Polemics among different schools of thought, for example, were far more pronounced during the Warring States period than in the earlier Spring and Autumn period.
In India, polemic debates among several philosophies of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism have rarely turned into violent wars and battles as is the case in the Western religions.
And although the humanist polemic was only one factor among many others, its role in this process was by no means negligible.
In a confrontation at the Museum of Modern Art, in 1962, he accused Jacobs's anti-planning polemics of winning her too many friends "among comfortable suburbanites," who, he said, "like to be told that neither their tax dollars nor their own time need be spent on the cities they leave behind them at the close of each work day".
It veered among three modes — satire, polemic, and vérité — when it should have stuck with one.
Hook's study did justice to the subtleties of the polemics that flourished among the Young Hegelians on diverse issues including the nature of emancipation in bourgeois society or the function of religion in relationship to class consciousness in European society.
Paradoxically, given that the book is, among other things, a fierce polemic against drug prohibition, he won.
The polemic is presented as one of conflict among the canon lawyers and theologians at Paris concerning the reception of Aristotle and recent works on Greek and Arabic sciences, especially astronomy/astrology.
The Scottish protestant firebrand John Knox, author of a polemic against "the monstrous regiment of women", was among the most vocal critics.
For once the pre-race polemic was upstaged by the main event, although among the war of words came this prescient comment from Meares: "All sportspeople push the limits.
