to piles of corpses. The Narco Chronicles 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

This lack of physical contact and encounter, encouraged at times by the disintegration of our cities, can lead to a numbing of conscience and to tendentious analyses which neglect parts of reality. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z

"Regarding its efforts ... Morocco deserved better treatment instead of tendentious and unfounded rumors," it said. Morocco denies bribe allegations over 1998 World Cup bid 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z

Rand Paul’s hilariously tendentious suggestion that the solution to systemic racism is cutting taxes on businesses is not the most asinine racial commentary the Kentucky senator’s ever made — in fact, it’s not even close. “Who me, racist?” A look back at Rand Paul’s questionable statements about racial equality 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

In The Guardian, Michael Billington described Cooper as "very good indeed" but also had issues with the play - directed by Scott Ellis - which he found "thin and tendentious". Elephant Man earns Bradley Cooper rave reviews - BBC News 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Even if Clinton incorrectly stated her talking point, this is a tendentious argument that is probably made even less relevant by 2014 tax data. Clinton’s claim that illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than some corporations 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

He too dismisses speculation about the future of the regime as tendentious psychological warfare. Is Syria's war edging towards an outcome? - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

It is long, boring, smug and tendentious; and with its neoliberal cant and genuflecting to plutocrats, it is everything the post-Obama Democratic Party should not be. Corporate centrists declare war on Warren Democrats: Why Hillary Clinton must spurn this disastrous neoliberalism 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

In the meantime, abortion opponents will throw things at the wall – dubious science, tendentious framing – and see what sticks. The next wave of abortion restrictions is here 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

Yet Palestinian lawmakers deem the bill a tendentious threat to the rights of the state’s Arab minority and its democratic principles. Israeli Cabinet Passes 'Nationality Law' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

In their tendentious effort to deny these realities, progressives risk violating yet another cherished principle that, in their view, distinguishes them from the right: that of letting facts and science, not ideology, determine policy. Liberals are violating their principles on Keystone XL

The Israel Defense Forces asserted that the video was “edited in a tendentious manner” and “does not reflect the level of violence that occurred at the disturbance.” Israeli officer arrested in fatal shooting of Palestinian teen caught on camera

It’s a tendentious title, or maybe an apocryphal one. The Techonomy 2014 Conference Is Here--And We're Ready 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

“To draw conclusions about the E.C.B.’s future banking supervision role” based on the Cyprus aid “is tendentious,” the central bank said in a statement. To Restore Confidence in Economy, a Test of Europe's Banks 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

The story here moves at a fast clip, but it is at times breezy, overdrawn and tendentious. Book review: ‘Landslide,’ LBJ, Reagan and New America, by Jonathan Darman

But that act became tendentious when we built a memorial—and then, this year, a museum—to recall the tragedy. We Need Memorials to Keep From Repeating Dark Chapters of the Past 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

Prosecutors often pile up several charges based on related events and conduct, but the charge for the veto is especially odd and tendentious. The weak case against Rick Perry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

We can’t let tendentious sentiments keep us from reforming a program so obviously enabling corruption. In Federal Drug Program, Hospitals and Pharmacies Use the Poor to Get Rich 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

It fact it strikes me as an extremely tendentious one. The Nation Accuses Ukraine Of Plotting To Seize Its Own Territory 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z

Court of Appeals who struck down the subsidies attached to policies sold through Healthcare.gov, Cannon and Adler found a couple of jurists who accepted their tendentious arguments. Will Judges Bring Down Obamacare? 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

Back last Thursday the New York Times ran one of those tendentious pieces about how awful WalMart is. WalMart's Delightful Smackdown Of The New York Times 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z

Another day and another tendentious report from the guys at the Economic Policy Institute. Raising America's Pay; Might Someone Hit The EPI With A Cluebat Please 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

But to skeptics, his emotions were a populist tactic, aimed at strengthening his hand in an increasingly tendentious relationship with the United States. Afghan President Hamid Karzai relieved his term is winding down 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

How that case was transformed from a minor, quirky case about a tendentious documentary into a judicial landmark has long been a source of mystery. Sidebar: Justice Stevens’s Prescription for ‘Giant Step in Wrong Direction’ 2014-04-21T14:07:30Z

Latvia is joining Lithuania in banning Russian state television broadcasts because it found that several programs about the Ukraine crisis were tendentious and not in its national security interests. World Briefing: Latvia: Ukraine Crisis Prompts Ban on Russian TV Broadcasts 2014-04-08T02:19:33Z

Chad's government dismissed the accusations as "defamatory and tendentious", according to a government statement sent to AFP news agency. Chad rejects CAR shooting claims 2014-04-05T15:38:25Z

A lot of it is lazy, tendentious and lost to style. Nate Silver's war on opinion 2014-03-20T13:03:56Z

The book, Mr. Wieseltier wrote, is “shallow, derivative, tendentious, imprecise and sometimes risibly inaccurate.” A Bastion for Israel, Seething Inside 2014-03-01T02:20:28Z

Crimea, which was administered as part of Russia within the Soviet Union until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954, is a more tendentious question. Armed standoff in pro-Russian region raises Ukraine tension 2014-02-28T03:17:38Z

But the ministry dismissed suggestions by Western media that the move against Satter was politically motivated as "tendentious". Russia expels U.S. journalist critical of Putin 2014-01-14T13:04:37Z

This case illustrates how litigants may make pathetically tendentious interpretations of the parties’ words in a desperate effort to create a contract after-the-fact. Did Monster Energy Make A 'Dope' Contract With DJ Z-Trip? Nope 2013-11-05T18:38:00Z

"It's raw, it's tendentious, there are different numbers cited everywhere, different amounts of timber are mentioned, and so on," Navalny said, adding that he was surprised the judge had agreed to consider the defense appeal. Putin foe Navalny urges Russian court to throw out charges 2013-04-24T08:20:57Z

Meanwhile, drug wars south of the border, and a tendentious debate about securing the frontier against immigrants, deepened American suspicions about closer ties with their southern neighbor. Around the World in Six Ideas 2013-03-19T08:45:00Z

But the committee did not interview any witnesses during the course of its investigation and some former officials knowledgeable about the CIA operations argue its conclusions are tendentious. Senate confirms John Brennan as new CIA director 2013-03-08T01:24:22Z

If two are dead, he keeps on asking her like a tendentious math teacher, "how many are you?" Well: Living With Cancer: We Are Seven 2012-10-04T18:18:11Z

The hot-button issue of public school reform gets unsubtle treatment in this pedestrian and insultingly tendentious drama. ‘Won’t Back Down’: What actual film critics think 2012-09-27T19:16:00Z

She says that the “blatant stereotypes and caricatures” of unions in “Won’t Back Down” are “even worse than those in “Waiting for ‘Superman,’ ” a tendentious documentary that smeared Weingarten herself. Weingarten: ‘Won’t Back Down’ union stereotypes worse than ‘Waiting for Superman’ 2012-08-28T16:08:31Z

And I’m sure I’m being tendentious and petty and overly literal. Mike Shanahan says Redskins had ?playoff-caliber? offense in 2011 2012-03-05T16:03:00Z

The Standard piece offers up some genuine examples of faulty fact-checking in service of its tendentious argument. How to Fix Fact-Checking 2011-12-12T04:02:11Z

If you ignore the tendentious framework of this book — with its populist fulminations about how entitled celebrities may be even “more likely to lie and take risks than average people” — there is much to learn. Is There a Perjury Epidemic? 2011-07-16T02:50:05Z

Lopez scrambled to keep his momentum and won the fourth set in a 58-minute stretch of tendentious play that allowed him square the match at two sets apiece. Straight Sets: Lopez Comes From Two Sets Down, Gets Murray Next 2011-06-27T17:36:42Z

Goldstone's note of contrition will enjoy none of the fanfare received by his report, which was widely used to give credence to the tendentious claim that the Jewish state was a perpetrator of war crimes. Press slam Goldstone about-face 2011-04-04T14:18:43Z

By obscuring the difference between anecdotes and evidence, fomenting unfounded fears, and disguising tendentious tracts as objective analyses, he might be influencing public opinion, but he’s not helping the search for verifiable truth. The Huffington Post and the ongoing fear that vaccines might cause autism 2011-02-11T19:45:06.210Z

Hare interviewed dozens of real people involved in the operation of Britain's railways, then removed their names and got actors to play them, often in a deeply unflattering light, to make tendentious, rhetorical political points. The Social Network and docudrama dishonesty 2010-09-24T13:30:00Z

And when they defended their acts of cowardice and dismissed criticism as tendentious, they went beyond harm. America's good, subservient press 2010-07-04T15:05:00Z

At a local level, too, many Americans' relationship to public transit systems is tendentious at best. Bus cuts drive Americans back to cars 2010-06-29T11:00:00Z

She had tried to beat down inquisitors who had pitched a couple of mildly tendentious questions at her, and her mix of sarcasm and a come-on wink left the room filled with an awkward silence. Serena Williams seeks serenity but is not afraid to face her foes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z

Simon Wolfson, chief executive of Next, responded that an analysis of the issue based purely on the bare numbers in the accounts was tendentious. NIC 'tax on jobs' claims by bosses undermined by company figures 2010-04-28T08:58:00Z

Needless to say, the actual business of getting cooperative, worldwide action on climate change would be much more complicated and tendentious than this discussion suggests. Magazine Preview: Climate Change - Building a Green Economy 2010-04-07T17:00:00Z

The statement said the ruling made several disrespectful references to Chavez and made unfounded and tendentious allusions about the Venezuelan government. Spanish court says Venezuela helped ETA, FARC 2010-03-01T21:55:00Z

The position in Ethiopia is, to say the least of it, tendentious, and at any moment the natives may change their skin. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917

For the first twenty years of his active life, roughly speaking, he was an artist pure and simple; during the subsequent twenty years, also roughly speaking, he has been didactic, controversial, and tendentious. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5

The tendentious rationalist further theorized that if one were to live in a remote rural town he or she would not make compatability an issue. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America

According to them, even the data which had been pretty generally regarded as objective, rest chiefly upon tendentious fiction. Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State

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例句	tendentious A Somerset Maugham story is always a story, not a literary experiment or tendentious social document. Review \| ‘Ashenden’: the perfect late summer escape read, and a classic 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The argument that destruction is justified by the jobs created during construction is especially tendentious: all building work employs people, so any planning application might be justified on this basis. Jessop hospital, Sheffield – review 2013-03-31T00:05:21Z He remains a tendentious superstar, but a superstar nonetheless. Ye Is Running Out of Platforms 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z A similarly tendentious attitude pervades Mr. Stone’s treatment of the April 2002 coup that briefly toppled Mr. Chávez. Oliver Stone?s Latin America in ?South of the Border? 2010-06-26T01:42:00Z Ford's historical and travel writing is vivid, often tendentious and always personal. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Because if those lines are not tendentious twaddle, they have a hell of a lot in common with it. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z But while Martel’s novel has a deep and sometimes tendentious concern with religion and philosophy, Chakrabarti’s adaptation engages with these questions only glancingly. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z It should elicit no surprise, then, that this biography comes across as markedly tendentious. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s tendentious to mention it in every review, but I am thinking about it while writing every line of every review. Soft Children Confront a Hard World in Maile Meloy’s New Novel 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But “Americans” succeeds without being tendentious or bland. Review \| The American Indian museum comes of age by tackling this country’s lies 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z In the end, it’s not enough to power this tendentious novel through to its unsurprising conclusion. Books of The Times: ‘A Delicate Truth,’ by John le Carré 2013-04-30T18:00:41Z “Spring” is tendentious at times, but it taps deeply into our contemporary unease. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z This tendentious vision meshes with the film’s view of American institutions over all. “Peppermint,” Reviewed: Jennifer Garner Stars in an Ignorant, Racist Drug-Trade Revenge Film 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z But the equation of Vegas, the gambling Mecca, with western values strikes me as tendentious. Playing Cards 1: Spades – review 2013-02-12T17:31:11Z “Innocents” is more ambitious and tendentious than earlier Spiotta novels like “Eat the Document” and “Stone Arabia.” Review: Dana Spiotta’s ‘Innocents and Others’ Explores the Dynamics Between Life and Art 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The weaknesses of “The X-Files”—tendentious dialogue, an alien conspiracy that made no sense—were obvious from the beginning. A Return to the Nostalgia of “The X-Files” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z What would you tell critics who might say that the documentary is tendentious because of that clear perspective, if not manipulative? Director Amy Berg on Why the Adnan Syed Case Still Matters 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z But Armando and his wife seldom leap off the page as characters; their motives remain opaque, tendentious. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps everything was, at some level – although I do find some of the claims made about his later work as tantalising as they are tendentious. Picasso: War, peace and a life of extremes 2010-05-19T20:29:00Z But in the end, its tone isn’t tendentious so much as encouraging, even sweet, and hopeful in a hard-earned way. Review: ‘Colin in Black & White’ Finds Kaepernick Before He Took a Knee 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This combination of words and pictures may be tendentious, but it’s a reminder that photographers with a conscience have more than one tool at their disposal. Review \| Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Such a conceit — a projection of a perspective from ancient Judea onto the lifestyle of a contemporary secular New York Jew — might strike some readers as tendentious or random, but it’s not. An Unusual Jewish Novel, Full of Blood and Incense 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z "Zinn is tendentious and strident and polemical and oversimplifies everything, the others are obviously all worse." ArtsBeat: And the Worst Book of History Is ... 2012-07-16T20:00:21Z Artists have no such strictures, though tendentious artists who make work without a higher truth may find their work unmasked and marginalized. Perspective \| The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Of Gods and Men Spiritual drama – or tendentious piece of Catholic proselytising? The best films for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z In any case, it is a tendentious reading of any ancient text that would apply modern standards of plausibility to myth. The Truth and Fiction of Adam and Eve 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z The omission matters because it undermines the film’s integrity, helping to turn what might have been a vivid and thoughtful ethical drama into a flat, tendentious history lecture. \| 'The Conspirator': History?s Loose Ends, and a Tightening Noose 2011-04-14T22:29:34Z “But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Front Runner’ and ‘The Emoji Movie’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Most innovatively, it served as metaphor, expressing the productions’ ideas about African-American history with greater eloquence, subtlety and direct appeal than their sometimes tendentious scripts. In Savion Glover’s ‘Shuffle Along,’ Tap’s Reach Has Its Limits 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z “Half the country” may oppose the moon mission, but here Chazelle offers a peculiar, tendentious, and self-revealing cinematic interpretation of that phrase in the form of a montage. “First Man,” Reviewed: Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong Bio-Pic Is an Accidental Right-Wing Fetish Object 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Every chapter is a fresh surprise, nothing goes on too long and the emphasis on family values confers a — slightly tendentious — “It’s a Wonderful Life” charm. Perspective \| ‘A Wrinkle in Time’: Let’s hope the movie is better than the book 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z It's ambitious, frequently tendentious and, at two and quarter hours, perhaps too long. The Gospel According to the Other Mary – review 2013-03-17T19:07:10Z It is “tendentious at best and totally contrived at worst”. The in crowd 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Most of the Trump references in American fiction thus far read like tendentious tweets. Times Critics Discuss the Year in Books, From Triumphs to Disappointments 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z They're this tendentious record of power, of getting people to conform. 'Lost Landscapes of Los Angeles': Rick Prelinger's new film of old home movies and studio outtakes 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z But after a while, once we’ve met the principal players, the speechmaking starts and a potential comedy of political manners turns into a pious, tendentious morality play. Review: A Sex Scandal Upends a Campaign in ‘The Front Runner’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z As history, though, it’s another story — at once tendentious and undercooked, proposing a reductive, essentially conspiratorial account of recent events. ‘Vice’ Review: Dick Cheney and the Negative Great Man Theory of History 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Though Boyle’s direction of “Steve Jobs” is largely invisible, he offers a neat little visual gimmick to reinforce Sorkin’s tendentious view of Jobs—and of technology. Aaron Sorkin Hates Screens 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Of course, all autobiographical works are secretly tendentious, quietly adjusting history to fit a certain hypothesis or to justify a life. Review \| A tale of a family bound by food — and hunger 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Indeed, “The Father” was written as a retort to “A Doll’s House,” which Strindberg described as “swinery,” filled with logical potholes and tendentious argument. Review: Domestic Doom, Fiercely Conveyed, in Ibsen and Strindberg Plays 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z “It’s not a wonderful book — I find it to be Shaw at his most tendentious and annoying — but it’s a great title.” Kushner’s ‘The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide’ Finds a Niche at the Shaw Festival 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “The Roosevelt thing is a bit of spin,” says New York Magazine’s liberal stalwart Jonathan Chait, “or at least a tendentious effort by the left to turn Roosevelt into usable history.” Bernie Sanders is often called a liberal. He’d beg to differ. Who is actually a liberal? 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Clever compositions enliven the shots of cameras and control rooms, where screens within screens transmit tendentious opinions to the American people. “The Loudest Voice” Eviscerates Roger Ailes and Fox News 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z “Most history curricula in the past have been either tendentious in a liberal posture or just boring.” Florida adds PragerU to K-12 curricula, Texas may follow 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z Like the origins of the Cold War, the legacy of the Versailles Treaty has been subject to so much revisionism, tendentious pleading and misinformation that closer examination is warranted. Russia, Ukraine and Versailles: Bogus lessons from history won't solve this crisis 2023-08-19T04:00:00Z It said that the WWF had waged "tendentious" campaigns against the energy, oil and natural gas industries, which it said were aimed at "shackling" Russia's economic development. Russia bans WWF, citing 'threats' from fossil fuel campaigns 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z A right-wing judge with an established anti-Obamacare record accepted a tendentious interpretation of the biblical “word of God” to deny accessible and affordable healthcare to the entire country. Column: How right-wing judge-shopping in Texas is erasing Americans' rights everywhere 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Fox’s lies are tendentious; their goal, as with Trump and a long line of fascists and autocrats, is to inflame the grievances and prejudices of voters who feel left behind. Dominion’s suit reveals a cynical, complicit Fox 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z The drafters based this assertion partially on a tendentious and cherry-picked misreading of a study of Oregon Medicaid enrollees published in 2012. Column: Anti-poverty programs work. Why are Democrats letting them wither? 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z But Newitz is not tendentious so much as concerned with conveying the granular texture of life as it is lived. Review \| ‘The Terraformers’ is a dazzling look at the distant future 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z But the military dictatorship, newly emboldened by its victory, called the American official’s statement “false and tendentious, an offense to the Argentine people and harmful to ties between both states.” The World Cup that left human rights behind 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z It would also leave fiscal policy as the primary driver of any recession response, with decisions made more difficult by divided rule and the beginnings of what could be a tendentious presidential election cycle. Potentially divided U.S. government tees up tough economic debates for 2023 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z That was the lesson in Chile, which rejected a tendentious constitutional reform in September and sent president Gabriel Boric’s approval ratings tumbling. Opinion \| Bolsonaro beats the polls — and plunges Brazil into more uncertainty 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Nor would one expect any such value judgment from the CBO, which sedulously adheres to its duty of analysis, devoid of tendentious commentary. Column: Student debt relief might cost $420 billion. That's a bargain 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z She was arrested while on holiday in Saudi Araba in January 2021, and was found guilty of "providing succour to those seeking to disrupt public order" and "publishing false and tendentious rumours". Nourah al-Qahtani: Saudi woman jailed for 45 years for social media posts 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z But it remains trapped in a hermetic, tendentious womb of its own. Review \| ‘Crimes of the Future’ is meant to shock. Instead, it’s just tedious. 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Beyond the issue of tendentious legal theories lies the unresolved question of the states. Opinion \| The Whole Point of the Constitution Was to Weaken the States 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z "The matters presented are predominantly historical ... and the accounts of these matters are based on partial, inaccurate, or selective information taken out of context, resulting in tendentious interpretations of the bank's business conduct." Credit Suisse denies wrongdoing after client data leaked to media 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z The bait she dangles to draw out a response can be highly tendentious. The Liberal Activist Who Targets Republicans With a MAGA Masquerade 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Within a week, we would have been drowning in breathless TV segments, tendentious op-eds, and mawkish lectures about the sanctity of democracy in the United States. Kyrsten Sinema doesn't need to be saved by Republicans 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Rarely did they proclaim tendentious personal and political positions they held, and never did my White students state that they felt attacked for their race. Opinion \| There’s nothing to fear in talking about racism 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z His day-in-day-out pattern of outrageous lies, ridiculous claims and tendentious misinformation was not the issue, Clegg said. Opinion \| Facebook kicked the Trump can down the road again. Enjoy the respite. 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z What remains of the lab-leak theory is half-truths, misrepresentations, and tendentious conjecture. Column: The lab-leak origin claim for COVID-19 is in the news, but it's still fact-free 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Right-wing news outlets in the United States published tendentious and thinly sourced reports that the virus may have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, famous in the scientific community for researching coronaviruses in bats. WHO report leaves unsettled ‘lab-leak’ theory on origins of covid pandemic 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z There is something tendentious, question-begging and contradictory about the terms “real,” “realism” and “reality.” I'm Agonizing over My Naive Realism 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z The government warned “against the tendentious coverage of events by certain media, likely to stir up hatred and violence.” Violent Senegal protests supporting opposition leader kill 1 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z But after some brassy assertions in the preface, Ghazvinian’s uneven and often tendentious account only compounds the confusion. Review \| America and Iran, from fascination to antagonism 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z “While the Brownshirts are well remembered in contemporary Western society, the history of far-left paramilitaries in the German interwar years has faded to memory,” Ngo writes, in the tendentious, pedantic tone of a Wikipedia enthusiast. Review: Andy Ngo's new book still pretends antifa's the real enemy 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The 1776 report, while tendentious, might still provide a basis for a fuller discussion of our history. Opinion \| Trump’s 1776 report holds some value 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z He said too often investigative reporting was being replaced by a “standard, often tendentious narrative” not capable of grasping problems and aspirations at the grassroots level. And now, a reading from an email according to St. Paul 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z He added that he reserves the right to pursue legal actions against “those who spread tendentious rumors and defamation that target me personally and the financial reputation of Lebanon.” Lebanon central bank governor denies transfer of capital 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z They are afraid they will be seen as biased or tendentious. Don Corleone with an unlimited "get out of jail" card 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Suspecting someone would say something tendentious, he declined to attend. He Wanted to Count Every Vote in Philadelphia. His Party Had Other Ideas. 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z "As politically partisan a speech as I've ever seen from a justice: arrogant, tendentious, and sloppy," Harry Litman, a former U.S. Justice Samuel Alito called out for highly “partisan” speech on COVID-19 rules and same-sex marriage 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z Advertising for ballot measures is an especially malodorous corner of political speech, often tendentious and deceptive. Column: California's ballot measures will produce a deluge of special-interest cash 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z "This tendentious and tedious report undermines human rights by giving a pass to terrorists and it proves once again why America was right to leave" the UN Human Rights Council in 2018, she added. US strike on Soleimani was unlawful - UN expert 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z In recent years, Raoult has amused himself, it seems, by staking out tendentious scientific claims, sometimes in territories that are well beyond the scope of his expertise. He Was a Science Star. Then He Promoted a Questionable Cure for Covid-19. 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z The commission’s “biased and tendentious comments against India are not new,” he said. Religious freedoms in India deteriorated last year, U.S. government watchdog says 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z But the middle of a worldwide health emergency is not the time to be making tendentious accusations. Opinion \| No, the White House didn’t ‘dissolve’ its pandemic response office. I was there. 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z This tendentious reading of U.S. history ignores reality. Opinion \| William Barr’s America vs. reality in 2020 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Limbaugh’s remarks were the latest tendentious turn in a career in which he’s won an adoring audience among millions of conservative listeners, but condemnation from others for comments considered racist, sexist and offensive. Limbaugh draws bipartisan condemnation for Buttigieg remarks 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “The left, aided by an onslaught of tendentious media reporting, has engaged in a campaign of histrionics unjustified by the measured steps taken,” he wrote. William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Even by current G.O.P. standards, though, the impeachment report that the House Republicans put out on Monday is an extraordinarily cynical and tendentious document. The House Republicans’ Shameless Impeachment Report 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Given that such advertising is by its nature biased, tendentious and hard to check, Twitter is behaving as a good publisher should. Ignore Zuckerberg’s self-serving rubbish. Facebook must be regulated \| Simon Jenkins 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Lacking any substantive defense, Trump and his allies will probably rely on slander, diversions, and a tendentious reading of the partial transcript of Trump’s July 25th call with Zelensky. What Can We Expect from Televised Impeachment Hearings? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z To come across it in the Stanford edition, free of Förster-Nietzsche’s tendentious and often deceptive editorial practices, is a bracing shock: Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z “The decision in question is indeed a collection of lies, wrong shortcuts and tendentious amalgam,” said the former Hungarian justice minister, who is also a lawyer. Hungary, Romania nominees rejected for EU top jobs again 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z “The decision in question is indeed a collection of lies, wrong shortcuts and tendentious amalgam,” said the former Hungarian justice minister, who is also a lawyer. Hungary, Romania nominees rejected for EU top jobs again 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Depending on the reader, these connections are either entertaining and insightful or wild and tendentious, even misleading. Review \| Why do we assume people are telling us the truth? 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Or it could simply mean an embattled legality, maintained through some of the tactics other outcast interests have used: lobbying, regulatory capture, the funding of tendentious research. Opinion \| Do We Really Want a Microsoft of Marijuana? 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z The Johnson administration’s tendentious means of escalating the war, including the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, was unworthy of either the purported cause or the public trust. Trump ratings on economy start to slide 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z The accusations are often tendentious and not linked to anything the person in question actually said or did, but rather statements made by others with whom they are seemingly associated. Opinion \| Appraising the B.D.S. Movement 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z Basquiat can readily be deemed heroic from either angle, but he presents no convenient opportunity for tendentious interpretation. Basquiat’s Memorial to a Young Artist Killed by Police 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z The love “Indecent” bears toward “God of Vengeance” is sometimes tendentious. Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Alas, the report, once Barr permitted its released, appeared not to directly challenge this highly tendentious spin. Robert Mueller made clear: he couldn't have indicted Trump even if he wanted to \| Lawrence Douglas 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Flood wrote one of the most tendentious attacks on the Mueller report, calling it “part ‘truth commission’ report and part law school exam paper”. Trump's lawyers: does serving the president mean undermining justice? 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z Comparisons with “Oleanna” are unavoidable, but Burgess is a far less tendentious playwright than David Mamet. Review: ‘Niceties’ at the Geffen turns a college history paper into revolutionary war 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z At the center of the operation was an organization based in St. Petersburg, called the Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that churned out tendentious and manipulative posts and images. Through email leaks and propaganda, Russians sought to elect Trump, Mueller finds 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z A longtime influencer of education worldwide, and a colossus of breakthrough, tendentious teaching methods whose roots began right here in Eugene. Remembering Siegfried ‘Zig’ Engelmann’s legacy of learning 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z “The coverage of the investigation did include embarrassments - specious chyrons, tendentious talking heads and retracted scoops, among them,” Columbia’s Coll wrote. News industry leaders fighting back against claims by Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Often, there was a personal appeal from Kotleba not to believe the “tendentious opinions” about him in the media. How a Slovakian neo-Nazi got elected 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z As Marx noted, most articles in the genre "actually contain counterarguments — many of which are solid, some shoddy or tendentious, but few of which really fit in a 'fact-check' frame." Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez vs. the "fact-checkers": Challenging the boundaries of conventional wisdom 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z He declined to pledge he would recuse himself from the probe if the Justice Department ethics office said he should because of his tendentious memo. Opinion \| The many red flags raised by William Barr’s hearing 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z After the release of the United Nations report, the government called its contents “fallacious, tendentious and motivated.” Kashmiri Teenagers Are Dying to Protect Militants 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Indeed MacCulloch’s recurrent use of the term “traditionalist” to describe Cromwell’s contemporaries who retained a conscientious loyalty to the mainstream of Western Christendom occasionally seems somewhat tendentious. Review \| The many mysteries of the powerful and deadly Thomas Cromwell 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z In a detailed chapter on environmental policy, Cass rails against EPA regulations and the tendentious use of cost-benefit calculations for hastening the industrial sector’s decline. “The Once and Future Worker” is Romney loyalist, Oren Cass’s labor theory of value 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z If the electorate is made up largely of partisan voters, Tusks believes, we end up electing tendentious, uncompromising politicians who do not represent the more moderate will of the people. The Campaign for Mobile-Phone Voting Is Getting a Midterm Test 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z The ban on Yan’s work is de facto rather than official, and his less tendentious titles remain somewhat available. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The answer to his dreams is the U.S. tearing itself apart over tendentious, partisan claims of “treason,” which ought to have some cheerleaders of this meme thinking twice. Trump Delivers on Russia 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Within minutes of the report’s release, the Indian government rejected the contents, calling them “fallacious, tendentious and motivated.” Kashmir Government in Turmoil as Coalition Breaks Down 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z “The basic thing that is going on is a highly tendentious, cherry-picked, ‘we know what the conclusion is’” use of intelligence, Pillar said. Trump's Iran move reminds some of run-up to Iraq war 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Then prime minister, Erdogan was already caricatured for his long-winded and tendentious populism. Sermons and Shouted Insults: How Erdogan Keeps Turkey Spellbound 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z It's certainly no more politically tendentious that what one would find in American schools. How Viktor Orban Bends Hungarian Society to His Will 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z It should be titled "Border Patrol Disputes Partisan Senate Findings on Border Wall" You have taken an objective journalist's report and tainted it with a tendentious title. What Border Agents Say They Want (It’s Not a Wall) 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z He relies on highly tendentious interlocutors to interpret this alien field for him. You can deny environmental calamity – until you check the facts \| George Monbiot 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Ditto tendentious claims backed up by distorted data. Scholars Get The Real Scoop on ‘Fake News’ 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z And lowering the top rate took political courage amid tendentious attacks from left and right. A Tax Reform for Growth 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z Times comments tend to be proportionally more relevant and insightful and less tendentious inversely proportional to how many there are. Saudi Arabia Orders Its Citizens Out of Lebanon, Raising Fears of War 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Heer’s article, “The Dirtbag Left and the Problem of Dominance Politics,” latched onto a different passage from the podcast, first absolving it from tendentious misreadings, then deeming it problematic on deeper, murkier grounds. Radicals can’t afford to play nice: The long, honorable and sometimes pornographic history of the “dirtbag left” 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z It’s a tendentious question, especially when addressed to someone who is at that moment reading a novel about such people and finding them very easy to believe in. A Novel of the Sacred and the Profane in Jamaica 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z That historical account would be as self-serving and tendentious, in its own way, as our current glorious one. We Could Have Been Canada 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z Yet, with Harari’s move from mostly prehistoric cultural history to modern cultural history, even the most complacent reader becomes uneasy encountering historical and empirical claims so coarse, bizarre, or tendentious. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z Howard’s claim that these players were insufficiently committed was tendentious at best, but his understanding of the basic Klinsmann project is correct. US Soccer needs to be open and honest about dual nationals \| David Rudin 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Or it presents a tendentious interpretation of the facts. Who’s to blame for fake news? America’s real newsrooms. 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z WikiLeaks was later accused of tendentious editing, but the clip would be shocking in any guise. Modern Opera Thrives in L.A. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Sometimes subjects are treated in a tendentious manner, reflecting the biases or limited knowledge of the writer. The Politics of ‘The Shallows’ 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z In reality, Harari maintains, we have merely a self-deluding, “narrating self,” one that recites obviously tendentious stories, shaped by our evolutionary history to help us cope with life. Are Liberals on the Wrong Side of History? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z But however wrong the old revolutionary was about the new thinking, hanging a full biography off such a weighted title seems a little tendentious. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps my recollection is naive and revisionist, but the atmosphere around our arguments then, tendentious as they were, was not filled with nativism, paranoia and rank scapegoating. 15 years later, Trump plays to darkest 9/11 fears 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z Many bright and otherwise fair-minded people find themselves defending a favored candidate for reasons they would find silly or tendentious if that candidate weren’t running for high office. 2016 should make us rethink our approach to politicians 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z Clinton earned Four Pinocchios for a fanciful and tendentious claim that illegal immigrants, as a group, pay more in taxes than some corporations. Trump versus Clinton: The Pinocchio count so far 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z After two years of investigation, however, such tendentious implications are all that remain of the conspiracy theory that the Obama administration told rescuers to “stand down” or otherwise deliberately abandoned Americans on the ground. The dangerous delusion that the Americans in Benghazi could have been saved 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z A less tendentious reading of the exit polls, they’d say, is that nearly all Democrats think terrorism is a problem, but most believe domestic concerns, such as income inequality, deserve more attention. Are Democrats Soft on Terror? 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z “This is a tendentious reading of a very complex transaction,” Mr. Rúa said of the judge’s decision. Kirchner Charged in Central-Bank Case 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z As my colleague Scott Eric Kaufman writes, Webb’s treatment of Jackson is itself laughably tendentious and guilty of the sort of historical cherry-picking he accuses Jackson’s critics of practicing. Jim Webb’s sad Andrew Jackson apologia: Pining for the bad old days of Democratic politics 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, in a letter to the Times, former Chancellor Nigel Lawson attacks the Treasury report as "highly tendentious and spuriously quantified". Newspaper headlines: Brexit figures row, 'superstar' nun and remembering Ronnie Corbett - BBC News 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z First off, there’s the tendentious argument that the Republicans’ 2014 Senate victories carry the same mandate as the two national victories Obama won. Rock-paper-scissor SCOTUS: Orrin Hatch has a new ludicrous justification for obstructionism 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Like all Trump pitches, this one would be over-the-top, tendentious, totally oblivious to valid countervailing considerations and arguments. The Trump campaign speech that could beat Clinton this fall 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z However, in early December, a new, more tendentious wing celebrating China's "victory in the anti-fascist war and the trials of Japanese war criminals" was unveiled. USC-based project aims to keep memory of Nanjing massacre alive 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z But in her campaign’s zealousness to attack Sanders this week, Clinton and her staff made a series of claims about Sanders’ proposal that many found tendentious. Four things to watch at the final Democratic debate before Iowa 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z We agree that history can’t be changed, and to answer the governor’s tendentious rhetorical question, we wouldn’t get rid of statues of George Washington because he was a slave owner. It’s time to retire Maryland’s state song 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Dramatic crises—for which evidence tends to be anecdotal, subjective, invisible, tendentious and sometimes fabricated—are trumpeted on the basis of incompetently designed studies, poorly understood statistics, or semantic legerdemain. Liberalism’s Imaginary Enemies 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z We would argue in mitigation that this was at worst an attempt to respond in kind to another tendentious line of attack from her opponents: that she is indifferent to Wall Street’s need for regulation. Hillary Clinton pays an unfair price for a nuanced policy response 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Yes, when a candidate’s raison d’etre is biography, the accuracy of his purported life story is fair game — even if some of the Carson flyspecking has been tendentious. Carson’s real scandal is his ignorance 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z It added that the publication did not help "in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions." Pope pledges to continue reforms in face of leaks, says stealing documents was 'a crime' 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth but, rather, generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions. Why the New Vatican Leaks Scandal Is Different 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z “Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said. New books allege mismanagement, excess at the Vatican 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z It also added that “publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions.” Vatican’s Financial Troubles Run Deep, According to New Book 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z “Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said in a statement. Vatican arrests two advisers over alleged links to leaked documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “Publications of this nature do not help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather generate confusion and partial and tendentious conclusions,” the Vatican said. 2 Members of Pope Francis' Financial Reform Committee Arrested for Leaking Documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to the establishment of clarity and truth, but rather to the creation of confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said in the statement. Vatican Arrests 2 in Connection With Leaked Documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “Publications of this kind don’t help in any way to establish clarity and truth, but instead to generate confusion and partial and tendentious interpretations,” the Vatican said in a statement. Vatican Arrests 2 in Connection With Leaked Documents 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z “Publications of this kind do not contribute in any way to establish clarity and truth, but rather to create confusion, and partial and tendentious interpretations,” it said. Vatican arrests two over alleged leaks 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z There is no surer applause line at a GOP debate than to attack the media, and the moderators walked into the trap with tendentious questions based on liberal talking points. GOP Debate Impressions 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z These tendentious categories have been nationalized for so long that they seem natural to nearly all Americans. How the South Won the Civil War 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z But at times Vine turns tendentious, even polemical. The costs of maintaining our bases overseas 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Minutes earlier he called the AP’s report “tendentious” and said the military rejected corruption in its ranks. Peru to investigate cocaine 'air bridge' where smuggler planes are ignored 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Yaalon’s office, Channel 2 said, also said he would not speak about meetings of the inner cabinet “and distorted and tendentious accounts, in particular.” Israel Came Close to Attacking Iran, Ex-Defense Minister Says 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Still, Ellis, who served on a panel to examine the LHC's safety, says he doesn't think it's possible to stop theorists from presenting such argument in tendentious ways. Tiny black holes could trigger collapse of universe—except that they don't 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Despite the misgivings of a Republican majority and the Israel lobby’s tendentious muscle, Congress will probably pass the Iran nuclear deal. Does This Form Mean That McDonald's Will Soon Open in Iran? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Its official Facebook page warned that Egypt is now fighting on two fronts: on the ground and in “a tendentious and fierce war, run by foreign media”. Editor Sisi 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z In towns along the border, boastful, taunting, and tendentious banners and placards, or narcomantas, were routinely hung up next to piles of corpses. The Narco Chronicles 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z This lack of physical contact and encounter, encouraged at times by the disintegration of our cities, can lead to a numbing of conscience and to tendentious analyses which neglect parts of reality. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z "Regarding its efforts ... Morocco deserved better treatment instead of tendentious and unfounded rumors," it said. Morocco denies bribe allegations over 1998 World Cup bid 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Rand Paul’s hilariously tendentious suggestion that the solution to systemic racism is cutting taxes on businesses is not the most asinine racial commentary the Kentucky senator’s ever made — in fact, it’s not even close. “Who me, racist?” A look back at Rand Paul’s questionable statements about racial equality 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z In The Guardian, Michael Billington described Cooper as "very good indeed" but also had issues with the play - directed by Scott Ellis - which he found "thin and tendentious". Elephant Man earns Bradley Cooper rave reviews - BBC News 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Even if Clinton incorrectly stated her talking point, this is a tendentious argument that is probably made even less relevant by 2014 tax data. Clinton’s claim that illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than some corporations 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He too dismisses speculation about the future of the regime as tendentious psychological warfare. Is Syria's war edging towards an outcome? - BBC News 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z It is long, boring, smug and tendentious; and with its neoliberal cant and genuflecting to plutocrats, it is everything the post-Obama Democratic Party should not be. Corporate centrists declare war on Warren Democrats: Why Hillary Clinton must spurn this disastrous neoliberalism 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z In the meantime, abortion opponents will throw things at the wall – dubious science, tendentious framing – and see what sticks. The next wave of abortion restrictions is here 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Yet Palestinian lawmakers deem the bill a tendentious threat to the rights of the state’s Arab minority and its democratic principles. Israeli Cabinet Passes 'Nationality Law' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z In their tendentious effort to deny these realities, progressives risk violating yet another cherished principle that, in their view, distinguishes them from the right: that of letting facts and science, not ideology, determine policy. Liberals are violating their principles on Keystone XL The Israel Defense Forces asserted that the video was “edited in a tendentious manner” and “does not reflect the level of violence that occurred at the disturbance.” Israeli officer arrested in fatal shooting of Palestinian teen caught on camera It’s a tendentious title, or maybe an apocryphal one. The Techonomy 2014 Conference Is Here--And We're Ready 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z “To draw conclusions about the E.C.B.’s future banking supervision role” based on the Cyprus aid “is tendentious,” the central bank said in a statement. To Restore Confidence in Economy, a Test of Europe's Banks 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The story here moves at a fast clip, but it is at times breezy, overdrawn and tendentious. Book review: ‘Landslide,’ LBJ, Reagan and New America, by Jonathan Darman But that act became tendentious when we built a memorial—and then, this year, a museum—to recall the tragedy. We Need Memorials to Keep From Repeating Dark Chapters of the Past 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Prosecutors often pile up several charges based on related events and conduct, but the charge for the veto is especially odd and tendentious. The weak case against Rick Perry 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z We can’t let tendentious sentiments keep us from reforming a program so obviously enabling corruption. In Federal Drug Program, Hospitals and Pharmacies Use the Poor to Get Rich 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z It fact it strikes me as an extremely tendentious one. The Nation Accuses Ukraine Of Plotting To Seize Its Own Territory 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Court of Appeals who struck down the subsidies attached to policies sold through Healthcare.gov, Cannon and Adler found a couple of jurists who accepted their tendentious arguments. Will Judges Bring Down Obamacare? 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z Back last Thursday the New York Times ran one of those tendentious pieces about how awful WalMart is. WalMart's Delightful Smackdown Of The New York Times 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Another day and another tendentious report from the guys at the Economic Policy Institute. Raising America's Pay; Might Someone Hit The EPI With A Cluebat Please 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But to skeptics, his emotions were a populist tactic, aimed at strengthening his hand in an increasingly tendentious relationship with the United States. Afghan President Hamid Karzai relieved his term is winding down 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z How that case was transformed from a minor, quirky case about a tendentious documentary into a judicial landmark has long been a source of mystery. Sidebar: Justice Stevens’s Prescription for ‘Giant Step in Wrong Direction’ 2014-04-21T14:07:30Z Latvia is joining Lithuania in banning Russian state television broadcasts because it found that several programs about the Ukraine crisis were tendentious and not in its national security interests. World Briefing: Latvia: Ukraine Crisis Prompts Ban on Russian TV Broadcasts 2014-04-08T02:19:33Z Chad's government dismissed the accusations as "defamatory and tendentious", according to a government statement sent to AFP news agency. Chad rejects CAR shooting claims 2014-04-05T15:38:25Z A lot of it is lazy, tendentious and lost to style. Nate Silver's war on opinion 2014-03-20T13:03:56Z The book, Mr. Wieseltier wrote, is “shallow, derivative, tendentious, imprecise and sometimes risibly inaccurate.” A Bastion for Israel, Seething Inside 2014-03-01T02:20:28Z Crimea, which was administered as part of Russia within the Soviet Union until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954, is a more tendentious question. Armed standoff in pro-Russian region raises Ukraine tension 2014-02-28T03:17:38Z But the ministry dismissed suggestions by Western media that the move against Satter was politically motivated as "tendentious". Russia expels U.S. journalist critical of Putin 2014-01-14T13:04:37Z This case illustrates how litigants may make pathetically tendentious interpretations of the parties’ words in a desperate effort to create a contract after-the-fact. Did Monster Energy Make A 'Dope' Contract With DJ Z-Trip? Nope 2013-11-05T18:38:00Z "It's raw, it's tendentious, there are different numbers cited everywhere, different amounts of timber are mentioned, and so on," Navalny said, adding that he was surprised the judge had agreed to consider the defense appeal. Putin foe Navalny urges Russian court to throw out charges 2013-04-24T08:20:57Z Meanwhile, drug wars south of the border, and a tendentious debate about securing the frontier against immigrants, deepened American suspicions about closer ties with their southern neighbor. Around the World in Six Ideas 2013-03-19T08:45:00Z But the committee did not interview any witnesses during the course of its investigation and some former officials knowledgeable about the CIA operations argue its conclusions are tendentious. Senate confirms John Brennan as new CIA director 2013-03-08T01:24:22Z If two are dead, he keeps on asking her like a tendentious math teacher, "how many are you?" Well: Living With Cancer: We Are Seven 2012-10-04T18:18:11Z The hot-button issue of public school reform gets unsubtle treatment in this pedestrian and insultingly tendentious drama. ‘Won’t Back Down’: What actual film critics think 2012-09-27T19:16:00Z She says that the “blatant stereotypes and caricatures” of unions in “Won’t Back Down” are “even worse than those in “Waiting for ‘Superman,’ ” a tendentious documentary that smeared Weingarten herself. Weingarten: ‘Won’t Back Down’ union stereotypes worse than ‘Waiting for Superman’ 2012-08-28T16:08:31Z And I’m sure I’m being tendentious and petty and overly literal. Mike Shanahan says Redskins had ?playoff-caliber? offense in 2011 2012-03-05T16:03:00Z The Standard piece offers up some genuine examples of faulty fact-checking in service of its tendentious argument. How to Fix Fact-Checking 2011-12-12T04:02:11Z If you ignore the tendentious framework of this book — with its populist fulminations about how entitled celebrities may be even “more likely to lie and take risks than average people” — there is much to learn. Is There a Perjury Epidemic? 2011-07-16T02:50:05Z Lopez scrambled to keep his momentum and won the fourth set in a 58-minute stretch of tendentious play that allowed him square the match at two sets apiece. Straight Sets: Lopez Comes From Two Sets Down, Gets Murray Next 2011-06-27T17:36:42Z Goldstone's note of contrition will enjoy none of the fanfare received by his report, which was widely used to give credence to the tendentious claim that the Jewish state was a perpetrator of war crimes. Press slam Goldstone about-face 2011-04-04T14:18:43Z By obscuring the difference between anecdotes and evidence, fomenting unfounded fears, and disguising tendentious tracts as objective analyses, he might be influencing public opinion, but he’s not helping the search for verifiable truth. The Huffington Post and the ongoing fear that vaccines might cause autism 2011-02-11T19:45:06.210Z Hare interviewed dozens of real people involved in the operation of Britain's railways, then removed their names and got actors to play them, often in a deeply unflattering light, to make tendentious, rhetorical political points. The Social Network and docudrama dishonesty 2010-09-24T13:30:00Z And when they defended their acts of cowardice and dismissed criticism as tendentious, they went beyond harm. America's good, subservient press 2010-07-04T15:05:00Z At a local level, too, many Americans' relationship to public transit systems is tendentious at best. Bus cuts drive Americans back to cars 2010-06-29T11:00:00Z She had tried to beat down inquisitors who had pitched a couple of mildly tendentious questions at her, and her mix of sarcasm and a come-on wink left the room filled with an awkward silence. Serena Williams seeks serenity but is not afraid to face her foes 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z Simon Wolfson, chief executive of Next, responded that an analysis of the issue based purely on the bare numbers in the accounts was tendentious. NIC 'tax on jobs' claims by bosses undermined by company figures 2010-04-28T08:58:00Z Needless to say, the actual business of getting cooperative, worldwide action on climate change would be much more complicated and tendentious than this discussion suggests. Magazine Preview: Climate Change - Building a Green Economy 2010-04-07T17:00:00Z The statement said the ruling made several disrespectful references to Chavez and made unfounded and tendentious allusions about the Venezuelan government. Spanish court says Venezuela helped ETA, FARC 2010-03-01T21:55:00Z The position in Ethiopia is, to say the least of it, tendentious, and at any moment the natives may change their skin. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 9, 1917 For the first twenty years of his active life, roughly speaking, he was an artist pure and simple; during the subsequent twenty years, also roughly speaking, he has been didactic, controversial, and tendentious. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 The tendentious rationalist further theorized that if one were to live in a remote rural town he or she would not make compatability an issue. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America According to them, even the data which had been pretty generally regarded as objective, rest chiefly upon tendentious fiction. Mohammedanism Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present State
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