tendentious

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But while Martel’s novel has a deep and sometimes tendentious concern with religion and philosophy, Chakrabarti’s adaptation engages with these questions only glancingly.

From New York Times

The first shot across the cinematic bow came in 2004, with Michael Moore’s characteristically tendentious documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11,” in which he laid out a strident but persuasive case against the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

From Washington Post

But this tendentious satire of the beleaguered world of nonprofit theater has attracted the talents of serious theater artists.

From Los Angeles Times

His day-in-day-out pattern of outrageous lies, ridiculous claims and tendentious misinformation was not the issue, Clegg said.

From Washington Post

What remains of the lab-leak theory is half-truths, misrepresentations, and tendentious conjecture.

From Los Angeles Times