How to Use polemic in a Sentence

polemic

noun

• Her book is a fierce polemic against the inequalities in our society.
• They managed to discuss the issues without resorting to polemics.
• But the movie does not work like a tract, or a polemic.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2022
• Take, for example, The Nation of Plants, a polemic in the guise of a plea.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2021
• But this was not a polemic or a couple of hours filled by dry lessons.
  — Rick Kogan, chicagotribune.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• The New York Times casts such polemics in a sinister light.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 24 Apr. 2020
• The cheap and easy way to write a polemic is to attack the very worst people on the other side of your argument.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 14 June 2021
• Gertner, a journalist for the New York Times, does not wax polemic.
  — David Holahan, USA TODAY, 11 June 2019
• Perhaps the thing that annoyed me about Dziebel's style is that the polemic is its shamelessness.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2012
• The usual art polemics of protests past will not work this time, on audience and target alike.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• All three of the winning books deal explicitly with race, one of them in a mode of bitter polemic.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
• No, that doesn’t make Carrie’s story feel dated or read like a polemic.
  — Carol Memmott, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2022
• The radical polemics of the panels must have seemed incendiary in the 1930s.
  — David Lyon, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• But in their polemics, these men are aligning themselves with the gerontocracy against the young.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 9 Aug. 2017
• But Gerwig’s screenplay is the farthest thing from a polemic against the oppressiveness of men.
  — John Matteson, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2020
• Not since Manet’s Olympia has the exposure of a woman’s body incited such polemic.
  — Norman Jean Roy, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2016
• But why make these points in a novel and not, say, a tract, journalistic report, or polemic?
  — Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 11 May 2018
• The writer-director Cristian Mungiu doesn’t pull any punches and yet, somehow, the movie is not a shrill polemic.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
• Yet there follows no Sorkin-style polemic; rather, the show’s sympathies emerge through a sheer richness of detail.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2021
• To some degree, Years and Years is another Davies polemic that is full of opinions about where the future is taking us.
  — Liz Shannon Miller, The Verge, 2 July 2019
• Pullman is too savvy to indulge in the kind of simplistic polemic that propels the celebrity of New Atheists like Richard Dawkins.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 30 Oct. 2017
• The goal isn’t to write polemics, but songs that will touch people and not immediately feel dated.
  — Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2020
• But amid today’s fierce polemics, even scholarly discussion of the term is fraught.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
• The bad news is that Shriver’s affinity for the polemic has infected her fiction.
  — Mark Athitakis, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2022
• This is not a story about women’s failures, or a polemic against their advancement.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2016
• Besides, polemics from both sides rarely address the complexities of the issue.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 3 Sep. 2017
• The exhibition unfolds as a polemic, with dozens of artists pitted against each other.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2022
• All of this makes Gun Island not just a disappointing story, but also a weak polemic.
  — Abhrajyoti Chakraborty, The New Republic, 8 Oct. 2019
• Without going on too much of a polemic about it, it must be said that on the beach in the summer of 2024 there is no excuse for you as a man to wear a swimsuit that sits anywhere close to your knee.
  — Charlie Hobbs, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Apr. 2024
• Nabokov is one of the most passionate advocates of this one-to-one school of translation and wrote many angry, disgusted polemics against anyone who used their judgment.
  — Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024