Sentence examples for create a polemic from inspiring English sources
Mr. Hortefeux, a member of President Nicolas Sarkozy's governing UMP party, issued a statement Thursday describing the uproar as "a vain and ridiculous attempt to create a polemic".
He has called the uproar over his comments last September "a vain and ridiculous attempt to create a polemic," saying he had not been referring to Arabs but to people from the Auvergne, in central France.
"The easiest thing to create is a polemic or an exhibit of anger, but that will only work for the committed," said Elaine Heumann Gurian, former deputy director of the National Holocaust Museum in Washington, who was a consultant on the show.
This choice created a small polemic in the media, whose logic is aimed at inventing protagonists while ignoring the quality of the work, so that it seems natural that bad or mediocre books by someone who has a reputation in the media deserve more attention than books that might be of higher quality but were written by someone who is no one.
That's to work with the elections commission to push for some of the points they have highlighted and not try to create a kind of us-and-them polemic," he said.
Greg Barker, the director of "Sergio," did not set out to make a polemic.
But the filmmakers unwittingly created a dramatic obstacle to their polemic by casting Sam Shepard as the major whom O'Malley kills in self-defense.
"The bishop's statement creates an unnecessary and useless polemic," said the mayor of Córdoba, Andrés Ocaña, from the United Left party.
The American philosopher Richard Rorty once wrote that academe's obsession with theory creates a 'shibboleth' in the university system, sheltering and confining its debates and polemics from the public sphere.
The scholar Jens Peter Larsen, in his study on Handel, commented that "the purely historical performance is only a phantom created by polemic imagination".
"We're all against creating polemics; a bully pulpit to proclaim our point of view about these things," he says.
