Sentence examples for On polemic from inspiring English sources

But he is too good a historian to fall back on polemic.

Mr. Mamet's "November" is heavy on the spluttering, if light on polemic.

An English teacher introduced him to George Bernard Shaw and within a month he was "hooked on polemic".

Ian Nathan of Empire magazine criticized this focus, believing it gave the film an "overt political agenda [which] border[s] on polemic".

This proposed model of polemic, on the one hand, and dialogue, on the other, exemplifies the diverse response by Jews in the land of Israel, and later the province Syria Palestine, to Roman culture and religion.

Even so, one of the strengths of "Room" is that it focuses neither on polemics nor personal tragedy but rather on gathering the many strands of Woolf's formidable intellect into a messy, resonant coherence.

"His media strategy as mayor of Béziers relies on polemics aimed at shattering the politically correct consensus on secularism, immigration, and even the poor".

Had Arcelor focused less on polemics, it could have initiated a serious debate about the future of family-owned businesses in the globalised world.

To some Iraqis who listened to the broadcasts, the emphasis on polemics appeared to confirm what observations about Baghdad have suggested: that the Iraqi forces have done surprisingly little in the way of preparing the capital's defenses.

Yet Why Literature Matters is so short on polemics and so long on incisive, sometimes brilliant readings of works ranging from the poetry and fiction of Seamus Heaney, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, and Emily Dickinson to Shakespeare's Othello and Homer's Iliad, that such a characterization is insufficient at best and distorting at worst.

Long on polemics and short on the very strategy the address claims to extol, Romney's speech reads like a mediocre freshman foreign policy essay restating the obvious -- simplistic, long-winded window dressing masquerading as effective, reasoned strategic policy.