as in diatribe
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Recent Examples of polemic
The new film is a drama that is a callback to his early films Margin Call, A Most Violent Year and Triple Frontier, in terms of the polemics of capitalism.
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
But Breton was an odd duck, forever flitting between polemic and clenched restraint: apparently, the man who trumpeted the aesthetics of louche, feral freedom had no taste for drugs, brothels, or staying out late.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Pierre-Stéphane Fort, who wrote a book on Bardella, quotes a photographer who took a photo of an 18-year-old Bardella with Jean-Marine Le Pen in December 2013, a time when the elder Le Pen’s polemics were well known.
—Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
Featuring one of Dern’s sweetest performances, Fat Man and Little Boy is an inert World War II polemic about the secretive Manhattan Project.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
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Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2024
But Breton was an odd duck, forever flitting between polemic and clenched restraint: apparently, the man who trumpeted the aesthetics of louche, feral freedom had no taste for drugs, brothels, or staying out late.
—Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Pierre-Stéphane Fort, who wrote a book on Bardella, quotes a photographer who took a photo of an 18-year-old Bardella with Jean-Marine Le Pen in December 2013, a time when the elder Le Pen’s polemics were well known.
—Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, 6 July 2024
Featuring one of Dern’s sweetest performances, Fat Man and Little Boy is an inert World War II polemic about the secretive Manhattan Project.
—Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 8 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for polemic
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The diatribe culminated in one of the event’s loudest applauses—when Trump pledged to pursue capital punishment against murderous migrants.Eric Cortellessa / Gastonia, TIME, 3 Nov. 2024
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Putting Sir Porritt’s diatribe aside, its essence seems straightforward and sensible to me.Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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That criticism has sometimes veered toward threats against company executives and political figures.William Gavin, Quartz, 8 Nov. 2024
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It's repeatedly faced harsh criticism over its failure to curb child abuse on the platform.Jibin Joseph, PCMAG, 7 Nov. 2024
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Today’s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump’s MAGA rallies this entire campaign.Dominic Patten, Deadline, 31 July 2024
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West has been persona non grata in much of mainstream public life after launching a series of antisemitic tirades online in 2022.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2024
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More remarkably, Murphy appeals to white audiences while doing routines that border on anti-white harangues.Chet Flippo, Vulture, 3 July 2024
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People with competing views talk past one another or, worse, as has been happening on campuses, especially since last October, harangue, harass, and silence each other.Lincoln Caplan, The New Yorker, 4 July 2024
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And if the president refuses to compromise, the next congressional election (just two years from now) could bring about quite a rebuke.David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Ferré went on with a scathing rebuke of Trump’s behavior and its potential consequences.Rafael Bernal, The Hill, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Polemic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/polemic. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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