Sentences with phrase «more polemic»

This scenario analysis by itself is just more polemic crap: if we go back to stone - age wealth and decimate the population we can do without any new renewables and solar electrical power.

He's a distinct minority in the field, and neither his scientist peers who dispute his findings nor the more polemic climate skeptics who find his research useful know what to make of him.

While their motives may be noble, however, the foraying of scientists into more polemic debate has served only to add to the confusion of how the «argument from authority» should be received in the public sphere.

The book is more a polemic than a balanced investigation of a hotly contested area; but for anyone considering these natural parenting practices, it is an eye - opening and worthy read.

the grace in your response is a great model for how my own should be, but often just end up being so much less and a lot more polemic.

That this fear of being subsumed by Christianity lingers among Jews today is not surprising given that until recently «dialogue» with Christians, the wielders of cultural and political power, usually involved more polemic and proselytizing than understanding and cooperation.

Not exact matches

So, what is my point?To read Paul's polemic, his rhetoric and generally his theology as an end in itself, rather than his attempt to bring others to an experience of the living God is to me, missing the point.It seems that much of the divisiveness between believers on this blog and a few others I visit is just that: I often read... Paul says this... hey, but Jesus says that... no, he wasn't saying that, he was saying this and so on and so on.Am I the only one bored with this «your Mother and my Mother were hanging out clothes» approach.I think we need a little more adverb, as in maybe....

I would say all sides come to the forefront, but I think that some of us see things from more than one side to begin with and that there are many «sides» (perspectives) that are out there, I don't think it is a polemic, and I don't think it is «sides» in terms of choosing sides in a war... more a dialogue where confrontations take place, but (hopefully) most of the time not with the intent of winners and losers (or, if that is the intent, that hopefully we realize that and adjust our own rhetoric to move away from that pardigm)

In the second half of the book, Volf turns from heady polemics to a more constructive effort.

A problem that needs more than just this polemic of modern (science) traditional and postmodern (Self sensitive).

I recently attended a event where a Mormon and a Baptist engaged in this kind of civil and respectful dialogue about their respective faiths and similar to your feelings I came away with the stronger conviction that we need more real dialogue and less the perpetuations of stereotypes and religious polemic.

But a little polemic goes a long way, and there is more than a little of it in his book.

It is a polemic against the many diverse views concerning Jesus and christianity that arose from study of the other gospels — of which there were far more than three at the time.

Third, quite apart from the polemic of Ineffabilis Deus, I must admit that, of the two infallibly promulgated Marian dogmas, the Immaculate Conception and the Bodily Assumption, the former is more problematic theologically, though I find no biblical or historical warrant for either.

But my view from the sidelines of illness made me more fully aware of the impressive history of the Catholic faith, and of its sources of grace and justice, which even our Reformation polemics can not obscure.

Perhaps we should read this turn to more abstracted religious language as a fulfillment or completion of the modern and sociological turn in anti-Protestant polemic initiated by Balmes.

They wanted to know how they could address this dismissal of their moral and religious convictions — with their son's friends, and with their own, grownup friends, whose cocktail party polemic was often far more aggressive than any sleepover dispute.

Such an effort would reveal more of the Torah's truth, something that would be better for Jews and for the world than skilled polemics.

This polemic against the American healthcare system benefited from a far more focused approach than his previous films, which covered so much ground they sometimes lost any sense of narrative or coherence.

The final five chapters, from Eden to Cameron — 150 pages — are more of a polemic, moving very quickly through the lives of Thatcher and Major.

He has written a memoir of his time in government and, more recently, a passionate polemic, How To Stop Brexit (And Make Britain Great Again).

There Will Be Blood confidently struck out for new territory and transformed itself into something truly unique, becoming much more of an unflinching character study than a righteous polemic.

Indiewire: «More than a powerful elegy, ’12 Years a Slave» is a mesmerizing triumph of art and polemics: McQueen turns a topic rendered distant by history into an experience that, short of living through the terrible era it depicts, makes you feel as if you've been there.»

As in Nixon, Stone offers up his take on this material as more of a character study than a polemic.

Since this article will touch upon some of the more troubling aspects of identity politics, it will undoubtedly cause some polemic debate.

While Meirelles» work may lend itself better to polemics, Boyle's more holistic portrayal engenders better understanding.

But where the film does finally get it right is in the second half, after Bloom has crossed one ethical line too many and the film becomes more of a procedural thriller than a polemic.

The problem with figurative art at the time was that it had run out of steam, but the polemic was that you couldn't do it any more, which seemed absurd after 4,000 years of people making representations of each other.

Compared to the focused polemics of Institutional Critique artists Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, or Fred Wilson, the spirit of Broodthaers» imaginary museum seems far more magical, its critique more elusive.

I AM AI DIPLOMAT: ALIEN PROTOCOLS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF THE MIND POLEMIC Noah Raford According to some, we are within a decade of the arrival of artificial general intelligence; machines so powerful that they can do anything a human being can, but faster, better, and more accurately.

A more unexpected rejection in 1999 came from artists — some of whom had previously worked with found objects — who founded the Stuckists group and issued a manifesto denouncing such work in favour of a return to painting with the statement «Ready - made art is a polemic of materialism».

And she has become more adept at varying the weight and tone of her work, so that it doesn't fall into easy polemic or parody.»

Novelists» polemics tend to be over the top (cf. LeCarre, Vidal, Mailer...); hardly seems worth rebutting reasoning that owes more to narrative structure than to standards of evidence or logic.

There is not the slightest surprise that certain political types want more of the kind of polemic that Donna produces.

Probably shorter for both of us if you look at the plentiful examples of unselfconscious polemics, propaganda, fallacy and demagoguery in the posts of A fan of * MORE * discourse, and see if they remind you of anything in Rud Istvan's replies.

But this article is nothing more than a straightforward polemic ridiculing those who accept what appears to me to be something of a consensus on climate change.

The main flaw of his approach is that reaching firm policy conclusions requires more than polemic arguments and anecdotal examples; Read the rest of this entry...

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