| It was an immensely silly argument, and might be dismissed as the rantings of a second-rate polemicist. |
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| He was a sharp-witted polemicist, but he used simple language, frequently making his point with references to the Old Testament. |
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| He proved to be a most effective polemicist, whose prose style could sway opinion towards his favoured causes. |
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| There's too much Serge the political thinker and polemicist and too little Serge the visionary artist of the political novel. |
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| He was the father of experimental science, the sharpest thinker of his time, a great debater and a dismissive polemicist. |
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| A passionate left-wing polemicist, he nonetheless retained more than a few traces of his public-school breeding, including a plummy accent and a horde of posh friends. |
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| He is a deceptive film-maker, part polemicist, part aesthete. |
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| Edward Goldsmith, who has died aged 80, was an influential environmental scholar, polemicist and campaigner who founded and edited the Ecologist. |
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| Plamondon, a fierce polemicist, never shied away from using the press to promote his concepts about painting and to denigrate his rivals. |
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| The second point, also difficult to disprove, seems irrelevant to the job of polemicist. |
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| A few weeks prior to our meeting, a gunman attempted to kill Lars Hedegaard, a well-known anti-Islam polemicist in Denmark. |
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| It's an opportune moment for her to retire as a polemicist and start a third act in public life. |
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| He is such a good polemicist that I have to comment on what he writes. |
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| Mallet-Stevens cannot stand up to Perret the builder, can not rival Le Corbusier, the theoretician and polemicist. |
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| These were the words, not of a polemicist, a left-wing or liberal politician eagerly running for office. |
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| But the taleteller had a more sinuous mind than the polemicist, and the sad effect of Gilmour's thesis is to make Kipling a less interesting figure than most careful readers now find him to be. |
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| He eventually became the Church of England perpetual curate of the parish of Haworth, and was also a poet, writer, and polemicist. |
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| As a satirical polemicist, he frequently made use of his works to criticize intolerance, religious dogma, and the French institutions of his day. |
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| This chapter enables the reader to see Casaubon the scholar and Hebraist alongside Casaubon the fiercely committed Protestant polemicist. |
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| Marx was primarily a propagandist, a polemicist, a gifted sloganizer. |
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| The best polemicist in the field today may well be Darrell Schweitzer. |
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