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Six example sentences with polemic, each labelled with its topic.
The pamphlet was less an essay than a polemic, hammering the mayor's housing record for forty furious pages.
Politics
His late polemic tore into rival ethicists by name, and the journal printed three angry replies the following spring.
Philosophy
Her documentary is a polemic against fast fashion, and it never pretends to give the industry an even hearing.
Movies
Swift's essay is a polemic dressed as a modest proposal, and readers still argue about how much of the anger was real.
Literature
The book is a polemic against free trade, and its critics complained that it cited no data past 1975.
Economics
The critic's polemic against abstract painting ran for three pages and named every gallery that had shown it.
Art
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