polemic
There have been so many polemical books about the subject that it's a relief to find one that is well-argued.
The next step was to find experts to write passionate and polemical pieces on each topic.
Although this isn't a film that any supporter of capital punishment would ever have made, neither is it overtly polemical.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Debate & discussion
agent provocateur
agora
argue
argue against something
argue for something
bargainer
beard
controversial
hash
kick around
no ifs or butsidiom
no-platform
no-platforming
on the doorstep
proposer
undialectical
undiscussed
war of words
wash (something) up
well argued

Examples of polemical

polemical
This legislative discourse was an eighteenth-century innovation which reflected the specific polemical needs of the opponents of parliamentary enclosure.
These chapters, perhaps inevitably, are redolent with the jargon and flow diagrams favoured by international agencies and are in part polemical and repetitive.
It is, first, a polemical discourse that trumpets the advantages of the worsteds or ' stuffs ' over traditional woollens.
The tone of the writing is often political and polemical, steeped in the increasingly selfreferential and sometimes confusing terminology of post-modernist cultural theorizing.
But the valuation and representation of their different historical moments remained freighted with a weight of inherited political meanings and contemporary polemical contexts.
The volume draws on the idea that group definition was reinforced by polemical attacks on another, anxiety-producing group.
The friars had long honed their polemical skills through rivalry between the orders and with the secular clergy.
This loss inevitably sought expression after a disastrous polemical debate forced him to abandon the idea of musical purity in folksong.
Nor was the polemical tone a mere expression of a passionate temperament.
For my temperament, serenity would be much more fruitful than the stimulus of polemical debate.
Both use an example of the genre they oppose as their polemical object, or straw man.
The 'in traverse' organization of the space enhanced the polemical quality of the play.
It's impossible, very polemical and in the worst taste.
The work's main difficulty is its rather rigid analysis and its polemical inclinations.
Yet, harsh as this polemical statement appears, it is immediately moderated in the further course of his argument.
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