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
Ms. Serpell’s tone is ardent and sometimes spicily polemical, but at heart this is informed, accessible literary analysis that demonstrates that Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
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
“We’re trying to have a festival without this polemical aspect,” Frémaux said.
From New York Times • May 14, 2024
So much it is necessary to know to understand the minute knowledge of English affairs displayed in his polemical works.
From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Bastide, Charles
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