Word: polemicizes
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Polemic & Chuckle. Author Guareschi regards Communism as a formidable evil, but at the grass-roots level he treats it as more of a joke-tricky, unpredictable, often violent and sometimes hurtful, but essentially a joke perpetrated by clumsy bunglers who do not know that the laugh is on them. This...
The exaggerations in her performance are typical of the acting throughout. Katherina Sergava, as a masculine lady acrobat, is Shaw's burlequed version of a superwoman. Between escaping from one attempted seduction and another, she delivers an impassioned polemic on the evils of love, one of the highpoints of the...
Sharpest counter-polemic came from Jesuit Father Joseph Christie, preaching in London. Answering the archbishop's complaints of aggressive Catholic proselytizing. Father Christie said: "We do not need to seek converts; they are driven to us by Communists and modernist clerics within the [Church of England] itself.
If Roman Catholics and Anglicans thought this was strong stuff to be coming from the top prelate of the Church of England, they opened their eyes wide when they turned to the pamphlet. Infallible Fallacies, by "Some Priests of the Anglican Communion," is a closely reasoned piece of polemic in...
You Shall Know Them also contains a halfhearted love story which in no way hides the fact that the book is more a polemic than a novel. On the other hand, since experts have always had trouble defining the novel too, the best all-round term may be: an entertaining...