| He is a deceptive film-maker, part polemicist, part aesthete. |
| He was a sharp-witted polemicist, but he used simple language, frequently making his point with references to the Old Testament. |
| The second point, also difficult to disprove, seems irrelevant to the job of polemicist. |
| Plamondon, a fierce polemicist, never shied away from using the press to promote his concepts about painting and to denigrate his rivals. |
| It was an immensely silly argument, and might be dismissed as the rantings of a second-rate polemicist. |
| He was the father of experimental science, the sharpest thinker of his time, a great debater and a dismissive polemicist. |
