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The dull, commonplace dames who prosed and buzzed and bored, the elderly intellectual virgins who knew nothing of life but what they had read -- or written -- in "Tendenz" novels, yet sadly rebuked him, more in sorrow than in anger, for this passage or that in his books, about things out of their ken altogether, etc.
The Martian George Du Maurier 1865
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Schließlich gibt es auch bei uns die Tendenz – ebenso bei Fertigteilhäusern – je größer desto imposanter.
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The description of Ciaran as transcending his contemporaries in beauty is probably suggested by Ps. xlv, 2, and is another illustration of the _Tendenz_ already referred to.
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The _Tendenz_ of the biographies of Ciaran is clearly marked in the hint at a parallel between the last supper of Ciaran and the Last
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Phil, ii, 7, 8, thus hinting at the general _Tendenz_ of the Lives of
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Finally, in _Le Meunier d'Angibault_, [C] written as was the last-mentioned work some four or five years later (1844-45), but which may be named here, as making up with _Le Compagnon du Tour de France_ the trio of "socialist" novels, the _Tendenz_ does not interfere to the detriment of the artistic plan of the book.
Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas
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In Germany, the Netherlands and in England many Tendenz choral compositions were written between 1890 and 1920.
Labor, Labor Movement and Music Speech by Hanns Eisler, 1938 1938
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German Tendenz choruses, that is choruses with conscious social significance.
Labor, Labor Movement and Music Speech by Hanns Eisler, 1938 1938
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Tendenz or other appearing on the stands; scarcely a month failed to bring forth its new genius.
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Wise_, herein following the lead of the "literature with a distinct purpose" (_Tendenz-Dichtung_) of France, and especially of Voltaire, otherwise antipathetic to Lessing.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892
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