Sentence examples for polemical with from inspiring English sources

Many community leaders were upset with the tenor of the debate on extremism and the former prime minister's fondness for polemical "with us or against us" statements.

The commentary on social and economic change becomes too direct at times, but for the most part, the layers of Bolger's text balance the polemical with the personal, skirting sentimentality.

However, these articles are typically polemical, with authors arguing that treatments should be individualised, without clearly stating what this is, or how it can be achieved.

Some philosophers friendly to Phillips noted with some irony the polemical energy with which he expounded and defended the contemplative attitude.

It was titled "CARA, Chicano Art: Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985," and it too dealt with issues of race, sexuality and marginalized culture, often in forcefully polemical forms, with sources not in art schools but in the street.

It is generally agreed that this tradition sprang out of a growing preoccupation with issues of logic and language among those Buddhists who regarded polemical engagement with their Brahmanical opponents as vital to their philosophical enterprise (see Frauwallner 1959, Hattori 1968, Hayes 1988, Matilal 1998).

It is more of an expression of hope than a polemical packed with facts or accusations.

Her fame stems from a polemical spat with the World Health Organisation and the pharmaceutical industry over swine flu vaccines in 2009.

All forms of music, a handful of languages, malt whisky, fierce polemical arguments with family and close friends.

But "Promised Land" feels divided against itself, not quite sure how to reconcile its polemical intentions with its storytelling impulses, and thus finally unable to fulfill its own promise.

His polemical exchanges with the socialist leader Jiang Khangu helped to popularize anarchism as a "pure socialism" and to distinguish it from other currents in socialist thought.