Sentence examples for in polemical from inspiring English sources

But Ms. Cholodenko has a hard time looking at the film in polemical terms.

He added: "Perhaps this explains the shift in polemical terminology to the less prescriptive 'climate change'".

Political consciousness runs deep without necessarily declaring itself in polemical terms.

John Steinbeck — "the Woody Guthrie of American authors," as he has been called — revered his musical compatriot in polemical realism.

Cool, brutal, elegant, fiery, he established a kind of International Style in music, and propagated it in polemical writings and through institutional networks.

To the end, Strindberg debated current social and political ideas (returning to the radical views of his youth) in polemical articles, while his philosophy was expounded in the aphoristic Zones of the Spirit (1907 12).

The scandal sparked a quick response: the Encyclopédie was forced to interrupt publication, and Rousseau attacked the rational philosophy of the Philosophes in general in a polemical treatise on the question of the morality of theatrical performances, Lettre à d'Alembert sur les spectacles (1758).

It was titled "CARA, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985," and it too dealt with issues of race, sexuality and marginalized culture, often in forcefully polemical forms, with sources not in art schools but in the street.

Dawkins – in a style that would recur in later polemical books such as The God Delusion – was never less than comprehensive in his ambitions.

But with sexual accomplishment as a banner of progress in this polemical war, what they said in their times of complaint was probably not more than the half of it.

Though uneven in length and polemical in politics (Milton was branded, not unfairly, "an acrimonious and surly Republican"), the prefaces nonetheless helped establish the idea of a national literary canon (and went on to be collected as a free-standing series).