Sentence examples for polemic with from inspiring English sources

Shaped like a Christian parable, this strange book is less a story about conversion than a polemic with narrative pluck.

"I think this polemic with Cambridge has been overblown," said one close friend of Regeni's in Egypt.

But it is also a book of moral and social polemic with the imaginative structure of a Miltonic or Wordsworthian sublime epic.

Even if his musical projects since have been shorter-lived (his 1990s group Lard delivered his traditional polemic with an industrial rock backing) Biafra has not been idle.

The film has won plaudits as an environmental and political polemic, with particular praise going to the actors who play Hushpuppy and Wink, Quvenzhané Wallis and Dwight Henry.

This elegant conservative polemic, with an introduction by Bellow, argued that Disney and Derrida had done for liberal culture in America.

He was especially critical of U.S. and Israeli policy in the region, and this led him into numerous, often bitter, polemics with supporters of those two countries.

Frequently engaged in polemics with other Buddhist leaders, Saichō was more significant as a leader and organizer than as a religious thinker.

Mike's performances fuse fact, memoir and polemics with healthy doses of bombast and, for comic effect, exaggeration in order to passionately deliver an urgent message".

In 1332 Palamas entered into a theological dispute that lasted for a quarter of a century and involved polemics with a series of Greek and Latin scholastic theologians and certain rationalistic humanists.

From editing to marketing, Buena Vista International, the Disney division that is distributing the film in Japan, appears to have gone to great lengths to try to soften "Pearl Harbor" and dodge historical polemics with the lucrative Japanese market in mind.