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  • His book is "personal" because it addresses only issues that have engaged his mind for decades-a refreshingly untrendy, untendentious approach.

    A Brief Tour of the Classics, Led by a Nimble Expert 2005

  • His book is "personal" because it addresses only issues that have engaged his mind for decades-a refreshingly untrendy, untendentious approach.

    A Brief Tour of the Classics, Led by a Nimble Expert 2005

  • The adjective ˜normative™ is meant in a generic and untendentious sense that can apply to a wide range of views.

    Relativism Swoyer, Chris 2003

  • But rarely has it been deployed for purely untendentious analysis.

    DESPOTISM MELVIN RICHTER 1968

  • But rarely has it been deployed for purely untendentious analysis.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas 1925

  • It would seem he never wrote an untendentious word in his life, but his address, though not intimate, is always personal, direct, rapid, and lively.

    unknown title 2009

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