More obvious subversives are also refreshed by the Gilbey treatment, which homes in on the anxious silence at the heart of Robert Altman's ceaseless chatter and the fear of women portrayed in Harvey Keitel's performances for Martin Scorsese, polemically contrasted with the flashier machismo of Robert De Niro.
As Hegel declared polemically in the Science of Logic (1812 18166): "The Kantian philosophy becomes a pillow for intellectual sloth, which soothes itself with the idea that everything has been already proved and done with".
Abel's most polemically barbed moment comes when a despairing Chris pleads, "Can't we all just get along?", consciously or not echoing the words used by Rodney King on TV after his beating by police sparked riots in LA. "Are you playing the race card?" retorts Abel.
For someone who polemically criticized 12-tone music, Bernstein found his own way to fashion atonal elements to his own ends.
Ms. Tijoux had an even stronger voice, musically and polemically.
In her new book, "Reign of Error," she arrows in more directly, and polemically, on the privatization movement, which she calls a "hoax" and a "danger" that has fed on the myth that schools are failing.
These tutorials are, no doubt, meant to rub polemically against the grain of the former military site and its geographical centrality, but their contorted perspectives gave a sour taste to the harbor breezes.
Ms. Farber's staging seamlessly blends the visual poetry into the naturalistic (if sometimes polemically overstated) script.
Likewise, the 2007 version of James Agee's novel "A Death in the Family" is tagged "A Restoration of the Author's Text"; its editor polemically advocates for this edition over its 1957 predecessor, which was published only after major editorial changes were made independent of the author, who had died two years earlier.
Volck also engaged, polemically, with other artists.
People are complex and nuanced, they don't live polemically".
