How To Use controversialist In A Sentence
- A controversialist to the end, he remained politically active both nationally and regionally. Times, Sunday Times
- He will be admired as a plucky controversialist. Times, Sunday Times
- He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.
- But then, cavilling is contemptible, as all controversialists declare! Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
- A dandy, a wit, an inveterate controversialist, he conducted a series of campaigns against the public and critics in the form of pamphlets, annotated exhibition catalogues, and letters to the press.
- But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist.
- At the moment I drew near he was having a long and involved argument with another controversialist touching on the sense of the word tabernacle as employed Scripturally, one holding it to mean the fleshly tenement of the soul and the other an actual place of worship. Europe Revised
- He is not (contrary to his reputation in some quarters) a 'great hater', but he is a ferocious controversialist. Times, Sunday Times
- But he is also a feisty controversialist. The Times Literary Supplement
- John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counterculture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
