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:
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.
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But I still get confused about the differences between the Erisian, the Eristic and the Discordian.
Uso de controversialist en inglés
1
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.
6
You could add government adviser, controversialist and futurologist to that list of attributes.
7
Another is a file; and he is a disputant, a controversialist.
8
He was the most prolific writer and controversialist of his day among nonconformists.
9
For the sincere controversialist is above all things a good listener.
10
I am not a controversialist, or a theologian: I am simply an historian.
11
He was a Protestant controversialist, and a satirist of fantastic and abundant imagination.
12
History, says the Jewish controversialist, teaches no such lessons of finality.
13
He was a great controversialist, and a man of great reading.
14
Even the hardened controversialist Coulton wrote in the course of one of their arguments:
15
In those days, he was better known as a film-maker than as a controversialist.
16
He was a particularly neat controversialist, and very full of political and sociological ideas.