Sentence examples for a polemic with from inspiring English sources

Shaped like a Christian parable, this strange book is less a story about conversion than a polemic with narrative pluck.

A desire for authenticity is palpable in these words and perhaps a polemic with the Imitations of Robert Lowell, but it is, I believe, misguided to believe that literals serve authenticity better than any other approach.

Zosimus' history was written as a polemic, with the aim of establishing that barbarism and Christianity were the essential causes of the decline of the Roman state.

Last month, the Appalachian writer Elizabeth Catte published a spiky polemic with a helpfully direct title, "What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia".

But this book is not without barbed sympathy for the victims of planetary mega-greed: it's a polemic, but with a smart, slightly left-field emotional pitch.

Initially, Brennan tells me, the full-length play was something of a polemic, ending with a manifesto from the newly politicised Amy.

Last year the coal seam gas exposé Frackman arrived, a terror-inducing polemic with a premise like a B-grade horror movie: the ground beneath us has literally been sold and filled with poison.

Once again Campanella engages in an explicit polemic with Aristotle, who had excluded artisans, peasants and those involved in manual labor from the category of full citizenship and from the highest levels of virtue.

In part, the book is also a polemic against slavery, with Thomas Jefferson as archvillain.

It was also attacked as an anti-labor polemic with an upper-class bias.

And then Mr. Bloom lards them over with a polemic against all critics who dare to read Shakespeare with the politics and ideologies of his age -- and ours -- in mind.