| He was the father of experimental science, the sharpest thinker of his time, a great debater and a dismissive polemicist. |
| It was an immensely silly argument, and might be dismissed as the rantings of a second-rate polemicist. |
| He was a sharp-witted polemicist, but he used simple language, frequently making his point with references to the Old Testament. |
| He proved to be a most effective polemicist, whose prose style could sway opinion towards his favoured causes. |
| There's too much Serge the political thinker and polemicist and too little Serge the visionary artist of the political novel. |
| He is a deceptive film-maker, part polemicist, part aesthete. |
