Sentence examples for polemical world from inspiring English sources

Its slow reflexes — closely following its slow response to a controversy that forced the resignation of Van Jones, a White House adviser — suggested that it has trouble dealing with stories arising from the polemical world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs.

David Frum, a speechwriter for President Bush and the author of "How We Got Here," a conservative critique of the 1970's, offered his own polemical spin: "The World War II generation looked at John Kennedy and proudly said, 'We're like that.' The Bill Clinton generation looked at him and said, 'Oh my God, are we like that?' In both cases, a more moderate response is called for".

In the world of polemical journalism, this is doubtless axiomatic.

MIKE DAISEY, one of the great solo storytellers of contemporary theater, has traveled the world performing sharp, polemical and extemporaneous monologues about Amazon.com, national security, James Frey and a host of other subjects.

As the dinar movement gathers momentum, its propagators – which include some of the Muslim world's most polemical figures such as the Trinidad-born cleric Imran Hosein – would doubtless dismiss Antony Lerman's recent suggestion in the Guardian that no credible anti-capitalist doctrine exists today.

These take in the people as a whole, in contrast to Kings; on the other hand, their interest in theodicy (the problem of reconciling the presumed goodness of God with the existence of evil in the world) and their polemical tendency to exaggerate and generalize what they deem evil must be taken into consideration before accepting their statements as history per se (see also evil, problem of).

The central argument is that, from its beginning, crusade historiography has been engaged in various didactic and more or less polemical projects [End Page 150] of world-creation, not world-reflection.

This does not mean that he has allowed his contributors – more than 500 scholars from all over the world – to wax too polemical.

In a new exhibition of appropriated protest signs colorfully reimagined as eight polemical light boxes More Than ½ the World at Sadie Coles HQ gallery in London the artist isolates the language of protest as a way to expand its punch, while simultaneously highlighting that there are a range of issues on which the public and art can speak truth to power.

To describe Taylor's novels as primarily contests of will between women and the world makes her sound more polemical than she actually is.

"I'm in the think-tank world to solve problems, not be polemical," he said.