Sentences with phrase «pugnacious anti-corbynite»

(punch): This pugnacious icon can allow you to express frustration without actually resorting to violence.

The 40 - year - old's pugnacious style largely defined Uber's approach and helped it become a transportation colossus valued at $ 68 billion, the largest private firm backed by venture capital firms in the world.

About six months after Hurricane Maria demolished Puerto Rico, a bunch of crypto enthusiasts have inclined upon San Juan for a sequence of blockchain and crypto conferences that the government of the island hopes it will finally give the pugnacious economy the boost it needs.

Certainly the ever - pugnacious Steyn, at least, remains uncowed.

What reason do you have for believing that a mean spirited, pugnacious and litigious jerk is honest?

He began to use the Web in pugnacious new ways, like printing the e-mail addresses of reporters and scientists and inviting readers to pester them.

Shortly before President Donald J. Trump's inauguration, his staff confirmed that he had met with two brilliant and pugnacious scientists, each said to be a candidate for the position of science adviser or director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

I would like to say that Harris, who is both the likely nominee and ultimate November victor, will be an improvement over the pugnacious pixie.

Nigel Calder is a prominent sceptic and made a pugnacious contribution to the Channel 4 «The Great Global Warming Swindle» film, just one year ago.

A pugnacious art world fugitive who had studied with and then taught under Josef Albers at Yale in the 1950s, yet defiantly rejected his era's vogue for nonrepresentational painting, out in his element he'd be squinting at the fish, the birds and the far - off horizon, spitting tobacco, chewing his mustache, cursing us all — a roll of Tums in his shirt pocket and his eye zeroing - in on the flat, all - over screen of his life's obsession....

In these two works, like all the paintings in the show, the color is acetic, the paint handling is pugnacious, and the surface is so gritty you can almost taste it.»

Gilbert & George are famous and infamous for their provocative and controversial visual lexicon and have built a strong tradition of eccentric, radical, and pugnacious cross-disciplinary art practice — embodying performance, sculpture, and painting since they first met as students at St Martin's School of Art in 1967.

In another odalisque, Petunia Pig is repurposed as a pugnacious putti confronting a Gaugin - like nude female in «Portrait of the Artist as a Young Pig.»

Welliver too, was «[a] pugnacious individual...» Each nurtured a complaint with the world.

They mediate between a pugnacious, sometimes explosive component, perhaps congruent with Barnes» early experience as winner of the Golden Gloves in the heavy weight division on the south side of Chicago and a delicate, subtle, intellectually acute and highly poetic sensibility.

Prepare to scream with horror and delight as gangs of saggy, pugnacious thugs from Beef City punch, kick and slapstick their way across your screen, hurling their foes into hazardous machinery or mercilessly head - butting them into flaming incinerator pits!

The Chef: Best - known stateside for his expletive - filled Fox reality show Hell's Kitchen, pugnacious perfectionist Gordon Ramsay claims no fewer than 16 Michelin stars and 15 - plus fine restaurants.

The Hewlings case is a perfect example of pugnacious animal control behavior.

Pugs are playful and affectionate, with a pugnacious attitude.

The German Shepherd Dog is distinguished for loyalty, courage, and the ability to assimilate and retain training for a number of special services; he is not pugnacious, as his reputation posits him to be, but a bold and punishing fighter if need be.

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In keeping with his pugnacious attitude toward other companies in the tablet space, Jobs couldn't resist taking a backhand swipe at the Motorola Xoom, a 10.1 - inch Android tablet that retails for $ 799.

In this way, in the event that you have harsh circumstances composing pugnacious powerful exposition, it is smarter to arrange it.

While the pugnacious and audacious Southern novelist and the lightning - fast and inventive banjo player lived worlds apart, each had a deep affinity for looking at the world with all its blemishes, seeing through the masks behind which most people hide, and using humor, however sarcastic, to reveal the truth beneath the lies we tell ourselves.

Perhaps I have taken my notion of «tackling» a bit too far in my pugnacious attitude towards Ross.

That tiny - but - pugnacious spirit carries over to the Kona's engine offerings, too.

Sleek, elegant lines with a raked roof combine with a pugnacious front nose to strike a balance between grace and guts.

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

Sure, the Sport looks fabulous from the outside, with its spoiler, gleaming chrome vents, pugnacious front grille, floating roof, and arch-filling alloy wheels.

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.

But, the phase 2 facelift never really gave the pugnacious Clio Renault Sport much of a fighting chance really.

The e-Evolution looks to have a particularly pugnacious front end, with a design language that looks largely unlike other Mitsubishi models.

Pugnacious yet practical, rowdy yet refined, the Challenger possesses a surprisingly diverse skill set.

It means you get the same rasping Ferrari - derived twin - turbo V6 tuned to 503bhp, and the same curvaceous, pugnacious exterior styling - only now with brutal wheelarch extensions, bonnet vents and a propped - up, puffed - out stance that's perhaps just a little bit frightening if your existing notion of an SUV is a diesel Qashqai.

Yes, it has all the Mini design cues — the grumpy grille, the big headlights and the pugnacious stance.

Part of that is due to the pugnacious, endearing looks of most of their models, and the fact that many view MINI as a premium — yet still affordable — marque.

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.

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

The pugnacious red trucklet is still chilling in the Jag's slipstream, still spoiling for a bare - knuckle fight.

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.

Four of the roughest, toughest, most pugnacious but unexpectedly graceful rally cars ever built are set to cause something of a disturbance at this year's Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance.

It backs up these pugnacious looks with a mechanical make - up that has the upperhand when it comes to bar room bragging rights.

Next to the 156 sits a pugnacious GTA 1300 Junior; nearby are two of Alfa's lesser - known forays into racing — a Lola T91 / 00 IndyCar and a 1981 F1 car.

With the wide arches and all the cues of a modern M car; the quad tail pipes, diamond cut alloys and deep front bumper — it looks suitably pugnacious.

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.

And while one applauds tough talk and pugnacious optimism, there are still a lot of ifs in there.

He has a penchant for being pugilistic, and sometimes pugnacious, but at the end of the day, he's a good guy.»

It would, indeed, take an exceptional town to live up to the pugnacious character of St. Elmo, where the steaks are plump and perfect and ruddy waiters stalk about an old, no - nonsense dining room with their sleeves rolled up.

It's deeply odd, if you think about it: Reform, long marked by a pugnacious and crusading rhetorical style, may be losing both its will to fight and its ability to differentiate between genuine threats and mere irritants.

After a nine year gap, director Robert Rodriguez finally returns to the dark graphic novel's of Frank Miller's Sin City and it's pugnacious inhabitants.