Supreme polemist perhaps, but a bit over the top sometimes.    From Wordnik.com.  ["As was the case with Chavez's tendentious present, Ortega's speech was intended as a slap."] Reference

John Milton, England's great 17th century religious poet and political polemist, Milton, the puritan of puritans, writing bawdy poems?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bawdy Milton Poem, Or 17th Century Fraud?] Reference

Another source of inspiration was the Muslim theologian and polemist Ibn Hazm, whose anti-Jewish polemic inspired Ibn Daud's Biblical exegesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abraham Ibn Daud] Reference

He was Jesuit and atheist as it suited the turn of any vituperative polemist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference

He was a literary theorist, an epic poet in prose, traveller, polemist, orator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Initiation into Literature] Reference

As a polemist Gagarin was thorough, and his work as a religious propagandist was of great importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

He was Marx-ian propagandist and polemist-in-chief, but not a revolutionary politician of the proletariat.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life]

Fléchier (1687-1710); the distinguished polemist Plantier (1855-75) whose pastoral letter (1873) called forth a protest from Bismarck; the preacher Besson (1875-88).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

He was already famous at court as a preacher and a polemist when the king gave him the title of Bishop of Condom, almost immediately inviting him to become preceptor to the dauphin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference

He that shall attempt to controvert their evidence, will have need of all the effrontery and invincibility to truth that ever stamped the forehead or hardened the heart of a polemist.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time] Reference

King of France under the name of Charles X; Spifame (1548-58) who became a Calvinist in 1559, and was afterwards accused of forgery and beheaded at Geneva in 1556; the polemist Sorbin de Ste-Foi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference

Nicephorus; Gregory Asbestus, former metropolitan of Syracuse and the consecrator of Photius; Eustratius, commentator on Aristotle and polemist under Alexius Comnenus; and Bessarion, afterwards cardinal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference

Besides, Maeterlinck is in no way a polemist; in almost all his works there breathes a sweet, sometimes melancholy soul, so that in poetic beauty he excels many writers whose conception of the world rests perhaps more on the concept of personality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nobel Prize in Literature 1911 - Presentation Speech] Reference

While in this new valuation he still retains the character of a disputatious, puritanical polemist, erratic in conduct, surly in manner, irascible in temper, biting in speech, it invests him with a shrinking reluctance to adopt any action however radical without the approval of the congregation or its accredited representatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

A very brilliant polemist, and who until his death at the age of 87.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

The officer at the British Consulate that attended to Odia Ofeimun, acclaimed poet, writer, journalist, political scientist, polemist and public intellectual, when he applied to renew his UK visitor’s visa must have been humourless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference