polemical
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Yet as Fennell has proven in a slew of interviews about the already polemical film, released Friday, the relationship between Brontë’s Gothic epic and its latest adaptation is more complicated than that.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2026
In any case Ms. Majok, herself Polish-born and a Pulitzer Prize winner for “Cost of Living,” is not a polemical writer, even if the play occasionally touches on the specifics of immigration policy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 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 fact, the city has now erected signs explaining the polemical history of the site, with information about its builder.
From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2023
But after this not unpromising introduction, Dewey falls into the polemical strain again.
From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas
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