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Example sentences for: polemic

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Princeton English Professor Elaine Showalter's recent polemic, Hystories: Hysterical Epidemics and Modern Media , argues that such supposedly organic illnesses as Chronic Fatigue and Gulf War syndromes are simply psychological disorders.
What's bad about a well-done polemic is that everything fits neatly into place."
Mintz means to start an argument, to lay out a polemic, but what's nettlesome is not his answer but the question.
British playwright David Hare, criticized in the past for his "preachy politics," is said to have finally found "his way beyond polemic" (John Lahr, The New Yorker ). Hare's new play about a self-centered film critic, his wife, and his mother-in-law is hailed as a "coup de théâtre " (Matt Wolf, Variety ), both for its social critique (of the amorality of the news media) and for its sensitivity "about such personal matters as loss, grief and stoical survival" (Benedict Nightingale, the London Times ). Hare's enthusiasts declare it time for canonization.
Greider brings "the global economic beast to life in all its splendor and horror" (Matthew Miller, in the New York Times ). The passion of his polemic recalls Rousseau and Martin Luther (Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs ). But few are persuaded by Greider's conclusions.