polemic
noun
a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
Example Sentences
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He has done so not only with “The Irishman,” now playing in theatres, but, more polemically, in a series of spoken and written texts.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 7, 2019
Stallybrass and White call Dryden “a crucial figure in the ‘cleansing’ process, polemically engaging in attempting to do for the theatre pit and boxes what the coffee-house was doing for the tavern.”
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2019
When she aims polemically at certain of the sciences, or at modern and postmodern thought, her narratives create their own black holes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2018
I offered the audience a choice: should I talk "lyrically" about my study of Renaissance art, or "polemically" about why I wrote it?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2010
Wiser heads than ours have discussed it polemically, politically, socially, and arithmetically; and there it is still, left to the judgment of each, as his religion, his party, or his prejudices sway him.
From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
