The phrase "avoid polemics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to steer clear of controversial or contentious arguments in a discussion or writing.
Example: "In order to maintain a constructive dialogue, it is important to avoid polemics and focus on common ground."
Alternatives: "steer clear of controversy" or "refrain from contentious debates".
History and politics are never far from the minds of serious filmmakers, but there are notable attempts in New Directors to avoid polemics or sermons to the choir.
"This is the moment to stay calm, avoid polemics and show humility and determination in making one's own contribution, standing alongside the team and its people both at the track and outside it".
British officials said that in his conversations with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and others, Mr. Shevardnadze appeared to go out of his way to avoid polemics and emphasized areas of agreement between Moscow and London.
According to the statement, Di Montezemolo also insisted that "this is the moment to stay calm, avoid polemics and show humility and determination in making one's own contribution, standing alongside the team and its people both at the track and outside it".
The images jointly selected by French and Tunisian curators from an original selection of 40 artists somehow avoid polemics all the while opening windows on a culture that vibrates between optimism and anxiety over is future.
The longest set was by the Dave Matthews Band (introduced by Sarah Jessica Parker), which avoided polemics altogether.
While the visit to Brussels produced no breakthroughs, it did avoid the angry polemics of some previous meetings.
The protagonist, the teenager Jamila (Tala Ashe), is less invested in these debates than her older relatives, and the play itself seems, like her, to be trying hard to avoid settling into polemics.
It's a challenge I'm willing to embrace now, but I do so hoping to avoid cliches and polemics.
The book succeeds in its analysis of deregulation proposals by sticking closely to economic principles, and avoiding the tiresome polemics associated with debates over competition versus government.
Throughout, he seeks to avoid what he refers to as the "polemics of punditry".
