Wondering how to use Polemic in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as polemical or argument.
Polemic in a sentence
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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
Using Polemic
- The main meaning on this page is: 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.
- Useful related words include: polemical, argument, tilt, disceptation.
- In the example corpus, polemic often appears in combinations such as: polemic against, as polemic, polemic and.
Context around Polemic
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 8 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Polemic
- In this selection, "polemic" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, genocidal, avoids, wing, arguing, yawning and writing stand out and add context to how "polemic" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a genocidal polemic yawning inside and an outraged polemic against the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "polemic" sits close to words such as abated, aberrations and activations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with polemic
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
All the while, he fastidiously avoids polemic and invective. (9 words)
Their genius ensured that the polemic would never become a finger-wagging bore. (13 words)
But nor, like some of his pictures, is it a shrill Left-wing polemic. (14 words)
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? (37 words)
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. (34 words)
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. (29 words)
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? (37 words)
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.
Common combinations with polemic
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- polemic against 7×
- as polemic 5×
- polemic and 3×
- polemic or 3×
- in polemic 3×
- polemic arguing 2×
- the polemic 2×
- polemic is 2×
- and polemic 2×
- his polemic 2×