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the polemical
adjective
Of, or relating to argument or controversy; polemic or contentious.
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The polemical is political, after all.
Beyond the polemical intensity of the Fridericianum, the show loses coherence and often subsides into dross.
The polemical sections of Paul's letters have been used in Christian controversies ever since.
An exaltation of life counters the intimations of extinction, trumping the polemical despair.
And it is true that most of his films are not political in the polemical sense.
Far from the polemical and antagonistic exchange I had anticipated, our discussion was calm and respectful.
In a later edition, against the author's wishes, he deleted the polemical second section altogether.
But the most striking thing here is not the music; it's the polemical intensity.
These anecdotes take the edge off the polemical intensity a reader might expect from the book's title, "Higher Education?
A final work is the polemical treatise Ham Hindu Nahin ("We Are Not Hindus") by Kahn Singh Nabha.
"The Sea Around Us" and "The Edge of the Sea" might not have the polemical force of "Silent Spring".
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