In the French classical tragedy, the unities were adhered to literally and became the source of endless critical polemics.
He and his successors did their work so well that until the discoveries at Nag Hammadi this extensive polemic was the chief source of information about these rival testaments.
These great struggles, which never really end, are great generators of polemic, and polemic is like scandal — it is vivid, and it sticks.
The records came elaborately packaged with dense screeds of polemic.
"When you write a political book, you can be accused of polemic, didacticism and earnestness.
"He had to confront a lot of polemic," Mr. Pineda Barnet said.
Another source of inspiration was the Muslim theologian and polemist Ibn Hazm, whose anti-Jewish polemic inspired Ibn Daud's Biblical exegesis.
Verbose, tangential, unfocused – and, perhaps worst of all from a onetime source of such laser-guided lyricism, linguistically imprecise - it is bewilderingly all over the shop, a slew of mini-polemics through which poke the author's abiding obsessions and bugbears, all set against a quasi-fabular "story" with no clear plot or, indeed, point.
"The cinematic style of late Mikhalkov is an extremely faithful expression of the Putin era, in which polemics are also senseless," he wrote in the April 21 edition of the newspaper, and offered a series of possible interpretations for qualities they both share: "Extreme cynicism and the domination of personal proximity to the source of power above all other criteria?
The debate was free of polemics and recriminations.
