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• n  a writer who argues in opposition to others (especially in theology)
• n  a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma)
• s  of or involving dispute or controversy

• The movie avoided all polemics and gave a true picture of life in that strife torn country in the early nineties.
• Minimalists tend to regard it as a polemic, until proven otherwise.
• His new book, X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything From Sucking, is a tongue-in-cheek polemic that's inspiring age-based debates in chat .

• polemicist
• polemist
• polemical

News & Articles

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• Pandora’s Empty Promise Pro-nuclear power film obscures as much as it reveals
  You’ve got to give the producers of Pandora’s Promise credit for gumption. It takes a lot of chutzpah to release a pro-nuclear polemic in the wake of the triple meltdown in Fukushima, Japan.
  June 29, 2013 - The Berkeley Daily Planet

Quotes

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• John Cusack in FOXNews
  If that puts it into a certain box of being an angry polemic, no,Cusack said. "But do I think it's an antiwar movie? Absolutely."
• Jacques Rogge in Ottawa Citizen
  When asked about Bolt on Sunday, Rogge said, "I take it with a big smile. I gave Usain Bolt what I believed to be fatherly advice. I don't want to enter into a further polemic. I stand by what I said......He is a young man of 22. He has time to...
• Santoro in Reuters
  I knew it would be a delicate and very polemic role,Santoro said in an interview. "As an actor, I have to try to incorporate the human being. I cannot do a political analysis about him."