Not a polemic against capital punishment (though it's clear where Herzog stands), but a portrait.
Though more polemic in style than its predecessor, the teachers' film does have emotional power, but in a more oblique way.
Whatever their putative merits, though, Wert has drowned them in polemic.
Should Paul Ryan decide to revisit the "Little House" books, he will certainly hear the congenial echo of Lane's polemics in them, though tempered by something more humane.
She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics – sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes.
For the purposes of what follows I use New Atheism as a somewhat baggy but, I think, useful shorthand for the trenchant anti-religion polemics of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett (though he is more scientific and more polite) and AC Grayling, plus a few others.
Advocacy, even when it's on your side, can wear thin, and though the play is more than a polemic, it isn't an organically grown story, either.
Academic histories of the Revolution, though, have been peeping over the parapets, joining scholarly scruples to contemporary polemic.
Even though the deck is stacked, and the message polemic, the play was still ground breaking, one of the true classics of progressive theater.
Every stitch he does himself at home and, even though sorting out the Gay and Lesbian Firefighters Union with polemic arts and crafts isn't very profitable, he refuses to do commercial work.
