Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
It is better to discuss things, to argue and engage in polemics than make perfidious plans of mutual destruction.
When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Even a polemic has some justification if one considers that my own first poetic experiments began during a dictatorship and mark the origin of the Hermetic movement.
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.
The two main ideas that run through all of my writing, whether it be literary criticism or political polemic are these: I am strong in favor of liberty and I hate fraud.
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors
I wasn't trying to write a corrective novel - that would just end up tasting like medicine, and I tried to stay away from polemics as best I could. I think that, if anything, Fobbit is my way of showing readers there's another side to war - the backstage of combat, if you will. If you play a word association game with Americans and say "war," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Soldiers running across a battlefield through a hail of bullets, right? Rambo, smoke, explosions. In Fobbit, I hope readers will see something a little different
Every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
The camera can photograph thought.
History is but the polemics of the victor.
I think the problem with polemics is that it's general and it's lazy. When you say, "This is bad," that's a general thing. We're more interested in asking the question.
Leading the Jewish people is not easy -- we are a divided, obstinate, highly individualistic people who have cultivated faith, sharp wittedness and polemics to a very high level.
This book is not a polemic treatise but a powerful, well-researched account that sensitizes any reader to the ways in which in-difference permits brutality and genocide.
No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture; but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics; it grows less and less so.
You can't please everyone, especially if you're doing very radical things at the vanguard of cooking. That's life; it's a polemic I've lived with since I started cooking.
Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.
There's always a polemic in my clothes.
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