tendentiousness

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

The whole book, in fact, skirts the tendentiousness that has become a hallmark of writing that sounds environmental alarms.

While acerbic and consistently amusing, “The Revolt of Man” nonetheless bristles with tendentiousness in its second half: Let women rule, Besant argues, and they will just squabble endlessly while society grows static and decadent.

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.

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