How To Use Controversialist In A Sentence
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Gone is the agent provocateur, the incorrigible controversialist, the incubus of discord and scandal.
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Dancing around adversaries who had thought him just an impertinent youngster, he proved a formidable controversialist.
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He was obliged to become controversialist, jurist, exegetist, and theologian.
The Life of Jesus
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Of course I'm a professional controversialist but, once my copy is filed, I'm invariably the person at any gathering murmuring, ‘Oh, let's just agree to disagree!’
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But they are all in agreement that he is not a simple controversialist just for the sake of it.
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In 1906, Catholic controversialist Hilaire Belloc was running for a seat in the British House of Commons.
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Yet neither public policymakers nor the controversialists who harass them can reasonably expect to enter a new year without making some kind of assessment of what the next 12 months may hold.
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There is something about the Hitchens family that breeds controversialists with deft pens.
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He's a shameless controversialist, although he rejects the tag.
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He liked to describe himself as a controversialist rather than a theologian.
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We shall therefore rapidly survey its chief developments, noting first what had been done before Elizabeth came to the throne, then taking Ascham (who stands, though part of his work was written earlier, very much as the first Elizabethan prosaist), noticing the schools of historians, translators, controversialists, and especially critics who illustrated the middle period of the reign, and singling out the noteworthy personality of Sidney.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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A controversialist to the end, he remained politically active both nationally and regionally.
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A dandy, a wit, an inveterate controversialist, he conducted a series of campaigns against the public and critics in the form of pamphlets, annotated exhibition catalogues, and letters to the press.
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John McWhorter, a linguist and controversialist of mixed liberal and conservative views, sees the triumph of 1960s counterculture as responsible for the decline of formal English.
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But he is also a feisty controversialist.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He is not (contrary to his reputation in some quarters) a 'great hater', but he is a ferocious controversialist.
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At the moment I drew near he was having a long and involved argument with another controversialist touching on the sense of the word tabernacle as employed Scripturally, one holding it to mean the fleshly tenement of the soul and the other an actual place of worship.
Europe Revised
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But there was another side to this English poet, novelist, journalist, biographer and controversialist.
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A dandy, a wit, an inveterate controversialist, he conducted a series of campaigns against the public and critics in the form of pamphlets, annotated exhibition catalogues, and letters to the press.
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But then, cavilling is contemptible, as all controversialists declare!
Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle
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He was a pertinacious controversialist, but in any personal discussion his humorous twinkle was disarming.
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He will be admired as a plucky controversialist.
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