Is he writing a "polemic" as he sometimes claims, or a celebration, as he elsewhere implies?
With a reputation for polemics, Antony vigorously protested papal claims to supremacy over the universal church.
claims to be a polemic against reading, even as it demands a huge amount of it more than 970 pages' worth in one of its recent translations into English.
"An Obsession with Anne Frank," by Lawrence Graver, published by the University of California Press in 1995, is the first study to fashion a coherent narrative out of the welter of claims, counterclaims, letters, cables, petitions, polemics, and rumbling confusions which accompany any examination of the diary's journey to the stage.
Thus, during the medieval period there were polemics directed against that claim, as well as expositions of the nature of prophecy that, without dealing directly with Muhammad's claim, could be taken to undercut it as in the case of Maimonides' The Guide for the Perplexed).
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.
Cohen blames bad advice from the United States for the debacle, and his terse, blistering polemic assails the entire community of Russia experts who, he claims, "committed malpractice throughout the 1990's".
Bowdoin rebutted the charges and claims made in Bernard's letters, and published a highly polemic pamphlet arguing for Bernard's removal that was sent to the colonial secretary, Lord Hillsborough.
(3) It further has to represent its claim to truth in the context of confrontation with other claims to truth and with other criteria of verification (apologetics, polemics).
Neither Belgium's police, which raided Med's old offices two years ago, nor Britain's government, which wishes the channel's fierce anti-Turkish polemic were broadcast from somewhere other than London, have been able to back Turkish claims that the channel is run by the PKK and financed by dirty money.It is clear that the PKK has quite enough money, dirty or not, to keep going.
