What is "controversial"

Usage examples of "controversial".

On certain controversial points, such as the cause for enforced retirement of Suetonius, the origin of Antinous, whether slave or free, the active participation of Hadrian in the Palestinian war, the dates of apotheosis of Sabina and of interment of Aelius Caesar in the Castel Sant Angelo, it has been necessary to choose between hypotheses of historians, but the effort has been to make that choice only with good reason.

Nevertheless, it was never the existence of atheists, any more than Arabs or Aristotelian pagans, that disturbed the extraordinary controversial composure of Thomas Aquinas.

A little later the heresy of the Bogomils gave an impulse to controversial writing.

The Clockmaker, though he had few interests other than antique timepieces, knew that this pope was a rather controversial figure.

Always controversial, cockfighting was outlawed in Great Britain and Canada.

Huge forces of American and Soviet military ships have maneuvered back and forth between the Seychelle Islands to the east and the Maldives to the north, with the controversial Islas Piedras as a pivot point.

I well remember the night the Governor told me he was going to announce his controversial demand that the federal government remove all Muscleman missile silos from Idaho and that the state be declared a nuclear-free zone.

Trill continued to be committed to a controversial policy of nondisclosure when it came to the symbionts, but Torias and Nilani had dutifully complied.

One of the most controversial questions confronting New World paleoanthropology is determining the time at which humans entered North America.

Though their vehicle of transcendence may be controversial, we must take into account this longing for relatedness, the capacity for the feeling of oneness, the evolution of the human mind to the point where it comprehends and feels and accepts that human beings, because they are related to one another, have claims on one another.

To avoid political confrontation, Hume adopted the common literary technique of presenting controversial arguments in dialog form.

Warren Beasley, the controversial radio personality, was probably the last person to talk to the popular young television executive.

Both his mushrooming media entourage and his dwindling number of opponents have pounced on anything even vaguely controversial or potentially damaging in his speeches, press conferences, position papers, or even idle comments.

However, in spite of frequent counseling with explanation of the reasons for the conservative policy on an AF base newspaper, Airman Thompson has consistently written controversial material and leans so strongly to critical editorializing that it was necessary to require that all his writing be thoroughly edited before release.

The book was extremely popular when it came out because its realism made it incredibly effective--but it was also extremely controversial as all sorts of fatheads inveighed against it because it didn use proper English.