Sentence examples for polemical purpose from inspiring English sources

Not with any overt polemical purpose, mind you, but as more than an incidental detail.

Behn had a specific polemical purpose in telling her story, which was to expose the slave trade between Africa and the New World.

This break from Congressional tradition had a polemical purpose: Representative Robert Goodlatte, the Virginia Republican who came up with the idea, remarked that "lots of my constituents have said that Congress has gone beyond its powers granted in the Constitution".

"I think Mitchell wrote it with a kind of polemical purpose in mind, which was to warn against the dangers of the too-available divorce, and that theme didn't appeal to me," Mr. Auburn said.

Hers is a book with clear polemical purpose: to deny Palestinian Arabs an identity and any territorial claim; it makes the case that the Arabs in question should instead live in Jordan.

Walden aims at conversion, and Thoreau's polemical purpose gives it an energy and drive missing in the meanders of the sole other book he saw into publication during his short lifetime, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

"For polemical purposes, I was hoping to get a mother nursing small children," he said.

He is certainly right, although for polemical purposes he devalues disinterested, objective scholarship.

A white reformer, Frances Gage, wrote down and embellished Truth's remarks for her own polemical purposes, Professor Painter said.

or (most relevant to Godard's murky polemical purposes) "Schindler's List," but rather a familiar straw man who goes, and not only in France, by the same name.

By canonizing the judges who voted to uphold the New Deal and demonizing their conservative opponents, the partisan defenders of the New Deal were distorting a complicated, longstanding and legitimate constitutional debate for their own polemical purposes.