Sentence examples for polemical acts from inspiring English sources

His raps, as scatological, polemical acts of self-affirmation, have roots in the black tradition of signifying, the boastful taunts and witty insults that exemplified the comedy of Richard Pryor and Redd Foxx.

After the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center were destroyed, in 2001, the footprints of those buildings were declared inviolately unbuildable in perpetuity — an act of polemical and political remembering.

Making a list is not merely a numerical act but also a polemical one, and the best of this year's films are polemical in their assertion of the singularity of cinema, as well as of the art form's opposition to the disposable images of television.

Voltaire's beliefs prompted a prodigious number of polemical writings.

Pullman's book, however, is not narrowly polemical; he also retells the parables and acts with a lucid simplicity that strips away the Pauline barnacles.

To think that negative judgements are "on all fours" with positive judgements, is to confuse the act of judging with a "polemical" rejection of what others think or say.

ONE of the charms of Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, is that he still acts much as he did as a polemical journalist.

Mr Herring reckons that audiences are tired of being lectured at by 80s-style polemical comics and so he is planning to keep the political stuff in his act to a minimum.That said, as Mr Herring himself points out, the comedy industry is booming: television and radio stations are thirsty for new talent; theatres and pubs are finding that comedy nights are moneyspinners.

In the end, what's best about "Gilead" is the way Robinson's novel -- unlike some of her more polemical essays -- invitingly challenges its readers to entertain contradictory notions at once, and appealingly dramatizes the act of puzzling over charged questions, "trying to say what was true".

He wrote polemical journalism.

It was a polemical reaction.