tendentiousness

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There's too much tendentiousness in the telling of our story, the greatest political story ever told.

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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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