英语词汇“polemical”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Meggers reacted to Roosevelt’s critiques by sneering at her “polemical tone” and “extravagant claims.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

There was the danger that such a story, even in his deft hands, would be creaky and polemical. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z

In effect, “The Lady with the Borzoi” is a polemical biography, arguing that Blanche Knopf was ill-treated by her husband as both a wife and business partner. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

His songs were rhapsodic and discursive, polemical and observant — often within the span of a single verse — and his voice could shift from conversational intimacy to full-throated passion just as quickly. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z

But Tapper shows you can be engaged, combative, lively, and even opinionated without being partisan or polemical. Two Cheers for CNN 2013-04-24T16:40:55Z

And without the Clintons and Obamas as fresh targets, the opportunity for political and polemical books seems to be more on the left than the right. A Partisan Books Editor Places a Bet on Balance 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

His films sometimes incited polemical debate over their depiction of sex and gender roles. Stephen Dwoskin 2012-07-12T15:55:13Z

“In Defense of Food,” Pollan’s most polemical book, despairs of American eating habits, yet concludes with the dainty recommendation to eat local as often as possible. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z

The less internal life that he was allowed, the more polemical he became. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

The essay's tone – knowing, insiderish, never polemical, and constantly shifting between mockery and studied neutrality – probably accounts for some of its warm reception. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z

Equally striking was Curtis’s trademark style, all logical provocations and uncanny juxtapositions; it’s historical documentary as polemical art installation. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Spike Lee's messy, meandering, bluntly polemical "Red Hook Summer" has one crucial ingredient: a raw vitality. 'Red Hook Summer': Spike Lee's tale of a struggling neighborhood 2012-09-06T20:23:07Z

Mr. Green’s response is quietly but unmistakably polemical. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

This is not a polemical film that answers the questions that it asks. Better to light a fire than curse the darkness 2011-09-14T00:14:00Z

Her rupture with the left is rich polemical territory, and Phillips has explored it before. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z

I think that Baldwin martyred himself for lots of people, and it meant that his writing became polemical. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

A broader problem with the film, particularly in these days of polemical documentaries, is that it's hard to get at what, if anything, Morris wants to say in Tabloid. SXSW 2011: My Tabloid expos? 2011-03-15T17:39:42Z

Whether Daniel is actually guilty or innocent is a subplot, not the main plot here, because Rectify is trying to tell a psychological story rather than a polemical one. TV Tonight: Rectify 2013-04-22T17:09:03Z

But the artist’s 3-D depiction of a seemingly impatient creature atop a ring of spikes is not specifically polemical. Review | In the galleries: ‘Misprints’ exhibition takes a purposeful approach 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

It’s an issue movie that wants to be thought-provoking rather than polemical. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

Yet Videocracy is not overtly polemical, nor even, at first, obviously critical. Film review: Videocracy 2010-06-23T21:20:00Z

Seen against this background, Stern’s latest outing can be read as a defiantly polemical gesture. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

For me it’s too polemical, and too reliant on coincidence. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z

Abu-Assad thinks such censure is misplaced, especially as his latest film is less overtly polemical. Palestine's tragic Oscar hopeful tests identity, ideas 2014-01-28T13:07:17Z

But these do not press a polemical point, even alongside the aftermath of floods in New Orleans and an Iraq war veteran in uniform, his face scarred from burns. ‘Samsara,’ Ron Fricke’s Cinematic Portrait of the Globe 2012-08-17T20:13:02Z

Bellamy added that when writing lyrics, his motives are more therapeutic than polemical. Muse: US rightwing conspiracy theorists tried to hijack our music 2012-09-28T11:00:38Z

The commentary on social and economic change becomes too direct at times, but for the most part, the layers of Bolger's text balance the polemical with the personal, skirting sentimentality. The Parting Glass 2010-07-06T20:45:00Z

In American fiction, Brett Easton Ellis made a memorable polemical point about consumer society in the brand name lists of American Psycho. Robert McCrum: The seductive power of lists 2011-03-15T16:41:59Z

Without ever seeming contrived for polemical purposes, Shriver's narrative strands systematically illustrate the traps of provision by private health insurance companies. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver | Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

Displaying its own media savvy, Jack is sympathetic to Kevorkian but not polemical. Movie Review: Pacino as Dr. Death 2010-04-15T15:36:00Z

Ravenhill has returned the compliment by writing a libretto about the great plague of London, taking inspiration from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Susan Sontag's polemical work, Aids and Its Metaphor. Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z

Many Americans might not know the more polemical side of race writing in our history. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

But Leigh does not see it as a polemical work: in contrast to his contemporary Ken Loach, whom he admires, Leigh said he does not worry about making his own beliefs clear to an audience. Netflix and Amazon behave like old-style Hollywood moguls, warns Mike Leigh 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

There’s a historical sense, too, in which “culture” is a polemical word. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

His voice is sometimes angry but never polemical: it's brave and loving, incredibly personal and yet universal. The artists' artist TV drama writers 2011-07-27T21:16:01Z

He became a professional apostate, armed with deep insight into the leftist psyche, decades of accumulated resentments, and a polemical style perfect to the role. Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

As for her next project, she’s not sure what it will be, but it will be of a piece with an approach fired by equal parts artistic expression and passion, be it polemical or pedagogical. Perspective | With ‘Detroit,’ Kathryn Bigelow refines an aesthetic grounded in equal parts theory and reality 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

But the three big hits of 2018 are far removed from the polemical “11/9.” How Donald Trump could help Michael Moore return as the king of documentary box office 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way. Review: Election Night With the Gabriels, a Play in Real Time 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

"Zinn is tendentious and strident and polemical and oversimplifies everything, the others are obviously all worse." ArtsBeat: And the Worst Book of History Is ... 2012-07-16T20:00:21Z

I’ve rarely read a text so forthrightly polemical in an exhibition organized by the Met. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

The restrained eloquence of her testimony is somehow more effective than gales of polemical fury. Review | ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

The extraordinary partisanship of this decade fueled a tremendous market for polemical books. Analysis | 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z

As the stakes rise, however, the play, presented by the Untitled Theater Company No. 61, becomes frustratingly polemical. | 'Pangs of the Messiah': ?Pangs of the Messiah? at 14th Street Y - Review 2011-11-09T22:38:44Z

Even its educative and polemical ways are valuable. Art Review: ?Muntadas: Information Space Control? in Bronx ? Review 2011-12-08T21:11:01Z

Richard Taruskin, a commanding musicologist and public intellectual whose polemical scholarship and criticism upended conventional classical music history, died early Friday in Oakland, Calif. He was 77. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

Steve Almond, in his excellent polemical memoir, “Against Football,” wondered about the obvious inconsistency of higher learning with the subsidization of a sport that causes brain damage. March Madness and money: Should American universities spend so much serious cash on sports? 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Hall’s essays are often polemical, and frequently very funny. Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

But such polemical displays do not undermine the garden’s ultimate embrace of even that past as one more strand in a complex cultural fabric. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z

His answers–in turns polemical, detailed, and wisecracking–were another example of how news subjects and sources are increasingly going direct to the audience, though not all his answers were entirely direct. From the Source’s Mouth: Still in Hiding, Snowden Does a Q&A Online 2013-06-17T19:45:22Z

Yet Rich’s poems weren’t so much confessional as they were polemical. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

Whatever the reality, after the war, Fontana disavowed political and ideological agendas across the board: “My art was never polemical but contemporary,” he wrote in 1947. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

But the aw-shucks acuity that guides it is unsustainable because Moore lets the fire hose of enragements turn his movie into a polemical wet T-shirt contest. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

Pohl co-authored 1991's "Our Angry Earth," a polemical essay against humankind's environmental destruction, with fellow American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl dies at 93 2013-09-03T18:49:29Z

In addition to his 32 novels, the onetime merchant marine and naval officer also wrote a respected history of the Navy, as well as a variety of other biographical, historical and polemical works. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

His voice is instructive but not didactic; opinionated but not at all polemical — in fact, anti-polemical. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

But Mr. Nyuade’s satirical approach, mingling hilarity and horror, suits the show’s preference for polemical indirection, just as his semiabstract style, which foregrounds color and texture, sustains a prevailing focus on traditional studio formal skills. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Because it’s honest about this problem, “Hillbilly Elegy” is only partially polemical. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z

And boy, can they be polemical – as I learned a few years back when a German magazine put Daniel Dennett and me head to head in a debate about evolution. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z

The recipient of several prestigious artistic awards, Mr. Ferrari professed not to care if some considered his work more polemical than artistic. León Ferrari, Provocative Argentine Conceptual Artist, Dies at 92 2013-08-01T03:33:50Z

George Eliot is one of those brilliant writers who manages to be polemical while telling a really good story. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z

But this art didn’t come across as polemical. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

For the writer of such a pointed, polemical satire, there is something watchful and slightly wary about Wade. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z

In Westerns and musicals, he says, “the same thing happens — you find ways of displacing your anxieties and putting them into this other form. It’s not as threatening, and certainly it’s not as polemical.” Aliens as immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ became the latest political sci-fi film 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z

But there are also feuds generated mainly by differences of opinion, with some celebrities and politicians objecting to the title's polemical rightwing stance. George Clooney row with Daily Mail boils over as actor shuns apology 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

Though some critics found the book polemical, others praised its dreamlike milieu, musical language and ambitious scope. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z

Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, "Schoenberg Is Dead," that instantly became infamous. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

This book, which offered a view of US history in terms of 500 years of imperialism, colonisation and racism, was less well received academically, with critics calling it polemical and revisionist. Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality of war 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z

The result is a show that isn’t reductively “racial” but includes race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

All the same, the biggest impression is of the actors' energy, subtlety and fun in an unusually polemical comedy. Stones in His Pockets – review 2012-07-12T16:53:38Z

It might be less polemical than it was when subscribing to a certain film theory could make you a marked man among your fellow critics. Andrew Sarris 2012-06-22T14:53:43Z

Such polemical ends were always among Dickens’s chief aims in writing “A Christmas Carol.” ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z

Less polemical than his earlier work, Rocket to the Moon is shot through with characteristically Odetsian wit. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z

“When you are polemical, you can go two ways,” Mr. Taruskin said in a phone interview. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z

Mr. Roth fired back in his novel “The Anatomy Lesson,” in which Howe appears as Milton Appel, a ferocious critic prone to “polemical overkill, the exhaustive reprimand that just asked for a fight.” ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z

A lot of art about climate change is ungracefully polemical. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

At times, this lamentation turns polemical in equating “mechanistic, militaristic” Rome’s powerful ambitions with imperial Britain and fascist Italy. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

In fact, the city has now erected signs explaining the polemical history of the site, with information about its builder. Concrete Daisies? There’s a Fine for That. 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Beyond the polemical intensity of the Fridericianum, the show loses coherence and often subsides into dross. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z

That may sound like the makings of a deadly polemical novel, a strident op-ed stretched out for more than 450 pages. Review | In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

“Talk House” is a group portrait, which allows its audiences to sustain a greater distance and to discern more clearly the play’s polemical machinery. Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

To a certain extent, the identity museum is a polemical response to such museums. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z

“I hope I have disturbed your peace,” a chatty, lightly polemical Madonna proclaims in between songs in “Madame X,” a new concert documentary that shares its name with her 14th album, from 2019. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

In a later edition, against the author's wishes, he deleted the polemical second section altogether. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z

It’s not as if Gregg rejects this truth, but he’s mostly writing in a more polemical vein than an exploratory one. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z

And as intellectually lazy and emotionally manipulative as it was, Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” nonetheless focused serious polemical attention on the problems facing American education. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z

Watson’s goal with “Scarlet A” — to get Americans to just start talking with one another — is less polemical but no less difficult, at least in this distrustful day and age. ‘Scarlet A’ Wants Less Shouting About Abortion and More Talking 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z

Still, there’s nothing polemical about “Small Things Like These.” Review | ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

The text concerns the difficulties facing black filmmakers, and while Ms. McIntyre provides witty physical illustration, her piece never veers into the polemical. Dance Review: Modern-Dance History Times Five, With Plenty of Theatricality 2010-12-14T06:00:17Z

Wilder could affect a teasing polemical tone, a kind of Weimar version of American journalist and satirist H.L. Review | Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

His career as a writer of fiction then subsided, replaced by the polemical essays that were his real strength and for which his historical fiction had provided the context. Gore Vidal remembered by Jason Epstein 2012-12-22T22:44:01Z

This is no thin polemical screed, although the tone is often impassioned. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

Continuing to explore corners of British life often ignored, Jimmy McGovern's drama doesn't lack for angry, polemical moments. TV highlights 21/08/2012 2012-08-20T19:00:01Z

Turn a corner into the next gallery and you find work from around the same time but on overtly polemical themes. How Mexico’s Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

The artist, Dor Guez, 30, is the son of a Palestinian Christian and a Tunisian-born Jew, and his polemical work largely centers on narrating the experiences of the Arab citizens of Israel. Dor Guez Exhibition at Rose Museum of Brandeis 2012-10-12T22:42:35Z

As a teenager, he recalled sitting in his Queens aerie and listening to the Academy Awards and the New York Film Critics award ceremonies and developing his ideas, idiosyncratic and polemical, on film. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z

His book is a polemical argument about the kind of economics that is appropriate in the 21st century. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z

But her gentle poems are subtle and rarely polemical, as they dwell on her past. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z

“It’s not my mission to be polemical. I don’t think it’s useful.” Through art, creating a dialogue between Palestinians and others

Her more polemical books extol danger, charisma, virility and bravado while ridiculing safety, tenderness, solidarity and weakness. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

This isn’t an anti-psychiatry book — Aviv is too aware of the specifics of any situation to succumb to anything so sweeping and polemical. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

He doesn't take a prescriptive or polemical position, but the thrust of his musings is towards the vision of a kind of ideal tension between wanting and getting; fantasising and actualising. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z

Each measuring almost 11 by 22 feet, the pictures are narratives inspired by a Euro-American tradition of history painting but entirely present-tense and polemical in theme. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

But what separates Ngugi from his Nobel predecessor is his brave and polemical decision to write in his first language, Gikuyu. Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z

Ms. Bachmann spoke up with the kind of polemical passion that official Washington forswore for the night — for good reason. The Caucus: TV Watch: Michele Bachmann's Rogue Rebuttal Defies Unity Theme 2011-01-26T13:44:58Z

Despite its sci-fi-ish rock-monster angels that do not feel much like something out of Genesis, the movie is in a sense too literal, too polemical to appeal to either faith-based or mainstream audiences. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

Lewis rigorously argues for the world she wants to create, but her book is too polemical to rigorously imagine it. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

A Neighborhood’s Soul, Bared for All to See Spike Lee’s messy, meandering, bluntly polemical “Red Hook Summer” has one crucial ingredient: a raw vitality. Movie Review: ‘Red Hook Summer,’ Directed by Spike Lee 2012-08-09T12:00:00Z

“I think Mitchell wrote it with a kind of polemical purpose in mind, which was to warn against the dangers of the too-available divorce, and that theme didn’t appeal to me,” Mr. Auburn said. The Curious Career of David Auburn 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z

There’s a Brechtian, polemical clarity to “Timon” that makes it ideal for the church pulpit and the editorial page but rather dry and plodding for the stage. Review | ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

She does this far too thoughtfully and skillfully for it to seem trendy or polemical. ‘At the Wedding’ Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Savage is also known for his mordant wit and polemical anger. | 'The Kid': A Gay Couple Adopting, From New Group@Theater Row 2010-05-11T04:18:00Z

While the last 10 years have seen the Royal College graduate hone an angry polemical vision, his latest works – large, comely landscapes – take a new direction. Artist of the week 200: Sam Dargan 2012-07-26T16:18:06Z

Frank’s purpose here is explicitly polemical: He wants to realign history in order to force us to reimagine the present. The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Deploying a style that evokes Brechtian distance without its polemical fireworks, Mr. Massini aspires to what might be called a god’s eye view, as dispassionate and relentless as history itself. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Accepting no such binary bifurcation, these passionate, polemical sexual confessionals make me exhale a breath I’ve been holding for 50 years. Perspective | For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

The "Mario" of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comic romp that was adapted by Hollywood as Tune in Tomorrow, is as real and vivid as the polemical author of Death in the Andes. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z

Even while cataloging Trump’s most outrageous behaviors, Baker and Glasser strive to maintain a professional, dispassionate tone: analytical but not polemical. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z

But even here Kushner's polemical fury at the Iraq invasion is qualified by his residual sympathy for Mrs Bush. Tiny Kushner 2010-09-06T14:53:00Z

But the Film Society’s retrospective — at once polemical in nature and populist in its programming selections — celebrates the perhaps less-heralded influence of female cinematographers. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

There is a polemical point to this bloodletting, of course, because this is a nationalist garden. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z

I thought that if I posted my little story, which was intended to be gently humorous rather than polemical, maybe some of those teenagers might re-examine that behavior. Theater Talkback: Who Owns Sheet Music? 2010-07-15T17:31:00Z

While neither polemical nor wholly fantastical, the story draws on skills he developed in those other genres. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

She added: “Bravo! Of course it’s polemical; a polemic that many think is useless because the Opera has ‘welcomed’ diversity.” Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

The first offerings run to the highly polemical, repeatedly hitting themes like the bankruptcy of liberalism, the corruption of warmongering foreign policy elites and the need for a moral framework to politics. Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z

But polemical as the novel may be, it never loses its moral complexity. Review | In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

His work falls into a category sometimes called interventionist art, which uses absurdity and outrageousness as polemical weapons. Art In Review: MORTEN TRAAVIK AND PETER FEND: ‘Power Games’ 2012-07-05T20:34:36Z

There’s something assertive, declarative, polemical about awards; they’re criticism in action. How to Make the Oscars Relevant Again 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z

But Christie's success with such a polemical feminist set suggests things might be changing. Women have the last laugh at Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-27T16:07:25Z

But when she ventures into the concrete domains of the “is” — offering practical advice and polemical warnings — “Why Grow Up?” turns a bit fuzzy. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

Whether viewers at the Whitney will see her work as naïvely polemical or genuinely affecting will soon become clear. Laura Poitras Prepares ‘Astro Noise’ for the Whitney Museum 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

That much is obvious from his unremittingly polemical prose. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

Not with any overt polemical purpose, mind you, but as more than an incidental detail. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z

For all the zealotry on display, “12th & Delaware” is about as far from a polemical screaming match as a movie about such a divisive issue could be. Film: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2010-06-11T04:51:00Z

Moreover, the Syrian refugee narrative is heavy-handed as it becomes another of Winterbottom's polemical issues. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

But “Promised Land” feels divided against itself, not quite sure how to reconcile its polemical intentions with its storytelling impulses, and thus finally unable to fulfill its own promise. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z

But Ms. Churchill’s play is far less polemical and arch than I remembered. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

He also published polemical essays about the nature of sculpture in Artforum. Odd Man in: The Sculptor Robert Morris, at 86, Is Still Blazing Trails 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Riley’s futurism is not merely speculative or playful, and while “Sorry to Bother You” is too nimble to be polemical, it is insistently political. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

The fact is, no great work of art can endure being drawn and quartered for a polemical purity ritual. Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

The book has a rambunctious humor that complements its polemical spirit. The Book That Exposed the Cynical Politics of Donald Duck 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

I wanted, as an author, to deliver what is most important to me as a reader: a narrative that grapples with the questions, through character and story, without being didactic or polemical. Perspective | How to write a can’t-win book: An Israeli-Palestinian story 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

But, despite the actress’s best efforts, her monologue came off as stiff and polemical, like edutainment in shaky-cam drag. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

It’s interesting, then, to observe the steadily increasing prominence of frankly polemical work within the walls of the museum. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

From his Scripture-based theology and the earthy vigor of his polemical prose emerged one of Luther’s finest achievements: His German translation of the Bible. How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Made in the polemical documentary style popularized by Michael Moore, "The Big Fix" depicts Louisiana as a petro-state controlled by oil companies, and Washington politicians as in hock to powerful lobbyists. Gulf oil spill doc 'The Big Fix' screens in Cannes 2011-05-17T18:16:05Z

That said, while parts of “The Republic of Imagination” are polemical, much of it is personal and evocative. Why this Iranian-born writer fears for America’s soul 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Weems’s impassioned account of the familial turmoil his exile caused, and her call for retroactive justice in his case, constitute the exhibition’s most overtly polemical moment. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

On its own, this economic-disaster narrative would be a sharp, if polemical, cautionary tale, an indictment of American life at an inflection point. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

In a manner that is patient — and sometimes even playful — rather than polemical, “All Light, Everywhere” contributes to debates about crime, policing, racism and accountability. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

And I found him far more intellectually honest than ideologues who were so eager to make polemical hay out of “Zero Dark Thirty” that they never bothered to watch the entire movie. Perspective | Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z

Michael Moore, the writer/director behind such polemical films as Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, has suggested that the actor Meryl Streep run for president on a Democrat ticket. Michael Moore: Meryl Streep should run for president 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z

Illustration: Ronald Grant Archive The Deer Hunter is not just a political or a polemical film. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z

Lee has also been fearless about making polemical work, and speaking out about politics off-screen, regardless of the blowback he might receive in Hollywood or from his audience. Perspective | Spike Lee on his role as an artist in tumultuous times: ‘I’m built for this’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

But do polemical pieces actually make the most enduring and compassionate war art? Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z

“We’ve seen the government use vicious stereotypes to drive home its polemical position in favor of prohibition too.” Marketing the munchies 2012-07-21T13:00:00Z

With their polemical ardour, their gross-out caricatures – usually of women – and their frequent outbursts of sexual violence, it is hard to imagine such films even being made today, let alone screened in Times Square. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

For Lee, it looks like similar mainstream territory to his 2006 thriller Inside Man rather than the more polemical fare with which he tends to attract comment. Spike Lee 'closing deal' to direct terrorism thriller Nagasaki Deadline 2010-06-29T14:22:00Z

It was important to the three creators that, while bitterly ironic, “Have a Good Day!” was not polemical. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Last year, Mr. Branum, who on “Totally Biased” scathingly ridiculed the homophobic jokes on Comedy Central’s James Franco roast, wrote a polemical attack on the boy’s club of comedy. The W. Kamau Bell Legacy: A Talk Show Five Years Ahead of Its Time 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Michael Moore was leading an extraordinary revival of campaigning documentary – or perhaps non-fiction polemical cinema is a better term. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade | Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

But there’s no need at all for that process to be didactic or polemical in the way that you’re describing. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z

Arguments regarding the future of the school system and the demolition of public housing projects are presented neutrally, at least by Mr. Lee’s usually polemical standard. TV Review: Spike Lee?s New Documentary About New Orleans on HBO 2010-08-22T23:54:00Z

It says that the use of the term “equating current controversies with the 1973-74 Watergate scandal carries polemical overtones. . . . If a writer considers a more recent episode comparable, the case should be made straightforwardly.” ‘Spygate’? The mainstream news media has a few problems with that phrase. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Its celebration of Justice Ginsburg’s record of progressive activism and jurisprudence is partisan but not especially polemical. Review: In ‘RBG,’ the Life and Times of a Beloved and Controversial Supreme Court Justice 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

“How Much Is Enough?” is too open-ended to be polemical. Theater Review: ?How Much Is Enough?? at St. Ann?s Warehouse ? Review 2011-11-18T23:46:52Z

Best known for her polemical stances on feminist issues, Roiphe here turns her gaze on her romantic relationships, noting moments when she has ceded power to men or even endured their abuse. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

Radiohead songs are rarely linear or polemical, but the band has clearly though more about these things than almost any other band. Radiohead’s vanishing act: Rumored new album could be the anti-technology opus we’ve been waiting for 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

City Boy has an argument, but it is didactic rather than polemical, a poem that takes no sides and draws no lines. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z

But technological developments have only increased their wonder, while the exponential destruction of the environment has lent them a polemical edge. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

First, many of the historians and intellectuals Cannadine cites represent only a small, polemical minority, eager to engage in political battles – people like Huntington, Betty Friedan or EP Thompson. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z

“Little Family” is an empathy-expanding story without the heavy gears of polemical fiction. Review | Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

He was familiar with philosophers Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse, but also with smash-mouth Texas football and California surfing, which gave him a variety of arrows in his polemical quiver. Review | How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

In green rooms, in drama schools, and in the fiercely polemical pages of the theatre magazine Encore, the debate raged. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z

The songs on “Revolution Come, Revolution Go,” however, are more observant than polemical. Gov’t Mule’s “Revolution”: Hope for an angry and divided land 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

“Tall,” with its graceful, thrifty camera work, is a profoundly beautiful film, and its beauty is sometimes at odds with its polemical intentions. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

This dereliction is all the more puzzling given Logan’s polemical aims. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z

These range from the autobiographical — “The Making of a Science Fiction Writer” — to the mildly polemical, such as several cogent rejoinders to instances of extreme political correctness. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Or ditch the technique for fear of being labeled polemical, or, worse, predictable? Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

The film’s sharpest polemical point is its critique of news coverage of the crimes. | 'Invisible': ‘Invisible,’ Michal Aviad’s Film About Rape, at MoMA 2012-07-08T21:17:36Z

Yet rather than treading familiar ground, the production by Ben Harrison and Maria Oller is fresh, funny and polemical. Huxley's Lab 2010-04-07T21:30:00Z

But both Murdoch and Sontag were alluding to, and working within, a well-known polemical formula from antiquity. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

While he’s best known for a bit ferociously defending Guy Fieri against his critics, his tone on this hot take is less polemical than wistful. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

“It’s basically a transposition of political and ideological fights, debates, polemical views, into the realm of a very, very primitive understanding of history and the past.” How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Now this would seem to be a ripe opportunity for polemical fulminating from Mr. Hare, the author of fierce state-of-the-world works like "Stuff Happens" and "Plenty." ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z

Other scenes are more subtle in their polemical thrust. Review: In ‘The Appointment,’ the Fetus Sings Out 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z

Many of the most polemical, most-followed bloggers and tweeters hail from the right. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z

Through Sinclair, a socialist firebrand best known for his polemical 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” Kiesling found a way into writing an individual story through a global lens. Can politics, fiction and podcasting mesh? Lydia Kiesling and Crooked Media give it a try 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

The message could be directed at the English-speaking Catholic Twittersphere, where some prominent Catholic figures, including bishops, frequently engage in heated debates or polemical arguments that criticize Francis and his teachings. Vatican singles out bishops in urging reflective not reactive social media use 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

"The problem of polemical and superficial, and thus divisive, communication is particularly worrying when it comes from Church leadership: bishops, pastors, and prominent lay leaders," it said. Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

"It's not that the request is outlandish. It's that the request is so nasty, polemical and such a sort of PR move, so it's certainly not designed to succeed," Litman said. “Boneheaded”: Legal experts trash Trump lawyers over “foolish” DOJ letter whining about Hunter Biden 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Prilepin was a polemical figure, an accomplished novelist who won praise for his writing style and an ardent nationalist who bragged about his own combat experience in eastern Ukraine. Car Bombing Injures Prominent Russian Nationalist Writer, State Media Reports 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z

The late fashion designer’s selection as the theme is not without controversy, with some criticizing his unapologetically polemical comments on a variety of topics, including xenophobic and fatphobic remarks. Met Gala 2023 live updates: Get set for fashion’s big night 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z

There were at least four substantial passages in the court record where Goldstein claimed, in service of a polemical point, that it had been my idea to seek privacy waivers from student-athletes named in documents. California fumbles again as cover-up of UC football player's death slowly unravels 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z

Likely not on display, however, will be his polemical tendencies. Why is Karl Lagerfeld, the Met Gala theme, controversial? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

But unlike DIS — who do so without discernible politics and tend to glamorize a sense of existential resignation — Kline is stridently and sincerely polemical. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z

Mr. Prigozhin’s flurry of polemical, often shocking social media activity comes as Wagner and regular military units are storming Bakhmut from three sides and trying to end one of the war’s bloodiest and longest battles. Prigozhin’s Feud With Russia’s Military Leaves Questions About Battlefield Results 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

“The book is not polemical. I’m a Marxist, I wrote a Marxist book because I think that’s the best way to get at the truth of this historical situation.” Palo Alto: Billionaire playground or Darwinian hellscape? Why not both? 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z

He has also achieved somewhat popular stardom, in part thanks to his polemical fervor and sometimes controversial ideas. What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

I went on a sort of polemical, long speech trying to tell her that that was exactly what I wouldn’t pay for and that she had to try to do more creative endeavors. Darren Aronofsky on 'The Whale,' fatphobia and empathy 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z

That’s a tall order, fraught with the deadening risks of polemical art, and none of the prize winners I’ve read has reached anything close to Kingsolver’s combination of subtlety and power. Review | Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ may be the best novel of 2022 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

More polemical was “Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster,” released in 1998, about how the city’s urban design was exacerbating fire and drought. Mike Davis, 'City of Quartz' author who chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z

Millet’s literary writing isn’t polemical or guilt-ridden in the way of so much contemporary ecofiction. The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

Many of them have not mastered the polemical ease with which to speak and convince. Barbara Kruger on remixing her own art and her visits to 4chan 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z

Even if you disagreed with his polemical stances, you had to do your homework before stepping in the ring, checking all his sources if you were serious. Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

Paz goes on to describe Mexico’s neighbor to the north as a reality “so vast and powerful that it borders on myth,” producing a relationship on Mexico’s end that is “polemical and obsessive.” Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

However, the themes found release in other forms, mostly polemical. 'At long last, Idunit!' Wole Soyinka on his first novel in nearly 50 years 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

“We have acted, in my case as president, with prudence, in a respectful manner, because these are very controversial, polemical topics. And we don’t want to encourage any confrontation.” Mexico decriminalizes abortion, a dramatic step in world’s second-biggest Catholic country 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Even before a single vote has been cast, the exercise has devolved into a polemical shouting match between the president and his detractors. Mexico to vote on whether former presidents should be subject to prosecution 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

A curator, Arthur Drexler, with polemical intent — today we’d call it “trolling” — described the initial 8 Automobiles as “hollow, rolling sculpture.” Automania at MoMA Balances Celebration and Criticism of Cars 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Two days later, Adam Fannin, a polemical Baptist pastor from Jacksonville, Florida, stumbled upon the blog post online. Where did the microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from anyway? 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z

A few talk about their artistic process in polemical terms; others, like Ms. Choi, say they are merely responding creatively to the experience of living through a once-in-a-generation trauma. Hong Kong Protests, Silenced on the Streets, Surface in Artworks 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

“It’s going to be polemical, it’s going to be passionate, it’s going to be practical, as we endeavor to reclaim true evangelicalism,” MacArthur said. L.A. church to host indoor conference of 3,000 attendees, despite public health order 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z

He was passionate about politics — an honorable profession, he believed — but he was never polemical or even terribly partisan. Review | A far deeper, worthier and more interesting JFK 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

“Woke” is political, but not polemical — a conversation, not a sermon. In 'Woke,' a Black cartoonist gets political. But don't expect a sermon 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z

Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, “Schoenberg Is Dead,” that instantly became infamous. Your weekend culture watch list, from a Bollywood dance party to free 'Carousel' 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Sara Paretsky sees crime fiction as the form “where law, justice and society come together in a natural way – that is, you can write about them without being polemical or didactic”. Me and my detective by Lee Child, Attica Locke, Sara Paretsky, Jo Nesbø and more 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Da 5 Bloods” is most invigorating when Lee is most sharply polemical, whether it’s during that vibrant prologue, or when he stops to drop some knowledge in interstitial flashes of history, wisdom and exuberant wit. Review | Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may not be perfect, but it arrives at a time when it feels necessary 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z

She did not misspeak once and was very clear and pointed, without ever being polemical in her remarks. Joe Biden’s VP choice? Stacey Abrams makes her case 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

Instead, I’ll focus on the polemical: her argument that “it is just possible that you might be purchasing a gun out of a costly and elaborate delusion.” Opinion | Many people are buying guns out of genuine concern during the pandemic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

In citing the polemical headlines she penned in the Catholic Worker at the dawn of World War II, such as “We Are to Blame for New War in Europe,” the authors intentionally make readers cringe. Review | The courage and compassion of Catholic activist Dorothy Day 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

“Most serious professionals in the tax policy area think that the polemical urge at some points has gotten the better of Gabriel and Emmanuel, especially when Gabriel starts to tweet.” The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

Sachs, who co-founded the Fountain and is its co-artistic director, aligns himself here with polemical writers such as Ibsen and Shaw, who used the stage as a platform for social criticism. Review: 'Human Interest Story' at the Fountain Theatre grapples with today's crises 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

The African American audience responded: In the modern age of television storytelling, we are no longer burdened with the requirement to make polemical characters, to prove to white people that we are good too. Showrunner Courtney A. Kemp: 'Power' fought a racist double standard — and won 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

While all that’s going on outdoors, things are just as polemical in the theatres. Scenes from Santiago: Chile's protests spill from streets to stage 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Her explosive conversation with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, is a timely riposte to the claims that she is too partisan, polemical and fixated with international conspiracy theories. Rachel Maddow on her critics: ‘Your hatred makes me stronger. Come on! Give me more!’ 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

In his two polemical books, he uses a pared-down version of that hyper-intelligent novelist’s voice, but retains a genius for a compelling story and a telling detail. Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Why don’t Extinction Rebellion issue specific ideas? They are awfully vague’ 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

Since then, Ms. Rotunno has emerged as a paradoxical and polemical figure, who has decided to defend a man reviled by many women as the embodiment of chauvinism and sexual misconduct. She’s Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer, and She Thinks #MeToo Is ‘Dangerous’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

But it was far more polemical, far more focussed on patrolling the borders than on examining the commonalities shared by those safely within them. The Asian-American Canon Breakers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z

Kalder proposes Lenin as the originator of the modern totalitarian style in prose, adopting Marx’s splenetic polemical tone for the purposes of Communist revolution. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z

This one, more playful than polemical, elliptically considered the question of the territory’s future. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

It’s also the more polemical, but well-written and well-documented; Lovelace’s reporting skills shine through as he quotes letters, testimony and correspondence directly, laying out the bare facts for readers to assess. Review | Inside the battle over Kavanaugh, from ‘handmaid’ protesters to Bible verses 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

The work shows playwright Judith Leora “in full command of her craft,” writes F. Kathleen Foley, a work that starts off polemical, but “deepens into a beautifully realized, classically structured drama.” Newsletter: Essential Arts: What's behind the abrupt shutdown of the Marciano Art Foundation? 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

As she led them through an argument to her conclusions, the workings of her mind were visible, and she was not polemical. Deborah Orr obituary 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z

The tournament remains polemical as it prepares for its second playing in Jan. 30-Feb. Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson are returning to controversial golf tournament - Golf Digest 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Wilbert, who is also a writer and photographer, frequently posts short polemical essays on his Facebook page or the Deep Green Resistance website. Revealed: how the FBI targeted environmental activists in domestic terror investigations 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

Although Ms. Marshall’s fiction was never polemical, her work examined racism, colonialism and what she described as an oppressive, far-reaching system of financial exploitation. Paule Marshall, literary chronicler of the African diaspora, dies at 90 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

Privatization is polemical in Latin America’s largest nation. Brazil’s Petrobras cedes control of fuel distributing unit 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

Colbert’s relentless skewering of the president has made him increasingly hard to watch: too strident, too manic, too nakedly polemical. Opinion | To understand how to beat Trump in 2020, Democrats should look to comedians 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z

But even the best of them were polemical gestures, not artistic ones. TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z

Their efforts assuaged audiences disturbed by a Hollywood trend in the Iraq War era that included polemical films such as “Stop-Loss,” “Redacted” and “In the Valley of Elah.” Jack Thomas Smith War Heroes honors American soldiers without compromise 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z

“He was quite unusual for a Swedish politician at the time because he was outspoken, he was polemical, a hard hitter,” his biographer Henrik Berggren told me. Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

And you would be right: in polemical YouTube comment sections and Reddit threads, the gender pay gap is already a myth. Why gender pay-gap truthers are on the rise 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

Two of the stories in the book, “The Good Mothers in the Parking Lot” and “Mrs. America,” address politics head-on, but neither story is polemical. Q&A: Karen Bender on her short stories that confront hot-button issues 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Sam Harris, the polemical atheist neuroscientist known for his popular podcast “Waking Up,” was making tens of thousands of dollars a month from fans who donated to him through Patreon, a crowdfunding site. Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Her comments hang in the air, creating a polemical subtext that prevents the film from feeling like anything genuine is at stake. Review | Even Susan Sarandon can’t save this cliched thriller 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

You would think these two polemical ideas would be nemeses, but they actually run parallel – two opposing visions that come together in a symbiotic relationship that papers over the cracks between them. Black mecca or most unequal US city: will the real Atlanta please stand up? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

“Today is an important day as we inform you that we will no longer tolerate this derogatory and derisive reporting. We will protect our coach, players and club. It is outrageous, disrespectful and polemical.” Premier League returns, Bayern Munich latest: weekend countdown – live! 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

The novel is not polemical; I’m a broken record on this. How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s hard to pick the funniest bit in her book, She Wants It – Soloway’s polemical memoir about “female desire and smashing the patriarchy”. Jill Soloway: ‘My father told me he was trans and it changed my life’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Its meanings are sometimes obscure and sometimes obvious, nearly to the point of being polemical, and most often somewhere in between. Review: Terence Nance’s 'Random Acts of Flyness' on HBO draws artfully and vividly on the modern black experience 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

This helps explain the resurgent emphasis on speech as that which needs liberating: the old-fashioned forum of the debating chamber has been revived, now that video of polemical combat can so easily be shared online. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

A curious trait of Sontag’s critical writing is that, for all its polemical thrust, it often contains opposing views. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z

Mr. Goldblatt said he was “scared of violence” and did not consider himself a journalist or a polemical photographer. David Goldblatt, penetrating photographer of South Africa under apartheid, dies at 87 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

He later become the editor in chief of the newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak, where he continued polemical attacks against politicians and rich businessmen. He Was a Protester a Month Ago. Now, Nikol Pashinyan Leads Armenia. 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

He is most famous for a polemical article he published in September 2016 in the Claremont Review of Books, “The Flight 93 Election,” which became an unlikely, highbrow manifesto for Mr. Trump’s election. A National Security Aide’s Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

He is most famous for a polemical article he published in September 2016 in the Claremont Review of Books, “The Flight 93 Election,” which became an unlikely, highbrow manifesto for Trump’s election. Departing national-security aide’s grand finale: cooking for a state dinner 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“The reality of people’s experiences transcends polemical debating language,” says Dyas. The hateful Eighth: artists at the frontline of Ireland's abortion rights battle 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

The tone often shifts between intelligent but polemical journalism and metaphysical reflection. Understand Putin by understanding his favourite thinkers 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

The modern insanity defense has long been polemical, and the legal standards vary from state to state. Nanny Faces Tough Insanity Test: Did She Know Killing Was Wrong? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z

What makes this play so appealing, rather than polemical, is the way Mr Norris also teases at some of the smugness of like-minded theatre goers. Adam Smith, unlikely hero of the stage 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

I’m not trying to get polemical because there are a lot of great things about it, and it’s our lives now — what’s the point of hating it? It’s time for movies to be honest about our relationships — with our phones 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Jones' feminist views on sex work and its consequences for women and men alike aren't hard to guess, but her clever narrative framework makes her arguments feel dispassionate and playful, not polemical. 'Sell/Buy/Date,' an exploration of the sex industry, is a must-see one-woman marvel 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Navarro's books, such as "The Coming China Wars" and "Death by China: Confronting the Dragon — a Global Call to Action," are widely viewed as polemical works. Steel tariffs bring vindication for Trump's feisty trade advisor Peter Navarro 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z

To realize how political this case is, consider Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s polemical response to the solicitor general of Illinois, which sided with the union. Opinion | Conservatives are using the Supreme Court to destroy unions 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

In December, it was the subject of an open letter by nearly 60 academics at Oxford, who said his approach was "too polemical" to be taken seriously. Don warns of Oxford 'peer pressure' 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

The term “polemical,” Potier said, clearly suggests a matter of opinion. A beloved French author was also an anti-Semite. Now his most notorious works are being republished. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

An already polemical fight sharpened when President Trump’s administration came into power and began to methodically dismantle Obama-era policies. The Takedown of Title IX 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Sultan argues that none of the art is polemical and that “an austere distance is maintained throughout.” Review | In an Arab art exhibition, land, signs and bodies are all contested turf 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

The exhibition, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, draws together artists who put race on a spectrum from polemical to personal and poetic. null 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

This culture comes in a number of forms, including anthems, documentary videos, and polemical essays, but poetry is arguably at its centre. The art of making a jihadist 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z

He was the author of many polemical poems, written over four decades in a unique documentary style. Heathcote Williams: radical poet, playwright and actor, dies aged 75 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z

Persuasive rather than polemical, it's the unusual issue film that deals in counterintuitive reason rather than barely controlled hysteria. Documentary 'Food Evolution' turns to reason to discuss GMO controversy 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

The massive emigration of Mexican nationals to the U.S. in recent decades has, in many ways, brought the long-time neighbors closer, despite profound tension about Trump’s polemical pronouncements. A North American rivalry that goes way beyond NAFTA: Mexico and the U.S. go for the goals 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z

Her polemical energies prompted the sort of hostility her husband largely escaped. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

She had recently read the polemical book Censorship Now!! by punk rocker and former Vice host, Ian F Svenonius, whose anger towards America’s corporatised and nationally sanctioned culture industry reflected her own. Frances Stark: 'Contemporary artists are hyper-alienated and hyper-competitive' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

At the same time, new avenues provide new opportunities, not merely for revenue, but for reform — this is essentially a feminist, though not a polemical, reading of these worlds. Netflix documentary 'Hot Girls Wanted' takes demure, compassionate approach to the porn industry 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

It consists of spurts and blurts and polemical dead ends. Opinion | The Daily Spicer: ‘Holocaust centers.’ Yes, the press secretary used that term. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

In the aughts, he directed polemical documentaries, among them “Fire from the Heartland” and “District of Corruption.” The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Rather like Anderson, it is less polemical than one might guess from the title, and more a manual for spiritual self-improvement. Gillian Anderson: ‘There were times when life was really bad’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

It’s good polemical writing that forces us to confront the realities at hand. Noam Chomsky’s “Responsibility of Intellectuals” after 50 years: It’s an even heavier responsibility now 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

The Economic Consequences of the Peace is one of those rare books that seem to exude brilliance, power and polemical passion from the opening page, propelled by the urgency and consequence of the subject. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 48 – The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (1919) 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

Variously funny, poignant, polemical and anger-inducing, the collection is existentially challenging to the status quo. Readers’ books of the year 2016 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

The tone of their tweets is frequently combative and polemical. Trump fans urge Star Wars boycott over reshoot claims - BBC News 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z

It is this Ginsburg, rarely polemical, frequently quotable, always deeply sourced and analyzed, who made her way onto the tote bags and the Internet memes. Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a precise, white-gloved wonk 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

Le Guin can be polemical, prone to what one close friend calls “tirades” on questions she feels strongly about. The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

As well as polemical, How to Cook a Wolf is also subversive. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 37 – How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher (1942) 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

The president slammed Trump for making polemical comments daily and said controversies surrounding Clinton did not compare. With Clinton out sick, Obama goes after Trump 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z

On several state TV channels, the government ran reports accusing opponents of being coup mongers while also broadcasting a polemical documentary about the 2002 failed coup against Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez. Venezuelans Converge on Capital to Press for Vote on President 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z

Coates is also the author of the award-winning book of polemical memoir and politics, Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther is superhero success story 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

An unauthorized and unflattering drawing of Donald Trump nude is on sale and the artist asking more than $1 million for the polemical pastel says she’s been threatened with a lawsuit. Trump Lawyer Denies Threatening Artist Who Drew Billionaire Nude 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the outstanding books in this series will be polemical and rhetorical as much as revolutionary. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 13 – The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970) 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Dawkins – in a style that would recur in later polemical books such as The God Delusion – was never less than comprehensive in his ambitions. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 10 – The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

But when it is characterized by a superficial knowledge of the sources, when it becomes polemical and hagiographical, it descends into a species of populism. Wealthy Irish rebel of 19th century who fought in his homeland and America 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

Ahead of every Games, there are polemical issues, but during the Olympics the celebration is so big and nice that all the polemics are put aside, at least for a moment.” Brazil faces steep hurdles ahead of Olympics: Zika and economic crisis 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Now, she revisits the play, once again at the Odyssey, in a superb production that tempers Odets' fervently polemical play with wrenching authenticity and craft. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2016 - Los Angeles Times 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

But the temptation now to read The Female Eunuch as outmoded, suffering the fate of all polemical literature, would be to overlook its staying power as an inspiring beacon amid a hurricane of social change. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 13 – The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970) 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

Cool, brutal, elegant, fiery, he established a kind of International Style in music, and propagated it in polemical writings and through institutional networks. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

That, combined with the fact that she was not granted an interview with either David or Charles Koch, gives her book an unrelentingly critical, polemical tone. The Koch brothers’ impact on the American political system 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

Thus, Ehrenfreund explains, "By selling his own polemical talents short, Obama risks perpetuating the myth that the power of the presidency is the power to persuade." Views You Can Use: Obama's Success and Regrets 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Representatives of the two governments seemed to go out of their way to avoid the kind of polemical broadsides that have long characterized U.S.-Iranian relations. Standoff with Iran averted with release of detained U.S. sailors 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

“To historically unmask this antisemitic, dehumanising polemical pamphlet and to explain the propaganda mechanism through appropriately qualified teachers is a task of modern education.” Bring Mein Kampf into schools to tackle extremism, say German teachers 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Spoken almost entirely in verse, staged as a sometimes ungainly series of polemical set pieces, production numbers and declamatory interludes, “Chi-Raq” doesn’t fit neatly into any genre. Spike Lee takes on gun violence with passion and bold creativity in ‘Chi-Raq’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z

Arguments once made by Republicans as polemical debating points are now echoed by consumers who say they cannot afford to use insurance because of high out-of-pocket costs. Instability in Marketplaces Draws Concern on Both Sides of Health Law 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

An already intensely polemical run-up to French regional voting next month and national elections in 2017 will be further inflamed by this tragedy. France and America become odd mirror images of each other 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Or maybe, at its most polemical, “Roll over, Beethoven.” The Real History of Rock and Roll 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

But at times Vine turns tendentious, even polemical. The costs of maintaining our bases overseas 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z

Baldwin’s intellectual independence drove his writing, both the polemical essays and the exploratory fiction. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z

The government then defended him publicly as a victim of the ‘deep state’ conspiracy, one of Erdogan’s favorite polemical bogeys. Instead Of Fighting ISIS, Erdogan Pushes Turkey Toward Chaos And Despotism 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

And the article rolls on checking all the hackneyed polemical boxes of the pro-Russian side. Top Kremlin Critics In The West Face Media Smears On The Home Front 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Earlier this month, Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware, a proud Democratic centrist, published a thoughtful essay on the Atlantic’s Web site under a very polemical headline: “Americans Need Jobs, Not Populism.” Progressive frenemies 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The speeches are more descriptive than polemical, with Mr. Corker sketching out a brief history of Iran’s nuclear program, laying out some of the current options and encouraging listeners to pay attention. Iran Conjures Strong Opinions in Tennessee, but Little Urgency 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z

Such numbers are more polemical than scientific, of course: dollar costs aren’t the only consequences to factor into the equation. How Much Should We Spend to Stop One Terrorist Attack? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

“The truth is, I am none of those things,” Dr. Spencer wrote in a personal but also polemical essay published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. New York Ebola Survivor Says He Was Unfairly Cast as a Hazard and a Hero 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

Those ad-libbed words followed what ranks as one of the more polemical passages ever offered in a State of the Union address. Obama ditches his illusions about Republicans 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

In truth, the tone of the book is melancholic rather than polemical. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

But without doubt, its most polemical publications revolved around Islam. Charlie Hebdo’s most controversial content revolved around Islam 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Fortunately, Plymouth is near Sharon, Conn., home of the Buckley family, whose members, when their gimlet eyes notice nonsense, become elegantly polemical. George Will: Another case for term limits

So there's a growing sense that counter-narratives will be more clearly understood - and meaningful - if they are not just polemical but also factual. How the battle against IS is being fought online 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

It’s the polemical equivalent of getting a big, fat fastball right right in your sweet spot. Here's the Climate Deniers' Newest—and Worst—Argument 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Zemmour’s is one of those polemical books, like Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind,” which carry everything before them, because they run right over every obstacle. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Once in a while her account is too polemical, despite her tireless advocacy for early testing and prevention trials. Guiding a Husband and a Mother Through Alzheimer’s at the Same Time 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

This is fine in the pages of a polemical novel, and an excellent thing for democracy in a parliament that often appears full of placemen. Douglas Carswell’s defection leaves Cameron’s strategy in tatters 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Stein said that he was hurt by Ms. Friedan’s blanket indictment but that he came to see it as polemical writing just doing its job. Robert Stein, Who Led McCall’s and Redbook for Decades, Dies at 90 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Now the pressure is on for one of Spain's most polemical politicians to turn that worry into real political change. 'Yes he can!' How Spanish indignado Pablo Iglesias aims to use a wave of protest to build 'a decent country' 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z

The polemical documentary is a companion piece to the author’s new book, which bears the same title. ‘America: Imagine the World Without Her’ movie review

A cartoon version of Howard Zinn’s polemical “A People’s History of American Empire” is also a concern; Joe Sacco’s “Palestine“ “is yet worse.” Cartoons for Conservatives: Amity Shlaes's Anti-New Deal Graphic Novel 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

David Goldblatt's portrayal of South Africa resists the polemical tendencies within the documentary photographic tradition. Photography Today 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z

“I think it’s incredible that there are still some so-called experts who don’t understand that and are always looking for a polemical situation that simply doesn’t exist.” Ferrari president plays down Alonso comments 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

"I think it's incredible that there are still some so-called experts who don't understand that and are always looking for a polemical situation that simply doesn't exist." Ferrari back Alonso after criticism 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

He added that “the money right now is more important than being polemical.” Libération Covering a Civil War. Its Own 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

In contrast to the high-color polemical painting popularly identified with Mexican art, it give us spare, small-scale, politically nuanced art in the opening shows. A Mexican Showcase for Ambition 2014-02-19T23:14:19Z

And at a time when black theater was often polemical, it was notable for its naturalistic drama and its probing of family dynamics and character. Leslie Lee, Playwright of Black Life, Dies at 83 2014-01-23T03:59:14Z

Her rise to fame stemmed from a polemical spat with the World Health Organisation and the pharmaceutical industry over swine flu vaccines in 2009. Keeping up with Teresa Forcades, a nun on a mission 2013-05-17T11:40:10Z

The Royal Society of London declined on the interesting grounds that it was 'polemical', and it would not include in its Transactions insults to anyone who had not already been insulted in the Transactions. Physicist's atom struggles revealed 2013-04-17T11:52:43Z

The new digital magazine will have creative input from Curtis, whose other polemical BBC documentaries include The Mayfair Set and The Century of the Self. Popbitch to launch paid-for online magazine 2013-03-20T07:53:00Z

The groups taking part - Youth Defence, Pro Life Ireland and the Catholic organisation, the Iona Institute - testify to the polemical nature of the debate here. Ireland shifts as abortion debate flares 2013-02-02T00:36:41Z

So the strongest work in the museum is modern, varying widely in material and ranging in tone from mournful to polemical. | Connecticut: A Review of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, in Hamden 2013-01-05T02:52:55Z

Unfortunately, they don’t always overcome the play’s talky structure and polemical stance. | Long Island: A Review of ‘Men’s Lives,’ at the Bay Street Theater 2012-07-14T05:11:47Z

However, some of the nuance was lost in the subsequent headlines, outbursts, polemical screeds and even in those summaries provided by his funders, which are socially conservative organizations. New Volleys in the Gay Parenting Wars 2012-06-22T22:35:34Z

They tend fit into two groups - the highly academic, densely argued analysis; and the polemical discourse that hammers home "the 10 things that must be done to solve everything". Financial crisis: new book offers a brief and jargon-free guide 2012-06-14T16:11:24Z

A portrait of Jacob Zuma, which some men would not regard as unflattering, has become the world’s most polemical painting. The Holocaust and the Euro 2012-05-28T05:00:00Z

At the period, however, when the Western monasteries began to discharge their intellectual functions, the supremacy of Catholicism was nearly established, and polemical ardour had begun to wane. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z

This wide acceptance and high esteem are due largely to an avoidance of polemical and controversial subjects, and even more to an absence of the controversial spirit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z

Indeed, I have somewhat misrepresented the book by collecting some of its more polemical moments. Opinionator: The Case for the Liberal Arts 2012-04-24T01:00:29Z

As the invention of printing facilitated controversy, polemical zeal multiplied treatises to prove the iniquity of the Utraquist heresy, but the Utraquists were not to be converted. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z

Through this conciliatory method, an understanding of the Catholic truth can be much more easily and effectually imparted to the unprejudiced Protestant mind than by a rough polemical method. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

He was a perfect master of polemical science. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z

Their literature, with which alone we are here concerned, is largely polemical and to a great extent deals with grammar and exegesis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z

He wrote polemical words directed against the pagans, the Jews and heretics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

After much pleasant talk with the enthusiastic young student, to which Edith listened with deep interest, Mr. Grafton was tasked to his utmost polemical and theological knowledge by the searching questions of the old Puritan. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z

They exhibit in a remarkable degree the qualities, so rare in polemical literature, of kindness, moderation, and charity for all men. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z

The little pile before her included scientific treatises, poetry and articles of a polemical nature, and she read it all; but she was chiefly interested in the hair-breadth escapes, pluck and martyrdom of the revolutionists. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z

In this controversy, conducted on both sides in the fiercest polemical spirit, Horsley showed the superior learning and ability. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z

The most important of these polemical treatises is the Refutation of all Heresies, which has come to be known by the inappropriate title of the Philosophumena. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z

But the anger has been more polemical than violent — at least so far. Memo From Kabul: Disconnect Clear in U.S. Bafflement Over 2 Afghan Responses 2012-03-15T00:40:06Z

A novel may be anything, but it must not be polemical. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z

In the department of philosophy, besides several writers of dissertations bearing an imitative, didactic or polemical character, Hungary could boast a few authors of independent and original thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z

He possessed a lively and brilliant style, admirably suited for polemical controversy; and he soon attracted notice by the boldness of his articles. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z

If ever true Christian charity was manifested in polemical writing, it was by Fletcher of Madeley. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z

Occasionally they come into keen polemical strife; but it amounts to little more than a gladiatorial exhibition, or rather a light skirmishing, without malice prepense, or much evil result. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z

As used by Lucretius, they add to our sense of the vividness of the book, of the constant personal address of the author, and of his ardent polemical tone. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

We do not therefore combat it any further in this regard, but treat it as merely the last stronghold of scepticism, which is always polemical. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z

Bishop Hall’s polemical writings, although vigorous and effective, were chiefly of ephemeral interest, but many of his devotional writings have been often reprinted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z

Here, and at the Villa Guarina, his last years were passed in study, law-suits, and polemical disputes with his contemporary critics, until 1612, when he died at Venice in his seventy-fifth year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z

In the Middle Ages it became a highly developed exercise in inference applied to the traditional dogmas of theology and science as premises, with mainly apologetic or polemical functions. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z

His polemical attitude is seen in the frequent use of such expressions as 'vinco,' 'dede manus,' etc., addressed to an imaginary opponent. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z

He wrote hurriedly, with a polemical object in view, and paid no attention to style. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z

Solon’s iambics so far preserve the old associations of the metre that they represent the polemical or controversial side of his political poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z

But after this not unpromising introduction, Dewey falls into the polemical strain again. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z

On the 14th, Haynald, in spite of his bodily suffering, delivered a long polemical speech against the majority, and maintained his reputation of being the best Latin speaker after Strossmayer. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z

Buchanan was the friend and adviser of Mary's enemies, and his references to her are polemical, not historical. Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 2011-11-20T03:00:16.107Z

But his most celebrated ultramontane work was a polemical one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z

His habit was to devote the first hour or half hour after breakfast, to religious reading, selecting such works as bore on personal or devotional, rather than on theoretic or polemical subjects. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z

This very unsatisfactory essay is, nevertheless, a fair specimen of the polemical literature which was produced by Dewey and others during these years. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z

So much it is necessary to know to understand the minute knowledge of English affairs displayed in his polemical works. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z

At another, sits the polemical divine, plodding and wrangling in his mind about "Adam's fall, in which we sinned all," as his Primer has it. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z

On the whole, then, for an exposition of Gnosticism we are thrown back upon the polemical writings of the Fathers in their controversy with heresy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z

This cordial sympathy with science, this absence of all savor of a polemical spirit, this hearty welcoming of every fact of anatomy and chemistry, is very noble and inspiring. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z

After the publication of the Studies in Logical Theory, Dewey entered upon what may be called the polemical period of his career. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z

In theology they adopted Jansenism, and were in consequence soon at daggers drawn with the Jesuits, according to the polemical habits of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z

My occasionally polemical treatment of the subject has been regretted by several reviewers, but its necessity, I submit, is the thing to be regretted. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z

With the 4th century both Gnosticism and the polemical literature directed against it die out.4 III. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z

The conversation about silk and stuff that followed became both animated and polemical. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z

But apart from these polemical writings, many of which had only an ephemeral value, the Renaissance was the source of another stream of historical literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z

His writings are numerous, alike in exegetical, polemical, dogmatic and practical theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z

For this service I have honoured the Reformation as being the beginning of German philosophy, which justified my polemical defence of Protestantism. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z

Every chair is covered with polemical tracts, to prove one side of an argument, that every table is covered to disprove on the other. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z

Among polemical writers the most distinguished were Becanus, who died in a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z

The last spate of books about it were either overly polemical and ideological, like Amity Shlaes' "The Forgotten Man," or they were incomplete, like Jonathan Alter's recent book "The Hundred Days." Lessons for Obama from the New Deal 2011-09-12T17:20:00Z

He is joint-editor of the Katholik, and is author of various polemical writings, and of a work on the history of the Jesuits in Germany. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z

The translation of Shakespeare, who stands at the frontier of this art and with Protestant clearness smiles over into our modern era, was solely intended for polemical purposes, the present discussion of which space forbids. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z

The polemical part of the Epistle is now coming to an end. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z

Words used in all simplicity by the ancient writers must have attached to them the definite polemical meaning they hold in the quarrels of theologians, before they can be strained into supporting a substitutionary atonement. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z

It is a polemical paper, full of exclamation points and italicized and capitalized sentences. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z

With the sure instinct of genius, he seized the characteristic features of the phenomena presented to his attention, and his inferences, except when distorted by polemical exigencies, have been strikingly confirmed by modern investigations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z

If this sounds overly alarmist or polemical, think again: Mr. Manolopoulos backs up his analysis with cool, detached facts. Off The Shelf: Inside the Greek Volcano 2011-08-13T15:55:05Z

It was always the complaint against the early "Socialists"—as the Co-operators were then called—that they mixed up polemical controversy with social advocacy. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z

The rationalists it is needless to say, avoided this error, but they betrayed a sense of the peril arising from it, in the polemical spirit that characterized much of their writing. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z

Being polemical, it no doubt exaggerates such of 152 Shelley’s views as collided with those of his antagonist. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z

Calvin held him in high esteem, employing him as amanuensis, and as editor as well as translator of several of his exegetical and polemical works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z

In many passages it is tedious—a record of petty strategies of partisan warfare—and, more dreary still, of factious jealousies and polemical hatreds. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z

Few would be prepared to believe that, in my polemical days, the desire to avoid committing the sin of pretension was supposed to indicate desperation of character, of which suicide would be the natural end. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z

A rage for polemical divinity took place, and brother against brother fought in support of each other's tenets; each fully assured he was in the right. Boscobel Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation 2011-06-08T02:00:15.873Z

I certainly didn't come to a polemical conclusion about it, but I'm proud of not coming to a polemical conclusion. Mind Reading: When You Go Hunting for Psychopaths, They Turn Up Everywhere 2011-06-06T15:40:00Z

In Rome, as at home, Gamaliel often had occasion to defend Judaism in polemical discussions with pagans, and also with professed Christians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z

But when raillery passed into railing, and sarcasm sunk into scurrility, in these unhappy polemical effusions, our critics have bitterly censured the intolerance and bigotry of Sir Thomas More. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

The wrangle became high and abusive, and was fast hastening into polemical theology, when the dramatis person� offered to settle it in a peaceable way, by fighting out the battle on the green. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z

Towards the close of the seventeenth century, classical literature had for some time rather declined in Germany—polemical theology and religious wars having at this period exhausted and engrossed the attention of her universities. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z

We may be sure that some mistake has been made, either in the interpretation of the sacred words, or in the polemical discussion itself. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z

If they are like their precursor, they will be clear and well written, somewhat polemical, and nobly contemptuous of opponents.... Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z

This Archbishop attacked the Arians, but we have only fragments of these polemical pamphlets; as these were highly orthodox, what is wanting occasioned regrets in a former day. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

Two volumes more embrace the polemical poems, the satires, and the poems of contemporary historical allusion, written chiefly between 1681 and 1683. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z

Still, they effectively challenge the polemical assertion that all public employees are overpaid. Economix: Revolt of the Cheeseheads 2011-02-28T11:00:18Z

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. Furniture shops: The secret of IKEA's success 2011-02-24T10:45:13Z

Emser warned his Bohemian friends against Luther, and Luther retorted with an attack on Emser which outdid in scurrility all his polemical writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z

James was a polemical monarch when polemics were political. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z

Even his imagination worked more powerfully, and his perceptions of physical circumstance became keener and truer, under the influence of polemical rage, the pursuit of terse maxim, or the passion for sonorous declamation. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z

The bad examples he presents provide ample evidence that the Essay was also serving a Whig polemical purpose, for they are drawn from such writers as Clarendon, Pope and, in particular, Laurence Echard. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z

The very nature of a true philosophy relatively to other systems is to be polemical, eclectic, unitive: Christianity was polemical; it could not but be eclectic; but was it also unitive? An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z

His version of a few books of the Bible was published first at Cologne, but its acceptance in England was greatly hindered by the translator's polemical notes. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z

“I’m in the think-tank world to solve problems, not be polemical,” he said. Diplomatic Memo: Trying to Break Logjam, Scholar Floats an Idea for a Palestinian Map 2011-01-22T23:16:42Z

Religious and controversial treatises, church histories, and polemical writings formed the principal part of the library, together with a few volumes of travel and biography which had somehow found their way there. A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel 2011-01-22T03:00:18.233Z

The next ten years he occupied in polemical writing, from the evangelical point of view, against the Calvinists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z

This it is that imparts to the history both of states and of religions, its specially turbulent and polemical character. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z

It is not a philosophical treatise nor a polemical pamphlet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z

It's one thing to make an inventive, polemical, fictionalised drama about Winston Churchill, Napoleon or the Unabomber. The Social Network and docudrama dishonesty 2010-09-24T13:30:00Z

Obviously, some of this book is deliberately polemical. Book matters 2010-09-06T12:07:00Z

Senate with the chamber's in-house historian and a more polemical attack on President George W. Bush, Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency. Senator Robert Byrd Dies at 92 2010-06-28T11:10:00Z

Uncompromising and often strident, Dr. Miller preached her message with an often messianic fervor and a polemical style of argument that cost her support from early admirers. Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 87; Laid Human Problems to Parental Acts 2010-04-27T03:26:00Z

In the powerful essay “Africa’s Tarnished Name,” for example, he returns to his highly polemical 1975 assessment of Joseph Conrad’s racism in “Heart of Darkness.” 2010-01-30T05:22:00Z

The interest in abstract exposition of clearly formulated theological ideas is everywhere subordinate to the polemical purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens"

This was perhaps no more than the outcome of the fierce polemical spirit of the abbot of Clairvaux, which led him to include all his adversaries under a single anathema. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of"

His writings are partly autobiographical, as the Confessions, partly polemical, homiletic, or exegetical. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis

The polemical treat chiefly of the doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation of Christ, and the divinity of the Holy Spirit. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli

This concession, which was considered as a sign of weakness by many, caused an animated polemical strife.--Translator. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster

My father disapproved of all this still more strongly, and expatiated at such length from dogmatic and polemical divinity, that I could well see in what account he held these new spiritual institutions. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I.

In addressing the jury they were eloquently polemical. Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch

Elected deputy in 1860 he became celebrated by the biting wit of his speeches, while, as journalist, the acrimony of his polemical writings made him a redoubtable adversary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis"

His writings, which are in Greek, are on polemical, historical, and moral subjects. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli

His polemical weapons were drawn from the armory of bureaucracy. The Progressionists, and Angela.

But in 1618 began a second period of authorship; he poured forth, but did not publish, treatise after treatise, expository and polemical, in the next and the two following years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"

But I believe rather that polemical disputes will be found not only to corrupt the genuine spirit of religion, but to degrade and contract the faculties. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3

It is largely polemical and would seem to have been designed to refute the ideas of the moderate party concerning certain points of observance. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order

It was the differences between himself and his predecessor which were most obvious to him, and it was inevitable that he should adopt a thoroughly polemical attitude towards his master. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy

Of course the suffrage has long since passed the polemical stage. H. R.

He published a few polemical writings, some in conjunction with D�vid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea"

He was now exposed to great privations and hardships, but found opportunity for polemical writing, proclaiming for the first time his disbelief in the “Real Presence.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades"

The extensive literature on bloodletting contains numerous polemical treatises that both extol and condemn the practice. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology

The book so produced was by no means a mere pamphlet or controversial work, though many of the articles were made polemical by those to whom they were entrusted. A Short History of French Literature

To tell her, "Now you are mine in God's sight," is worse than sacrilegious; it is conducive to acute suffragism and some polemical oratory. H. R.

He was a polemical and fanatical knight errant, the prophet and propagandist of Western influence, the bitter enemy of the Slavophiles. An Outline of Russian Literature

The closing chapters of the work are more polemical than the earlier ones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens"

My father was a noble and pious man; he was considered a scholar of great discernment, with fine polemical gifts; but in life he was childishly simple and—why should I not say it?—shiftless. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine

But by degrees he, like Voltaire, began to use the novel as a polemical weapon. A Short History of French Literature

Captain M. J. O'Connell, in returning thanks for the Volunteers, remarked that in the London Irish there never had been any political or polemical disputes. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888

He was the author of a large number of works in devotional and polemical theology, several of which had great influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin"

The last polemical theme of the Bulgarian mass media is known as the Bulgarian miracle. Area Handbook for Bulgaria

The press teemed with publications,—vindications of the faith, polemical tracts, treatises, and satires against the Church of Rome and its errors,—those spiritual missiles, in short, which form the usual magazine for controversial warfare. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2

In this second and polemical branch of his exposition, Ulrichs assumes, for his juristic starting-point, that each human being is born with natural rights which legislation ought not to infringe but protect. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists

In the sixth and seventh centuries of our era this part of Egypt was inhabited principally by Coptic Christians, whose chief occupation consisted in quarrelling among themselves on polemical points of divinity and ascetic rule. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant

"In respect of talent we can compare this book with 'The Eclipse of Faith,' which is one of the best polemical treatises of modern times, and which it very much resembles." Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1

This was, indeed, more particularly the case with the lady, whose chief object of discourse seemed to be, to convince me of her great superiority to her husband in polemical skill. Coelebs In Search of a Wife

The whole of the first volume is almost chapter for chapter a critical analysis, and the polemical element rather outweighs his positive personal contribution. Naturalism And Religion

A good deal is descriptive, scientific, historical, anthropological, apologetical and polemical. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists

At thirty, however, a genuine poetess should have produced more than a mere handful of verse, and its best things should be independent of polemical partisanship either for or against orthodoxy. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

The treatment is not polemical, but objective and practical. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

His Life of Christ which was thus occasioned, wears, in consequence, a somewhat polemical aspect. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850

The political organization of the country has not been favourable to the development of artistic or scientific tastes, though Chile has produced political leaders, statesmen and polemical writers in abundance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton"

Ulrichs is the only European who has maintained this view in a long series of polemical and imperfectly scientific works. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists

He followed this up by a great number of other works, some merely polemical, others descriptive of his own life and travels. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)

It is one of those devotional tracts which Luther issued from time to time between his larger publications, and which appear like roses among the thorns of his polemical writings. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I)

Footnote 8 The polemical treatise of Erasmus on this same subject appeared earlier; besides, Erasmus was not actually a teacher in the University. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli

Now Persimmon Sneed had argued the plan of atonement on every possible basis known to his extremely limited polemical outlook, and could agree with none. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories

Theory-ridden Zola's polemical writings, like those of Richard Wagner's, must be set down to special pleading. Ivory Apes and Peacocks

The polemical divinity which he refers to as putting the country half-mad was the wordy war that was being carried on at that time between the Auld Lights and the New Lights. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series

It did not require that gleam upon the white face to tell Agnes that the victim was the polemical sheep-herder, whose intention had been steadier than his aim. Claim Number One

The work is necessarily less interesting than the former, as it turns more upon personal questions, and is more polemical; but the literary information conveyed is equally valuable. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Except that the sentimental side of Toryism would never have appealed to him, it was chiefly an accident of time that he was a polemical Liberal. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860

It is true that modern Jewish interpreters differ from it; but this has been the result of polemical considerations alone. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1

Since 1740, when he published the Vindication of the Essay on Man, his critical and polemical talents had been devoted to the service of Pope. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare

She had been attacked more openly than the others, it is true; but her attitude toward the prayer-class would go to show that she was naturally polemical. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland

The tendency of it will be in some degree polemical as well as didactic, refuting error by analysing it into its causes, repelling present attacks by studying the history of former ones. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

Though she was verging upon forty, leisurely, pious, and unmarried, that good Miss Wodehouse was not polemical. The Rector

If a writer who discusses unsettled questions takes up every gauntlet thrown down to him, polemical writing will absorb much of his energy. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I

Yet he was no militant reformer; he would bear no polemical banners, wave no red flags. Melomaniacs

Finally, they are, to some extent, polemical pieces, aiming at the instruction of contemporary dramatists. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694)

The Lectures have a polemical aspect, but they seek to obtain their end by means of the educational. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

The Rector of Giessen sees in the diffuse style of German scholars and in the bitterness of their polemical writings an effect of the habit they have contracted of "excessive preoccupation with little things." Introduction to the Study of History

But this polemical motive can hardly have induced him to becloud an obvious text and invent interpretations which never occurred to any other ecclesiastical writer before or after his time. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise

His mind was polemical, not philosophic; a great theologian, he was but an indifferent historian. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844

Here was a young Roman priest, fresh from the center of Catholicism, who showed himself master, not only of the intricacies of polemical discussion but of the amenities of civilized life. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning

It has been thought that Philostratus had a polemical aim against the Christian faith,218 as the memoir of Apollonius is in so many points a parody on the life of Christ. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion

It is this period which is mainly responsible for Wagner's polemical writings, so biting in their sarcasm, and often unfair in their attacks. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History

The long and breathless title underlines the malicious content of this polemical pamphlet, a pungent libel on Swift's character that includes cutting observations on Swift's chief fiction as well. A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver

This observation suggests the great advantage he derives as a political instructor from the facts that all his political speeches and writings are polemical. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7

Wit, playfulness, elevation, and force—all these are distinguishable in his writings, if we except his polemical compositions; which latter, to speak in the gentlest terms, are wholly unworthy of his name. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance

A definite polemical attitude towards the popular faith is also a characteristic of the Cynic school, hence, though our information is very meagre, we must speak of it a little more fully. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

He is at home in the external, the polemical, the historical, the circumstantial, and is only episodically devout and p. 68practical. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete

The divisions of schools, old school and new school, and the polemical zeal and fury with which the contest is waged, are entirely foreign from the true spirit of Christianity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867

He excelled in philosophy and polemical divinity, and was admitted into church orders before the usual time appointed by the canons. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies

The nonjuror was a man thoroughly fitted by nature, education, and habit for polemical dispute. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)

These rich evangelical works introduced us to the real Luther, not the polemical, but the Gospel Luther. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood

People of a resentful turn of mind, whose every sentence is a wager, and who convert every word into a missile, are fit for polemical squabbles, but not for polite discussion. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it

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例句	polemical Meggers reacted to Roosevelt’s critiques by sneering at her “polemical tone” and “extravagant claims.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z There was the danger that such a story, even in his deft hands, would be creaky and polemical. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z In effect, “The Lady with the Borzoi” is a polemical biography, arguing that Blanche Knopf was ill-treated by her husband as both a wife and business partner. Blanche Knopf: The complicated woman behind a powerful literary brand 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z His songs were rhapsodic and discursive, polemical and observant — often within the span of a single verse — and his voice could shift from conversational intimacy to full-throated passion just as quickly. ‘For Lucio’ Review: The Voice of Italy for Four Decades 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z But Tapper shows you can be engaged, combative, lively, and even opinionated without being partisan or polemical. Two Cheers for CNN 2013-04-24T16:40:55Z And without the Clintons and Obamas as fresh targets, the opportunity for political and polemical books seems to be more on the left than the right. A Partisan Books Editor Places a Bet on Balance 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z His films sometimes incited polemical debate over their depiction of sex and gender roles. Stephen Dwoskin 2012-07-12T15:55:13Z “In Defense of Food,” Pollan’s most polemical book, despairs of American eating habits, yet concludes with the dainty recommendation to eat local as often as possible. Michael Pollan Drops Acid — and Comes Back From His Trip Convinced 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z The less internal life that he was allowed, the more polemical he became. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The essay's tone – knowing, insiderish, never polemical, and constantly shifting between mockery and studied neutrality – probably accounts for some of its warm reception. A user's guide to art-speak 2013-01-27T19:00:02Z Equally striking was Curtis’s trademark style, all logical provocations and uncanny juxtapositions; it’s historical documentary as polemical art installation. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z Spike Lee's messy, meandering, bluntly polemical "Red Hook Summer" has one crucial ingredient: a raw vitality. 'Red Hook Summer': Spike Lee's tale of a struggling neighborhood 2012-09-06T20:23:07Z Mr. Green’s response is quietly but unmistakably polemical. Review: In Eugène Green’s ‘La Sapienza,’ a Search of Ideals of Civilization 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z This is not a polemical film that answers the questions that it asks. Better to light a fire than curse the darkness 2011-09-14T00:14:00Z Her rupture with the left is rich polemical territory, and Phillips has explored it before. Guardian Angel: My Story, My Britain by Melanie Phillips – review 2013-05-17T06:32:01Z I think that Baldwin martyred himself for lots of people, and it meant that his writing became polemical. Hilton Als on Giving James Baldwin Back His Body 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z A broader problem with the film, particularly in these days of polemical documentaries, is that it's hard to get at what, if anything, Morris wants to say in Tabloid. SXSW 2011: My Tabloid expos? 2011-03-15T17:39:42Z Whether Daniel is actually guilty or innocent is a subplot, not the main plot here, because Rectify is trying to tell a psychological story rather than a polemical one. TV Tonight: Rectify 2013-04-22T17:09:03Z But the artist’s 3-D depiction of a seemingly impatient creature atop a ring of spikes is not specifically polemical. Review \| In the galleries: ‘Misprints’ exhibition takes a purposeful approach 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z It’s an issue movie that wants to be thought-provoking rather than polemical. 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Yet Videocracy is not overtly polemical, nor even, at first, obviously critical. Film review: Videocracy 2010-06-23T21:20:00Z Seen against this background, Stern’s latest outing can be read as a defiantly polemical gesture. Architecture's King of Tradition 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z For me it’s too polemical, and too reliant on coincidence. Counting Down Dickens' Greatest Novels. Number 10: Oliver Twist 2012-01-27T18:23:43Z Abu-Assad thinks such censure is misplaced, especially as his latest film is less overtly polemical. Palestine's tragic Oscar hopeful tests identity, ideas 2014-01-28T13:07:17Z But these do not press a polemical point, even alongside the aftermath of floods in New Orleans and an Iraq war veteran in uniform, his face scarred from burns. ‘Samsara,’ Ron Fricke’s Cinematic Portrait of the Globe 2012-08-17T20:13:02Z Bellamy added that when writing lyrics, his motives are more therapeutic than polemical. Muse: US rightwing conspiracy theorists tried to hijack our music 2012-09-28T11:00:38Z The commentary on social and economic change becomes too direct at times, but for the most part, the layers of Bolger's text balance the polemical with the personal, skirting sentimentality. The Parting Glass 2010-07-06T20:45:00Z In American fiction, Brett Easton Ellis made a memorable polemical point about consumer society in the brand name lists of American Psycho. Robert McCrum: The seductive power of lists 2011-03-15T16:41:59Z Without ever seeming contrived for polemical purposes, Shriver's narrative strands systematically illustrate the traps of provision by private health insurance companies. So Much for That by Lionel Shriver \| Book review 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z Displaying its own media savvy, Jack is sympathetic to Kevorkian but not polemical. Movie Review: Pacino as Dr. Death 2010-04-15T15:36:00Z Ravenhill has returned the compliment by writing a libretto about the great plague of London, taking inspiration from Samuel Pepys, Daniel Defoe and Susan Sontag's polemical work, Aids and Its Metaphor. Marc Almond: From bedsit to plague pit 2011-07-18T20:31:01Z Many Americans might not know the more polemical side of race writing in our history. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z But Leigh does not see it as a polemical work: in contrast to his contemporary Ken Loach, whom he admires, Leigh said he does not worry about making his own beliefs clear to an audience. Netflix and Amazon behave like old-style Hollywood moguls, warns Mike Leigh 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z There’s a historical sense, too, in which “culture” is a polemical word. The Meaning of “Culture” 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z His voice is sometimes angry but never polemical: it's brave and loving, incredibly personal and yet universal. The artists' artist TV drama writers 2011-07-27T21:16:01Z He became a professional apostate, armed with deep insight into the leftist psyche, decades of accumulated resentments, and a polemical style perfect to the role. Christopher Hitchens’ last years: Islam, the Iraq war and how a man of the left found his moment by breaking with the left 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z As for her next project, she’s not sure what it will be, but it will be of a piece with an approach fired by equal parts artistic expression and passion, be it polemical or pedagogical. Perspective \| With ‘Detroit,’ Kathryn Bigelow refines an aesthetic grounded in equal parts theory and reality 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z But the three big hits of 2018 are far removed from the polemical “11/9.” How Donald Trump could help Michael Moore return as the king of documentary box office 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way. Review: Election Night With the Gabriels, a Play in Real Time 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z "Zinn is tendentious and strident and polemical and oversimplifies everything, the others are obviously all worse." ArtsBeat: And the Worst Book of History Is ... 2012-07-16T20:00:21Z I’ve rarely read a text so forthrightly polemical in an exhibition organized by the Met. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The restrained eloquence of her testimony is somehow more effective than gales of polemical fury. Review \| ‘You Play the Girl,’ by Carina Chocano, up for big book award this week 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The extraordinary partisanship of this decade fueled a tremendous market for polemical books. Analysis \| 11 trends that changed the way we read this decade 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z As the stakes rise, however, the play, presented by the Untitled Theater Company No. 61, becomes frustratingly polemical. \| 'Pangs of the Messiah': ?Pangs of the Messiah? at 14th Street Y - Review 2011-11-09T22:38:44Z Even its educative and polemical ways are valuable. Art Review: ?Muntadas: Information Space Control? in Bronx ? Review 2011-12-08T21:11:01Z Richard Taruskin, a commanding musicologist and public intellectual whose polemical scholarship and criticism upended conventional classical music history, died early Friday in Oakland, Calif. He was 77. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Steve Almond, in his excellent polemical memoir, “Against Football,” wondered about the obvious inconsistency of higher learning with the subsidization of a sport that causes brain damage. March Madness and money: Should American universities spend so much serious cash on sports? 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z Hall’s essays are often polemical, and frequently very funny. Donald Hall’s Life Work 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z But such polemical displays do not undermine the garden’s ultimate embrace of even that past as one more strand in a complex cultural fabric. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z His answers–in turns polemical, detailed, and wisecracking–were another example of how news subjects and sources are increasingly going direct to the audience, though not all his answers were entirely direct. From the Source’s Mouth: Still in Hiding, Snowden Does a Q&A Online 2013-06-17T19:45:22Z Yet Rich’s poems weren’t so much confessional as they were polemical. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Whatever the reality, after the war, Fontana disavowed political and ideological agendas across the board: “My art was never polemical but contemporary,” he wrote in 1947. Slashing His Way to the Sublime 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z But the aw-shucks acuity that guides it is unsustainable because Moore lets the fire hose of enragements turn his movie into a polemical wet T-shirt contest. 2004: ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ and a Country at War With Itself 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Pohl co-authored 1991's "Our Angry Earth," a polemical essay against humankind's environmental destruction, with fellow American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Science fiction writer Frederik Pohl dies at 93 2013-09-03T18:49:29Z In addition to his 32 novels, the onetime merchant marine and naval officer also wrote a respected history of the Navy, as well as a variety of other biographical, historical and polemical works. James Fenimore Cooper — not just your grandpa’s favorite author 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z His voice is instructive but not didactic; opinionated but not at all polemical — in fact, anti-polemical. In Praise of William James 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z But Mr. Nyuade’s satirical approach, mingling hilarity and horror, suits the show’s preference for polemical indirection, just as his semiabstract style, which foregrounds color and texture, sustains a prevailing focus on traditional studio formal skills. New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z Because it’s honest about this problem, “Hillbilly Elegy” is only partially polemical. The Lives of Poor White People 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z And boy, can they be polemical – as I learned a few years back when a German magazine put Daniel Dennett and me head to head in a debate about evolution. Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking by Daniel C Dennett – review 2013-05-15T06:00:03Z The recipient of several prestigious artistic awards, Mr. Ferrari professed not to care if some considered his work more polemical than artistic. León Ferrari, Provocative Argentine Conceptual Artist, Dies at 92 2013-08-01T03:33:50Z George Eliot is one of those brilliant writers who manages to be polemical while telling a really good story. Read 'em and keep: what are the books to pass on to the next generation? 2011-03-28T19:30:01Z But this art didn’t come across as polemical. The Materials Man of the Emirates 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z For the writer of such a pointed, polemical satire, there is something watchful and slightly wary about Wade. Laura Wade: return of the thugs 2012-05-16T17:30:01Z In Westerns and musicals, he says, “the same thing happens — you find ways of displacing your anxieties and putting them into this other form. It’s not as threatening, and certainly it’s not as polemical.” Aliens as immigrants: How ‘Arrival’ became the latest political sci-fi film 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z But there are also feuds generated mainly by differences of opinion, with some celebrities and politicians objecting to the title's polemical rightwing stance. George Clooney row with Daily Mail boils over as actor shuns apology 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Though some critics found the book polemical, others praised its dreamlike milieu, musical language and ambitious scope. E. M. Broner, Jewish Feminist, Dies at 83 2011-06-23T05:09:08Z Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, "Schoenberg Is Dead," that instantly became infamous. Pierre Boulez reveled in challenging music's status quo 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z This book, which offered a view of US history in terms of 500 years of imperialism, colonisation and racism, was less well received academically, with critics calling it polemical and revisionist. Howard Zinn's last testament to the immorality of war 2010-09-23T10:00:00Z The result is a show that isn’t reductively “racial” but includes race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic. Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z All the same, the biggest impression is of the actors' energy, subtlety and fun in an unusually polemical comedy. Stones in His Pockets – review 2012-07-12T16:53:38Z It might be less polemical than it was when subscribing to a certain film theory could make you a marked man among your fellow critics. Andrew Sarris 2012-06-22T14:53:43Z Such polemical ends were always among Dickens’s chief aims in writing “A Christmas Carol.” ‘A Christmas Carol’ Review: God Rest Ye Merry, Plutocrats 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Less polemical than his earlier work, Rocket to the Moon is shot through with characteristically Odetsian wit. Rocket to the Moon revived 2011-03-19T00:06:40Z “When you are polemical, you can go two ways,” Mr. Taruskin said in a phone interview. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z Mr. Roth fired back in his novel “The Anatomy Lesson,” in which Howe appears as Milton Appel, a ferocious critic prone to “polemical overkill, the exhaustive reprimand that just asked for a fight.” ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z A lot of art about climate change is ungracefully polemical. Best Classical Music of 2019 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z At times, this lamentation turns polemical in equating “mechanistic, militaristic” Rome’s powerful ambitions with imperial Britain and fascist Italy. A case for D.H. Lawrence as a father of modern travel writing 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z In fact, the city has now erected signs explaining the polemical history of the site, with information about its builder. Concrete Daisies? There’s a Fine for That. 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Beyond the polemical intensity of the Fridericianum, the show loses coherence and often subsides into dross. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z That may sound like the makings of a deadly polemical novel, a strident op-ed stretched out for more than 450 pages. Review \| In Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Unsheltered,’ Trump is just the latest threat to Earth’s survival 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “Talk House” is a group portrait, which allows its audiences to sustain a greater distance and to discern more clearly the play’s polemical machinery. Review: ‘Evening at the Talk House’ Is Just the Dystopia Next Door 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z To a certain extent, the identity museum is a polemical response to such museums. Critic?s Notebook: To Each His Own Museum, as Identity Goes on Display 2010-12-28T23:04:19Z “I hope I have disturbed your peace,” a chatty, lightly polemical Madonna proclaims in between songs in “Madame X,” a new concert documentary that shares its name with her 14th album, from 2019. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z In a later edition, against the author's wishes, he deleted the polemical second section altogether. Wigan Pier 2011-02-20T00:04:14Z It’s not as if Gregg rejects this truth, but he’s mostly writing in a more polemical vein than an exploratory one. Humans Know a Lot, This Author Concedes, and Most of It Is Useless 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z And as intellectually lazy and emotionally manipulative as it was, Davis Guggenheim’s “Waiting for Superman” nonetheless focused serious polemical attention on the problems facing American education. Film: The Cinematic State of Things 2010-12-16T19:28:34Z Watson’s goal with “Scarlet A” — to get Americans to just start talking with one another — is less polemical but no less difficult, at least in this distrustful day and age. ‘Scarlet A’ Wants Less Shouting About Abortion and More Talking 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Still, there’s nothing polemical about “Small Things Like These.” Review \| ‘Small Things Like These’ reads like a Christmas classic 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z The text concerns the difficulties facing black filmmakers, and while Ms. McIntyre provides witty physical illustration, her piece never veers into the polemical. Dance Review: Modern-Dance History Times Five, With Plenty of Theatricality 2010-12-14T06:00:17Z Wilder could affect a teasing polemical tone, a kind of Weimar version of American journalist and satirist H.L. Review \| Before Billy Wilder ventured behind a camera, he was a precocious journalist honing his sharp wit 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z His career as a writer of fiction then subsided, replaced by the polemical essays that were his real strength and for which his historical fiction had provided the context. Gore Vidal remembered by Jason Epstein 2012-12-22T22:44:01Z This is no thin polemical screed, although the tone is often impassioned. How Big Tech Built the Iron Cage 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Continuing to explore corners of British life often ignored, Jimmy McGovern's drama doesn't lack for angry, polemical moments. TV highlights 21/08/2012 2012-08-20T19:00:01Z Turn a corner into the next gallery and you find work from around the same time but on overtly polemical themes. How Mexico’s Muralists Lit a Fire Under U.S. Artists 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The artist, Dor Guez, 30, is the son of a Palestinian Christian and a Tunisian-born Jew, and his polemical work largely centers on narrating the experiences of the Arab citizens of Israel. Dor Guez Exhibition at Rose Museum of Brandeis 2012-10-12T22:42:35Z As a teenager, he recalled sitting in his Queens aerie and listening to the Academy Awards and the New York Film Critics award ceremonies and developing his ideas, idiosyncratic and polemical, on film. Andrew Sarris, Film Critic, Dies at 83 2012-06-20T17:00:26Z His book is a polemical argument about the kind of economics that is appropriate in the 21st century. The Queen 2012-06-11T11:00:00Z But her gentle poems are subtle and rarely polemical, as they dwell on her past. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z “It’s not my mission to be polemical. I don’t think it’s useful.” Through art, creating a dialogue between Palestinians and others Her more polemical books extol danger, charisma, virility and bravado while ridiculing safety, tenderness, solidarity and weakness. Katie Roiphe Feels Ambivalent About Feeling Ambivalent 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z This isn’t an anti-psychiatry book — Aviv is too aware of the specifics of any situation to succumb to anything so sweeping and polemical. In ‘Strangers to Ourselves,’ a Revelatory Account of Mental Illness 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z He doesn't take a prescriptive or polemical position, but the thrust of his musings is towards the vision of a kind of ideal tension between wanting and getting; fantasising and actualising. Missing Out: In Praise of the Unlived Life by Adam Phillips – review 2012-06-13T07:00:01Z Each measuring almost 11 by 22 feet, the pictures are narratives inspired by a Euro-American tradition of history painting but entirely present-tense and polemical in theme. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z But what separates Ngugi from his Nobel predecessor is his brave and polemical decision to write in his first language, Gikuyu. Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z Ms. Bachmann spoke up with the kind of polemical passion that official Washington forswore for the night — for good reason. The Caucus: TV Watch: Michele Bachmann's Rogue Rebuttal Defies Unity Theme 2011-01-26T13:44:58Z Despite its sci-fi-ish rock-monster angels that do not feel much like something out of Genesis, the movie is in a sense too literal, too polemical to appeal to either faith-based or mainstream audiences. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Lewis rigorously argues for the world she wants to create, but her book is too polemical to rigorously imagine it. Can Surrogacy Remake the World? 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z A Neighborhood’s Soul, Bared for All to See Spike Lee’s messy, meandering, bluntly polemical “Red Hook Summer” has one crucial ingredient: a raw vitality. Movie Review: ‘Red Hook Summer,’ Directed by Spike Lee 2012-08-09T12:00:00Z “I think Mitchell wrote it with a kind of polemical purpose in mind, which was to warn against the dangers of the too-available divorce, and that theme didn’t appeal to me,” Mr. Auburn said. The Curious Career of David Auburn 2011-01-23T00:59:00Z There’s a Brechtian, polemical clarity to “Timon” that makes it ideal for the church pulpit and the editorial page but rather dry and plodding for the stage. Review \| ‘Timon of Athens’ is tricky Shakespeare. A fearless director gets it right. 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z She does this far too thoughtfully and skillfully for it to seem trendy or polemical. ‘At the Wedding’ Review: Cocktails, Dancing and an Albatross 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Savage is also known for his mordant wit and polemical anger. \| 'The Kid': A Gay Couple Adopting, From New Group@Theater Row 2010-05-11T04:18:00Z While the last 10 years have seen the Royal College graduate hone an angry polemical vision, his latest works – large, comely landscapes – take a new direction. Artist of the week 200: Sam Dargan 2012-07-26T16:18:06Z Frank’s purpose here is explicitly polemical: He wants to realign history in order to force us to reimagine the present. The Fight Over the Future of the Democratic Party 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z Deploying a style that evokes Brechtian distance without its polemical fireworks, Mr. Massini aspires to what might be called a god’s eye view, as dispassionate and relentless as history itself. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Accepting no such binary bifurcation, these passionate, polemical sexual confessionals make me exhale a breath I’ve been holding for 50 years. Perspective \| For today’s feminist writers, sex makes a comeback 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z The "Mario" of Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, a comic romp that was adapted by Hollywood as Tune in Tomorrow, is as real and vivid as the polemical author of Death in the Andes. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z Even while cataloging Trump’s most outrageous behaviors, Baker and Glasser strive to maintain a professional, dispassionate tone: analytical but not polemical. A Sober Look at the ‘Cartoonishly Chaotic’ Trump White House 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z But even here Kushner's polemical fury at the Iraq invasion is qualified by his residual sympathy for Mrs Bush. Tiny Kushner 2010-09-06T14:53:00Z But the Film Society’s retrospective — at once polemical in nature and populist in its programming selections — celebrates the perhaps less-heralded influence of female cinematographers. 4 Film Series to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z There is a polemical point to this bloodletting, of course, because this is a nationalist garden. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z I thought that if I posted my little story, which was intended to be gently humorous rather than polemical, maybe some of those teenagers might re-examine that behavior. Theater Talkback: Who Owns Sheet Music? 2010-07-15T17:31:00Z While neither polemical nor wholly fantastical, the story draws on skills he developed in those other genres. Review \| In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z She added: “Bravo! Of course it’s polemical; a polemic that many think is useless because the Opera has ‘welcomed’ diversity.” Benjamin Millepied Opens Up on Leaving Paris Opera Ballet 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z The first offerings run to the highly polemical, repeatedly hitting themes like the bankruptcy of liberalism, the corruption of warmongering foreign policy elites and the need for a moral framework to politics. Two Religious Conservatives and a Marxist Walk Into a Journal 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z But polemical as the novel may be, it never loses its moral complexity. Review \| In ‘How Beautiful We Were,’ an African village goes up against an American oil company 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z His work falls into a category sometimes called interventionist art, which uses absurdity and outrageousness as polemical weapons. Art In Review: MORTEN TRAAVIK AND PETER FEND: ‘Power Games’ 2012-07-05T20:34:36Z There’s something assertive, declarative, polemical about awards; they’re criticism in action. How to Make the Oscars Relevant Again 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z But Christie's success with such a polemical feminist set suggests things might be changing. Women have the last laugh at Edinburgh Fringe 2013-08-27T16:07:25Z But when she ventures into the concrete domains of the “is” — offering practical advice and polemical warnings — “Why Grow Up?” turns a bit fuzzy. ‘Why Grow Up?’ by Susan Neiman 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z Whether viewers at the Whitney will see her work as naïvely polemical or genuinely affecting will soon become clear. Laura Poitras Prepares ‘Astro Noise’ for the Whitney Museum 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z That much is obvious from his unremittingly polemical prose. Pankaj Mishra Challenges America’s Self-Deceptions 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Not with any overt polemical purpose, mind you, but as more than an incidental detail. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z For all the zealotry on display, “12th & Delaware” is about as far from a polemical screaming match as a movie about such a divisive issue could be. Film: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2010-06-11T04:51:00Z Moreover, the Syrian refugee narrative is heavy-handed as it becomes another of Winterbottom's polemical issues. "Greed," a satire about the filthy rich, is as subtle as Steve Coogan's blindingly white teeth 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z But “Promised Land” feels divided against itself, not quite sure how to reconcile its polemical intentions with its storytelling impulses, and thus finally unable to fulfill its own promise. Movie Review: ‘Promised Land,’ With Matt Damon, Directed by Gus Van Sant 2012-12-27T23:24:39Z But Ms. Churchill’s play is far less polemical and arch than I remembered. Review: ‘Cloud Nine,’ a Comedy of Fluid and Complicated Couplings 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He also published polemical essays about the nature of sculpture in Artforum. Odd Man in: The Sculptor Robert Morris, at 86, Is Still Blazing Trails 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Riley’s futurism is not merely speculative or playful, and while “Sorry to Bother You” is too nimble to be polemical, it is insistently political. Review: ‘Sorry to Bother You,’ but Can I Interest You in a Wild Dystopian Satire? 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The fact is, no great work of art can endure being drawn and quartered for a polemical purity ritual. Perspective \| In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The book has a rambunctious humor that complements its polemical spirit. The Book That Exposed the Cynical Politics of Donald Duck 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z I wanted, as an author, to deliver what is most important to me as a reader: a narrative that grapples with the questions, through character and story, without being didactic or polemical. Perspective \| How to write a can’t-win book: An Israeli-Palestinian story 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z But, despite the actress’s best efforts, her monologue came off as stiff and polemical, like edutainment in shaky-cam drag. Emily Nussbaum: “High Maintenance,” “My Mad Fat Diary” Reviews 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s interesting, then, to observe the steadily increasing prominence of frankly polemical work within the walls of the museum. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z From his Scripture-based theology and the earthy vigor of his polemical prose emerged one of Luther’s finest achievements: His German translation of the Bible. How well do we know our heroes? A new book shows the darker side of Martin Luther 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Made in the polemical documentary style popularized by Michael Moore, "The Big Fix" depicts Louisiana as a petro-state controlled by oil companies, and Washington politicians as in hock to powerful lobbyists. Gulf oil spill doc 'The Big Fix' screens in Cannes 2011-05-17T18:16:05Z That said, while parts of “The Republic of Imagination” are polemical, much of it is personal and evocative. Why this Iranian-born writer fears for America’s soul 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Weems’s impassioned account of the familial turmoil his exile caused, and her call for retroactive justice in his case, constitute the exhibition’s most overtly polemical moment. Black Artists Cast New Visions for the Great Migration 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z On its own, this economic-disaster narrative would be a sharp, if polemical, cautionary tale, an indictment of American life at an inflection point. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z In a manner that is patient — and sometimes even playful — rather than polemical, “All Light, Everywhere” contributes to debates about crime, policing, racism and accountability. ‘All Light, Everywhere’ Review: Watching the Watchers 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z And I found him far more intellectually honest than ideologues who were so eager to make polemical hay out of “Zero Dark Thirty” that they never bothered to watch the entire movie. Perspective \| Only in Washington: The CIA lawyer, the film critic and the obscure 1950s movie that forged their unlikely bond 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Michael Moore, the writer/director behind such polemical films as Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, has suggested that the actor Meryl Streep run for president on a Democrat ticket. Michael Moore: Meryl Streep should run for president 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Illustration: Ronald Grant Archive The Deer Hunter is not just a political or a polemical film. Philip French OBE, Observer writer of 50 years and film critic extraordinaire 2012-12-29T18:54:00Z Lee has also been fearless about making polemical work, and speaking out about politics off-screen, regardless of the blowback he might receive in Hollywood or from his audience. Perspective \| Spike Lee on his role as an artist in tumultuous times: ‘I’m built for this’ 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z But do polemical pieces actually make the most enduring and compassionate war art? Why the art of war is hell 2013-07-25T14:36:27Z “We’ve seen the government use vicious stereotypes to drive home its polemical position in favor of prohibition too.” Marketing the munchies 2012-07-21T13:00:00Z With their polemical ardour, their gross-out caricatures – usually of women – and their frequent outbursts of sexual violence, it is hard to imagine such films even being made today, let alone screened in Times Square. Ninety and out to shock: meet the first Oscar nominated female director 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z For Lee, it looks like similar mainstream territory to his 2006 thriller Inside Man rather than the more polemical fare with which he tends to attract comment. Spike Lee 'closing deal' to direct terrorism thriller Nagasaki Deadline 2010-06-29T14:22:00Z It was important to the three creators that, while bitterly ironic, “Have a Good Day!” was not polemical. A Climate Opera Arrives in New York, With 21 Tons of Sand 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Last year, Mr. Branum, who on “Totally Biased” scathingly ridiculed the homophobic jokes on Comedy Central’s James Franco roast, wrote a polemical attack on the boy’s club of comedy. The W. Kamau Bell Legacy: A Talk Show Five Years Ahead of Its Time 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Michael Moore was leading an extraordinary revival of campaigning documentary – or perhaps non-fiction polemical cinema is a better term. From Hidden to In the Mood for Love: why the 2000s are my favourite film decade \| Peter Bradshaw 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z But there’s no need at all for that process to be didactic or polemical in the way that you’re describing. Philip Gourevitch: Memory is a disease 2012-09-26T20:31:00Z Arguments regarding the future of the school system and the demolition of public housing projects are presented neutrally, at least by Mr. Lee’s usually polemical standard. TV Review: Spike Lee?s New Documentary About New Orleans on HBO 2010-08-22T23:54:00Z It says that the use of the term “equating current controversies with the 1973-74 Watergate scandal carries polemical overtones. . . . If a writer considers a more recent episode comparable, the case should be made straightforwardly.” ‘Spygate’? The mainstream news media has a few problems with that phrase. 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Its celebration of Justice Ginsburg’s record of progressive activism and jurisprudence is partisan but not especially polemical. Review: In ‘RBG,’ the Life and Times of a Beloved and Controversial Supreme Court Justice 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “How Much Is Enough?” is too open-ended to be polemical. Theater Review: ?How Much Is Enough?? at St. Ann?s Warehouse ? Review 2011-11-18T23:46:52Z Best known for her polemical stances on feminist issues, Roiphe here turns her gaze on her romantic relationships, noting moments when she has ceded power to men or even endured their abuse. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z Radiohead songs are rarely linear or polemical, but the band has clearly though more about these things than almost any other band. Radiohead’s vanishing act: Rumored new album could be the anti-technology opus we’ve been waiting for 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z City Boy has an argument, but it is didactic rather than polemical, a poem that takes no sides and draws no lines. Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z But technological developments have only increased their wonder, while the exponential destruction of the environment has lent them a polemical edge. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z First, many of the historians and intellectuals Cannadine cites represent only a small, polemical minority, eager to engage in political battles – people like Huntington, Betty Friedan or EP Thompson. The Undivided Past: History Beyond Our Differences by David Cannadine – review 2013-04-11T09:00:01Z “Little Family” is an empathy-expanding story without the heavy gears of polemical fiction. Review \| Ishmael Beah’s memoir revealed the realities of child soldiers. His fiction shows the humanity of homeless kids. 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z He was familiar with philosophers Michel Foucault and Herbert Marcuse, but also with smash-mouth Texas football and California surfing, which gave him a variety of arrows in his polemical quiver. Review \| How Dave Hickey became one of the most influential art critics in America 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z In green rooms, in drama schools, and in the fiercely polemical pages of the theatre magazine Encore, the debate raged. Simon Callow: Stanislavski was racked by self-doubt 2013-03-16T08:00:09Z The songs on “Revolution Come, Revolution Go,” however, are more observant than polemical. Gov’t Mule’s “Revolution”: Hope for an angry and divided land 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Tall,” with its graceful, thrifty camera work, is a profoundly beautiful film, and its beauty is sometimes at odds with its polemical intentions. Review: ‘Tall’ Is a Little Movie About How Buildings Got So Big 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z This dereliction is all the more puzzling given Logan’s polemical aims. Poetry’s Hanging Judge Tries On a Detective Hat 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z These range from the autobiographical — “The Making of a Science Fiction Writer” — to the mildly polemical, such as several cogent rejoinders to instances of extreme political correctness. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z Or ditch the technique for fear of being labeled polemical, or, worse, predictable? Barry Jenkins Is Trying Not to Think About ‘Barry Jenkins’ 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z The film’s sharpest polemical point is its critique of news coverage of the crimes. \| 'Invisible': ‘Invisible,’ Michal Aviad’s Film About Rape, at MoMA 2012-07-08T21:17:36Z Yet rather than treading familiar ground, the production by Ben Harrison and Maria Oller is fresh, funny and polemical. Huxley's Lab 2010-04-07T21:30:00Z But both Murdoch and Sontag were alluding to, and working within, a well-known polemical formula from antiquity. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z While he’s best known for a bit ferociously defending Guy Fieri against his critics, his tone on this hot take is less polemical than wistful. 4 Comedy Specials to Watch: Seasoned Stand-Ups Making Debuts 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z “It’s basically a transposition of political and ideological fights, debates, polemical views, into the realm of a very, very primitive understanding of history and the past.” How Erdogan Reoriented Turkish Culture to Maintain His Power 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Now this would seem to be a ripe opportunity for polemical fulminating from Mr. Hare, the author of fierce state-of-the-world works like "Stuff Happens" and "Plenty." ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Seeing Patterns in a Nuclear Cloud 2012-06-19T17:57:24Z Other scenes are more subtle in their polemical thrust. Review: In ‘The Appointment,’ the Fetus Sings Out 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z Many of the most polemical, most-followed bloggers and tweeters hail from the right. The Leveson debate is now about politics, not the press 2013-03-18T07:00:23Z Through Sinclair, a socialist firebrand best known for his polemical 1906 novel, “The Jungle,” Kiesling found a way into writing an individual story through a global lens. Can politics, fiction and podcasting mesh? Lydia Kiesling and Crooked Media give it a try 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z The message could be directed at the English-speaking Catholic Twittersphere, where some prominent Catholic figures, including bishops, frequently engage in heated debates or polemical arguments that criticize Francis and his teachings. Vatican singles out bishops in urging reflective not reactive social media use 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z "The problem of polemical and superficial, and thus divisive, communication is particularly worrying when it comes from Church leadership: bishops, pastors, and prominent lay leaders," it said. Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z "It's not that the request is outlandish. It's that the request is so nasty, polemical and such a sort of PR move, so it's certainly not designed to succeed," Litman said. “Boneheaded”: Legal experts trash Trump lawyers over “foolish” DOJ letter whining about Hunter Biden 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Prilepin was a polemical figure, an accomplished novelist who won praise for his writing style and an ardent nationalist who bragged about his own combat experience in eastern Ukraine. Car Bombing Injures Prominent Russian Nationalist Writer, State Media Reports 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z The late fashion designer’s selection as the theme is not without controversy, with some criticizing his unapologetically polemical comments on a variety of topics, including xenophobic and fatphobic remarks. Met Gala 2023 live updates: Get set for fashion’s big night 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z There were at least four substantial passages in the court record where Goldstein claimed, in service of a polemical point, that it had been my idea to seek privacy waivers from student-athletes named in documents. California fumbles again as cover-up of UC football player's death slowly unravels 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z Likely not on display, however, will be his polemical tendencies. Why is Karl Lagerfeld, the Met Gala theme, controversial? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z But unlike DIS — who do so without discernible politics and tend to glamorize a sense of existential resignation — Kline is stridently and sincerely polemical. An Artist for the End of the World 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Mr. Prigozhin’s flurry of polemical, often shocking social media activity comes as Wagner and regular military units are storming Bakhmut from three sides and trying to end one of the war’s bloodiest and longest battles. Prigozhin’s Feud With Russia’s Military Leaves Questions About Battlefield Results 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z “The book is not polemical. I’m a Marxist, I wrote a Marxist book because I think that’s the best way to get at the truth of this historical situation.” Palo Alto: Billionaire playground or Darwinian hellscape? Why not both? 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z He has also achieved somewhat popular stardom, in part thanks to his polemical fervor and sometimes controversial ideas. What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z I went on a sort of polemical, long speech trying to tell her that that was exactly what I wouldn’t pay for and that she had to try to do more creative endeavors. Darren Aronofsky on 'The Whale,' fatphobia and empathy 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z That’s a tall order, fraught with the deadening risks of polemical art, and none of the prize winners I’ve read has reached anything close to Kingsolver’s combination of subtlety and power. Review \| Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ may be the best novel of 2022 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z More polemical was “Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster,” released in 1998, about how the city’s urban design was exacerbating fire and drought. Mike Davis, 'City of Quartz' author who chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Millet’s literary writing isn’t polemical or guilt-ridden in the way of so much contemporary ecofiction. The Climate Novelist Who Transcends Despair 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Many of them have not mastered the polemical ease with which to speak and convince. Barbara Kruger on remixing her own art and her visits to 4chan 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Even if you disagreed with his polemical stances, you had to do your homework before stepping in the ring, checking all his sources if you were serious. Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Paz goes on to describe Mexico’s neighbor to the north as a reality “so vast and powerful that it borders on myth,” producing a relationship on Mexico’s end that is “polemical and obsessive.” Tracing Mexico’s Complicated Relationship With Rice 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z However, the themes found release in other forms, mostly polemical. 'At long last, Idunit!' Wole Soyinka on his first novel in nearly 50 years 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z “We have acted, in my case as president, with prudence, in a respectful manner, because these are very controversial, polemical topics. And we don’t want to encourage any confrontation.” Mexico decriminalizes abortion, a dramatic step in world’s second-biggest Catholic country 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Even before a single vote has been cast, the exercise has devolved into a polemical shouting match between the president and his detractors. Mexico to vote on whether former presidents should be subject to prosecution 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z A curator, Arthur Drexler, with polemical intent — today we’d call it “trolling” — described the initial 8 Automobiles as “hollow, rolling sculpture.” Automania at MoMA Balances Celebration and Criticism of Cars 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z Two days later, Adam Fannin, a polemical Baptist pastor from Jacksonville, Florida, stumbled upon the blog post online. Where did the microchip vaccine conspiracy theory come from anyway? 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z A few talk about their artistic process in polemical terms; others, like Ms. Choi, say they are merely responding creatively to the experience of living through a once-in-a-generation trauma. Hong Kong Protests, Silenced on the Streets, Surface in Artworks 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z “It’s going to be polemical, it’s going to be passionate, it’s going to be practical, as we endeavor to reclaim true evangelicalism,” MacArthur said. L.A. church to host indoor conference of 3,000 attendees, despite public health order 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z He was passionate about politics — an honorable profession, he believed — but he was never polemical or even terribly partisan. Review \| A far deeper, worthier and more interesting JFK 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “Woke” is political, but not polemical — a conversation, not a sermon. In 'Woke,' a Black cartoonist gets political. But don't expect a sermon 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Shortly after Arnold Schoenberg died in Brentwood in 1951, Pierre Boulez wrote a polemical essay, “Schoenberg Is Dead,” that instantly became infamous. Your weekend culture watch list, from a Bollywood dance party to free 'Carousel' 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Sara Paretsky sees crime fiction as the form “where law, justice and society come together in a natural way – that is, you can write about them without being polemical or didactic”. Me and my detective by Lee Child, Attica Locke, Sara Paretsky, Jo Nesbø and more 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z “Da 5 Bloods” is most invigorating when Lee is most sharply polemical, whether it’s during that vibrant prologue, or when he stops to drop some knowledge in interstitial flashes of history, wisdom and exuberant wit. Review \| Spike Lee’s ‘Da 5 Bloods’ may not be perfect, but it arrives at a time when it feels necessary 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z She did not misspeak once and was very clear and pointed, without ever being polemical in her remarks. Joe Biden’s VP choice? Stacey Abrams makes her case 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z Instead, I’ll focus on the polemical: her argument that “it is just possible that you might be purchasing a gun out of a costly and elaborate delusion.” Opinion \| Many people are buying guns out of genuine concern during the pandemic 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In citing the polemical headlines she penned in the Catholic Worker at the dawn of World War II, such as “We Are to Blame for New War in Europe,” the authors intentionally make readers cringe. Review \| The courage and compassion of Catholic activist Dorothy Day 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z “Most serious professionals in the tax policy area think that the polemical urge at some points has gotten the better of Gabriel and Emmanuel, especially when Gabriel starts to tweet.” The Liberal Economists Behind the Wealth Tax Debate 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Sachs, who co-founded the Fountain and is its co-artistic director, aligns himself here with polemical writers such as Ibsen and Shaw, who used the stage as a platform for social criticism. Review: 'Human Interest Story' at the Fountain Theatre grapples with today's crises 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z The African American audience responded: In the modern age of television storytelling, we are no longer burdened with the requirement to make polemical characters, to prove to white people that we are good too. Showrunner Courtney A. Kemp: 'Power' fought a racist double standard — and won 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z While all that’s going on outdoors, things are just as polemical in the theatres. Scenes from Santiago: Chile's protests spill from streets to stage 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Her explosive conversation with Lev Parnas, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, is a timely riposte to the claims that she is too partisan, polemical and fixated with international conspiracy theories. Rachel Maddow on her critics: ‘Your hatred makes me stronger. Come on! Give me more!’ 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z In his two polemical books, he uses a pared-down version of that hyper-intelligent novelist’s voice, but retains a genius for a compelling story and a telling detail. Jonathan Safran Foer: ‘Why don’t Extinction Rebellion issue specific ideas? They are awfully vague’ 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z Since then, Ms. Rotunno has emerged as a paradoxical and polemical figure, who has decided to defend a man reviled by many women as the embodiment of chauvinism and sexual misconduct. She’s Harvey Weinstein’s Lawyer, and She Thinks #MeToo Is ‘Dangerous’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z But it was far more polemical, far more focussed on patrolling the borders than on examining the commonalities shared by those safely within them. The Asian-American Canon Breakers 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Kalder proposes Lenin as the originator of the modern totalitarian style in prose, adopting Marx’s splenetic polemical tone for the purposes of Communist revolution. The Field Guide to Tyranny 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z This one, more playful than polemical, elliptically considered the question of the territory’s future. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z It’s also the more polemical, but well-written and well-documented; Lovelace’s reporting skills shine through as he quotes letters, testimony and correspondence directly, laying out the bare facts for readers to assess. Review \| Inside the battle over Kavanaugh, from ‘handmaid’ protesters to Bible verses 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z The work shows playwright Judith Leora “in full command of her craft,” writes F. Kathleen Foley, a work that starts off polemical, but “deepens into a beautifully realized, classically structured drama.” Newsletter: Essential Arts: What's behind the abrupt shutdown of the Marciano Art Foundation? 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z As she led them through an argument to her conclusions, the workings of her mind were visible, and she was not polemical. Deborah Orr obituary 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The tournament remains polemical as it prepares for its second playing in Jan. 30-Feb. Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson are returning to controversial golf tournament - Golf Digest 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Wilbert, who is also a writer and photographer, frequently posts short polemical essays on his Facebook page or the Deep Green Resistance website. Revealed: how the FBI targeted environmental activists in domestic terror investigations 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Although Ms. Marshall’s fiction was never polemical, her work examined racism, colonialism and what she described as an oppressive, far-reaching system of financial exploitation. Paule Marshall, literary chronicler of the African diaspora, dies at 90 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Privatization is polemical in Latin America’s largest nation. Brazil’s Petrobras cedes control of fuel distributing unit 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Colbert’s relentless skewering of the president has made him increasingly hard to watch: too strident, too manic, too nakedly polemical. Opinion \| To understand how to beat Trump in 2020, Democrats should look to comedians 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z But even the best of them were polemical gestures, not artistic ones. TV’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z Their efforts assuaged audiences disturbed by a Hollywood trend in the Iraq War era that included polemical films such as “Stop-Loss,” “Redacted” and “In the Valley of Elah.” Jack Thomas Smith War Heroes honors American soldiers without compromise 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z “He was quite unusual for a Swedish politician at the time because he was outspoken, he was polemical, a hard hitter,” his biographer Henrik Berggren told me. Who killed the prime minister? The unsolved murder that still haunts Sweden 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z And you would be right: in polemical YouTube comment sections and Reddit threads, the gender pay gap is already a myth. Why gender pay-gap truthers are on the rise 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z Two of the stories in the book, “The Good Mothers in the Parking Lot” and “Mrs. America,” address politics head-on, but neither story is polemical. Q&A: Karen Bender on her short stories that confront hot-button issues 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Sam Harris, the polemical atheist neuroscientist known for his popular podcast “Waking Up,” was making tens of thousands of dollars a month from fans who donated to him through Patreon, a crowdfunding site. Patreon Bars Anti-Feminist for Racist Speech, Inciting Revolt 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Her comments hang in the air, creating a polemical subtext that prevents the film from feeling like anything genuine is at stake. Review \| Even Susan Sarandon can’t save this cliched thriller 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z You would think these two polemical ideas would be nemeses, but they actually run parallel – two opposing visions that come together in a symbiotic relationship that papers over the cracks between them. Black mecca or most unequal US city: will the real Atlanta please stand up? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z “Today is an important day as we inform you that we will no longer tolerate this derogatory and derisive reporting. We will protect our coach, players and club. It is outrageous, disrespectful and polemical.” Premier League returns, Bayern Munich latest: weekend countdown – live! 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z The novel is not polemical; I’m a broken record on this. How I write: Man Booker shortlist authors reveal their inspirations 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z It’s hard to pick the funniest bit in her book, She Wants It – Soloway’s polemical memoir about “female desire and smashing the patriarchy”. Jill Soloway: ‘My father told me he was trans and it changed my life’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Its meanings are sometimes obscure and sometimes obvious, nearly to the point of being polemical, and most often somewhere in between. Review: Terence Nance’s 'Random Acts of Flyness' on HBO draws artfully and vividly on the modern black experience 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z This helps explain the resurgent emphasis on speech as that which needs liberating: the old-fashioned forum of the debating chamber has been revived, now that video of polemical combat can so easily be shared online. The free speech panic: how the right concocted a crisis 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z A curious trait of Sontag’s critical writing is that, for all its polemical thrust, it often contains opposing views. The Hunger Artist 2000-02-28T05:00:00Z Mr. Goldblatt said he was “scared of violence” and did not consider himself a journalist or a polemical photographer. David Goldblatt, penetrating photographer of South Africa under apartheid, dies at 87 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z He later become the editor in chief of the newspaper Haykakan Zhamanak, where he continued polemical attacks against politicians and rich businessmen. He Was a Protester a Month Ago. Now, Nikol Pashinyan Leads Armenia. 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z He is most famous for a polemical article he published in September 2016 in the Claremont Review of Books, “The Flight 93 Election,” which became an unlikely, highbrow manifesto for Mr. Trump’s election. A National Security Aide’s Departing Wish: Cooking for the State Dinner 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z He is most famous for a polemical article he published in September 2016 in the Claremont Review of Books, “The Flight 93 Election,” which became an unlikely, highbrow manifesto for Trump’s election. Departing national-security aide’s grand finale: cooking for a state dinner 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “The reality of people’s experiences transcends polemical debating language,” says Dyas. The hateful Eighth: artists at the frontline of Ireland's abortion rights battle 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z The tone often shifts between intelligent but polemical journalism and metaphysical reflection. Understand Putin by understanding his favourite thinkers 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The modern insanity defense has long been polemical, and the legal standards vary from state to state. Nanny Faces Tough Insanity Test: Did She Know Killing Was Wrong? 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z What makes this play so appealing, rather than polemical, is the way Mr Norris also teases at some of the smugness of like-minded theatre goers. Adam Smith, unlikely hero of the stage 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z I’m not trying to get polemical because there are a lot of great things about it, and it’s our lives now — what’s the point of hating it? It’s time for movies to be honest about our relationships — with our phones 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Jones' feminist views on sex work and its consequences for women and men alike aren't hard to guess, but her clever narrative framework makes her arguments feel dispassionate and playful, not polemical. 'Sell/Buy/Date,' an exploration of the sex industry, is a must-see one-woman marvel 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Navarro's books, such as "The Coming China Wars" and "Death by China: Confronting the Dragon — a Global Call to Action," are widely viewed as polemical works. Steel tariffs bring vindication for Trump's feisty trade advisor Peter Navarro 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z To realize how political this case is, consider Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s polemical response to the solicitor general of Illinois, which sided with the union. Opinion \| Conservatives are using the Supreme Court to destroy unions 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z In December, it was the subject of an open letter by nearly 60 academics at Oxford, who said his approach was "too polemical" to be taken seriously. Don warns of Oxford 'peer pressure' 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The term “polemical,” Potier said, clearly suggests a matter of opinion. A beloved French author was also an anti-Semite. Now his most notorious works are being republished. 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z An already polemical fight sharpened when President Trump’s administration came into power and began to methodically dismantle Obama-era policies. The Takedown of Title IX 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Sultan argues that none of the art is polemical and that “an austere distance is maintained throughout.” Review \| In an Arab art exhibition, land, signs and bodies are all contested turf 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The exhibition, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, draws together artists who put race on a spectrum from polemical to personal and poetic. null 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z This culture comes in a number of forms, including anthems, documentary videos, and polemical essays, but poetry is arguably at its centre. The art of making a jihadist 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z He was the author of many polemical poems, written over four decades in a unique documentary style. Heathcote Williams: radical poet, playwright and actor, dies aged 75 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Persuasive rather than polemical, it's the unusual issue film that deals in counterintuitive reason rather than barely controlled hysteria. Documentary 'Food Evolution' turns to reason to discuss GMO controversy 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z The massive emigration of Mexican nationals to the U.S. in recent decades has, in many ways, brought the long-time neighbors closer, despite profound tension about Trump’s polemical pronouncements. A North American rivalry that goes way beyond NAFTA: Mexico and the U.S. go for the goals 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Her polemical energies prompted the sort of hostility her husband largely escaped. The Feuds of Diana Trilling 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z She had recently read the polemical book Censorship Now!! by punk rocker and former Vice host, Ian F Svenonius, whose anger towards America’s corporatised and nationally sanctioned culture industry reflected her own. Frances Stark: 'Contemporary artists are hyper-alienated and hyper-competitive' 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z At the same time, new avenues provide new opportunities, not merely for revenue, but for reform — this is essentially a feminist, though not a polemical, reading of these worlds. Netflix documentary 'Hot Girls Wanted' takes demure, compassionate approach to the porn industry 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z It consists of spurts and blurts and polemical dead ends. Opinion \| The Daily Spicer: ‘Holocaust centers.’ Yes, the press secretary used that term. 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z In the aughts, he directed polemical documentaries, among them “Fire from the Heartland” and “District of Corruption.” The Reclusive Hedge-Fund Tycoon Behind the Trump Presidency 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Rather like Anderson, it is less polemical than one might guess from the title, and more a manual for spiritual self-improvement. Gillian Anderson: ‘There were times when life was really bad’ 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z It’s good polemical writing that forces us to confront the realities at hand. Noam Chomsky’s “Responsibility of Intellectuals” after 50 years: It’s an even heavier responsibility now 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z The Economic Consequences of the Peace is one of those rare books that seem to exude brilliance, power and polemical passion from the opening page, propelled by the urgency and consequence of the subject. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 48 – The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes (1919) 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Variously funny, poignant, polemical and anger-inducing, the collection is existentially challenging to the status quo. Readers’ books of the year 2016 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z The tone of their tweets is frequently combative and polemical. Trump fans urge Star Wars boycott over reshoot claims - BBC News 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It is this Ginsburg, rarely polemical, frequently quotable, always deeply sourced and analyzed, who made her way onto the tote bags and the Internet memes. Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg as a precise, white-gloved wonk 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Le Guin can be polemical, prone to what one close friend calls “tirades” on questions she feels strongly about. The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z As well as polemical, How to Cook a Wolf is also subversive. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 37 – How to Cook a Wolf by MFK Fisher (1942) 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The president slammed Trump for making polemical comments daily and said controversies surrounding Clinton did not compare. With Clinton out sick, Obama goes after Trump 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z On several state TV channels, the government ran reports accusing opponents of being coup mongers while also broadcasting a polemical documentary about the 2002 failed coup against Mr. Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez. Venezuelans Converge on Capital to Press for Vote on President 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z Coates is also the author of the award-winning book of polemical memoir and politics, Between the World and Me. Ta-Nehisi Coates's Black Panther is superhero success story 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z An unauthorized and unflattering drawing of Donald Trump nude is on sale and the artist asking more than $1 million for the polemical pastel says she’s been threatened with a lawsuit. Trump Lawyer Denies Threatening Artist Who Drew Billionaire Nude 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Some of the outstanding books in this series will be polemical and rhetorical as much as revolutionary. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 13 – The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970) 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Dawkins – in a style that would recur in later polemical books such as The God Delusion – was never less than comprehensive in his ambitions. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 10 – The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z But when it is characterized by a superficial knowledge of the sources, when it becomes polemical and hagiographical, it descends into a species of populism. Wealthy Irish rebel of 19th century who fought in his homeland and America 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Ahead of every Games, there are polemical issues, but during the Olympics the celebration is so big and nice that all the polemics are put aside, at least for a moment.” Brazil faces steep hurdles ahead of Olympics: Zika and economic crisis 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z Now, she revisits the play, once again at the Odyssey, in a superb production that tempers Odets' fervently polemical play with wrenching authenticity and craft. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2016 - Los Angeles Times 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z But the temptation now to read The Female Eunuch as outmoded, suffering the fate of all polemical literature, would be to overlook its staying power as an inspiring beacon amid a hurricane of social change. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 13 – The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer (1970) 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Cool, brutal, elegant, fiery, he established a kind of International Style in music, and propagated it in polemical writings and through institutional networks. Pierre Boulez’s Revolutionary Career 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z That, combined with the fact that she was not granted an interview with either David or Charles Koch, gives her book an unrelentingly critical, polemical tone. The Koch brothers’ impact on the American political system 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Thus, Ehrenfreund explains, "By selling his own polemical talents short, Obama risks perpetuating the myth that the power of the presidency is the power to persuade." Views You Can Use: Obama's Success and Regrets 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Representatives of the two governments seemed to go out of their way to avoid the kind of polemical broadsides that have long characterized U.S.-Iranian relations. Standoff with Iran averted with release of detained U.S. sailors 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z “To historically unmask this antisemitic, dehumanising polemical pamphlet and to explain the propaganda mechanism through appropriately qualified teachers is a task of modern education.” Bring Mein Kampf into schools to tackle extremism, say German teachers 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Spoken almost entirely in verse, staged as a sometimes ungainly series of polemical set pieces, production numbers and declamatory interludes, “Chi-Raq” doesn’t fit neatly into any genre. Spike Lee takes on gun violence with passion and bold creativity in ‘Chi-Raq’ 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Arguments once made by Republicans as polemical debating points are now echoed by consumers who say they cannot afford to use insurance because of high out-of-pocket costs. Instability in Marketplaces Draws Concern on Both Sides of Health Law 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z An already intensely polemical run-up to French regional voting next month and national elections in 2017 will be further inflamed by this tragedy. France and America become odd mirror images of each other 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Or maybe, at its most polemical, “Roll over, Beethoven.” The Real History of Rock and Roll 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z But at times Vine turns tendentious, even polemical. The costs of maintaining our bases overseas 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Baldwin’s intellectual independence drove his writing, both the polemical essays and the exploratory fiction. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ brilliant inspiration: Remembering James Baldwin’s influence on his 91st birthday 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The government then defended him publicly as a victim of the ‘deep state’ conspiracy, one of Erdogan’s favorite polemical bogeys. Instead Of Fighting ISIS, Erdogan Pushes Turkey Toward Chaos And Despotism 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z And the article rolls on checking all the hackneyed polemical boxes of the pro-Russian side. Top Kremlin Critics In The West Face Media Smears On The Home Front 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Earlier this month, Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware, a proud Democratic centrist, published a thoughtful essay on the Atlantic’s Web site under a very polemical headline: “Americans Need Jobs, Not Populism.” Progressive frenemies 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z The speeches are more descriptive than polemical, with Mr. Corker sketching out a brief history of Iran’s nuclear program, laying out some of the current options and encouraging listeners to pay attention. Iran Conjures Strong Opinions in Tennessee, but Little Urgency 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z Such numbers are more polemical than scientific, of course: dollar costs aren’t the only consequences to factor into the equation. How Much Should We Spend to Stop One Terrorist Attack? 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “The truth is, I am none of those things,” Dr. Spencer wrote in a personal but also polemical essay published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. New York Ebola Survivor Says He Was Unfairly Cast as a Hazard and a Hero 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Those ad-libbed words followed what ranks as one of the more polemical passages ever offered in a State of the Union address. Obama ditches his illusions about Republicans 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z In truth, the tone of the book is melancholic rather than polemical. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z But without doubt, its most polemical publications revolved around Islam. Charlie Hebdo’s most controversial content revolved around Islam 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Fortunately, Plymouth is near Sharon, Conn., home of the Buckley family, whose members, when their gimlet eyes notice nonsense, become elegantly polemical. George Will: Another case for term limits So there's a growing sense that counter-narratives will be more clearly understood - and meaningful - if they are not just polemical but also factual. How the battle against IS is being fought online 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s the polemical equivalent of getting a big, fat fastball right right in your sweet spot. Here's the Climate Deniers' Newest—and Worst—Argument 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Zemmour’s is one of those polemical books, like Alan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind,” which carry everything before them, because they run right over every obstacle. Michel Houellebecq’s Francophobia 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Once in a while her account is too polemical, despite her tireless advocacy for early testing and prevention trials. Guiding a Husband and a Mother Through Alzheimer’s at the Same Time 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z This is fine in the pages of a polemical novel, and an excellent thing for democracy in a parliament that often appears full of placemen. Douglas Carswell’s defection leaves Cameron’s strategy in tatters 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Stein said that he was hurt by Ms. Friedan’s blanket indictment but that he came to see it as polemical writing just doing its job. Robert Stein, Who Led McCall’s and Redbook for Decades, Dies at 90 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Now the pressure is on for one of Spain's most polemical politicians to turn that worry into real political change. 'Yes he can!' How Spanish indignado Pablo Iglesias aims to use a wave of protest to build 'a decent country' 2014-07-05T04:00:00Z The polemical documentary is a companion piece to the author’s new book, which bears the same title. ‘America: Imagine the World Without Her’ movie review A cartoon version of Howard Zinn’s polemical “A People’s History of American Empire” is also a concern; Joe Sacco’s “Palestine“ “is yet worse.” Cartoons for Conservatives: Amity Shlaes's Anti-New Deal Graphic Novel 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z David Goldblatt's portrayal of South Africa resists the polemical tendencies within the documentary photographic tradition. Photography Today 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “I think it’s incredible that there are still some so-called experts who don’t understand that and are always looking for a polemical situation that simply doesn’t exist.” Ferrari president plays down Alonso comments 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z "I think it's incredible that there are still some so-called experts who don't understand that and are always looking for a polemical situation that simply doesn't exist." Ferrari back Alonso after criticism 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z He added that “the money right now is more important than being polemical.” Libération Covering a Civil War. Its Own 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z In contrast to the high-color polemical painting popularly identified with Mexican art, it give us spare, small-scale, politically nuanced art in the opening shows. A Mexican Showcase for Ambition 2014-02-19T23:14:19Z And at a time when black theater was often polemical, it was notable for its naturalistic drama and its probing of family dynamics and character. Leslie Lee, Playwright of Black Life, Dies at 83 2014-01-23T03:59:14Z Her rise to fame stemmed from a polemical spat with the World Health Organisation and the pharmaceutical industry over swine flu vaccines in 2009. Keeping up with Teresa Forcades, a nun on a mission 2013-05-17T11:40:10Z The Royal Society of London declined on the interesting grounds that it was 'polemical', and it would not include in its Transactions insults to anyone who had not already been insulted in the Transactions. Physicist's atom struggles revealed 2013-04-17T11:52:43Z The new digital magazine will have creative input from Curtis, whose other polemical BBC documentaries include The Mayfair Set and The Century of the Self. Popbitch to launch paid-for online magazine 2013-03-20T07:53:00Z The groups taking part - Youth Defence, Pro Life Ireland and the Catholic organisation, the Iona Institute - testify to the polemical nature of the debate here. Ireland shifts as abortion debate flares 2013-02-02T00:36:41Z So the strongest work in the museum is modern, varying widely in material and ranging in tone from mournful to polemical. \| Connecticut: A Review of Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, in Hamden 2013-01-05T02:52:55Z Unfortunately, they don’t always overcome the play’s talky structure and polemical stance. \| Long Island: A Review of ‘Men’s Lives,’ at the Bay Street Theater 2012-07-14T05:11:47Z However, some of the nuance was lost in the subsequent headlines, outbursts, polemical screeds and even in those summaries provided by his funders, which are socially conservative organizations. New Volleys in the Gay Parenting Wars 2012-06-22T22:35:34Z They tend fit into two groups - the highly academic, densely argued analysis; and the polemical discourse that hammers home "the 10 things that must be done to solve everything". Financial crisis: new book offers a brief and jargon-free guide 2012-06-14T16:11:24Z A portrait of Jacob Zuma, which some men would not regard as unflattering, has become the world’s most polemical painting. The Holocaust and the Euro 2012-05-28T05:00:00Z At the period, however, when the Western monasteries began to discharge their intellectual functions, the supremacy of Catholicism was nearly established, and polemical ardour had begun to wane. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z This wide acceptance and high esteem are due largely to an avoidance of polemical and controversial subjects, and even more to an absence of the controversial spirit. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Indeed, I have somewhat misrepresented the book by collecting some of its more polemical moments. Opinionator: The Case for the Liberal Arts 2012-04-24T01:00:29Z As the invention of printing facilitated controversy, polemical zeal multiplied treatises to prove the iniquity of the Utraquist heresy, but the Utraquists were not to be converted. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II 2012-04-18T02:00:12.957Z Through this conciliatory method, an understanding of the Catholic truth can be much more easily and effectually imparted to the unprejudiced Protestant mind than by a rough polemical method. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He was a perfect master of polemical science. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Their literature, with which alone we are here concerned, is largely polemical and to a great extent deals with grammar and exegesis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z He wrote polemical words directed against the pagans, the Jews and heretics. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z After much pleasant talk with the enthusiastic young student, to which Edith listened with deep interest, Mr. Grafton was tasked to his utmost polemical and theological knowledge by the searching questions of the old Puritan. Delusion, or The Witch of New England 2012-03-19T02:00:28.267Z They exhibit in a remarkable degree the qualities, so rare in polemical literature, of kindness, moderation, and charity for all men. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The little pile before her included scientific treatises, poetry and articles of a polemical nature, and she read it all; but she was chiefly interested in the hair-breadth escapes, pluck and martyrdom of the revolutionists. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z In this controversy, conducted on both sides in the fiercest polemical spirit, Horsley showed the superior learning and ability. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z The most important of these polemical treatises is the Refutation of all Heresies, which has come to be known by the inappropriate title of the Philosophumena. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z But the anger has been more polemical than violent — at least so far. Memo From Kabul: Disconnect Clear in U.S. Bafflement Over 2 Afghan Responses 2012-03-15T00:40:06Z A novel may be anything, but it must not be polemical. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In the department of philosophy, besides several writers of dissertations bearing an imitative, didactic or polemical character, Hungary could boast a few authors of independent and original thought. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z He possessed a lively and brilliant style, admirably suited for polemical controversy; and he soon attracted notice by the boldness of his articles. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z If ever true Christian charity was manifested in polemical writing, it was by Fletcher of Madeley. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z Occasionally they come into keen polemical strife; but it amounts to little more than a gladiatorial exhibition, or rather a light skirmishing, without malice prepense, or much evil result. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z As used by Lucretius, they add to our sense of the vividness of the book, of the constant personal address of the author, and of his ardent polemical tone. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z We do not therefore combat it any further in this regard, but treat it as merely the last stronghold of scepticism, which is always polemical. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Bishop Hall’s polemical writings, although vigorous and effective, were chiefly of ephemeral interest, but many of his devotional writings have been often reprinted. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z Here, and at the Villa Guarina, his last years were passed in study, law-suits, and polemical disputes with his contemporary critics, until 1612, when he died at Venice in his seventy-fifth year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z In the Middle Ages it became a highly developed exercise in inference applied to the traditional dogmas of theology and science as premises, with mainly apologetic or polemical functions. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z His polemical attitude is seen in the frequent use of such expressions as 'vinco,' 'dede manus,' etc., addressed to an imaginary opponent. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z He wrote hurriedly, with a polemical object in view, and paid no attention to style. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Solon’s iambics so far preserve the old associations of the metre that they represent the polemical or controversial side of his political poetry. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" 2011-12-05T03:00:51.527Z But after this not unpromising introduction, Dewey falls into the polemical strain again. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z On the 14th, Haynald, in spite of his bodily suffering, delivered a long polemical speech against the majority, and maintained his reputation of being the best Latin speaker after Strossmayer. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z Buchanan was the friend and adviser of Mary's enemies, and his references to her are polemical, not historical. Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 2011-11-20T03:00:16.107Z But his most celebrated ultramontane work was a polemical one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z His habit was to devote the first hour or half hour after breakfast, to religious reading, selecting such works as bore on personal or devotional, rather than on theoretic or polemical subjects. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z This very unsatisfactory essay is, nevertheless, a fair specimen of the polemical literature which was produced by Dewey and others during these years. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z So much it is necessary to know to understand the minute knowledge of English affairs displayed in his polemical works. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z At another, sits the polemical divine, plodding and wrangling in his mind about "Adam's fall, in which we sinned all," as his Primer has it. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z On the whole, then, for an exposition of Gnosticism we are thrown back upon the polemical writings of the Fathers in their controversy with heresy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z This cordial sympathy with science, this absence of all savor of a polemical spirit, this hearty welcoming of every fact of anatomy and chemistry, is very noble and inspiring. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z After the publication of the Studies in Logical Theory, Dewey entered upon what may be called the polemical period of his career. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z In theology they adopted Jansenism, and were in consequence soon at daggers drawn with the Jesuits, according to the polemical habits of the time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z My occasionally polemical treatment of the subject has been regretted by several reviewers, but its necessity, I submit, is the thing to be regretted. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. I. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett 2011-10-12T02:00:38.787Z With the 4th century both Gnosticism and the polemical literature directed against it die out.4 III. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The conversation about silk and stuff that followed became both animated and polemical. The Countess Cosel A Romance of History of the Times of Augustus the Strong 2011-10-06T02:00:36.083Z But apart from these polemical writings, many of which had only an ephemeral value, the Renaissance was the source of another stream of historical literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z His writings are numerous, alike in exegetical, polemical, dogmatic and practical theology. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" 2011-09-26T02:00:25.313Z For this service I have honoured the Reformation as being the beginning of German philosophy, which justified my polemical defence of Protestantism. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Every chair is covered with polemical tracts, to prove one side of an argument, that every table is covered to disprove on the other. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Among polemical writers the most distinguished were Becanus, who died in a.d. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The last spate of books about it were either overly polemical and ideological, like Amity Shlaes' "The Forgotten Man," or they were incomplete, like Jonathan Alter's recent book "The Hundred Days." Lessons for Obama from the New Deal 2011-09-12T17:20:00Z He is joint-editor of the Katholik, and is author of various polemical writings, and of a work on the history of the Jesuits in Germany. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z The translation of Shakespeare, who stands at the frontier of this art and with Protestant clearness smiles over into our modern era, was solely intended for polemical purposes, the present discussion of which space forbids. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The polemical part of the Epistle is now coming to an end. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z Words used in all simplicity by the ancient writers must have attached to them the definite polemical meaning they hold in the quarrels of theologians, before they can be strained into supporting a substitutionary atonement. My Path to Atheism 2011-08-30T02:00:29.183Z It is a polemical paper, full of exclamation points and italicized and capitalized sentences. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z With the sure instinct of genius, he seized the characteristic features of the phenomena presented to his attention, and his inferences, except when distorted by polemical exigencies, have been strikingly confirmed by modern investigations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z If this sounds overly alarmist or polemical, think again: Mr. Manolopoulos backs up his analysis with cool, detached facts. Off The Shelf: Inside the Greek Volcano 2011-08-13T15:55:05Z It was always the complaint against the early "Socialists"—as the Co-operators were then called—that they mixed up polemical controversy with social advocacy. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z The rationalists it is needless to say, avoided this error, but they betrayed a sense of the peril arising from it, in the polemical spirit that characterized much of their writing. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Being polemical, it no doubt exaggerates such of 152 Shelley’s views as collided with those of his antagonist. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Calvin held him in high esteem, employing him as amanuensis, and as editor as well as translator of several of his exegetical and polemical works. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z In many passages it is tedious—a record of petty strategies of partisan warfare—and, more dreary still, of factious jealousies and polemical hatreds. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z Few would be prepared to believe that, in my polemical days, the desire to avoid committing the sin of pretension was supposed to indicate desperation of character, of which suicide would be the natural end. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z A rage for polemical divinity took place, and brother against brother fought in support of each other's tenets; each fully assured he was in the right. Boscobel Or, The History of his Sacred Majesties most Miraculous Preservation 2011-06-08T02:00:15.873Z I certainly didn't come to a polemical conclusion about it, but I'm proud of not coming to a polemical conclusion. Mind Reading: When You Go Hunting for Psychopaths, They Turn Up Everywhere 2011-06-06T15:40:00Z In Rome, as at home, Gamaliel often had occasion to defend Judaism in polemical discussions with pagans, and also with professed Christians. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z But when raillery passed into railing, and sarcasm sunk into scurrility, in these unhappy polemical effusions, our critics have bitterly censured the intolerance and bigotry of Sir Thomas More. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The wrangle became high and abusive, and was fast hastening into polemical theology, when the dramatis person� offered to settle it in a peaceable way, by fighting out the battle on the green. Humours of Irish Life 2011-04-19T02:00:16.057Z Towards the close of the seventeenth century, classical literature had for some time rather declined in Germany—polemical theology and religious wars having at this period exhausted and engrossed the attention of her universities. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z We may be sure that some mistake has been made, either in the interpretation of the sacred words, or in the polemical discussion itself. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z If they are like their precursor, they will be clear and well written, somewhat polemical, and nobly contemptuous of opponents.... Riding Recollections, 5th ed. 2011-03-10T03:00:52.223Z This Archbishop attacked the Arians, but we have only fragments of these polemical pamphlets; as these were highly orthodox, what is wanting occasioned regrets in a former day. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Two volumes more embrace the polemical poems, the satires, and the poems of contemporary historical allusion, written chiefly between 1681 and 1683. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Still, they effectively challenge the polemical assertion that all public employees are overpaid. Economix: Revolt of the Cheeseheads 2011-02-28T11:00:18Z 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. Furniture shops: The secret of IKEA's success 2011-02-24T10:45:13Z Emser warned his Bohemian friends against Luther, and Luther retorted with an attack on Emser which outdid in scurrility all his polemical writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z James was a polemical monarch when polemics were political. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Even his imagination worked more powerfully, and his perceptions of physical circumstance became keener and truer, under the influence of polemical rage, the pursuit of terse maxim, or the passion for sonorous declamation. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z The bad examples he presents provide ample evidence that the Essay was also serving a Whig polemical purpose, for they are drawn from such writers as Clarendon, Pope and, in particular, Laurence Echard. An Essay on Criticism 2011-02-06T03:00:52.167Z The very nature of a true philosophy relatively to other systems is to be polemical, eclectic, unitive: Christianity was polemical; it could not but be eclectic; but was it also unitive? An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z His version of a few books of the Bible was published first at Cologne, but its acceptance in England was greatly hindered by the translator's polemical notes. Comfort Found in Good Old Books 2011-01-31T03:00:11.907Z “I’m in the think-tank world to solve problems, not be polemical,” he said. Diplomatic Memo: Trying to Break Logjam, Scholar Floats an Idea for a Palestinian Map 2011-01-22T23:16:42Z Religious and controversial treatises, church histories, and polemical writings formed the principal part of the library, together with a few volumes of travel and biography which had somehow found their way there. A Search For A Secret (Vol 1 of 3) A Novel 2011-01-22T03:00:18.233Z The next ten years he occupied in polemical writing, from the evangelical point of view, against the Calvinists. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z This it is that imparts to the history both of states and of religions, its specially turbulent and polemical character. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z It is not a philosophical treatise nor a polemical pamphlet. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z It's one thing to make an inventive, polemical, fictionalised drama about Winston Churchill, Napoleon or the Unabomber. The Social Network and docudrama dishonesty 2010-09-24T13:30:00Z Obviously, some of this book is deliberately polemical. Book matters 2010-09-06T12:07:00Z Senate with the chamber's in-house historian and a more polemical attack on President George W. Bush, Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency. Senator Robert Byrd Dies at 92 2010-06-28T11:10:00Z Uncompromising and often strident, Dr. Miller preached her message with an often messianic fervor and a polemical style of argument that cost her support from early admirers. Alice Miller, Psychoanalyst, Dies at 87; Laid Human Problems to Parental Acts 2010-04-27T03:26:00Z In the powerful essay “Africa’s Tarnished Name,” for example, he returns to his highly polemical 1975 assessment of Joseph Conrad’s racism in “Heart of Darkness.” 2010-01-30T05:22:00Z The interest in abstract exposition of clearly formulated theological ideas is everywhere subordinate to the polemical purpose. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" This was perhaps no more than the outcome of the fierce polemical spirit of the abbot of Clairvaux, which led him to include all his adversaries under a single anathema. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" His writings are partly autobiographical, as the Confessions, partly polemical, homiletic, or exegetical. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis The polemical treat chiefly of the doctrines of the Trinity, the incarnation of Christ, and the divinity of the Holy Spirit. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli This concession, which was considered as a sign of weakness by many, caused an animated polemical strife.--Translator. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster My father disapproved of all this still more strongly, and expatiated at such length from dogmatic and polemical divinity, that I could well see in what account he held these new spiritual institutions. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. In addressing the jury they were eloquently polemical. Emma Goldman Biographical Sketch Elected deputy in 1860 he became celebrated by the biting wit of his speeches, while, as journalist, the acrimony of his polemical writings made him a redoubtable adversary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" His writings, which are in Greek, are on polemical, historical, and moral subjects. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli His polemical weapons were drawn from the armory of bureaucracy. The Progressionists, and Angela. But in 1618 began a second period of authorship; he poured forth, but did not publish, treatise after treatise, expository and polemical, in the next and the two following years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" But I believe rather that polemical disputes will be found not only to corrupt the genuine spirit of religion, but to degrade and contract the faculties. View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 It is largely polemical and would seem to have been designed to refute the ideas of the moderate party concerning certain points of observance. Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order It was the differences between himself and his predecessor which were most obvious to him, and it was inevitable that he should adopt a thoroughly polemical attitude towards his master. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Of course the suffrage has long since passed the polemical stage. H. R. He published a few polemical writings, some in conjunction with D�vid. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" He was now exposed to great privations and hardships, but found opportunity for polemical writing, proclaiming for the first time his disbelief in the “Real Presence.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The extensive literature on bloodletting contains numerous polemical treatises that both extol and condemn the practice. Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology The book so produced was by no means a mere pamphlet or controversial work, though many of the articles were made polemical by those to whom they were entrusted. A Short History of French Literature To tell her, "Now you are mine in God's sight," is worse than sacrilegious; it is conducive to acute suffragism and some polemical oratory. H. R. He was a polemical and fanatical knight errant, the prophet and propagandist of Western influence, the bitter enemy of the Slavophiles. An Outline of Russian Literature The closing chapters of the work are more polemical than the earlier ones. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" My father was a noble and pious man; he was considered a scholar of great discernment, with fine polemical gifts; but in life he was childishly simple and—why should I not say it?—shiftless. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine But by degrees he, like Voltaire, began to use the novel as a polemical weapon. A Short History of French Literature Captain M. J. O'Connell, in returning thanks for the Volunteers, remarked that in the London Irish there never had been any political or polemical disputes. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 He was the author of a large number of works in devotional and polemical theology, several of which had great influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The last polemical theme of the Bulgarian mass media is known as the Bulgarian miracle. Area Handbook for Bulgaria The press teemed with publications,—vindications of the faith, polemical tracts, treatises, and satires against the Church of Rome and its errors,—those spiritual missiles, in short, which form the usual magazine for controversial warfare. History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, Vols. 1 and 2 In this second and polemical branch of his exposition, Ulrichs assumes, for his juristic starting-point, that each human being is born with natural rights which legislation ought not to infringe but protect. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists In the sixth and seventh centuries of our era this part of Egypt was inhabited principally by Coptic Christians, whose chief occupation consisted in quarrelling among themselves on polemical points of divinity and ascetic rule. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant "In respect of talent we can compare this book with 'The Eclipse of Faith,' which is one of the best polemical treatises of modern times, and which it very much resembles." Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 This was, indeed, more particularly the case with the lady, whose chief object of discourse seemed to be, to convince me of her great superiority to her husband in polemical skill. Coelebs In Search of a Wife The whole of the first volume is almost chapter for chapter a critical analysis, and the polemical element rather outweighs his positive personal contribution. Naturalism And Religion A good deal is descriptive, scientific, historical, anthropological, apologetical and polemical. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists At thirty, however, a genuine poetess should have produced more than a mere handful of verse, and its best things should be independent of polemical partisanship either for or against orthodoxy. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The treatment is not polemical, but objective and practical. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) His Life of Christ which was thus occasioned, wears, in consequence, a somewhat polemical aspect. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 The political organization of the country has not been favourable to the development of artistic or scientific tastes, though Chile has produced political leaders, statesmen and polemical writers in abundance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Ulrichs is the only European who has maintained this view in a long series of polemical and imperfectly scientific works. A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists He followed this up by a great number of other works, some merely polemical, others descriptive of his own life and travels. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) It is one of those devotional tracts which Luther issued from time to time between his larger publications, and which appear like roses among the thorns of his polemical writings. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) Footnote 8 The polemical treatise of Erasmus on this same subject appeared earlier; besides, Erasmus was not actually a teacher in the University. The Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli Now Persimmon Sneed had argued the plan of atonement on every possible basis known to his extremely limited polemical outlook, and could agree with none. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Theory-ridden Zola's polemical writings, like those of Richard Wagner's, must be set down to special pleading. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The polemical divinity which he refers to as putting the country half-mad was the wordy war that was being carried on at that time between the Auld Lights and the New Lights. Robert Burns Famous Scots Series It did not require that gleam upon the white face to tell Agnes that the victim was the polemical sheep-herder, whose intention had been steadier than his aim. Claim Number One The work is necessarily less interesting than the former, as it turns more upon personal questions, and is more polemical; but the literary information conveyed is equally valuable. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Except that the sentimental side of Toryism would never have appealed to him, it was chiefly an accident of time that he was a polemical Liberal. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 It is true that modern Jewish interpreters differ from it; but this has been the result of polemical considerations alone. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Since 1740, when he published the Vindication of the Essay on Man, his critical and polemical talents had been devoted to the service of Pope. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare She had been attacked more openly than the others, it is true; but her attitude toward the prayer-class would go to show that she was naturally polemical. Walter Pieterse A Story of Holland The tendency of it will be in some degree polemical as well as didactic, refuting error by analysing it into its causes, repelling present attacks by studying the history of former ones. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion Though she was verging upon forty, leisurely, pious, and unmarried, that good Miss Wodehouse was not polemical. The Rector If a writer who discusses unsettled questions takes up every gauntlet thrown down to him, polemical writing will absorb much of his energy. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Yet he was no militant reformer; he would bear no polemical banners, wave no red flags. Melomaniacs Finally, they are, to some extent, polemical pieces, aiming at the instruction of contemporary dramatists. Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) The Lectures have a polemical aspect, but they seek to obtain their end by means of the educational. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion The Rector of Giessen sees in the diffuse style of German scholars and in the bitterness of their polemical writings an effect of the habit they have contracted of "excessive preoccupation with little things." Introduction to the Study of History But this polemical motive can hardly have induced him to becloud an obvious text and invent interpretations which never occurred to any other ecclesiastical writer before or after his time. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise His mind was polemical, not philosophic; a great theologian, he was but an indifferent historian. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 Here was a young Roman priest, fresh from the center of Catholicism, who showed himself master, not only of the intricacies of polemical discussion but of the amenities of civilized life. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning It has been thought that Philostratus had a polemical aim against the Christian faith,218 as the memoir of Apollonius is in so many points a parody on the life of Christ. History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion It is this period which is mainly responsible for Wagner's polemical writings, so biting in their sarcasm, and often unfair in their attacks. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The long and breathless title underlines the malicious content of this polemical pamphlet, a pungent libel on Swift's character that includes cutting observations on Swift's chief fiction as well. A Letter From a Clergyman to his Friend, with an Account of the Travels of Captain Lemuel Gulliver This observation suggests the great advantage he derives as a political instructor from the facts that all his political speeches and writings are polemical. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 Wit, playfulness, elevation, and force—all these are distinguishable in his writings, if we except his polemical compositions; which latter, to speak in the gentlest terms, are wholly unworthy of his name. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance A definite polemical attitude towards the popular faith is also a characteristic of the Cynic school, hence, though our information is very meagre, we must speak of it a little more fully. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity He is at home in the external, the polemical, the historical, the circumstantial, and is only episodically devout and p. 68practical. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The divisions of schools, old school and new school, and the polemical zeal and fury with which the contest is waged, are entirely foreign from the true spirit of Christianity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 He excelled in philosophy and polemical divinity, and was admitted into church orders before the usual time appointed by the canons. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies The nonjuror was a man thoroughly fitted by nature, education, and habit for polemical dispute. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) These rich evangelical works introduced us to the real Luther, not the polemical, but the Gospel Luther. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood People of a resentful turn of mind, whose every sentence is a wager, and who convert every word into a missile, are fit for polemical squabbles, but not for polite discussion. Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
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