Sentence examples for polemical value from inspiring English sources

However, Lazzarato also notes that this separation is also fundamental for the Habermasian social theory that still prevailed during the 1990s: 'The definition of the "political entrepreneur" has a specific polemical value since economic theory and official politics are based precisely on the separation between the economic and the political.

— Byron In 1948, a year before the publication of Aldo Leopold's "A Sand County Almanac," which became a central text for anyone interested in environmental values, a more polemical but no less heartfelt environmental message appeared in an unusual venue.

This is the thesis of Albert W. Alschuler's "Law Without Values," an exuberantly and entertainingly polemical attack on the character, scholarship and philosophy of America's most revered judicial saint.

You might hear polemical words on a movie flouting family values and offending decency and good for them for saying so.

The polemical issue was not so much about the value of the two works as about whether, and to what extent, the classical models for drama developed by the Ancients must be imitated.

Writing in The Times's Book Review, Ellen Ullman, a novelist and former computer programmer, says Mr. Morozov "is taking up the cause of human values against those of the machine," though she adds that his "polemical tone is wearying".

By contrast, Austrian artists came out of a culture that valued aesthetics over politics, and created works that were often ornamental rather than polemical.

It was a polemical reaction.

Pow! Wonderful, robust, polemical stuff.

He wrote polemical journalism.

The polemical is political, after all.