polemical
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Yet, despite this occasional datedness, “Love and Death in the American Novel” remains wonderfully alive, being iconoclastic, polemical, exhilarating and, not least, fun to read.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
As PJ, Culp gruffly embraces his role as the play’s polemical fire-starter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
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
In the Middle Ages it became a highly developed exercise in inference applied to the traditional dogmas of theology and science as premises, with mainly apologetic or polemical functions.
From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various
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