Sentence examples for polemical that from inspiring English sources

"I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats," she said in her (too) measured way.

"Along with this discovery," he went on, "was the realization that I was too close to polemical, that you can't just yell at people.

"He's so polemical that you're going to get people who call him the devil incarnate," said Andrew Chesnut, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of "Born Again in Brazil," which analyzes Brazil's rising Pentecostal movement.

Growing up with a stutter in nineteen-twenties Brownsville, Alfred Kazin eschewed both gangs and "movements" in favor of reading and writing, a preference for the literary over the polemical that fuelled a singular, sixty-year career in American letters.

The events leading up to and surrounding the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton have been examined from so many angles, personal and polemical, that both vertigo and subject fatigue set in long ago.

I would have loved to read a bit more about the psychology of self-deception that any unapologetic elitist must be practising, but the aim here is really more polemical than that approach would allow.

A reader can't help noting that anti-liberal polemics, today as in the lurid polemical pasts that Mishra revisits, always have more force and gusto than liberalism's defenses have ever had.

Sand, a history professor at Tel Aviv University, is the author of The Invention of the Jewish People (2009), a discursive yet polemical work that systematically undermines the claim that Jewishness is necessary – let alone sufficient – to justify the claims of the Israeli state to the territory formerly known as Palestine.

Early on, Bellow explains that he set out to write a "short, polemical book" that would "make the case for nepotism as both natural and necessary".

Although the theories of Asclepiades in particular are often assimilated to atomism, there is reason to think that Galen's identification of his view as atomistic is polemical, and that Asclepiades' particles are capable of division into infinitely many pieces.

It is an utterly polemical book that was meant to smash Lenin.