more heat than light
idiom
—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
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Sadly, much of this discourse has shed more heat than light on the controversy.
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2012
Discussions of racial issues usually throw off more heat than light and too often assume that local distinctions and attitudes are universal and immutable rather than particular and contingent.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2015
IEEE Spectrum, 27 Jan. 2012
Discussions of racial issues usually throw off more heat than light and too often assume that local distinctions and attitudes are universal and immutable rather than particular and contingent.
—Gideon Rose, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2015
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