Sentence examples for rather polemical from inspiring English sources

But before that happened, Mr. Lavrov delivered a rather polemical speech.

In Heidegger's rather polemical view: "The whole art industry, even if carried to the extreme and exercised in every way for the sake of the works themselves, extends only to the object-being of the works.

Some bishops who would have their fingers more to the wind have backed down from these rather polemical positions".

Witness poetry was testimonial rather than polemical.

Wolfe's style is elucidatory rather than polemical.

In truth, the tone of the book is melancholic rather than polemical.

Sand's own manner in print and in person is urgent rather than polemical; more deadpan than diatribe.

"Overruled," a play by Shoja Azari and Berhang Azari, directed by the Iranian video-installation artist Shirin Neshat, which centered on the blasphemy trial of a 10th-century mystic, was a rather simplistic polemical harangue — bad Brecht was my first thought — despite the heart-rending singing of the expatriate Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo.

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

We ought to entertain such questions and engage in thoughtful rather than polemical public discussions about them.

The politics of the Ring are contemplative and interrogative rather than narrowly polemical.