Sentence examples for so polemical from inspiring English sources

Her writing became so polemical and personal that her tutor suggested she should not submit it.

But in a book of this complexity, and so polemical a tone, he can also make your head spin.

I'm going to try to avoid it.' And the best way to avoid it is to be so polemical in one's rhetoric that they'll scare the unions away".

"He's so polemical that you're going to get people who call him the devil incarnate," said Andrew Chesnut, a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of "Born Again in Brazil," which analyzes Brazil's rising Pentecostal movement.

Applebaum is not so much polemical as just pained by all that happened; her essential revelation – that Marxist ideology, mad though it seems, really mattered even for the mediocrities who enforced it – is a useful reminder for anyone still inclined to imagine that ideas don't make history.

When he requires Celsus, the vehement antagonist of Christianity, to be true, he takes his work as such (without ever mentioning we only have Celsus in fragments preserved in Origen's rebuttal); when he wishes it otherwise, Celsus is "so clearly polemical he cannot be taken seriously".

It is worth considering why Plutarch engaged in writing so many polemical works against the two main Hellenistic schools of philosophy.

One of the oddities of an era that is considered so partisan and polemical is how insulated political expression really is on television.

And I can't help feeling that there's something a little irresponsible about writing a "biography" of Freud that is, in its way, so partial and polemical.

Yet it is impossible not to admire a book that strides so intrepidly into a polemical arena almost as treacherous as Israel-­Arab relations.

Sansom – who talked of "millions like me who are British Anglo-Scots and wish to be allowed to remain so" – also appended a polemical postscript to Dominion.