polemic

1 The New Museum show is essentially a manifesto, of course, but what saves it from becoming pure polemic is that Mr. Koolhaas is a first-rate architect as well as an original thinker.

2 In a 2012 polemic, “Lying It All Away,” Le Guin writes scathingly of “growth capitalism” returning to its origins and “providing security for none but the strongest profiteers.”

3 But those people also seemed OK with a film that was not overly polemic. 

4 His unwearying polemic against the established Church.

5 In adult company, you might find yourself debating whether the film is a Christopher Hitchens-style atheist polemic or a more pragmatic, William Jamesian exploration of the varieties of religious experience.

6 He frames issues within emotions; when Glen and Russell discuss sexual politics, it feels like an illumination of their lives, rather than a polemic.

7 I was heart-sick at the prospect that he might want to re-edit the entire book into a polemic against Elijah Muhammad.

8 That gambit – of confounding expectations – plays far better on The Last to Die, a Bruce Springsteen cover that brings a poignant Pet Shop glide to an anti-war polemic.

9 Over the past few years she made a conscious decision to back some polemics.

10 Hong says she feels torn between the lyric, which recognizes ambiguity and contradiction, and the polemic, a more urgent yet constricted form.

11 I’m famous for making polemic statements just to see what reaction they get.

12 “What he does — what we hoped to do — is present the complexity of it all. Present the complexity and avoid the polemic.”

13 An essay or work of polemic finds it hard to describe the texture of such fluctuation, whereas the novelist understands that to tell a story is to novelise an idea, to dramatise it.

14 But some close to Mr. Rushdie expressed reluctance to immediately use the attack as fodder for highly-politicized polemics on free speech.

15 He’s not softening his views, or renouncing the right-wing polemics he’s edited over the decades, some of which continue to kick up controversy.

16 In "The Argonauts," poet, critic and essayist Maggie Nelson addresses and dismantles this question from a deeply personal angle, weaving a loose yet intricate tapestry of memoir, art criticism and gentle polemic.

17 Mies van der Rohe, with his dictum "less is more," and Adolf Loos, who wrote a 1908 polemic equating ornament with crime and degeneracy, have nothing on the minimalists in today's Silicon Valley.

18 It's generic angry-girl rock – not riot grrrl, because it doesn't have a polemic to back it up, just a series of signifiers to connote being born to be riled.

19 I gave him a very polemic view of why we should stay and no insight really into why some people wanted to leave.

20 Not because he had taken my column as a minor prop for his polemic, but because – whether by accident or design – he twisted my words so absurdly.

1 辩论

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6 辩论法

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