| But they are all in agreement that he is not a simple controversialist just for the sake of it. |
| But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist. |
| As a belligerent controversialist himself, Pagels suggests, Athanasius liked its belligerently controversial qualities. |
| He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming. |
| He was a compulsive controversialist, attacking the Ranters, the state Church, the law, and prejudice against women preachers in innumerable epistles and pamphlets. |
| All his powers as an orator, a controversialist, an educator were directed to this object. |
