Sentences with phrase «polemicist percy»

And even before taking to task Australia's own thousands of Pachauri - like gummint - dole - dependent pretend «scientists» of the Quod Erat Demonstrandum School of Socialist - International - supporting arrangers of the appearance of «evidence» to support their masters» tyrannies — and starting with the infantile temper - tantrum - tossing Jim - Jones - like pretender to what presently passes for Australia's «prime ministership,» the mass hysteria posing as a godless religion's every cult leader, sleeper agent and / or lock - stepping Goebbelsesque propagandist / pamphleteer, polemicist, promulgator and pretender to to the trade of «pressman» pusher aught be charged, arrested and tried for treason.

He is in extremely exalted company as a polemicist, as you can see from the link and the term is by no means derogatory.

> I was inspired to write this piece by Currently Fashionable Polemicist, who summarised the Issue better than I could when they said «oversimplification that makes me feel smart».

Mark Steyn is a prominent conservative polemicist and writer in the United States and Canada who has chosen option two.

Steven, It is only scholarship if one is citing a scholar rather than a polemicist.

That is a tricky argument when dealing with a polemicist such as jim2.

«Mark Steyn is a Canadian polemicist...» Sounds like a dying heritage industry - «Romanian folk dancer» or some such...

He is a top notch polemicist, humorist and debater.

Rosenberg lacked an eye for art, but was a gifted polemicist whose phrase, «action painting,» popularized the art of his generation.

Patrick Heron CBE (30 January 1920 — 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall.

Reinhardt influenced the course of painting more through his activities as a polemicist than as a painter.

Even though Clem wrote monumentally important criticism, by the 1970s he had become a polemicist.

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Russian: Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, listen (help · info); November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 — December 30, 1941), known as El Lissitzky (Russian: Эль Лиси́цкий, Yiddish: על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect.

The movement's central figure was the English painter, writer and polemicist Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882 - 1957), while the name - referring to the emotional vortex which was considered to be the necessary source of artistic creation - was coined by the American poet Ezra Pound.

No feminist herself, Frankenthaler was often defined by her romantic relationship with formalism's ruthless arbiter, Clement Greenberg, and her later marriage to the painter Robert Motherwell, another polemicist of high modernism.

(He was also a stellar polemicist.)

El Lissitzky was a Russian artist and polemicist who helped the development of avant - garde and suprematism with his mentor Kazimir Malevich.

El Lissitzky was a Russian avant - garde artist and polemicist who utilized art in order to initiate various social and political changes.

She enjoys the credibility of the sober analyst while employing all the tools of the polemicist.

Taking up the same baseless, tired, and nostalgic arguments used by Charles Murray (and citing that tired polemicist's overly long claptrap, Real Education) Gardner declares that the focus on college is ridiculous because some kids in his mind aren't «college material» and that many jobs don't require higher education.

In education, an under - appreciated but powerful example of the impact of ideas can be found in the influence of Ayn Rand, a Russian - American novelist and polemicist who died in 1982.

Ravitch, who has long been an effective polemicist, must have felt increasingly irrelevant and ignored over the last decade, as rigorous quantitative analyses, which she is not capable of producing or even understanding very well, increasingly displaced clever rhetoric as the primary mechanism for influencing education policy.

-- Shohei Imamura The instigator of what came to be called the Japanese New Wave, Nagisa Oshima was, and continues to be, a polemicist, a provocateur, and — like Godard, a major influence — a film critic in disguise.

As energetically played by Diehl, Marx is a whip - smart firebrand whose passion and energy are palpable, an arrogant polemicist who doesn't care who knows it.

Sauper is no polemicist, and his close observation and eye for challenging juxtaposition provides more than enough impetus for engagement.

Chomsky is also a polemicist, spawning both steadfast disciples and implacable enemies.

In an interview with US polemicist Michael Moore, Benn talks about the lessons learned in World War Two.

In 1844, the Spanish priest, philosopher, and polemicist Jaime Balmes published the third and final volume of his massive Protestantism and Catholicism Compared, With Respect to European Civilization.

She is also a powerful polemicist: an acerbic social critic who pulls no punches in her articles in Commentary and the Wall Street Journal and her 1992 book If I Am Not for Myself: The Liberal Betrayal of the Jews.

Eire rejects a long and shrill tradition of hostile Catholic historiography that blamed Luther for unleashing not only religious but also moral and political chaos on the German nation, but Doctor Martin does not emerge well from this unblinking account of Luther the polemicist.

The Politico story was more like something you would expect from a polemicist - gone - wrong, like Dinesh D'Souza writing about Barack Obama, than the work of a normal news agency.

Bloom's book (subtitled How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students) is an attention - grabber, mainly because the author, who now teaches philosophy and political science at the University of Chicago, is a polemicist with an obvious scorn for understatement.

For such as me, Kierkegaard the humorist — or novelist, or aphorist, or ironist — possesses an unquestioned eminence, whereas Kierkegaard the philosopher — or theologian, or pietist, or polemicist — cuts a far more equivocal figure.

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

Take the Scottish polemicist Thomas Carlyle.

They were told by a source close to the Paul campaign that the author was likely longtime Paul - friend and combative polemicist Lew Rockwell.

I agree that polemicists in the culture wars are often as careless with historical facts and epidemiological data about children as they are with facts generally.

However, I am convinced that the polemicists in both camps — the «strict separationists» and the «religious right» — read the signs of the times incorrectly.

Catholic polemicists implied that there was excessive womanizing in Protestant Wittenberg and that Luther was drinking and jesting to the moment of his death.

Educators have those that learn from them, otherwise the are just rhetoricians and polemicists.

Although the polemicists garnered most of the attention during the fundamentalist — modernist controversies of the 1920s, cooler heads for the most part prevailed, keeping most of the denominations intact.

Yet, if I understand your views regarding the modern state of Israel and its current conflict with its neighbors correctly, I do have some real concerns — particularly in light of the current political climate (the U.N. vote on Palestinian statehood) as well as a growing trend among certain Christian polemicists against Israel (see Gary Burge and Stephen Sizer).

Yet the polemicists of the right have been having a field day.

They drew on the same sources, repeating what they had learned from earlier polemicists such as the Venerable Bede.

When Carter writes about responses to the Depression, he makes less of both FDR's creative innovations and his dastardly deviations than the polemicists of that era did.

It is here that the profound issues at stake, which are more difficult to specify than knee - jerk polemicists on either side often assume, come most clearly into view.

For someone such as your editor, who can claim more than his fair share of conservative and libertarian bona fides, Malkin's screeds read more like something written by the notoriously solipsistic traditionalist Susan Ohanian (and worse, one of Kennedy assassination conspiracy - theorist Mark Lane's execrable books) than something written by one of the conservative movement's leading polemicists.

«The hell with them all» wrote Hesse in response to the bruising critiques offered by the two opposing polemicists.

As a conceptualist, she out - transgressed most art polemicists and feminists, both of her and subsequent generations.