Sentence examples for polemics with from inspiring English sources

He was especially critical of U.S. and Israeli policy in the region, and this led him into numerous, often bitter, polemics with supporters of those two countries.

Frequently engaged in polemics with other Buddhist leaders, Saichō was more significant as a leader and organizer than as a religious thinker.

Mike's performances fuse fact, memoir and polemics with healthy doses of bombast and, for comic effect, exaggeration in order to passionately deliver an urgent message".

In 1332 Palamas entered into a theological dispute that lasted for a quarter of a century and involved polemics with a series of Greek and Latin scholastic theologians and certain rationalistic humanists.

Lots of fans find him on YouTube, where he is an unusual sort of celebrity, a stern but mercurial lecturer who often holds forth for hours, mixing polemics with pep talks.

The mandate for missions, the defense against prophecy, the polemics with gnosticism and other alternative versions of Christianity, the persecution of the church, and, not least of all, management of church discipline allowed the monarchical episcopacy to emerge in the early centuries.

Though Springsteen has many topical songs, in a recent interview with Variety he expressed reluctance about writing anything too explicitly political for the new show rock music, he suggested, should not be overly concerned with polemics, but with narrating interior landscapes.

Shaped like a Christian parable, this strange book is less a story about conversion than a polemic with narrative pluck.

"I think this polemic with Cambridge has been overblown," said one close friend of Regeni's in Egypt.

But it is also a book of moral and social polemic with the imaginative structure of a Miltonic or Wordsworthian sublime epic.

Even if his musical projects since have been shorter-lived (his 1990s group Lard delivered his traditional polemic with an industrial rock backing) Biafra has not been idle.