Sentence examples for polemical intention from inspiring English sources

Bellamy, who was a Boston lawyer, had an avowedly didactic and polemical intention, which was to offer his readers a solution to the looming conflict between organised labour and hegemonic capitalism.

But "Promised Land" feels divided against itself, not quite sure how to reconcile its polemical intentions with its storytelling impulses, and thus finally unable to fulfill its own promise.

The film "feels divided against itself, not quite sure how to reconcile its polemical intentions with its storytelling impulses," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times in December.

Both Jews and Christians have used various exegetical methods throughout their history, and doctrinal and polemical intentions have often influenced interpretive results; a given text may yield a number of very different interpretations according to the exegetical presuppositions and techniques applied to it.

But Professor Hamburger insists that he had no intention of being polemical.

Sometimes the purpose is explicitly polemical.

Mr. Childs's 1988 design was thus a polemical statement.

While it might start out with the intention of producing content that sounds considered and conversational, it may end up having to become a bit more polemical and tabloid-esque — say, like The Young Turks — to keep its youth demographic engaged.

The Greek philosopher Plato, with whom the concept emerges for the first time, associated with the term theology a polemical intention as did his pupil Aristotle.

He wrote polemical journalism.

It was a polemical reaction.