polemics

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As the premier outlined a programme that included reforms of the justice system and state bureaucracy, he added: “Politics doesn’t need conflicts. Polemics and marking out our differences do not help.”

From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2019

Polemics about his more enigmatic characteristics, the search for a way to get him to play his best and how to fit him in the tactical scheme of things, bubbled from the off.

From The Guardian • Jul. 16, 2018

“It is a deadly question,” says the literary critic Anis Shivani, author of the 2011 book “Against the Workshop: Provocations, Polemics, Controversies.”

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2015

Polemics made aggressive arguments in church or at court.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 4, 2014

Polemics, ontology, ethics, theology, marvels, heroes—all were enthusiastically adopted on faith.

From Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic by Gulick, Sidney Lewis