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

Polemics, such as this op-ed,certainly get one's blood up and I can't argue with the truths that the author has enumerated.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2018

Polemics made aggressive arguments in church or at court.

From BusinessWeek • Sep. 4, 2014

It is not his intention to make these productions the vehicles of Theology or Polemics; but studiously to avoid anything and everything that even approaches the sphere of clerical duty.

From Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by Carleton, William