Sentences with phrase «more pugnacious»

If anything, this new Camaro is even more pugnacious looking than last year's car.

Still, the Si appears only slightly more pugnacious than garden - variety models — today's 10th - generation Civic already looks so brash that perhaps Honda didn't feel the need to push the envelope with this model's aesthetics.

The face is made even more pugnacious by an optional sport performance hood ($ 995) but there are no performance advantages derived from its steroidal bulges, and the flaring nostrils are non-functional.

Wider than a Lamborghini Aventador and arguably more pugnacious in the styling department, this is Volkswagen Motorsport's vision of a Golf - based touring car.

The 2014 BMW M235i is about eight inches shorter than a 435i, and consequently the 4 - series is the better - looking car — its flanks have enough room to resolve themselves in a gracefully tapered tail, while the M235i is forced to adopt a more pugnacious stance.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls, who has previously been seen as one of the opposition's more pugnacious opponents of spending cuts, conceded at the weekend that he could not promise to reverse any of the government's cuts.

DeFrancisc is more pugnacious and has reveled at times in annoying the incumbent governor.

There are obvious parallels here with Alasdair MacIntyre's Dependent Rational Animals, but Deane - Drummond's approach is rather more pugnacious: she wants to diminish the anthropological «self - importance» she finds in much Christian theology (p. 52).

Not exact matches

More attention has been paid to the pugnacious shadow health secretary, Andy Burnham, who has been tipped as a possible future leader.

Balls is such a pugnacious sort of politician that Miliband's more considered approach to the job appears to be being pushed to one side.

DeFrancisco, the Senate's pugnacious deputy majority leader from Syracuse, has been one of the more vocal critics of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's drive to gradually raise the minimum wage from $ 9 to $ 15.

Associations in which a more vulnerable species gains protection by seeking out the company of a pugnacious protector species capable of deterring predators are more well - known among birds than among arachnids.

But his pugnacious exchange with lawmakers at a hearing of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee today is likely to go down as one of his more memorable visits to Capitol Hill.

Anxious to get his hands grimy with good honest work once more, Alden assumes the identity of family gardener Herman Brinker and takes a grease - jockey job at the corner gas station run by pugnacious Greg Wilson (Dane Clark).

As for Darkest Hour, it is hard to see how anyone but Oldman can get the Bafta now, although Day Lewis's performance is I think more interesting, and he himself is arguably rivalled in screen presence by Daniel Kaluuya who was so brilliant in Get Out, that terrifically smart, pugnacious and relevant satire on post-Obama America.

Gone is the innocent white colour scheme, replaced by a pugnacious dark - blue graphic, and there's a yet more belligerent rear wing.