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
Unmediated footage can be edited polemically, as in Frederick Wiseman’s films, but “Boone” seems resigned to sidelong glances, confident that merely observing farm life, including some spunky animals, is enough.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2017
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
There is the inconvenience of handling a matter polemically instead of in the spirit of the student.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
