Sentence examples for war polemic from inspiring English sources

But of course "yet another anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war polemic by a Guardian contributor" does not have quite the same appeal to a publisher as an anti-Bush polemic dressed up as a serious piece of academic-linguistic research.

When he was defending a notion of permanent value in his mid-nineties "culture war" polemic, "The Culture of Complaint," it wasn't with a sniffy reference to Plato or Dante, but through his direct experience as an amateur carpenter, of the practice of planing, sawing, varnishing, and getting it right.

It will make Cold War polemics such as Rocky IV, The Day After and Red Dawn seem even-handed.

On the roof of the museum, there is a more mischievous but equally effective work of anti-war polemic, this time directed against the Americans.

The gothic horror (Interview With A Vampire) the romantic comedy (Jerry Maguire) the character drama (Magnolia, Rain Man,) the anti-war polemic (Born on the Fourth Of July) and the courtroom drama (A Few Good Men).

That gambit – of confounding expectations – plays far better on The Last to Die, a Bruce Springsteen cover that brings a poignant Pet Shop glide to an anti-war polemic.

The first single from the fourth album Stankonia has been interpreted as an anti-war polemic and would acquire a veneer of dread prophecy as the Bush administration's wars pitched America into a terrifying 21st century.

"We're convinced that many educated readers are tired of the usual ideological divides and culture-war polemics in discussing the great issues of human purpose and meaning," Gary Rosen, the site's editor in chief, said.

Russell's reasons for rejecting a non-natural property of goodness have to be reconstructed from literary asides, delivered in passing in the course of his anti-War polemics.

He's had starring roles in two of the grittiest dramas on British TV in recent years, Boy A and Red Riding, as well as supporting parts in Terry Gilliam's delirious fantasy The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus, and Robert Redford's war-on-terror polemic Lions For Lambs.

But in her first book, she turned to her own experience working as a gardener during the first world war and wrote a polemic that would be radical in any age – she calls not only for a complete re-examination of the relationship of employers and their servants but of the nature of domestic work itself.