Polemical

Edward Watts argues in a polemical tome “The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome” that there was no one decline and fall, but a sequence of such historical declivities.

Mixed race, unconventional, even for punk – she dressed in a mixture of frumpy second-hand clothes and lurid plastic accessories and wore braces on her teeth – Styrene represented the apex of how free and polemical punk could be, even about punk itself.

What is out of bounds is misusing and ultimately diluting a critical term of international human rights law to make a polemical point.

It’s a debate that has been especially polemical in the affluent City of Bayside, where the council has twice abandoned heritage studies over the past 20 years following an outcry from locals.

They were also very polemical against various movements for cultural and moral elevation of the people, such as Prohibition and the battle for public education.

Mr. Gioni said that it was one of Mr. Haacke’s most polemical assaults on the establishment that first set the New Museum on the road to his survey.

Is it just a polemical statement?

Although it seems that much of The Elements of Law was composed before the sitting of the Short Parliament, there are polemical pieces of the work that clearly mark the influences of the rising political crisis.

An apologetic response to polemical attacks.

A polemical, iconoclastic book by a former colleague of Popper's.

Architectural theory Loos authored several polemical works.

As a medieval Christian author William could hardly avoid hostility towards the kingdom's Muslim neighbours, but as an educated man who lived among Muslims in the east, he was rarely polemical or completely dismissive of Islam.

But behind the plot, there is hidden a robust sarcastic and polemical motivation.

Gerald was a man of strong opinions whose works are frequently polemical, including bitter attacks on his enemies, but he also had an intense curiosity, recording much valuable detail of everyday life in his ethnographic works.

He defends the trinitarian view of God and, in a strong polemical stand against the Catholic Church, argues that images of God lead to idolatry.

His most polemical and ferocious attacks on intolerance and religious persecutions indeed began to appear a few years later.

In 1983 Kaj Skagen published a polemical-philosophical treatise titled Bazarovs barn ("Bazarov's Children", alluding to the Russian fictional nihilist Eugene Bazarov ), which reconciled the role of authors who had been on the periphery in the 70s.

Kierkegaard's pamphlets and polemical books, including The Moment, criticized several aspects of church formalities and politics.

Letters were a way to practice critical reading, self-expressive writing, polemical writing and also exchange ideas with like-minded others.

More important than this polemical activity was Beza's statement of his own confession.