A prolific and polemical author unafraid to offend any and all comers, Abbey was a gadfly who reveled in the controversy he stirred. |
|
These official reports were certainly propaganda in that they were bitterly polemical. |
|
This theory, of course, has been a polemical subject among military strategists and students of international politics. |
|
While the novel is full of terse, vivid and polemical writing, the author neglects to create a fulfilling narrative. |
|
Certainly, ideological and polemical magazines have been very important, but they tend to be short term. |
|
Each was a long, highly literary, digressive, and polemical account of the failure of the colonists to make good their British patrimony. |
|
Much of the book is relentlessly polemical and was obviously written in a white heat in the aftermath of the revelations. |
|
The council could have communicated the polemical aspects of the Gospels and the facts of modern Scripture research. |
|
Your post has a touch of legitimacy to it, yet it also rings of polemical sarcasm. |
|
Though the text of 1946 has obvious political overtones, it is not yet openly polemical. |
|
Most conservative commentators are either unwilling even to credit the debate or approach it only in the most polemical fashion. |
|
Is radical political speech always to be conceived as forceful and polemical? |
|
Of course one should appreciate polemical writing when it is appropriate and well done. |
|
There have been long periods of peace and relatively harmonious coexistence as well as sharp polemical exchanges and bitter conflict. |
|
Let me unpack a bit, because I know this sounds polemical, since I am clearly stating a bottom line. |
|
But it is important to recognise at the outset that at least from time to time the book has a strongly polemical edge to it. |
|
Often, alternative perspectives are dismissed as nonscientific, polemical, or otherwise unworthy of attention. |
|
And so what if the films they produce are more street-smart, more professional, less nakedly polemical? |
|
Consequently, the students' writing is frequently polemical, abstract and coded. |
|
The missing link in Kay's polemical acknowledgment of the importance of geography in globalization, however, is what constitutes this importance. |
|
|
Any factional battles, such as they were, were carried on more in the polemical articles of the critics. |
|
On the contrary, the raw and prolix language of his novels is unabashedly unpoetic and polemical. |
|
There is no reason why good polemical writing cannot be considered expository in the literal meanings of both words. |
|
If there were any consensus on this, it would make both criticism and defense of neocon theology a lot easier and a lot less polemical. |
|
Good bloggers tend to be acerbic, prolific, polemical, and good in short spurts. |
|
This insistently polemical approach is most explicitly revealed in his method of sorting through the sample texts. |
|
Some of the writing may be a little polemical, but it covers a lot of ground with solid information. |
|
Turgenev had already given a polemical portrait of the peasant-loving Slavophile, Konstantin Aksakov. |
|
Yet this inclusive, winning style around the office always went hand-in-hand with strident, polemical writing. |
|
In less than 24 hours, however, Eritrea rejected the resolution with the usual polemical arguments and political rhetoric. |
|
The problems of aid effectiveness have been discussed for a long time, often in somewhat polemical terms. |
|
In Ontario, Canada, for instance, a vociferous and often polemical debate occurred about the use of Shari'a-based family law arbitration. |
|
That's why Natacha, a 20-year-old Rwandan, refuses to fall into the polemical trap. |
|
He oversaw the printing of devotional and polemical literature, some connected to projects for a guisard invasion to liberate Mary Queen of Scots. |
|
Then again, that's a polemical way of describing a work that is essentially digressive in nature, elusive in meaning and more entertaining than it has any right to be. |
|
These are powerful, polemical words with which it is very hard, in our present circumstances, to disagree. |
|
This would be the opposite of blind partisanship and polemical vitriol, but would still be a conflict, even a bitter one. |
|
I think Philip's words provide an almost laboratory-pure example of just such a polemical tendency. |
|
In the same way, that museum exhibition was a big polemical attack on PIM Fortuyn mislabeled as a study of the fall of Rome. |
|
Typically, the Manics are releasing their most personal and least polemical album as the world teeters on its most politically charged precipice for decades. |
|
|
When Potugin describes Gubarev as a Slavophile, we should realise that Turgenev, through his mouthpiece Potugin, is making a wounding polemical point. |
|
As statement that would be ok if it were an op-ed or a polemical essay. |
|
My figures go up when I speak of tragedy or use a strong polemical tone. |
|
The polemical evolutionists are right about the truth of evolution. |
|
His more polemical books, such as Black Mass and Straw Dogs, often posit a worldview bleak enough to make Beckett blanch. |
|
It is no more than a polemical trick to compare natural sunlight with a sunbed. |
|
He is between Mirbeau's polemical violence, the ribaldry of the Italian comedy and Elizabethan laughter. |
|
Even the international speculator George Soros was using such polemical terms. |
|
After nearly two millennia of polemical relations, a window was opened to allow dialogue to replace the disputations of the past. |
|
This is fine in the pages of a polemical novel, and an excellent thing for democracy in a parliament that often appears full of placemen. |
|
Anyone who maintains that part of its job would be to block mergers or halt globalisation, does so for purely polemical reasons. |
|
He also discusses the usually polemical motivations of patrons, such as Ketton's, the Cluniac Peter the Venerable. |
|
I shall not attempt to enter on the thorny thicket of Jacob Behmen's polemical and apologetical works. |
|
During the Spring David Burliuk gave two lectures on cubism and planned a polemical publication, which the Knave of Diamonds was to finance. |
|
Wolfe's style is elucidatory rather than polemical. |
|
The second reason for the traditional inculpation of Catherine is the work of the pamphleteers and the polemical nature of the historiography of the event. |
|
In these pieces, her unguardedness feels intimate rather than sloppy, and uncertainty of her position becomes a creative strength, rather than a polemical weakness. |
|
This authorization S does not apply to diffusing of information in polemical, pornographic, xenophobe matter or which can Internet sites, in a broader measurement to attack the sensitivity of greatest number. |
|
This authorization is valid for any site, except for those diffusing of information in matter polemical, pornographic, xenophobe or likely to attack the sensitivity of greatest number. |
|
Readers should forgive the book's polemical chapters and enjoy Donne's life, here retold in fine Waltonian fashion. |
|
|
This second moment is quite properly the one of openness to dialogue, discussion, exchange and even polemical cut and thrust, all key moments in the exposition and development of philosophical ideas and concepts. |
|
But there's a connection between his polemical and literary work. |
|
Secondly, discussion of this difficult subject has often been hampered by polemical distortions, in which each side has caricatured the position of the other for the purposes of argument. |
|
After several polemical years, it seems nowadays acknowledged that adjuvants do not have a significant influence on the development of fibrosarcomas. |
|
This problem has been the subject of sterile polemical debate and the pretext for blinkered ideological confrontations, but has never been addressed calmly and objectively. |
|
Golub and Spero worked in partnership all their lives, sometimes sharing a polemical platform, always working together, in later years in a big loft in Greenwich Village, New York, which they divided in two. |
|
Most of the general public do not think of government in polemical terms, but there are instinctive doubts about a party leader who does not like the party he leads but uses it as a vehicle for personal advancement. |
|
So if this presentation strikes you as being somewhat polemical, please keep in mind the reason for that, which is that I'm not taking this institution at face value. |
|
But defending our program also means figuring out its extension to new situations, testing it in active polemical engagement and exemplary intervention. |
|
However, this understanding was then used as a rationale for withdrawal from political and polemical combat with our reformist opponents around Mumia's case. |
|
His rhythmic treatment of the major theme groups in the exposition seems to have sufficed to make his polemical point, and he does not maintain a literally strict tempo throughout the whole movement. |
|
The less polemical MEPs felt that this hearing would be an opportunity to apply pressure through dialogue and criticism on the highest authorities in the country. |
|
When the Conference opened, some in the West, particularly the Neutral and non-Aligned States, feared it would quickly become polemical theatre and a dialogue of the deaf. |
|
We therefore find it all the more regrettable that these issues are obscured by a number of polemical assertions based on the questionable conclusions of what the report itself admits is inadequate research. |
|
What Gould called the 'deliberate distortion of the text' in his playing generally had the polemical intent of offering fresh hearing precisely where it was most difficult. |
|
I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media. |
|
The History of the English Church and People has a clear polemical and didactic purpose. |
|
Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction, and polemical journalism. |
|
What is known of Sabellius is drawn mostly from the polemical writings of his opponents. |
|
Luther was making a polemical point about the canonicity of these books. |
|
|
Most of Calvin's statements on the Jewry of his era were polemical. |
|
Candide was also burned and Voltaire jokingly claimed the actual author was a certain 'Demad' in a letter, where he reaffirmed the main polemical stances of the text. |
|
Accordingly, the UN was essentially converted into an inactive forum for exchanging polemical rhetoric, and the Soviets regarded it almost exclusively as a propaganda tribune. |
|
Philosophical disagreements erupted over the purpose of the publication when the Seven Years' War began and Johnson started to write polemical essays attacking the war. |
|
How to represent evil and torture bearably, enhance or put into perspective a lasting and frequently trite and polemical literary topic, without the culture of complaint? |
|
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the workers and merchants of Rouen established a tradition of polemical and satirical literature in a form of language called the parler purin. |
|