At its best, the book weaves, in fuguelike fashion, autobiography, history and polemic into a complex portrait of 20th-century intellectual life.
Students interested in Milton's life, his prose polemics, and his complex theology will wish to grace their shelves with this book". "Emphasizing the significance of how Milton's sense of self evolved from the outset of his career to the final period of his writings, Milton's Peculiar Grace advances the ongoing discussion of self-representation and self-fashioning in the early modern period.
(Genzlinger) 'MAJOR BARBARA' George Bernard Shaw's polemic against the military-industrial complex and organized religion is still timely 100 years later, and though the director Brooke O'Harra's Kabuki-tinged version lands on the mark and misses it about equally, there is something true and real about the production that is worth seeing (2 35).
In his films Wiseman eschewed polemics in favour of a complex and sympathetic presentation of such institutions' effects on individual people.
For each of his 'voices', Pessoa conceived a highly distinctive poetic idiom and technique, a complex biography, a context of literary influence and polemics and, most arrestingly of all, subtle interrelations and reciprocities of awareness.
Ultimately, yesterday's polemics could be the opening wedge in complex negotiations that could increase contributions by both the state and the city.
Writing without shallow polemic and in a measured style, Coates addresses complex and challenging issues such as racial identity, systemic racial bias, and urban policing.
"Writing without shallow polemic and in a measured style, Coates addresses complex and challenging issues such as racial identity, systemic racial bias, and urban policing," the MacArthur Foundation said in a statement, crediting Coates with "bring[ing] personal reflection and historical scholarship to bear on America's most contested issues".
In Epiphanius' polemic against the Ebionites found in Panarion 30, a complex picture emerges of the beliefs and practices of the 4th century Ebionites that cannot easily be separated from his method of combining together disparate sources.
Others, such as his critique of American imperialism, the military-industrial complex and the sinister crimes of George W Bush, are exhilarating, slightly mad polemics whose rhetorical indignation probably outweighs their clarity of thought.
