tendenz

It is not their conclusions, but their tendenz that promotes cruelty.

The Middle of the Journey 2009

There, madam, in that cruelly unjust performance, what a text you had for a tendenz-romanz.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

In short, the present form of the creation epic is 'eclectic' and embodies what the Germans call a _tendenz_.

The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891

It is a _tendenz_ drama in five acts, founded upon the

A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886

She never made the artistic mistake of writing a novel of purpose, or what the Germans call a _tendenz-roman_; as Dickens did, for example, when he attacked imprisonment for debt, in _Pickwick_; the poor laws, in _Oliver Twist_; the Court of Chancery, in _Bleak House_; and the Circumlocution office, in _Little Dorrit_.

From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

She never made the artistic mistake of writing a novel of purpose, or what the Germans call a _tendenz-roman_; as Dickens did, for example, when he attacked imprisonment for debt, in _Pickwick_; the poor laws, in _Oliver Twist_; the Court of Chancery, in _Bleak House_; and the Circumlocution office, in _Little Dorrit_.

Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

If accepted it might lead the way to a general attack on the epics, as _tendenz_ pieces, works with a political purpose, or doctored for a political purpose.

The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological Andrew Lang 1878