Sentence examples for a polemical point from inspiring English sources

There is a polemical point to this bloodletting, of course, because this is a nationalist garden.

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.

If the band was ramming home a polemical point that America can't afford to lose its own musical past, it was also just ramming home riffs: something worth doing because it feels good.

Although a certain kind of politics can be discerned in his early work, his explicit politics were secondary to his acts of making: the fountain that he made for the Spanish Republican pavilion at the World's Fair in 1937 stood in front of Picasso's "Guernica," but no one could have detected in its beautiful patternings of mercury and water a polemical point.

Here is Aaron Bady in the journal Jacobin, for instance, painting the Spielberg-Kushner focus on the 13th Amendment as an exercise in bad faith: … to put it quite bluntly, I think the filmmakers made this choice because they wanted to make a polemical point about moderation over radicalism, and I think they picked the story they wanted to tell because it seems to support that position.

He is a better analyst and historian than he is a travel writer.But the book's main analytical and polemical point is tellingly made: in the absence of a Western counterbalance, Myanmar is falling almost inexorably into the Chinese sphere of influence.

The film's sharpest polemical point is its critique of news coverage of the crimes.

The polemical point -- as he tirelessly explained to the many directors inclined to stage the work apolitically (read: psychologically) -- is not to tease apart good from evil or to indulge any fashionable taste for cynicism or the apocalyptic.

But Henry – whose expansion into stage acting and activism has made him one of showbiz's most interesting figures – has scored another powerful polemical point, although the test of his success will be judged on whether any of Tuesday's diverse first-timers is given other gigs on Today.

The film is least convincing when making overt polemical points, as in its enactment of the funeral of the Last Bigot.

Mr. Lamb makes no polemical points about religion or political beliefs in "Black and White and Testifyin' All Over," but he does make dance an expression of communal joy.