Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

Fine Dictionary

polemize

WordNet
  1. (v) polemize
    engage in a controversy "The two historians polemicized for years"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. polemize
    To engage in controversy; write polemically.
Quotations
Walter Benjamin
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Walter Benjamin
The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.
Dirk Bogarde
Usage in the news

Somehow Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" got set down in the public memory as a simple polemic, but it was a better film than that. ashingtonpost.com

As the presidential campaign has unfolded, the candidates have traded polemics about wealth, class warfare, taxes, dependency and the role of government. gpb.org

212-777-6028 Specializing in radical polemics, this bookstore is a fabulous place to make a like-minded friend or pick a political fight with a stranger. nymag.com

Over the years, the phrase "antiwar film" has come to represent heavy-handed polemics and battering-ram symbolism. nashvillescene.com

The British-American's polemical writings on religion, politics, war and other hot-button topics established him as a leading public intellectual. latimes.com

IF you think Canada is as misogynistic as Saudi Arabia, as corrupt as Nigeria or as murderous as Sudan, you will find this entertaining polemic a revelation. innipegfreepress.com

Reading this grab bag of Grace Paley's reports, vignettes, polemics, free associations and reminiscences, I started reminiscing myself, about a friend who died some years ago. nytimes.com

I feel obliged to respond to Max Perutz's angry and polemical review of my book The Private Science of Louis Pasteur . nybooks.com

Taking Sides In Polemics Over Plath . nytimes.com

Levant's oil polemic witty, but that doesn't make it right. innipegfreepress.com

Dana Milbank's description of the recent congressional hearing on single-payer health care was polemical . ashingtonpost.com

A Polemic Ripped From Today's Headlines. nytimes.com

No interest in polemics . racer.com

Taking Sides In Polemics Over Plath. nytimes.com

That's one of a few well-aimed bits of political satire that populate the Spanish-language romp Juan of the Dead, but worry not: They're used sparingly and none come heavy-handed — a Castro polemic, this isn't. okgazette.com

Usage in scientific papers

Pl¨ucker’s paper is a polemic against Steiner and his methods in favor of analytic geometry.
Sextactic points on a simple closed curve

Let us consider the typical and polemical case where a has a maximum at some t and begins and ends as a = 0.
The cosmological origin of time-asymmetry

Section 3 is our late contribution to a lively recent polemic about the outcome and the theory of the Wilson and Wilson experiment (-).
Eppur, si muove !

Krasnov et al ignored earlier experimental work by Refs.[1, 2, 3] and in undeclared polemics with Ref. claimed their I-V are free of heating because the sample area dependence of these I-V appears to be at odds with the model by .
Comment: In situ Measurement of Self-Heating in Intrinsic Tunneling Spectroscopy [PRL 94, 077003 (2005)]

Answering such questions is certainly more interesting than agitating useless polemics about an inexistent and irrelevant “disproving”.
"Disproof of Bell's Theorem" : more critics

Usage in literature

Polemic = disputo, polemiko. "English-Esperanto Dictionary" by John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

He had a fine capacity and fine scholarship: and was as adroit in polemics as Richelieu was in politics. "A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two" by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

There is nothing polemic in either. "French Art" by W. C. Brownell

Polemical handling of Metaphysics. "Practical Essays" by Alexander Bain

As I shall be in Paris before long I will ask him for it should your polemics seem to me to require a reply. "Boer Politics" by Yves Guyot

He was learned, if polemical knowledge could entitle him to that praise. "The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part E. From Charles I. to Cromwell" by David Hume

But, as a rule, these efforts were of the nature of a polemic against the dominant Church. "History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7)" by Adolph Harnack

His "Address to the Greeks" begins with a violent polemic against all Greek philosophers. "History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)" by Adolph Harnack

Primarily polemic and ex-parte, this work will hardly attract the attention of the investigator. "The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917" by Various

All this adds to the bulk of his polemical writings. "The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852" by Various

Usage in poetry
From doubtful questions of the "Press"
He wisely holds aloof;
In all polemics, more or less,
His argument is "proof."
But Zeus' inscrutable decree
Permits the will-to-disagree
To be pandemic,
Ordains that vaudeville shall preach
And every commencement speech
Be a polemic.
Here, landlords, here, polemics nail you,
Arm'd with all rubbish they can rake up;
Prices and Texts at once assail you —
From Daniel these, and those from Jacob.
Tell now, we taunt where black or white begins
and separate the flutes from violins:
the algebra of absolutes
explodes in a kaleidoscope of shapes
that jar, while each polemic jackanapes
joins his enemies' recruits.