Sentences with phrase «polemical position»

But one polemical position has kept recurring over the past 18 years: a fierce antagonism towards environmentalism.

The film doesn't assume a polemical position regarding the death penalty — either for or against — though in the context of Singaporean authoritarianism it probably would have been banned, with writer - director Boo Junfeng imprisoned, had it taken an explicitly abolitionist stance.

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If God gave up his Godhead, considering it as something not to be grasped, but humbled himself and emptied himself and became a man, why are we so unwilling to give up our rights, our privileged positions, our thrones of intellectual certainty and polemical assertiveness?

4 Films like John Akomfrah's Handsworth Songs (Black Audio Film Collective, 1986) and Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien's The Passion of Remembrance (Sankofa Film and Video Collective, 1986) positioned themselves at «the center of polemical debates in the mainstream and Black popular press that often do little more than bespeak critical assumptions about which filmic strategies are «appropriate» for Blacks.»

«Electric Ladyland» also befits Van Kerckhoven's background as a trained graphic artist who since 1981 has been both an active member of Antwerp's experimental - music scene and someone who has long embraced an array of visual languages in the studio to explore various polemical, philosophical positions.