It was possible, of course, to find cascades of political polemic as well as overweening jargon, but in general, assertions tended to be more modulated and variations plentiful.
Humor seems to be her way of taking the edge off the polemic, as well as an introvert's channel of communication.
Samuel Butler's Way of All Flesh, which was written by 1885 but not published until 1903, remains one of the greatest examples of the modern bildungsroman; philosophical and polemic as well as moving and comic, it presents the struggle of a growing soul to further, all unconsciously, the aims of evolution, and is a devastating indictment of Victorian paternal tyranny.
The accounts that Stravinsky gave of the genesis of his works are notoriously unreliable, shaped as they were by polemic as well as by an increasingly suspect memory.
In Defensor pacis, a political polemic, as well as a tract on political theory, Marsilius, applying principles of Aristotle, evolved a secular concept of the state.
I for one would rather be defended by someone who makes cogent arguments but doesn't care a jot about my welfare, than by someone whose heart is bleeding for my suffering but can't tell a logical argument from empty polemic, as heartfelt as such a polemic might be.
"The new cycle of research into pickle politics look at bacteria for equally polemic as well as anodyne reasons.
The Wissenschaft studies themselves, however, prove to be polemics as well on closer inspection.
The latter offers up her polemic as a challenge to the world to improve.
It is simply too vast a topic to tackle in one article, but we've tried to give a flavour of some interesting facets of the war, such as poetry and polemics, as well as sharing some of the teaching resources – if you have others to share, please do head to the comments thread below.
