tendentiously

That was too tendentiously Marxist to encounter general agreement.

Democracy meant government by the people themselves; what is now tendentiously termed direct democracy.

None is treated tendentiously, but none delivers much emotional or intellectual punch, either.

He is said to be from Sicily, and was a Christian convert, known for preaching impressively if tendentiously.

The problem is, people don't tell the truth to tell the truth, but tendentiously, and people are just so ready to hate the Jews.

"Klinghoffer" tendentiously applies such anti-bourgeois notions to the issues of the Mideast conflict as well.

Burton was also stupid to so tendentiously edit the tapes he released (Fred Barnes, Meet the Press ).

The violence varie is packaged loosely and somewhat tendentiously as the product of a racist, male-dominated, exploitative capitalist society.

It has already inspired both paeans and pans, and with good reason: it is at once meticulously researched and tendentiously argued.

The words have no historical weight, though the Daughter of Zion poetically (and tendentiously) informs her tourist visitors: "I am an old woman.

It assesses sources "tendentiously", seeking to find sources to justify a pre-determined agenda rather than to neutrally discern the intent of the earlier authorities.

"Well, no, not per se, I mean, not myself, though I suppose every writer puts himself into his work to some degree," I began tendentiously.

Boswell himself denied that adelphopoiesis should be properly translated as "homosexual marriage," and decried such a translation as "tendentiously slanted".

It is found most commonly in history, in which historical eras and long periods of time are assigned a name which tendentiously lends the impression of continuity.

I grew up on the West Side of Chicago, which might have been thought a middle ground, but this particular pocket of Lawndale was very much tendentiously Cub.

A skilled novelist and biographer (of Tolstoy) brilliantly and sympathetically demythologizes one of the most tendentiously written-about British authors of the 20th century.

According to Ephrem, Boswell mistranslates, misinterprets, and tendentiously organizes texts, and his "knowledge of Orthodox liturgiology is, in effect, non-existent."

Monographically arranged, it tendentiously focuses just on the years before and after the Revolution and on painting; several of the artists continued to work much later and did more than paint.

Mr. Heston seemed to be tendentiously morphing two of the favorite celebrity bete noires of the right to throw some sexist red meat to N.R.A. members.

And if in places it reads tendentiously or relies overmuch on rhetoric, it could hardly do otherwise than echo the tendentiousness and rhetoric of the terms of reference themselves.

Some look pretty simple-minded now - Ashley Bickerton's famed self-portrait in corporate logos, everything by Pruitt Early - but even those that don't often come across as tendentiously crass.

The police, as a novelty, were themselves videotaping (to their embarrassment, the police were later shown to have selectively and tendentiously edited their tapes so as to seem to incriminate protesters).

More deeply felt, more tendentiously extolled, and more verbose were the arguments in favour of what was really to be a new form of further education: the compulsory part-time day continuation school.

The Harvard Law professor's book on race gets plaudits for its equal-opportunity attacks on both the left (for tendentiously seeing racism everywhere) and the right (for willfully seeing racism nowhere).

His reasoning eludes me, though I understand that for Mr. Caro the campaign was about only one thing: Stevenson's "reputation" (which he reports tendentiously) and Johnson's "destruction of that reputation."