How To Use Polemics In A Sentence
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Of course, a healthy dose of petulance is is one of the hallmarks of polemics (to say nothing of talk show hosts), right?
"That's one of the things that really bugs me about religion."
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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Blogs range from offering recipes to requests for prayers, to moving spiritual reflections and writings about saints to polemics about political correctness in the pulpit.
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However, the reports of both bodies were swamped by partisan polemics in the ongoing battle between federal Labor Governments and their political opponents.
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All her polemics and essays are written with a disciplined, jargon-free clarity.
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Here's an update on some of the more attention-grabbing theatrical spoofs and polemics being presented in Seattle and beyond.
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It is not patriotism, that is to say undiluted concern for the nation as a whole, which leads some of the modern Egyptians to prefer an entirely native government to the Anglo-Egyptian administration now obtaining in that country: it is restlessness; and I am fortunately able to define it thus without the necessity of entering the arena of polemics by an opinion as to whether that restlessness is justified or not justified.
The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
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It engages historians, philosophers, scientists and the educated lay public alike in a discussion that self-consciously resists the temptation of polemics.
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The Abbe Gregoire, ex-bishop, ex-conventionary, ex-senator, had passed, in the royalist polemics, to the state of "Infamous Gregoire.
Les Miserables, Volume I, Fantine
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The most powerful performance poets blend personal experience with political rhetoric, creating polemics that often have a bitingly satirical edge.
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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The split between Menshevik and Bolshevik, the dispute over collectivization and industrialization, the polemics concerning Karl Kautsky and Georgi Plekhanov and Otto Bauer — all of these have come to appear as arcane as the strife over the Nicene and Athanasian Creeds.
The Old Man
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In political polemics, the mob, particularly the revolutionary mob, has often been characterised as anarchic, violent, out of control.
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Despite these polemics coming into play, the pair of us have managed to get along famously and have exchanged some very long-winded email arguments covering not just politics, but life in general.
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Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller (Wil - helm Münch, “Über den Begriff des Klassikers” in Zum deutschen Kultur - und Bildungsleben, Berlin [1912]), an extremely heterogeneous group of which Klopstock today would appear to belong to what is usually called sentimentalism; Lessing, in spite of his polemics against the practices of French tragedy, is a ration - alistic classicist who worshipped Aristotle; Wieland is rather a man of the Enlightenment whose art strikes us often as rococo; Herder would seem an irrationalistic preromantic.
CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
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Both albums have a lot of straight polemics, but both also contain a lot of character studies.
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In a mindfully maintained dialogical encounter, argumentation and polemics can become penetrating tools to playfully inquire into the possibilities and limitations of all views.
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Kozinski believes that "traditionalism" can become an ideology that makes one spiritually sick, "as one becomes more attached to the traditionalist movement, its narratives, personages, publications, polemics, criticisms, etc than to the Church as a whole - and to Christ Himself".
On "Gnostic Traditionalism"
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His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
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What I find kind of funny about your polemics is that your tribalism is misaligned.
Sound Politics: Darcy Burner Wants More Rights for Terrorists
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Both men like to engage audiences wider than the nearest senior common room; both have a pronounced impishness; and neither shirks from controversy Guha has described the polemics of Arundhati Roy as "ventures into social science … self-regarding and self-indulgent … and also self-contradictory".
In praise of … Ramachandra Guha | Editorial
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What distinguished certain polemics from the purely theological discussions of the period (Abelard, Peter Lombard, Peter the Chanter, Robert of Courson, Guido de Orchellis) was the occasional explicit acknowledgment of real anxiety over the potential death of the child.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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They're not interested in discussion, but polemics.
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Having said that, the problem with the Today show and with many media outlets is that they deal in polarized polemics rather than debate – as such the judgments become sweeping and widely influential.
I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother
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Newspapers found it cheaper and better for their circulation to indulge in polemics rather than in detailed reporting, and this sensationalized politics still further.
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J.J. Tayler's address of last month follows in the same path, -- all in favour of the "irenics," instead of polemics.
Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time
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Arguments to motivation or nature are a staple of polemics, not news.
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J.J. Tayler's address of last month follows in the same path, ” all in favour of the “irenics,” instead of polemics.
Lady Byron Vindicated
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Some defenders of religion enter into polemics with scientists and question their theories, for instance, by opposing the theory of evolution.
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Their authors have moved beyond polemics as they have moved beyond historicism and formalism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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One must learn to weed out incendiary polemics and agitprop from the whirling online maelstrom to become an informed and thoughtful citizen.
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Although I've been accused of trying to sway people with my screeds and polemics, that has never been the case, at least not consciously.
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Before long, the dispute degenerated into fierce polemics.
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As in heresiology, polemics sets itself the task of determining the intangible point of dogma, the fundamental and necessary principle that the adversary has neglected, ignored or transgressed; and it denounces this negligence as a moral failing; at the root of the error, it finds passion, desire, interest, a whole series of weaknesses and inadmissible attachments that establish it as culpable.
Punknews.org
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There is no doubt that this chronological telling, which is scrupulously accurate in its lengthy citations of Luther's writings, provides abundant grist for anti - Protestant polemics.
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Never one to shy away from polemics, Gould was often criticized by other scientists for his penchant for staking debates in rather extreme terms, and sometimes caricaturing his opponents' positions.
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This led to renewed polemics, although in practice the great majority of students continued to be taught the Catholic religion in the schools.
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These are contrasted with ideas that are merely ‘arbitrary, rationalistic, or willed’, based on extemporary polemics.
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Literature on the Palestinian diaspora has usually been wrought with fierce and involuted tensions which emerge from the politics and polemics of exile.
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As the rest of the world marched towards scientific orientation and professionalism, India wallowed in a whirlpool of politics, polemics and puerile prejudices.
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For all the woolly sort of anti-Americanism afoot within the Canadian liberal-left, it is also true, and not the tiniest bit pathetic, that to formulate a position on the Afghanistan question the Canadian left has in the main simply adopted holus-bolus the American counterculture polemics on Iraq, and changed some names.
Daimnation!: "Hats off to the Canadians"
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Similarly, when preparing the edition of 1846, while Disraeli cut the polemics from the Preface, he still left intact most of the notes, and even permitted Alroy to be reissued at the same time that he published the political
Introduction - Critical Apparatus
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But leader writers have to compete for attention nowadays with a horde of columnists and regular commentators who indulge in polemics which are, by their nature, less measured than editorials.
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Their authors have moved beyond polemics as they have moved beyond historicism and formalism.
The Times Literary Supplement
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By the 1690s, Spinoza's ideas could be found in all the bookshops, and even polemics against him served only to spread the intellectual contagion.
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But while the original essays were powerful provocations and polemics, the book itself is a disappointing and limited guide to current debates over the future of the university.
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The run-up to the 30th anniversary produced a rash of new revelations and bitter polemics.
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This reading is only reinforced when our Holy Father kisses the Koran and oecumenical "dialogue" avoids "polemics" in favor of highlighting truths held in common.
CONFIRMED
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Denominational conflict and polemics continued throughout the later nineteenth century and into the twentieth.
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If that's a polemic then I guess my films are polemics.
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He was a redoubtable debater with a caustic tongue in polemics and a nice touch in irony in writing.
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The Webkit team, as a rhizomatic offshoot from Apple, has a similar development pedigree and has consistently produced a high quality — now cross-platform — open source project, nary engaging in polemics or politics.
Google Chrome and the future of browsers | FactoryCity
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Sometimes I write over-the-top polemics or fantasies just for a giggle.
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And we'll discuss polemics and the recapturing of civility at the center of the country soon.
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Most Spiritualists were outspoken abolitionists and often engaged in fiery polemics against slavery at lectures and seances.
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Most Spiritualists were outspoken abolitionists and often engaged in fiery polemics against slavery at lectures and seances.
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I believe that the only way that we can survive in a multi-religious society is by promoting this sort of healthy discussion, free from polemics.
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To use “The Innocents Abroad” in polemics is thus a bit weird.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews
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Although I've been accused of trying to sway people with my screeds and polemics, that has never been the case, at least not consciously.
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The empirical argument over whether there is a culture war is often lost in polemics about which side one should take — assuming, of course, that there is a war.
Why the Culture War Is the Wrong War
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Howells would eventually worry about “so many dinners…so few books”20 in regard to his friend; but literature was not the point for Mark Twain now, and neither were escalloped oysters; the point was polemics, written fast and broadcast faster; and in this pursuit he excelled brilliantly.
Mark Twain
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I would think that there are products out there that wouldn't mind being affiliated with foul-mouthed polemics, but political candidates are hardly the likeliest ones, I'm afraid.
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‘Political polemics are not protected in Illinois,’ Finkin said.
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In its catechetical form, apologetic content, moralistic tone, and anti-ritual polemicism, the Buddhist Catechism suspiciously echoes nineteenth-century Protestant polemics against Roman Catholicism.
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A constant refrain of anti-war polemics is that Messrs. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. had no “plan” for Iraq.
So What Is the Democrats’ “Plan”?
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Controversy raged over every aspect of this policy, and polemics flew over such questions as whether French soldiers could honourably be punished for military offences in the German way by beating with the flat of a sword.
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For example, we still need to work to reclaim historically complex, difficult, and inevitably controversial philosophical and political questions from the polemics of the culture wars.
