This inconsistency is due to the fact that he adopted different strategies in response to different polemical situations.
Although verifiable information about the political motivations of the Sakyapas remains elusive, the unstable political situation in Tibet could have at least partially accounted for the overtly polemical nature of some of Gorampa's Madhyamaka texts.
Wanda's character is at odds with any politicised sense of an empowering role for women – yet the film presents the direness of her situation more clearly than any polemical or 'politically correct' presentation could hope to achieve.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797), that brilliant polemical orator and lifetime parliamentarian, understood the adversarial situation.
Given the logic of the situation as Locke understands it, the whole polemical negative attack on innateness is almost beside the point.
This latter is a largely polemical work on the state of studies at Paris and an apology for his scholarly situation.
So I struggled to find a way to write towards this situation, to call attention to it, without trying to own or define it or even be polemical about it.
He wrote polemical journalism.
It was a polemical reaction.
Pow! Wonderful, robust, polemical stuff.
