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• Eschewing liberal bourgeois notions of politics as compromise exposes this agonic or polemical quality of the political.2009, Christopher C. Robinson, “Theorizing as a Lived Experience: A Wittgensteinian Investigation”, in Wittgenstein and Political Theory…. From the entry agonic
• In Tarabai’s text this exposure is direct, unusually blunt, full of bite and ridicule, and highly polemical.1998, Vidyut Bhagwat, “Pandita Ramabai’s Strī-Dharma Nīti and Tarabai Shinde’s Strī-Puruṣ Tulanā: The Inner Unity of the Texts”, in Anne…. From the entry bite
• Now, in the post-Reformation polemical situation, Beza tended to rigidify and scholasticize many of Calvin's positions.1992, Donald K. McKim, Major themes in the Reformed tradition - Volume 1991, page 58. From the entry scholasticize
• And I’ve been in polemical firefights with antisemites and actual misogynists, not people who are accused of being that way.2025 October 9, Ross Douthat, quoting Doug Wilson, “He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.”, in The…. From the entry firefight
• Readers of seventeenth-century Polish texts— from baroque poetry through polemical pamphlets to forensic prose—are used to deciphering Polish-Latin macaronicisms.2013, David A. Frick, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors. From the entry macaronicism
• In the print firestorm that followed the publication of the royal couple's letters, the generalissima was one polemical touchstone.2012, Ann Baynes Coiro, Thomas Fulton, Rethinking Historicism from Shakespeare to Milton, page 243. From the entry touchstone
• Official approval of a certain line of thought could and did produce a party-spirit which was narrow and polemical.1975, Frederick Copleston, “Thomism in France”, in A History of Philosophy (Bellarmine series; 20), volume IX (Maine de Biran to Sartre)…. From the entry party spirit
• The essay's tone – knowing, insiderish, never polemical, and constantly shifting between mockery and studied neutrality – probably accounts for some of its warm reception.2013 January 27, Andy Beckett, “A user's guide to art-speak”, in The Guardian, retrieved 07 Dec 2020. From the entry insiderish
• Some of them are polemical, our reviewer, Joel Brouwer, said, but “Reed’s best poems conjure up a vertiginous, multiplicious, irresolvable and thrilling world.”2007 October 21, Elsa Dixler, “Paperback Row”, in New York Times. From the entry multiplicious
• The tape of the Qaeda leader, creepily invoking polemical filmmaker Michael Moore, was played in the war room at Kerry headquarters in Washington.2004, Evan Thomas, Eleanor Clift, Jonathan Darman, Kevin Peraino, Peter Goldman, Election 2004: How Bush Won and What You Can Expect in…. From the entry Qaeda
• I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media.2002, Jim Nollman, The Beluga Café: My Strange Adventure With Art, Music, and Whales. From the entry Greenpeace

Meaning of polemical

1. adjective Being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.
2. adjective Prone to causing disputes; inclined to causing the expression of opposing opinions, disputatious, contentious, edgy.
3. noun A diatribe or polemic.

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How do you use polemical in a sentence?

Polemical is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Eschewing liberal bourgeois notions of politics as compromise exposes this agonic or polemical quality of the political.”

What is a short sentence with polemical?

“Now, in the post-Reformation polemical situation, Beza tended to rigidify and scholasticize many of Calvin's positions.”

What does polemical mean?

Polemical means being an attempt to evaluate the arguments comprehensively.