polemical
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Ms. Serpell’s tone is ardent and sometimes spicily polemical, but at heart this is informed, accessible literary analysis that demonstrates that Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
“Demascus” isn’t parochial or polemical; the emotional beats are accessible to any moderately sensitive human.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
It wasn’t his now-ubiquitous polemical flourish, or even what that implied about his approach to governing.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
At the same time, groups that feel like they’re under attack will look for their own messengers to deliver polemical responses which reject every criticism and assign blame somewhere else; this is what “stanning” is.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2024
Solon’s iambics so far preserve the old associations of the metre that they represent the polemical or controversial side of his political poetry.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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