Mike's performances fuse fact, memoir and polemics with healthy doses of bombast and, for comic effect, exaggeration in order to passionately deliver an urgent message".
The latter was a Christian who, after much criticism and polemic, broke with (pagan) Neoplatonic school philosophy and turned his energy to the exegesis of biblical texts as well as the theological controversies of his day.
The film has won plaudits as an environmental and political polemic, with particular praise going to the actors who play Hushpuppy and Wink, Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry.
But it is also a book of moral and social polemic with the imaginative structure of a Miltonic or Wordsworthian sublime epic.
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.
Cameron, who's been doing this for some time now, was slick in his delivery as he parried the questions with policy and polemic.
Though the book's answers to such questions are often less than satisfying, the account of opera's evolution and of the great composers who shaped it brims with insight, and polemic.
In 1332 Palamas entered into a theological dispute that lasted for a quarter of a century and involved polemics with a series of Greek and Latin scholastic theologians and certain rationalistic humanists.
According to Dundas, in Jain hands, this method of analysis became a fearsome weapon of philosophical polemic with which the doctrines of Hinduism and Buddhism could be pared down to their ideological bases of simple permanence and impermanence, respectively, and thus could be shown to be one-pointed and inadequate as the overall interpretations of reality they purported to be.
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.
