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There's too much tendentiousness in the telling of our story, the greatest political story ever told.— National Review Online
He is a Socialist, but his fiction is wholly without "tendentiousness."— Literature and Life (Complete)
As all actual, practicing literary critics know, few sentences in critical works scream tendentiousness louder than:— Acephalous
The spectacle of all this tendentiousness is sometimes comic.— Propeller Most Popular Stories
Most of the sermons I endured as a teenager and young adult were heavy-laden with analogies; now I can't help seeing them as a recourse for lazy-mindedness (not always deliberate) and tendentiousness (usually deliberate).— WordPress.com News

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