Fabio Cannavaro

We often talk about this VAR, this new technology. It's very important new technology. On the pitch maybe it's not clear. You cannot see... maybe from another angle in front of the TV it's much more clear. But it's, as always, football. It's easy to be much more polemic about this and that.

Italian Athlete

Larry Cohen

All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

American Director

Courtney A. Kemp

The revolution is that we can be anything. We don't have to be one thing or the other. The idea that it is my responsibility to represent only good black people... I mean, what are you talking about? That's not a character - that's a polemic.

American Writer

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The United States should not engage in tit-for-tat polemics directed at its most important allies. That is as demeaning as it is destructive.

American Politician

Ian Rankin

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

Scottish Writer

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

German Poet

Walter Benjamin

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

German Critic

Louis Theroux

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

British Director

Richard Meier

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

American Architect

Ferran Adria

Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.

Spanish Chef

Polemic is often used in formal or educated discussions; not casual talk.

Academic Tone

Implies strong emotions, but backed by logic and evidence.

Passionate Dispute

A polemic is not impartial; it takes a firm stance on one side of an argument.

Not Neutral

The adjective form describes a method of argument that is aggressive and critical.

Confrontational Style

Although typically in writing, 'polemic' can also refer to speech and debate techniques.

Ranges Beyond Writing

Indicates a clear bias towards an argument, not dispassionate or balanced.

Clearly Biased

 is, we believe that politicians will never accomplish anything. We think that polemics -- we think that polemics are not persuasive, but we think that storytelling can change the world, and so we are probably the best storytelling institution

Wade Davis: Cultures at...

 relevant especially in the face of Miley Cyrus who some of you know it's called Gaga Palmer Madonna a polemic