polemics
IPA: poʊɫˈɛmɪks
noun
- The art or practice of making arguments or controversies.
- The refutation of errors in theological doctrine.
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Examples of "polemics" in Sentences
- To use “The Innocents Abroad” in polemics is thus a bit weird.
- What I find kind of funny about your polemics is that your tribalism is misaligned.
- A constant refrain of anti-war polemics is that Messrs. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al. had no “plan” for Iraq.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
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