Sentence examples for on polemic from inspiring English sources

But he is too good a historian to fall back on polemic.

Mr. Mamet's "November" is heavy on the spluttering, if light on polemic.

An English teacher introduced him to George Bernard Shaw and within a month he was "hooked on polemic".

Ian Nathan of Empire magazine criticized this focus, believing it gave the film an "overt political agenda [which] border[s] on polemic".

Even so, one of the strengths of "Room" is that it focuses neither on polemics nor personal tragedy but rather on gathering the many strands of Woolf's formidable intellect into a messy, resonant coherence.

"His media strategy as mayor of Béziers relies on polemics aimed at shattering the politically correct consensus on secularism, immigration, and even the poor".

Had Arcelor focused less on polemics, it could have initiated a serious debate about the future of family-owned businesses in the globalised world.

To some Iraqis who listened to the broadcasts, the emphasis on polemics appeared to confirm what observations about Baghdad have suggested: that the Iraqi forces have done surprisingly little in the way of preparing the capital's defenses.

Long on polemics and short on the very strategy the address claims to extol, Romney's speech reads like a mediocre freshman foreign policy essay restating the obvious -- simplistic, long-winded window dressing masquerading as effective, reasoned strategic policy.

Instead, he explores new material, taking on new polemics and problems and offering a brilliant analysis of the strange case of Binjamin Wilkomirski, a Swiss writer who falsely claimed to be a Holocaust survivor in his memoir, "Fragments".

He's had starring roles in two of the grittiest dramas on British TV in recent years, Boy A and Red Riding, as well as supporting parts in Terry Gilliam's delirious fantasy The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, and Robert Redford's war-on-terror polemic Lions For Lambs.