Sentences with phrase «writes polemics»

For whatever personal convictions that drives him to do so (not every CEO writes polemics about free - market capitalism in their spare time time) Mackey has elected himself the firebrand leader to inspire the next generation of leaders that must reverse the public perception of business.

We know that John of Damascus the great doctor of the Greek Church, was a Vizier (Minister) under the Umayyads, and that he and his pupil Theodorus Abucara wrote polemic treatises on Islam summarizing discussions between Christians and Muslims.

I also got somewhat upset when he rejected out of hand the idea that Moses was writing a polemic against the religions of his day.

In the previous episode, we really only saw that Moses was in fact writing a polemic against the gods of these other religions and cultures.

This well written polemic is the best starting point for anyone wanting to understand the threat to individual freedom in Britain today.

Critic Justin Chang says Schrader makes no attempt to conceal the fact that he's written a polemic.

Not exact matches

Wilcox has not written a religious or political polemic here but rather a scrupulously even - handed report, basing his conclusions on his statistical analysis of three large - scale national surveys of U.S. adults» social attitudes conducted from the late 1980s through the»90s.

Appropriately, Eslick writes: «It is likely the polemic against substance was originally motivated by Whitehead's reaction against mechanistic materialism, in which substances are inert, vacuous pieces of matter or stuff» (SCCW 504).

Those taken aback by such rhetoric must ask whether neo-orthodox Protestants, for example, write with the same polemics and hostility against liberals, Catholics, conservatives or secularists.

«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.

The rest of the scholars say that it is almost absolutely certain that the original author and audience knew of these accounts and was writing some sort of theological polemic against them.

Yet, after his all - stops - pulled polemic against America's misbegotten «crusade,» Bacevich ends up writing, «God forbid that the United States should fail, allowing the likes of Osama bin Laden and his henchmen to decide the future of the Islamic world.»

Writing the introduction to a collection of polemics titled Scientists Confront Creationism, Richard Lewontin attempted to explain why creationism is doomed by its very nature.

Today, we see what Moses was writing, which was a polemic against the religious beliefs and practices of his day.

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.

Anyone that writes «'' God has answered prayer»... Argghhhh... there is no such super power that does such things... Argggghhhh» is to have a discussion that is a polemic for atheism.

Apparently, the milieu of the writing of these texts involved apologetic and polemic discourses with rival religions that existed long before Islam.

As well as polemics Luther was writing his pastoral theology, his Fourteen Consolations for the very ill Elector, and a text on The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy and True Body of Christ, compared in its nature as a fellowship event with the degenerate «religious» fellowship of the craft brotherhoods.

On the other hand, Luther was quite unable to understand the authenticity of the quiet though often acid scholar dedicated to a policy of neutrality, of attempting as far as possible to stand outside polarising polemic — Erasmus came eventually to wonder whether it might have been better not to have written In Praise of Folly, because it had led to just such polarisation.

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.

However, I do object to bright people like Dawkins writing uncritical and abysmally researched polemic and then parading it as a respectable work.

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).

After the experimental political polemic Redacted and the gun - for - hire mess The Black Dahlia, Brian De Palma has returned to what should be his comfort zone; a violent, erotic thriller which he actually wrote himself.

That bit of plotting might sound overly convenient, but Schrader, never pretending to be writing anything other than a polemic, gives it a terribly persuasive banality.

Taking on teacher unions may get readers» blood boiling - union - bashing has become sport in some circles - but Brimelow's real objective is to write an anti-public school polemic.

«I would suggest,» he wrote in Compulsory Miseducation, his polemic against universal public education, «that, on the model of the GI - Bill, we experiment, giving the school money directly to the high - school - age adolescents, for any plausible self - chosen education proposals, such as purposeful travel or individual enterprise.

This is a question that has become especially important last week when Fordham's Kathleen Porter - Magee took aim at textbook publisher Heinemann and a team led by writing curricula player Lucy Calkins for publishing a new polemic that attempts an «ideological co-opting» of the standards and tries to defend the publisher's «existing — and poorly aligned — materials».

Heck, I'll even plead the Fifth when comes to the possibility that I «inveigh» from time to time or that my writing could be considered «polemic» now and then.

, claiming that I «inveigh» and my writing is «polemic.»

- Booklist «This harrowing if unsubtle story of insidious corruption is a combination of satire, tragicomedy, melodrama, and polemic...» - Publishers Weekly «Though sections of the novel demonstrate Flanagan's mastery of descriptive writing, its entirety suffers from tonal incongruity and a denouement with little impact.

So, has Downing written a novel or an anti-war 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.

Constantly questioning the written form that criticism and history take, Hainley's book is, miraculously, both detective story and sci - fi yarn, an act of love and an act of war, play and manifesto, poem and polemic — in sum, killer art.

Sandler writes that art criticism has failed to evolve after its 1970s heyday, and that no longer are there the «riveting polemics... Art world discourse has become unfocused and undramatic, and in the minds of many, irrelevant.»

In an article to appear in the journal Child Development, «Distinguishing polemic from commentary in science,» physicist David Grimes and psychologist Dorothy Bishop write: Exposure to nonionizing radiation used in wireless communication remains a contentious topic in the public mind — while the overwhelming scientific evidence to date suggests that microwave and radio frequencies used in modern -LSB-...]

«Powerfully and uncompromisingly written, the impassioned polemic we have come to expect from Klein, mixing first - hand accounts of events around the world and withering political analysis....

Jeffrey --(Hansen's entitled to his polemics outside of his scientific writing.

(Hansen's entitled to his polemics outside of his scientific writing.

Neither do I. My point is that writing such polemics is inconsistent with the big tent effort we are trying to achieve at the NAS.

A Spry Polemic on How to be Seriously Good at Court» (3rd edition, Sweet & Maxwell, 2015), written by a British barrister, Iain Morley Q.C..