Sentence examples for a polemical one from inspiring English sources

Perhaps this was just as well, because Dick was essentially a journalist, albeit a polemical one.

However, independently of context one can distinguish between a descriptive (or classificatory) use of these terms and a polemical one, although sometimes these different uses occur together.

Making a list is not merely a numerical act but also a polemical one, and the best of this year's films are polemical in their assertion of the singularity of cinema, as well as of the art form's opposition to the disposable images of television.

Le Monde thought that "Looking for Eric came as a half-time relief in the programme of the festival that has its usual amount of horror films, polemical ones, gruelling ones.

We can summarize that in his polemic works Crescas has a polemical goal, and in his philosophical works he has a philosophical goal.[10] The Hebrew translator explains that the reason for this divergence was that the philosophical works were written before the polemical ones, but after writing Or Hashem, Crescas returned to Aristotelian science.

"Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments and giving precedence to common points -- which far outnumber polemical ones," indicates Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, who was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.

But perhaps his greatest flaw as a reviewer is that he seems pathologically unable to consider the book a novel; he locks horns with it as though it were a polemical work, or one of unmediated political commentary.

Advocacy for IC not only always begins with a critique of MC but a dubious characterisation of MC, as has been observed by one of the non-IC leading critics of MC, who notes that 'the intercultural alternative rests on a polemical view of multiculturalism that few of its advocates would endorse' (Joppke, 2017, p. 37).

On one level, it is a polemical indictment of a faceless benefits bureaucracy that strips claimants of their humanity by reducing them to mere numbers – neoliberal 1984 meets uncaring, capitalist Catch-22.

Journalism often takes on a polemical cast in countries in which libel laws are not stringent.

Thus, the most influential aspect of his work has been the negative and critical one because of his skill as a polemical writer.