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It leads to murkiness and tendentiousness, and to curators elevating their own ideas over the integrity and singular force of individual artworks.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2023

Working within the framework of now-familiar facts, Mr. Weinraub, a former New York Times journalist, has built scenes, dialogue and even characters from what is at best inference and at worst convenient tendentiousness.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2018

Sometimes people, primed to find signs of tendentiousness, read meanings or connotations into words that the writer never intended.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2017

Kristol's is a familiar and not discreditable shift in political outlook: he has described that earlier experience as the best education he ever got, but it did leave him with a certain tendentiousness in arguing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The people I fear are those who look for tendentiousness between the lines .

From Time Magazine Archive




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