Hitler soon gained notoriety for his rowdy polemic speeches against the Treaty of Versailles, rival politicians, and especially against Marxists and Jews.
But when the French artist Orelsan called publicly for his support at the height of a months-long free-speech polemic around the rapper's song "Sale Pute" (Dirty Whore, Mr. Mitterrandd obliged.
Mr. Krueger's 10-page text was more pedantic than polemic, less a stump speech than a statistical one.
A great story, well told, has the power to move more than speeches, journalism and polemic.
(With Jonathan Haidt, Lukianoff wrote "The Coddling of the American Mind," a spirited polemic about the decline of free speech on campus published in The Atlantic).
Irreverent, funny, and lightning-fast, Demske's (literally) self-titled first book is best understood as a speech exercise, not a polemic.
Every gotcha moment, spoof, pundit's musing, TV clip, campaign speech, formal ad and handmade polemic cropped up there.
His maiden speech as a congressman was a polemic attack on the plantations owned by the United Fruit Company.
Shine boss Elisabeth Murdoch (2012) - the sole female 21st-century lecturer to date - makes the case for television driven by "a rigorous set of values" in a speech seen as taking aim at her brother James's anti-BBC polemic three years previously.
Christopher Hitchens, the author of an antireligious polemic in 2007, observed that half the people who came to his book-promoting speeches had thought they were the only atheists in town.Isolation matters especially when it comes to bringing up children, a tough task at the best of times.
