What is "polemicist"

Usage examples of "polemicist".

Arguably, the satirical commentary of a noted polemicist should not be treated with the earnest indignation better reserved for the invasion of Poland.

I myself have always been wholly incapable of putting two words together coherently in front of strangers, and it is fortunate that you found your calling as a priest and a polemicist, for I am much more comfortable silently examining the dead than verbally cross-examining the living.

Party-oriented Marxist critics opposed him, but he was an excellent polemicist whom it was difficult to oppose, and the positions he adopted found their way into Party circles.

He used the mesmerizing rhythm of the righteous, the incantatory rhythm of the political polemicist, the Baptist minister, the rapturous televangelist.

But he was marvelously shrewd, a guesser of genius, a powerful polemicist and rhetorician.

Stefano was an intelligent man, not stubborn, simply single-minded in his work, which was, she now recalled, centered around Tertullian, the early Christian theologian and polemicist whose famous diktat he had just quoted.

Lacking the combative temperament of a true polemicist, he contented himself mainly with pointing out various crudities and absurdities in an amused and superior manner, employing an irony that often made his meaning obscure and was soon to have disastrous consequences for the journal.

For it would require us to consider Dostoevsky as just about the worst polemicist in all of literary history.

Some polemicists assert that humans are a biological plague on the planet Earth, a danger to the ecosystem, overpopulating and polluting the planet.

Their true counterparts are other polemicists, like Bill Press and Juan Williams.

And so the remains of one of the great polemicists of his or any other age were unceremoniously carted off by a rag-and-bone merchant and vanished for ever.

There is no evidence of that at all until the later anti-Richard polemicists got to work.

For one thing, even the more spirited remarks of conservatives tend to come from humorists and polemicists.

Richard, as he made his way through all these airports, toting his mail sack of Untitleds and his burden of biographies, wouldn't have minded trying the odd junk novel, but he was too busy reading all this crap about third-class poets and seventh-rate novelists and eleventh-eleven dramatistsbiographies of essayists, polemicists, editors, publishers.

Many poets make a living by writing assassination songs, and there is general agreement that the finest of these blood--praising versifiers is the precocious polemicist, Baal.