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Much of that writing is polemical, aimed at either condemning the religion or explaining away the psychopathic practices of certain of its devotees.— Stromata Blog
The category confusion in the essay, its facile generalities - "The only specter haunting the groves of American academe seems to be suburban contentment." - and its willingness to overlook the importance of writers like David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison and Don DeLillo to this generation of college readers, makes the piece more emotive than polemical, the expression of a certain contentment with one's own cherished forms of radicality.— University Diaries
The Record's attack on Rafi and Malik in last week's issue was malicious, polemical, and vindictive.— Gawker
His "Contrasts: or a Parallel between the Architecture of the Fifteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" is fiercely polemical, and displays all the zeal of a fresh convert.— A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century

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