True, he's better known as a level-headed host than a headstrong controversialist.
2
Was a great controversialist, a lifelong Democrat, and an enemy of Tammany.
3
A controversialist tends to want to smother contradiction in deceptively straightforward elegance.
4
The younger man did not present the appearance of a crushed controversialist.
5
Tonight's the night Ireland's chief controversialist aims to take on the establishment.
1
The disputant who depends entirely upon a set speech is greatly handicapped.
2
The other disputant was German or Norwegian, and uninterested, though very kindly.
3
What was to be done with the remains of the unsuccessful disputant?
4
Flaubert may have been a better disputant; he had a talent for writing.
5
A wrangler and disputant threatening the other party with a law-suit:
Ús de eristic en anglès
1
He belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.
2
The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic.
3
The Aneristic Principle is that of order, the Eristic Principle is that of disorder.
4
Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school.
5
But I still get confused about the differences between the Erisian, the Eristic and the Discordian.
6
They were of the Megaran school, and were named Dialectics; and also, with more truth, Eristics, or quarrellers.
7
In both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited, first, in the disguise of an Eristic, secondly, of a false statesman.
8
The two great speculative philosophies, which a century earlier had so deeply impressed the mind of Hellas, were now degenerating into Eristic.
9
Here again we catch a glimpse rather of a Socratic or Eristic than of a Sophist in the ordinary sense of the term.