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They are like two controversialists hurling words at one another.

He became part of the city's intellectual life, and made a reputation as a controversialist.

For the sincere controversialist is above all things a good listener.

I have even seen some controversialists use the metaphor, "We must fight them with their own weapons."

He was a noted controversialist, but considered to hold moderate views.

His services as a controversialist were in great demand.

He is even more a controversialist than orator in the ordinary sense of the word.

He was a vigorous controversialist, and full details of his writings are given by Smith.

The bishop won some fame as a theologian and a controversialist.

An able controversialist no more than an able general demonstrates the justice of his cause.

He belonged to the High Church party and was a brilliant controversialist.

He is known as a controversialist, and as a contributor to federal theology.

Very well; let those controversialists take their metaphor, and take it literally.

He was a prolific controversialist, widely read in the writings of his opponents.

Furthermore, Alexander's language, like that of most controversialists in those days, is quite vituperative.

He was known also as a keen controversialist.

He was one of the most formidable controversialists of a highly controversial age.

In religion, as in politics, he was a pronounced liberal, though no controversialist.

At this point, the great controversialist blew a gasket.

Enough survive to reveal him as a wonderfully vivid and outspoken controversialist.

My ideological allies will say I'm a controversialist who needs a public scrap to sell his wares.

He became a Puritan controversialist in many areas.

He was a particularly neat controversialist, and very full of political and sociological ideas.

Johnson is much less a bitter ultraconservative than a professional provocateur, a controversialist.

Whether or not these controversialists are more in touch than others with the Mexican experience, whatever that may be, is hard for an outsider to say.