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Movies about current wars face their own problems: how to depict an ever-changing landscape, how to avoid polemicism.
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Apocalyptic censorious polemicism will not improve the validity of Mel's or your arguement, all it does is allow the "enemy's" fellow travellers to dismiss your arguement as demagoguery.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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More generally I think we should consider the Flynn Effect a bit of a mystery and that suggests an overall tone of caution on these issues rather than polemicism.
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More to the point, everyone would be justified in piling on Leiter for passing off his ramblings as philosophy and not polemicism.
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More generally I think we should consider the Flynn Effect a bit of a mystery and that suggests an overall tone of caution on these issues rather than polemicism.
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » “Why Steve Sailer Is Wrong” 2009
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There was so much about SiCKO that seemed very "un-Michael-Moore," given Moore's history of heavy-handed editing and cinematic polemicism.
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Okay, so there's little way to engage with this argument and I've slipped from point-specific criticism into gassy polemicism, so I guess I'll leave off.
On Violence and Restraint in The Dark Knight Ed Howard 2008
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The problem is that the novel's depiction of the "rapture" of the pope is actually a clear instance of sly anti-Catholic polemicism.
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In all these areas, the review displays, to my mind, a hardening of the categories, doubtless reinforced by the generic polemicism of the essay-review as a form of writing.
An Exchange on Thoreau Buell, Lawrence 1999
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A strong, character-driven riposte to "Don't ask, don't tell" that never descends into polemicism, shipshape indie drama "A Marine Story" finds a longtime servicewoman returned to home-front life against her will.
Variety.com 2010
jwjarvis commented on the word polemicism
polemic:
1. A controversial argument, especially one refuting or attacking a specific opinion or doctrine.
2. A person engaged in or inclined to controversy, argument, or refutation.
June 1, 2010