Sentence examples for like polemic from inspiring English sources

Rabe barely gives him any dialogue; it's more like polemic or pronouncements.

In Planet of Slums, his Engels-like polemic, Mike Davis showed how segregation and racial zoning has been used by authoritarian planners from Nairobi to Mumbai.

After Sinise made a disparaging remark in an early interview about director Brian DePalma's Redacted, a cinema verite-like polemic feature about several soldiers in the Iraq War, he offers answers that now avoid controversy.

As well as the reviews, the book contains a fractious debate with Mr Dennett, and a somewhat more measured one with Mr Chalmers.These will be enjoyable for those who like philosophical polemic, but they do little to dispel the impression that Mr Searle and some of his critics fail to give a rational account of why they disagree.

Deighton says that that is because the original article was like a "polemic, almost like a religion.

But it often reads like a polemic rather than a work of history.

"It reads like a polemic," the former chief minority counsel of the House Judiciary Committee, Julian Epstein, said.

Q. "Adam's Curse" reads almost like a polemic against the Y chromosome.

Reduced to the basics of its plot — if the word "plot" can in fact be stretched to describe what happens here — "The Train Driver" sounds like a polemic.

From this period (c. 700 bce) comes a myth usually called the Erra Epic, which reads almost like a polemic against Enuma elish.

We use the technique of feeding off controversies and expand on what might at first look merely like a polemic disagreement, a question of wording, namely the definition of safety as a dynamic non-event.