polemic

Example Sentences

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“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

The term Britpop was coined by journalist Stuart Maconie in a long polemic about the state of guitar music in the April 1993 issue of Select magazine.

From BBC • Jul. 15, 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

Part dogged investigation, part extended polemic, “Picasso the Foreigner” is organized around a provocative claim: Because of his immigrant background, Picasso was continually rejected and marginalized by the French establishment.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2023

I was heart-sick at the prospect that he might want to re-edit the entire book into a polemic against Elijah Muhammad.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey