Sentences with word «controversialist»

In this respect, Shakespeare's plays may be termed, as Catholic controversialists in his age spoke of the Bible as interpreted by the Protestants, «a nose of wax.»

He is one of those doesn't - really - mean - it, pissed - at - the - debating - club, underinformed - and - overconfident controversialist bores.

This conclusion has been urged by controversialists on either side.

At the same time, a Toronto motions judge has reserved the decision on an anti-SLAPP motion filed by an Ottawa blogger, Robert Day, against controversialist Ezra Levant, who sued Day for online postings criticizing Levant's fundraising for Fort McMurray fire victims.

In a famous passage from Science and the Modern World, Alfred North Whitehead gives this counsel to scholars in the various historical disciplines: «Do not chiefly direct your attention to those intellectual positions which [controversialists] feel it necessary explicitly to defend.»

The Bible, for example, has meant peace, comfort, illumination, moral power to multitudes, but because Whistler» the artist, was a bitter controversialist, writing and publishing scathing attacks on enemies and former friends, he came to the Bible with a jaundiced eye and found in it what he brought.

But Whistler, despite his admirable qualities, was a stormy controversialist, so that his verbal attacks on his critics were bitterly harsh and ill - tempered.

Benedict today broke his own rule by personally celebrating his first beatification in Birmingham, England, for the 19th century English theologian and controversialist Cardinal John Henry Newman.

This was the element in the kerygma which Jewish controversialists continued to repudiate down to the Dialogue of Justin Martyr, and which the Gnostics are already repudiating in the New Testament with their anathema lesous (1 Cor.

Nevertheless general surveys suggest that after Trent theologians began to lose interest in that part of St Thomas» doctrine which concerned the sacrifice of the Mass, partly because it was thought to offer little help against Protestant controversialists.

The three Jesuit priests at my table were angry, and what followed showed Whitehead a theological controversialist.

Faux left, no experience in local government, a permanent controversialist, and a gift to the Tories.

From the London School of Economics via a rock band and the BBC Today programme, Rod Liddle has risen to become one of Britain's premier controversialists.

As a professional controversialist, he knows the prejudices of his audience intimately and he plays up to them relentlessly.

The organisers tell us it is, «Not so much a «line - up of Lecturers» as a great sharing of new ideas from passionate advocates for change, outspoken controversialists and a dozen leading practitioners — the people making change happen on the ground now.»

Not by all controversialists, of course, but by those trenchant intellects which every controversy calls out into the open.

There's more than a hint of the controversialist in his work, and it seems an unlikely coincidence that Lovelock became convinced of the irreversibility of climate change in 2004, at the very point when the international consensus was coming round to the need for urgent action.

Yes, but not a controversialist.

They were Clarence Darrow, controversialist and defender of unpopular causes; Bainbridge Colby, an eminent corporation lawyer and, like Bryan, a former Secretary of State; and Dudley Field Malone, a leading Catholic layman and a fashionable barrister.

The brilliant seventeenth - century English poet and controversialist was a lifelong iconoclast, Hawkes argues, so prophetic of modern predicaments that he is virtually our contemporary.

Controversialists must be in despair.

A Trotskyist splinter group, the RCP published a controversialist journal titled Living Marxism (later LM Magazine), which frequently ran bitter attacks on environmentalism, describing it as a middle - class indulgence or a neo-colonial smoke - screen.

And while a point - by - point debunking of his climate change conspiracy theories has failed to silence this controversialist, one group of Australian comedians thinks they know why — it's all one big joke.

(This controversy resonates to the present day, as some controversialists attempt to resurrect Angstrom's argument as a rebuttal of the theory of anthropogenic warming.)

Whether or not Monbiot's loss of faith in the peak oil «doctrine» is justified, or just another controversialist / contrarian stance, will depend on your perspective.