For Palladio, the Quattro Libri served both a polemical and a promotional purpose.
WSJ: Ada Louise Huxtable | Her Critical Judgments Were Built to Last
An inveterate wearer of bow-ties, he looks and sounds like a lively, slightly abrasive, polemical American journalist with a literary and libertarian bent.
QUITO, Ecuador (AP) Ecuadorean voters were expected to give a third term Sunday to President Rafael Correa, a polemical economist who has raised living standards for the lower classes and widened their social safety net while being widely criticized as intolerant of dissent.
Bakan's polemical portrait, also adapted into a two-and-a-half hour documentary, is a tale of Enron-esque corruption, the erosion of workers' rights, the unethical exploitation of the developing world and an unhealthy involvement in political process.
Scholarly in approach, sceptical in tone and polemical in intent, this is a forceful and entertaining survey of how blockbuster exhibitions are upstaging the traditional role of museums by a highly respected art historian who died earlier this year.
Dr. Bailey had the temerity to point out in a very analytical and non-polemical fashion, I might add that there was simply no way nuclear weapons could be verifiably banned.
But if Le Canard is all about scoops and unreported secrets, Charlie is both cruder and crueller - deploying a melange of cartoons and an often vicious polemical wit.
But the book's main analytical and polemical point is tellingly made: in the absence of a Western counterbalance, Myanmar is falling almost inexorably into the Chinese sphere of influence.
ECONOMIST: How Myanmar is moving ever closer into China��s orbit
The polemical edge is unrelenting: deregulation of the financial markets was a disaster, and piling collateralized debt obligations and insurance swaps atop sub-prime mortgages was insane.
Mr Herring reckons that audiences are tired of being lectured at by 80s-style polemical comics and so he is planning to keep the political stuff in his act to a minimum.
While the growth of communist economics was the subject of innumerable alarmist books and polemical articles in the 1950s, Some economists who looked seriously at the roots of that growth were putting together a picture that differed substantially from most popular assumptions.
应用推荐