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Polemic meaning
A person who writes in support of one opinion, doctrine, or system, in opposition to another; one skilled in polemics; a controversialist; a disputant. | An argument or controversy. | A strong verbal or written attack on someone or something.
Synonyms of Polemic
Example sentences (20)
At worst it serves as a polemic of half-truth arguments from the victim-oppressor worldview ascendant in the politics of identity.
Q: But if you were not given any input that suggested that “as an AI language model, I cannot create a polemic arguing that government funding of literature creates inferior literature”, how could you fashion any response?
Their genius ensured that the polemic would never become a finger-wagging bore.
The polemic is basically a cri de coeur on his entire existence as an immigrant in America.
Such bills have a genocidal polemic yawning inside them, with a lack of empathy hidden in their entrails.
All the while, he fastidiously avoids polemic and invective.
But nor, like some of his pictures, is it a shrill Left-wing polemic.
Her stress on the laicism of La République, an effort to ground her polemic against Islam’s growing presence in mainstream French history, probably put off some Catholic voters.
In 1985 he published Amusing Ourselves to Death, a polemic that warned society was becoming trivialised by its addiction to electronic media.
It also functions as a polemic against those who would suggest that your life is missing something it needs to be complete.
Like “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the evening’s big winner with four awards (including for Rami Malek’s portrayal of Freddie Mercury), “Green Book” was pitched less as polemic or political statement than a family picture.
Like Ken Loach’s Kes, Clio Barnard’s Bradford-set tale, very loosely inspired by the Oscar Wilde story, combines lyricism with polemic.
Those familiar with his work will know that he is not a writer who produces lazy polemic or indulges in glib posturing.
With his pithy, polemic writing, he saw to it over the coming decades that the style wars were never far from the headlines.
An awkward mash-up of police procedural, buddy movie, action-comedy, blaxploitation nostalgia, and political polemic, it failed for me on all levels.
At Le Monde, Aurélien Delsaux, Sophie Divry, and Denis Michelis have written an outraged polemic against the contemporary conventions of the novel.
He said: “It’s easy to make a political statement that is angry or polemic.
The November election is just around the corner, a potent reminder that it will take much more than the occasional movie polemic to turn that around.
According to some biblical scholars, the findings at Nag Hammadi have shown Irenaeus' description of Gnosticism to be largely inaccurate and polemic in nature.
An English teacher introduced him to George Bernard Shaw which resulted in an interest in polemic.