controversialist

• “a prank-calling controversialist, as well as a former”

  The Santa Barbara Independent stories

• “Thompson is a "controversialist", but he knows what he is doing.”

  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk

• “lateral/unconvential thinker' or even 'controversialist'.”

  Clipmarks | Live Clips

• “What the late, great controversialist would have said to Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and today's conservative talking heads.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Buckley, If Not God, Returns to Yale

• “The often amusing story of Lewis 'wartime radio broadcasts, which made him the world's best-known Christian controversialist.”

  Current Affairs

• “But I would like to backtrack, Terry, and say that I don't think I'm a controversialist.”

  NPR: Fresh Air Remembers Historian Tony Judt

• “He was a magnificent controversialist and pamphleteer.”

  The Guardian: Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman

• “The public world, where he spent much of his working life as writer and editor, thought of him as a controversialist, which he surely was (and a very skillful one at that).”

  Newsweek: A True Pastor

• “Or a paragraph on the internets tossed off by a professional controversialist?”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “The middle-aged Denis Dutton is best known as the founder of the Web site Arts & Letters Daily, but The Art Instinct is the first book into which he has committed his energies as a controversialist.”

  Why Art?

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