Some subtle polemics are detectable in glosses that he wrote to an important work of Islamic theology.
Surely he knew exactly what he was doing by misrepresenting Hyde's subtle, sarcastic polemic.
Myers is a vegan, and he brings his biases to the table, turning the article into a subtle, clandestine polemic designed to stress the carnivorous aspect of foodie culture as degeneracy.
Some of the latter betray upon close reading a subtle anti-Islamic polemic.
Poetry is not polemic, but a much subtler knife.
It's an angry, passionate polemic that may not be as subtle as some of the other contenders, but certainly hits hard when it comes to social injustice and human stupidity.
For each of his 'voices', Pessoa conceived a highly distinctive poetic idiom and technique, a complex biography, a context of literary influence and polemics and, most arrestingly of all, subtle interrelations and reciprocities of awareness.
In spite of the harshness, and in some ways the bluntness of Plato's critique of poetry, he not only put his finger on deep issues of ongoing interest, but also leavened his polemic in a number of intriguing and subtle ways most obviously, by writing philosophy in a way that can, with proper qualifications, itself be called poetic.
By now, Wallerstein's research has also informed a barrage of antidivorce polemics and ideological defenses of marriage that are far less subtle and humane than her own books.
The polemic among them is Thomas Frank's "Pity the Billionaire," about which Michael Kinsley writes: As you can tell from its ham-fisted title, "Pity the Billionaire" is not the world's most subtle political critique.
