How to Use polemical in a Sentence

polemical

adjective

• Many of them have not mastered the polemical ease with which to speak and convince.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2022
• But a good deal of recent polemical art suggests a use-by date that is not far in the future.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• The songs that land on the slightly polemical side are the album’s most powerful.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
• The New Negro was a hero, a fetish, a polemical posture—and a blurry portrait of a flinching soul.
  — Tobi Haslett, The New Yorker, 11 May 2018
• Next month, Reed will publish a book that is, in the context of his polemical writing, unusual.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Neither the Apple nor the Gabriel plays are exhortative in any polemical way.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
• When Godard and his peers began to make their own films, the world was able to see their vibrant, impish, polemical ideas about film put into action.
  — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2022
• Within the heat of polemical exchange, there’s unfairness on both sides.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 20 Dec. 2017
• Blog posts are short, topical, and often polemical in a narrow way.
  — Robert Minto, New Republic, 7 Sep. 2017
• But his astute argument would have been better served by a less-polemical tone.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2021
• The tables are stacked, almost like a bookstore, with multiple copies of polemical works mostly aimed at the Clintons.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Feb. 2018
• The path his company chose, Boreing told me, is to avoid making polemical films.
  — Andy Meek, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• In fact, the city has now erected signs explaining the polemical history of the site, with information about its builder.
  — Nicholas Casey, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• The modern insanity defense has long been polemical, and the legal standards vary from state to state.
  — James C. McKinley Jr. and Jan Ransom, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
• The fact is, no great work of art can endure being drawn and quartered for a polemical purity ritual.
  — Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2021
• Positivism may not be possible in a pure form, but there's a spectrum between the objective and polemical.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2010
• In a polemical era, rationality can be a kind of opinion hygiene—a way of washing off misjudged views.
  — The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• Toyota embraces polemical design with the Avalon's tall four-door successor, the 2023 Crown.
  — Mark Takahashi, Car and Driver, 13 Dec. 2022
• The new document talks about gender and transgender people in a less polemical way than the church has done previously.
  — Eloise Blondiau, Vox, 12 June 2019
• But even in these books, handpicked by Dworkin for polemical purposes, there seems more going on than her narrow reading allows.
  — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Overtly polemical, it is meant as a musical riposte to the right-wing nationalism gripping Europe and other places around the world.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• Only Stettheimer, of the feminist artists of her time, would have spoken up so ferociously for the polemical importance of pink tulle.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Some described the weekly paper as too negative and polemical.
  — Kevin Draper, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• However, the themes found release in other forms, mostly polemical.
  — Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Her personal odyssey is more stirring than any polemical manifesto could be.
  — Ann Hulbert, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2017
• Ferguson’s eight chapters on the comparative study of disasters lack the polemical force of his briefer reflections on Covid-19.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 7 June 2021
• Certainly, the anti-liberals, or, in Harari’s case, post-humanists, have much the better of the rhetorical energy and polemical brio.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• Dreams From Our Founding Fathers is a revealing treatise, lively and polemical.
  — David Waldstreicher, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2023
• So says Aby Rosen, New York real estate developer and author of the new polemical chapter in the story of one of the country’s most hallowed dining establishments.
  — Gabe Ulla, Town & Country, 9 Aug. 2017
• Milestone, a Russian immigrant with a strong leftist streak, refused to soften the polemical edge of Remarque’s story.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2023

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