Sentence examples for polemic for from inspiring English sources
'polemic for' is correct and can be used in written English
It refers to advocating or promoting an opinion or cause, usually in an outspoken or vehement manner. For example, "The bishop gave an impassioned polemic for reform in the church."
This isn't really that kind of manifesto at all, it's rather a polemic for inclusivity.
No wonder the Mirror's associate editor, Kevin Maguire, calls in an accompanying polemic for "unelected peers" to be binned.
If his defence of such large-scale evolution was bad, his polemic for atheism was even worse.
The documentary, called "The Promise" during a festival run, is a plea, but not a polemic, for reassessment of Soering's incarceration.
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An urgent need to weigh in on matters of global import — particularly at such a fraught time in world affairs — can cause playwrights to lose sight of their strengths, to substitute spluttering polemic for plausible or imaginative drama.
I knew that it was a limited analogy, more useful for polemic than for insight, but at the moment Iraq did feel like Vietnam.
In the early '60s, Kouchner and his pals would crank out polemics for Clarté, the young Communists' house organ, and then repair for a night of genteel riot at Balzar, the restaurant frequented by Sartre and his circle.
"All these polemics, for me, are unacceptable," he said, insisting that the I.S.U. was taking the high ground by avoiding public comment on the details of the case until the legal process has played out.
If it were just a case of YouTube clickbait or polemics for conservative podcasts it would be more excusable, but the same deliberate misrepresentations and falsifications crop up in Peterson's lectures.
It is to recognize polemics for what they were: the construction of absolute oppositions, where there were differences of understanding on one point, but shared understandings on others, which echoes today.
