" The story ends with Stennis's tendentious moral awakening: "The
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It is "tendentious at best and totally contrived at worst".
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And the threat doesn't stem from some tendentious scientistic worldview.
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When it's more tendentious and inelegant, we call it spin.
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But I find this to be a slightly tendentious statement.
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Ohio has a budding but often tendentious connection to public transport.
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His argument, inspiring in his introduction, quickly becomes repetitive and tendentious.
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Today, Taylor Swift addressed the tendentious 2016 election for the first time.
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No. It just struck me as a very tendentious reading of the column.
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"Spring" is tendentious at times, but it taps deeply into our contemporary unease.
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Historically, it's a cherry-picking on behalf of a set of tendentious claims.
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They gave these tendentious little essays the trustworthy look of the Times financial page.
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The Russians were only as effective as the gullible or tendentious Americans they influenced.
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Most of the Trump references in American fiction thus far read like tendentious tweets.
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We see a tendency for decisions based on incomplete observation basis and tendentious interpretations.
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Despite its tendentious title -- has any US politician or policymaker really advocated American surrender?
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Glenn Loury: My argument about political correctness is not tendentious or partisan — it's analytical.
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The charge may be tendentious, but the potential penalty is severe: up to five years in prison.
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In at least some cases, accusations of dishonest fact-checking have been based on highly tendentious interpretation.
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Pauline Kael despised the film version of "The Exorcist" — she thought it was a shallow, tendentious gross-out.
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Basquiat can readily be deemed heroic from either angle, but he presents no convenient opportunity for tendentious interpretation.
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CS: What many people found boring and maybe tendentious about the prequels — the politics — I found really interesting.
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The ban on Yan's work is de facto rather than official, and his less tendentious titles remain somewhat available.
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Seen as the disruptive front-runner in the race, Moore's tendentious past has received a bevy of attention lately.
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That historical account would be as self-serving and tendentious, in its own way, as our current glorious one.
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"Over all, its account is grotesque, tendentious and regrettable," wrote Francesc Valls, a journalist, in the newspaper El País.
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Democratic-led probes may be more vulnerable, by their very nature, to the charge that they are partisan and tendentious.
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As history, though, it's another story — at once tendentious and undercooked, proposing a reductive, essentially conspiratorial account of recent events.
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The head spins as he trots past thinkers from Plato to Steven Pinker, frequently rendering tendentious judgments along the way.
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The magnitude of the coverage loss under both bills is too large to be explained away with any single tendentious argument.
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But while Turks have reason to be angry with the Western reaction, Ankara's official narrative suffers from its own tendentious blinders.
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New Delhi forcefully rejected the claims, calling the report "fallacious, tendentious and motivated," according to a statement from India's foreign ministry.
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"This is the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read," Leon Wieseltier, the literary critic, wrote in The Times.
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What would you tell critics who might say that the documentary is tendentious because of that clear perspective, if not manipulative?
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In any case, it is a tendentious reading of any ancient text that would apply modern standards of plausibility to myth.
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It's tendentious to mention it in every review, but I am thinking about it while writing every line of every review.
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Toward that end, DCCC staffers are compiling lists of quotes from sitting Republicans and juxtaposing them with Trump's most tendentious positions.
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Democrats will attempt to capitalize on GOP in-fighting to press their political advantage, further aggravating today's tendentious left-right divisions.
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"The report is irrelevant, extremely selective, incorrect and tendentious," Dodik told the parliament, saying it should have included Serb victims in Srebrenica.
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It would be a failure to quietly allow the GOP's tendentious predictions of an Obamacare collapse to become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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The issue has since become tendentious, with the number of those who have been exempted by now amounting to tens of thousands.
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Occasionally the author overcrowds this narrative with incidental characters; in what is a panoramic survey, she is prone to the odd tendentious claim.
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Even if they had, the notion that gun violence can be diminished by eliminating our ability to reference it visually feels tendentious at best.
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Its entire premise was built on the kind of tendentious data-shaping that is the bread and butter of opposition researchers, not news outlets.
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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.
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The Indian government rubbished the report, calling it "fallacious, tendentious and motivated," a compilation of "largely unverified information" meant to build a false narrative.
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"The basic thing that is going on is a highly tendentious, cherry-picked, 'we know what the conclusion is'" use of intelligence, Pillar said.
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Everything is debatable, which means everything — from other people's beliefs to objective reality — can be dismissed as someone's tendentious pleading for a specialized cause.
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Burundi's U.N. ambassador Rénovat Tabu said the allegations were "partial and tendentious" and that investigators were ignoring the government's efforts to restore peace and security.
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If the FTC were defanged according to its critics' tendentious reading of law and history, the agency could bring common law consumer fraud cases only.
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"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.
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Since turnabout is fair play, it's tempting to subject the left to the same tendentious excoriation to which it subjected the right six years ago.
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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.
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The insinuation that Washington had squandered an authentic peace chance infuriated American officials; the United Nations ambassador Arthur Goldberg fingered the "tendentious" Poles for the leak.
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"Cuban institutions have a legitimate right to adopt required measures in the face of tendentious journalism," the paper's Iroel Sanchez wrote on Wednesday in a column.
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Teachers and parents get impatient, Lee explains, and even use epithets; moreover, a tendentious intelligence hierarchy from the American eugenics movement still casts a long shadow.
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But the phrase "structural racism" attempts to appropriate our moral intuitions about racial prejudice and racial discrimination in the service of tendentious claims, and that's problematic.
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It's tenuous — and some would argue tendentious — to claim that these artifacts fall under this category while in use by a third party museum and research institution.
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However, most junk journalism does not take the form of outright "fake news" but of tendentious reporting that focuses on some facts while downplaying or omitting others.
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I would never dream of forcing my cat to follow the same tendentious dietary regimens we sometimes impose on ourselves, whether it be raw food or veganism.
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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.
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Luther's version is tendentious: he consigned the Book of James to the Apocrypha, because it posited good works, rather than faith alone, as a route to salvation.
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This literature is provocative in tone and, at times, tendentious, but it engages in a necessary act of self-examination, of a kind that modern Germany has exemplified.
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That is the complete inverse of the truth—not tendentious spin with a kernel of truth to it, but a piss-down-your-back, tell-you-it's-raining lie.
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He admits that the film is "tendentious" in its promotion of solidarity with refugees, but hopes that it will "open up Europe's way of looking" beyond the usual "clichés and prejudices".
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Yet it had previously backed tendentious police claims that the Briton died of a drug overdose, even theorising in court that bruises to his groin were caused by vigorous oral sex.
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In a misleading and tendentious Times op-ed, the Human Coalition's Lauren Enriquez condemns pro-choice women in "the new feminist resistance movement" for failing to make space for abortion opponents.
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It's a suite of 21 framed prints drawn from the 213 edition of "The Negro Motorist Green Book," which was also the subject of the 2018 Oscars' tendentious Best Picture winner.
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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.
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The only reason to write about Emily James being fired was to make a larger point about irresponsibility in corporate America, but if I began with that it would seem tendentious and dry.
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Now, seven years later and starring in a Teen Mom spin-off, Teen Mom OG, Farrah is popping up in the news with more tendentious behavior, this time involving her daughter, Sophia Abraham.
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But having run up against the GOP's correct-but-selective interest in due process, leading Democrats have decided to accuse Republicans of being in cahoots with terrorists in a tendentious and inaccurate way.
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They can be endlessly tendentious and retain credibility, but if they tell the public x, when the truth is y, they damage not just their reputations, but the agenda they aim to advance.
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Such can be a fate of nuanced art in a sphere of gross politics, where Kollwitz's stated, and achieved, intention to express "the suffering of human beings" could be pirated to tendentious ends.
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Of course, from our perspective of post-colonial mindfulness, there is something tendentious about the way they appropriated out-of-context, non-Western cultural objects as a way of raising the psychological stakes.
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To come across it in the Stanford edition, free of Förster-Nietzsche's tendentious and often deceptive editorial practices, is a bracing shock: And do you also know what "the world" is to me?
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Let's hear from them on this — presumably, something other than the muttered excuses and tendentious whataboutism of a political movement that is capable of saying and doing anything except look itself in the eye.
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But the Justice Department is trying to interfere with that impeachment process as well, going so far as to take tendentious legal positions to try to avoid the information being turned over to Congress.
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"Most of these groups are supported by foundations, organizations and governments with clear anti-Israeli perspectives and agendas, which use these tendentious materials for harming the state of Israel and its security," the bill reads.
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Rewind An openly tendentious tour de force considered by many as Cuban cinema's peak accomplishment, Humberto Solás's "Lucía" (19693) is a landmark newly visible in a 4K restoration for a weeklong run at Metrograph in Manhattan.
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Originally, after going on the first exploratory mission, she suggested a project in Silwan, a Palestinian village on the outskirts of East Jerusalem, but Mr. Brenner turned her down, thinking that would be too narrow and tendentious.
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Likewise, in Britain the campaign to remain in the EU in the lead-up to the referendum in 2016 relied entirely on tendentious economic forecasting at the expense of any emotional appeal to a shared European future.
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Tendentious reporting is not "fake news;" it happens all the time, across the political spectrum, and the only answer to it is more critical thinking on the part of readers and viewers, not more social-media controls.
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MOSCOW, Dec 21 (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that an investigation into the BBC's work in Russia was a response to Britain's treatment of Russia's RT TV channel and called some BBC reports tendentious and politically-motivated.
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These are not tendentious or subjective ways to describe Trump's predicament, but rather inescapable consequences of things Trump has done to expose himself to legal jeopardy and deny his loyalists clean lines of defense against the bad news.
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As Stephens writes: Liberals may have been fond of claiming that Republicans were all closet bigots and that tax cuts were a form of racial prejudice, but the accusation rang hollow because the evidence for it was so tendentious.
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In the tendentious but mostly persuasive book " Nobody's Girl Friday: The Women Who Ran Hollywood " (Oxford), J. E. Smyth, a film historian at the University of Warwick, documents the movie-production jobs that women succeeded in, even after the silent era.
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Republicans are citing this laughably tendentious outpouring of FBI leaks and disclosures as pretext for years of investigations of Clinton's as-yet unsecured and unconstituted administration; and even letting slip that they might move to impeach her for imagined crimes.
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That is, they argue forcefully against defining race or gender in terms of any objectively identifiable biological factors, even as they promote an extremely tendentious definition of race that simply takes for granted the impossibility of transitioning to another race.
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By the end of his recordings, Wojnarowicz has talked himself into a loop and anchored himself in a tendentious tug-of-war between the pre-invented world he so vehemently combats and the language he hopes will free him from it.
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More people have lived on earth than the tendentious nets of genealogy — inevitably tangled in the chronologies of faith, race, nation — can catch, and we are connected to them by threads more subtle, and resonances more profound, than have yet been explored.
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But do we know—can anyone prove, not in that tendentious tweetstorm guilt-by-association way, but like really prove beyond a doubt—that Trump is not currently working with those pitchers, with the best people, on perfecting a suitable and truly Presidential Pitchface?
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"What we noticed in recent days is the intransigence of some parties and their insistence on chanting some tendentious slogans," a defense ministry statement quoted army chief of staff Lieutenant General Ahmed Gaed Salah as saying at a military base in the southwestern province of Bechar.
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But that position obscures that Oprah and Cummins are, in their endorsement of the book and the wish that someone less white had written it, being political by parroting exclamations and disclaimers that "good" Americans have been prescribed when dealing with the tendentious territory of race and migration.
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He blamed President Barack Obama for the closure of a General Motors plant in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin, that had been shuttered before Obama became president; for doing "exactly nothing" to implement the findings of a debt commission Ryan himself had driven to gridlock; and for several other tendentious or false things.
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It's a subject he explores in chapter-length profiles of Henry Kissinger, Huntington and the University of Chicago's John J. Mearsheimer (whose 2001 magnum opus, "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics," was later overshadowed by his tendentious and bigoted screed, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," written with Stephen M. Walt).
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Negotiations have been tense, but two things may take the pressure off this time: The countries are not describing these so-called "intersessional" talks as an official negotiating round and they are expected to focus on making progress on areas of agreement, including digital trade and customs, rather than the most tendentious issues.
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As to the tendentious connection that the article tries to establish between what is happening today and the events of 1915, suffice it to say that it is Turkey that has been reaching out to Armenians to seek common ground based on mutual respect and understanding, as evidenced by the April 24 message of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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But they also fuel the novel's more tendentious and stage-managed sections, which feel willfully constructed to italicize the bankruptcy of the war and the worst crimes, like torture, committed by some American soldiers — a take on the war that is as constricting in its own way as what Mr. Scranton has assailed as the myth of the trauma hero.
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Many—too many—of the artists seize on easy ironies of mediated information (televised spectacle as somehow malignantly manipulative rather than banal), tendentious incongruities (the artist Martha Rosler's well-known montages of sinister soldiers in battle array and of upper-class women vamping in deluxe homes prove what, exactly?), and fixate on remotely deployed weaponry (as if this were any more reprehensible than dealing death with clubs and knives).
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While some of his critics on the left conducted an offensive discussion about whether he was gay enough, he performed an important balancing act, integrating his gayness into his candidacy without letting his candidacy be defined by it, seizing teachable moments without ever becoming tendentious or tedious, showing the world that being gay or lesbian or bisexual or transgender or queer is an essential part of who we L.G.B.T.Q. people are but not all of who we are.
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