9 Metaphors for controversies

Let it not be supposed that this controversy about universals was a mere dialectical tournament, with no grand results.

His memorable controversy with Douglas was the turning-point of his life.

" A spirited, almost dogmatic, controversy was the result of these letters.

The havoc which science and historical criticism have wrought among orthodox beliefs during the last hundred years was not tamely submitted to, and controversy was not the only weapon employed.

While the controversy was hottest, a relation, with a face of concern, called me out.

Since Scott wrote, the Collier-Congreve controversy has been the subject of well-known essays by Lamb, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, and Macaulay.

Mathematical controversy carried on by correspondence was a favourite recreation of Mr. Dodgson's, and on February 20, 1890, he wrote:

There may, however, on occasion of "The Hind and the Panther," the controversy with Stillingfleet, and other works undertaken with an express view to the royal interest, have been private communications of James's favour.

The controversy which followed between the ecclesiastics and their opponents was the cause of the repeal of the freedom of the Press; and when he had stifled controversy his next step was the suspension of Parliament.

9 Metaphors for  controversies