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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

They served polemically an incidental purpose, but having no merit of idea or construction, they perished.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks