Criticism too polemically stated. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
While Truffaut introduced the term polemically to support a new style of filmmaking, subsequent theorists have tended to ignore the context of his remarks. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Film] Reference
Truffaut used the term polemically to denigrate the then dominant mode of filmmaking that emphasized the adaptation of great works of literature to the screen. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Film] Reference
I may have put the first question a bit too polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
(This is partly the issue that Thomas Pfau takes up polemically.). From Wordnik.com. [Romanticism and Philosophy in an Historical Age: Introduction] Reference
Instead of answering apologetically, they unfortunately answer polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Lean Left » Blog Archive » Whiney Christians Sue for Right to be Dumb] Reference
A while back I polemically asked, "Are low-skilled Americans the master race?". From Wordnik.com. [EconLog: June 2006 Archives] Reference
On the other hand this fear is completely unfounded and polemically irrelevant. From Wordnik.com. [Liberal Economics vs. Catholic Truth] Reference
Global Christianity, Philip Jenkins makes this point dramatically and polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
Whatever their motivation, the Reports were all the more effective polemically for their seeming disinterestedness. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Kinsey's Revolution] Reference
He is chastened for writing polemically, for having a bias, for defending and arguing the merits of a personal ideal. From Wordnik.com. [2010 March 26 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
There was much grumbling at the time, on the grounds that Mr Mercer had been speaking empirically rather than polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
In the Fichte Studies he polemically asks whether Fichte has not “too arbitrarily packed everything into the I” (FS #5). From Wordnik.com. [Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg [Novalis]] Reference
It struck me while she was speaking that the contrast between Eisenhower and McCain could be very, very useful polemically for Obama. From Wordnik.com. [Another Big Tracking Poll Shows Obama Convention Bounce] Reference
To put it somewhat polemically: There are times when there is practical stability but never times when there is jurisprudential stability. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Pfau productively (and polemically, as it turns out) links his inquiry to modern, critical questions about the telos of aesthetic pleasure. From Wordnik.com. [Response to Thomas Pfau] Reference
As we have seen, when Mzala's article in Dawn didn't get a critical response, he responded polemically (as Alex Mashinini) to his own original intervention. From Wordnik.com. ['Blank pages in history should not be allowed'] Reference
These were terms that were not generally used by the tendencies to describe themselves, rather they were terms that were applied polemically against each other. From Wordnik.com. ['Blank pages in history should not be allowed'] Reference
(So West Britain, humorously or polemically for 'Ireland'.). From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He said that truth ceased to be such when polemically stated. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Harvest] Reference
Obama on Israel now reiterating polemically phrased questions. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
On this policy, he determined to treat the subject polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials and Other Papers — Complete] Reference
I am asking you seriously, not polemically, I just don't understand. From Wordnik.com. [Eurozine articles] Reference
I say this polemically, or in reply to the inquiry, Why not realize your world?. From Wordnik.com. [Essays — Second Series] Reference
All this, mythically, illustratively, and by no means doctrinally or polemically. From Wordnik.com. [The Professor at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
The Dems are sometimes polemically referred to as the 'the abortion party' or the 'party of death.'. From Wordnik.com. [Maverick Philosopher] Reference
There is the inconvenience of handling a matter polemically instead of in the spirit of the student. From Wordnik.com. [Amiel's Journal] Reference
Padding has become part of the culture, and lots of boulderers in recent years have been polemically anti-rope. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Rather, he allows for the possibility that they sometimes quote Scripture "ironically or polemically" as part of an. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
For someone who polemically criticized 12-tone music, Bernstein found his own way to fashion atonal elements to his own ends. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Why, for one thing, "she said, her tone sharpening polemically and taking a touch of triumph. From Wordnik.com. [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference
It polemically replaces Enlightenment with concepts like culture and literature that are equally modern (hence still part of. From Wordnik.com. [Afterword: Secularism, Cosmopolitanism, and Romanticism] Reference
"It was used polemically," Prof. Peary says. From Wordnik.com. [Let's Rate the Ranking Systems of Film Reviews] Reference
Updates, 9 / 19: "Stylistically and polemically Battle in Seattle. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
40,000 words, and if polemically I must teach him how to dispose of. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
Other than polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Daimnation!: Brits simply do not take Canada seriously, eh?] Reference
Was it polemically sent. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
"But ----" began Abner polemically. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Skylights] Reference
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