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单词 polemical
释义
polemical
adjective
formal
uk
/pəˈlem.ɪ.kəl/us
/pəˈlem.ɪ.kəl/
(of apieceof writing or aspeech)stronglyattackingordefendingaparticularopinion,person,idea, or set ofbeliefs:
（文章或讲话）激烈争辩的
a polemicalessay一篇论战性的文章
Manyphilosophicaltextshave ahighlypolemicalstyle.许多哲学著作都有很强的辩论风格。
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  • There have been so many polemicalbooksabout thesubjectthat it's arelieftofindone that iswell-argued.
  • The nextstepwas tofindexpertsto writepassionateand polemicalpieceson eachtopic.
  • Although this isn't afilmthat anysupporterofcapitalpunishmentwouldeverhave made, neither is itovertlypolemical.
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(Definition ofpolemicalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpolemical

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This legislative discourse was an eighteenth-century innovation which reflected the specificpolemicalneeds of the opponents of parliamentary enclosure.
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These chapters, perhaps inevitably, are redolent with the jargon and flow diagrams favoured by international agencies and are in partpolemicaland repetitive.
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It is, first, apolemicaldiscourse that trumpets the advantages of the worsteds or ' stuffs ' over traditional woollens.
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The tone of the writing is often political andpolemical, steeped in the increasingly selfreferential and sometimes confusing terminology of post-modernist cultural theorizing.
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But the valuation and representation of their different historical moments remained freighted with a weight of inherited political meanings and contemporarypolemicalcontexts.
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The volume draws on the idea that group definition was reinforced bypolemicalattacks on another, anxiety-producing group.
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The friars had long honed theirpolemicalskills through rivalry between the orders and with the secular clergy.
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This loss inevitably sought expression after a disastrouspolemicaldebate forced him to abandon the idea of musical purity in folksong.
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Nor was thepolemicaltone a mere expression of a passionate temperament.
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For my temperament, serenity would be much more fruitful than the stimulus ofpolemicaldebate.
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Both use an example of the genre they oppose as theirpolemicalobject, or straw man.
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The 'in traverse' organization of the space enhanced thepolemicalquality of the play.
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It's impossible, verypolemicaland in the worst taste.
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The work's main difficulty is its rather rigid analysis and itspolemicalinclinations.
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Yet, harsh as thispolemicalstatement appears, it is immediately moderated in the further course of his argument.
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