polemic
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These charming scenes show that championing one’s identity need not always be polemic.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
Rather than slide into polemic or tragic melodrama, Nguyen leans into the tension between the four half-siblings to unpack the complicated roles that surveillance, big tech and journalism play in our fractured modern state.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025
This usefully allows the material to be less of a period piece — because, happily for Sister Helen, her polemic is somewhat dated.
From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2023
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
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
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