Sentence examples for polemical to from inspiring English sources

Dylan employed propaganda to get successful but knows those songs are "too rigidly polemical" to be his best work.

Some of it recounts, with dry humour, Adonis's time as a reforming adviser and minister, but his purpose is polemical: to argue for the changes he thinks are needed and which he says have been vindicated by his academy programme.

In a passage that particularly impressed his hearers, he acknowledged that there had been "failures" on the part of Catholics in the past, referring to the now outmoded polemical approach to reunion and to insistence on matters of prestige.

He said the film was not meant to be polemical but to explore the contentious issue of border control.

However, Ellison's treatment of his novel as first and foremost a work of art as opposed to a primarily polemical work led to some complaints from his fellow black novelists at the time that he was not sufficiently devoted to social change.

What is of interest for our purpose is that Ibn Daud structures his arguments in a syllogistic framework, so as to adapt this polemical chapter to the overall philosophical outlook of the rest of the work.

Sansom – who talked of "millions like me who are British Anglo-Scots and wish to be allowed to remain so" – also appended a polemical postscript to Dominion.

A polemical proposal to transfer the seat of government to Sucre, a genteel city of whitewashed buildings in central Bolivia that lost that distinction in a brief civil war at the end of the 19th century, drew hundreds of thousands of demonstrators into the streets of high-altitude La Paz, where the president and legislature are based.

He was fanatical in his opposition to Protestantism, and he contributed some 55 polemical pieces to a Lutheran-Catholic controversy that was notable even in that day for its harshness.

But Lewis's presentation of himself to women, and to the men with whom he conferred about women, had a polemical edge to it, a toxicity entirely lacking, as far as one can tell, in John's sexual munificence.

To a certain extent, the identity museum is a polemical response to such museums.