more heat than light

phrase

—used to say that something or someone causes anger without making something (such as an issue under discussion) better understood

Her inflammatory speech generated/produced more heat than light on the topic.

The provocative new book generates more heat than light.

Examples of more heat than light in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

To use the obvious metaphor, debate about the project has generated more heat than light and obscured the big picture. — David Plymyer, Baltimore Sun, 19 May 2025

A lot of this debate concerns issues of little strategic importance, generating more heat than light. — Alan Manning, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017

Sadly, much of this discourse has shed more heat than light on the controversy. — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2012

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