That, combined with the fact that Justice Roberts is a much more energetic polemicist than Chief Justice Rehnquist.

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Tony Blair described him as "a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist, and unique character".

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Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a major photographer, a pioneering gallery owner, a generous collector, a self-appointed cultural commissar and a compulsive polemicist.

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Mr Foot had a sense of humour and could be a devastating exponent of mockery, but he was above all a polemicist and muck-raker.

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Americans didn't need to concern themselves with the architectural intricacies separating Gropius the polemicist from Mies the poet, let alone Le Corbusier the theoretician.

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He claims he can be at once the dispassionate analyst in his books and the passionate polemicist in his rabbinical role, and he pretty much pulls it off.

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Lyinginponds.com, a website that tracks partisanship among American political columnists, rates Mr Krugman second in the overall partisan slant of his columns, behind only Ann Coulter, a fiercely (and often incoherently) conservative polemicist.

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