Sentences with phrase «polemic over»

From Time Immemorial was first hailed as a book that could change the entire Arab - Jewish polemic over Palestine» (New Republic), and an exuberant chorus of America's leading intellectuals stepped forward to laud its merits.

Not exact matches

I am referring to abortion polemics, specifically to the political, judicial, academic, and popular debate over its legality.

«Writing the Left Behind novel series for him and traveling with him all over the country to promote it, I saw the softer side of a man known for strong opinions and polemic views,» stated Jenkins.

Jewish Polemics by Arthur Hertzberg Columbia University Press, 259 pages, $ 27.95 Jewish Polemics is a collection of essays written over the past ten years or so by the well - known American rabbi, professor, and communal leader Arthur Hertzberg.

American missionary Jay Smith, who has worked among Muslims in the UK for over 30 years (head to Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park on a Sunday afternoon and you'll probably find him) says many of the Muslim societies in UK universities send their keenest off to spend a week, usually in a local mosque, learning how to engage in polemic with Christians.

Jewish Polemics is a collection of essays written over the past ten years or so by the well - known American rabbi, professor, and communal leader Arthur Hertzberg.

Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. devoted his latest «What You Should Know» polemic to the mini dust - up over Gov. Andrew Cuomo's first Court of Appeals nominee, CUNY Law Prof. Jenny Rivera, which the Bronx Democrat sees as an effort by the governor to further divide the already divided state Senate.

But the movie very quickly won me over when I realised that Peele is much smarter than that, and that it's possible to have a point of view without it being a polemic.

And we answer comments, we write posts in response to specific questions... Heck, we ask you all what you want help with, we don't assume you're angsting over some political polemic and needing encouraging to keep writing.

Which leaves — if one is assessing things generously — maybe 5 % of content that is in line with my original blogging intent; that is, it favors literary narrative over polemics.)

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.

Over the past few years on this website you may have read many dispatches, reports, polemics, and laments from the prefabricated halls of various UN climate change negotiations.

He complains that Channel 4 has «broadcast a series of polemics about the environment... over the last 20 years».

I've learned over the decades not to waste time with the pretentious polemics of either — especially those who have no solid grasp of the issues being raised.

Ten: CREA / Wayne has / have read REM on - line since its «his article appeared herein, but the truthful answers to the questions posed, if submitted herein on - line, would prove that CREA's / Wayne's claims within said article would be shown to amount to nothing more than a CREA - specific platitudinal polemic designed to further pull the wool over 85,000, more or less, pairs of industry related / dependant eyes across Canada.