Sentence examples for polemical targets from inspiring English sources

If these are familiar polemical targets, that is because, roughly since the term "political correctness" started appearing in national newsmagazines around 1990, conservative intellectuals have subjected the concepts of "diversity" and "identity politics" to a steady ideological barrage.

It may, then, be more accurate to think of Lucretius as philosophically isolated, drawing his inspiration from Epicurus' own treasured writings, and for that reason adopting Epicurus' polemical targets as his own.

Simon has – probably rightly – played down the possibility of The Wire having any such direct impact on drugs policy, its most obvious polemical target, but the programme is clearly structured to raise questions about the real world in the viewer of the fictional one.

Aristotelianism therefore represented the driving force behind Renaissance philosophy of nature, both because of its plurality of approaches and internal debates, and also because it served as the polemical target of those who challenged the traditional paradigm of university teaching.

A Louisiana-set drama about a father and his daughter threatened by the impact of global warming, the autobiographical tale of a man's quest to lose his virginity despite living out much of his life in an iron lung and a polemical documentary targeting America's war on drugs were among the top prize-winners as the Sundance film festival reached its denouement at the weekend.

Both Oliver Twist and the memoirs are polemical works, but their targets are different.

One can only hope they now bury it and direct their considerable polemical abilities at more worthy targets.

In addition to the anti-Germanophile Nicolae Iorga, his rivals in academia included a new generation of leading historians, who were targets of his polemical articles: Gheorghe I. Brătianu, George Fotino, Constantin C. Giurescu and P. P. Panaitescu.

The first act ends with a drunken brawl and a decidedly unromantic round of Hate My Love, while a scene among nurses driven insane by "efficiency targets" culminates in the polemical Everybody's a Victim, done as a country-gospel hospital hoedown.

He wrote polemical journalism.

It was a polemical reaction.