polemic
noun
a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.
Example Sentences
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An exploration of the nature of success, creativity, and community, Swing Time is resolutely unpolemical.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2016
Something he admits is frankly corny: Nature offers us joy, wonder, the chance to feel the electrostatic charge of being alive — “it still holds its magnetism for countless unpolemical minds.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2016
Americans are described, in a refreshingly unpolemical way, as eager for trade and "sick and tired of the cold war."
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike most political art of the time, it looks unpolemical at first, and that is the source of its power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not such wasPg 21 Arnold's method; he himself described it, most happily, as "sinuous, easy, unpolemical."
From Matthew Arnold by George William Erskine Russell
