polemic
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We care about his long-ago polemic because of the ideas he embedded in it and the force with which he expressed them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
“It’s such a powerful, polemic piece, as well as being poetic and also mundane at times,” Cumberbatch says, speaking via Zoom from London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
His Glastonbury set opened with the angry, antagonistic Hate, followed quickly by Plastic, a polemic about the seductive but reductive allure of consumer culture.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2023
What Rufo is talking about is a classic bait-and-switch — cutting and pasting a polemic from one place into another for a strategic advantage.
From Salon ● May 30, 2023
"Watch that temper, that's discipline, too. Learn to demolish your brotherly opponents with ideas, with polemic skill. The other is for our enemies. Save it for them. And go get some rest."
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
"A Kingdom that counters polemics and resignation through friendship and a culture of encounter. Let us believe once again in love, moderation and good politics."
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
What Mr. Restall means is that the great explorer is still at the center of a swarm of unresolved polemics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026
Apart from fierce polemics, the election has generated widespread confusion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
One of the more recent and ballyhooed polemics against Roosevelt was "The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression," a 2007 bestseller by Amity Shlaes.
From Salon ● Nov. 4, 2023
As the delay suggests, polemics for the Noble Savage tended to meet with little sympathy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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