Surfeit of detail aside, though, "Tour of Duty" succeeds in its polemical point.

His stories often have an explosive polemical point.

But without the plumb line of objectivity, history can be kneaded and stretched to support any polemical point the historian wishes to make.

From a polemical point of view:

The movie's attempt to make a strong statement involves simplifying and ultimately falsifying its characters and situations to score polemical points.

The opening of frontiers between hospital medicine and city medicine is a more polemical point.

Luther was making a polemical point about the canonicity of these books.

First, it is far too long: the polemical points could be focused into an article or a slim volume; they hardly require 492 pages.

Never has Mr. Kirstein - via Mr. Martins - made a polemical point so openly on stage.

But at the promised and more difficult chore of making a polemical point, they fail to deliver.