Raine is right to damn much of Joseph Brodsky's output, but his failure explicitly to exempt A Part of Speech from this judgment indicates a willingness to fudge in the interest of polemical cudgelling.
Loos's interest in fashion was in large part polemical.
The foundation, he said, would only be interested in "noble atheism or agnosticism, not the polemical kind – so not those atheists such as [Piergiorgio] Odifreddi in Italy, [Michel] Onfray in France, [Christopher ] Hitchensand [Richard] Dawkins".
Before them, John Lloyd's book, What the Media are Doing to our Politics, set out a similarly critical and polemical account of a cynical media prioritising impact over the public interest in its coverage of politics.
His tone is highly polemical and Carey expects the book to be controversial "since it touches on so many vested interests in the arts world, and people do like to think their tastes are truly superior".
Taken as a polemical documentary championing environmentally conscious action, "No Impact Man," directed by Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein, is of little interest and less utility.
The argument, which was highly polemical and overgeneralized, nevertheless promoted the ideal of the learned scholar-gentleman who had no pecuniary or political interests and was unintimidated by the overly polished and spiritless examples of professional painting.
During the third century B.C.E., the Laozi had undergone substantial change and grown into a longer and more complex work, becoming in this process more polemical against the Confucian and other schools of thought, and acquiring new material of stronger metaphysical or cosmological interest.
He wrote polemical journalism.
It was a polemical reaction.
