polemical in English
Use "polemical" in a sentence
1. It is easy to be polemical about communism.
2. Yakovlev acquiesced in this polemical and unfounded notion.
3. Yergin is careful in his analysis and never polemical.
4. Christopher Hitchens, a polemical atheist, called her "Hell's Angel".
5. The reforms were attacked in a highly polemical piece in the 'New Yorker'.
6. The letter was probably written for polemical impact. It is scarcely credible.
7. That’s polemical territory that music magazines tread and get Bugbeared for
8. That’s polemical territory that music magazines tread and get Bugbeared for
9. It also codified a polemical line that has, unexpectedly, become a war horse of hawkish bloggers.
10. 11 Politics and art were inextricably enmeshed in Dada literary and polemical manifestos and anti-manifestos.
11. These anecdotes take the edge off the polemical intensity a reader might expect from the book's title, "Higher Education?
12. Politics and art were inextricably enmeshed in Dada literary and polemical manifestos and anti-manifestos.
13. Daniels is at his best when he's cool and direct, rather than combative and polemical.
14. Setting aside the polemical aspects of his argument, Honderich's thesis boils down to three points.
15. “The admonition is not sharp, polemical, or critical,” notes the Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.
16. Proponents of the changes did, however, find the prognostications of their adversaries far too pessimistic and polemical.
17. Interspersed in Kant's constructive argument on behalf of his version of natural religion are polemical thrusts against positive religion.
18. Some conference representatives may have been influenced by a fiercely polemical front page editorial in yesterday's Daily Mail.
19. No one else used photomontage as a polemical medium so consistently and with such audacious cunning as he did.
20. Writers such as Lorraine Hansbury, August Wilson, David Mamet and Tony Kushner have all won Pulitzer Prizes for their polemical plays on American society.
21. The King was displeased at Liberal attacks on the peers, which included a polemical speech by David Lloyd George at Limehouse.
22. Argues that Arianism as traditionally understood is largely a polemical construction created by Athanasius, and is an unsatisfactory concept for historical research
23. In current scholarly English the name Anabaptist ("one who baptizes again") is widely accepted as a neutral term that has lost its older, polemical sense
24. He is noted for his work Anabaptista Larvatus, a major polemical work on the history of Anabaptism and a refutation of Anabaptist "errors."
25. Healthcare looks likely to be a big issue in next year's US presidential election, while Michael Moore's latest polemical film Sicko has driven the subject further up the agenda.
26. But no theory can replace that spirit, for any theory can be applied in an unscientific spirit, as a polemical device to reinforce prejudice.
27. After the airing of the polemical documentary on Swedish TV, Mr Kamprad retorted that "tax efficiency" was a natural part of the company's low-cost culture.
28. We don't know if Thilo Sarrazin intended to stall the debate on immigration to Germany, but it's clear that his polemical book has had precisely that effect.
29. We looked at its relation to the new career that John Milton ended up assuming in the late 1630s: this new career as a polemical writer of political prose.
30. It is a sparkling book, with little gems of polemical fire scatteredthrough almost every page, ranging from bright wit to the hard glitter of logicto the quiet radiance of a profound understanding.
31. Though some might accuse Abraham of political correctness (Spencer-Davis, incidentally, is a deaf actor), his production is infused with such infectious high spirits that any whiff of polemical Attitudinizing is quickly whisked away. Beyond Shakespeare's wildest 'Dreams'
32. Following a trip to Rabat, Algiers and Tindouf, the chair of the European Parliament’s ad hoc Delegation to Western Sahara and Vice President of the European Parliament, Catherine Lalumière, presented a very polemical draft report in April 2002 that provoked heated debate about the viability of the 1991 settlement plan.
33. We believe it would be more forceful and more helpful to the abolitionist campaign in the United States if we were to express our complete agreement and support for this decision by means of a statement by the President than to invoke urgency, which may seem somewhat polemical.
34. Another English Catholic resident at Antwerp was the famous Richard Verstegen, a prominent religious publicist, author of the famous "Theatrum crudelitatis haereticorum" (Antwerp, 1586) with engravings designed by himself, a vivid polemical account of the sufferings of contemporary Catholics for their faith, also of several other works written
35. The GGE Report was of immense value in bringing together, Governmental experts from 25 countries, ably chaired by Ambassador Elissa Golberg, who brought to bear varied but enriching perspectives on various aspects of a future treaty thus deepening our understanding of its many complexities, which only a serious, non-polemical and interactive discussion can bring forth.
36. Controversially adv adverb: Describes a verb, adjective, adverb, or clause--for example, "come quickly," "very rare," "happening now," "fall down." (in a disputed or polemical way) sur le ton de la polémique loc adv locution adverbiale : groupe de mots qui servent d'adverbe.