Sentences with word «pugnacity»

Indeed, the only way to get rid of one kind of pugnacity is to exalt the other.

Weiler has a round, boyish face, but there's pugnacity in his jaw, penetration in his blue eyes, and no nonsense in his plain - spoken Midwestern manner.

But the appearance of playing nice is equally if not more important for a politician still trying to live down a reputation for pugnacity.

Heine also remarked: «It is the greatest merit of Christianity that it has calmed this brutal Germanic pugnacity down somewhat.

Meanwhile, there has been the usual pugnacity by the other Bruins.

Steffes's pugnacity apparently impressed Kiraly, who had quit the national team after years of being the dominant U.S. player and was looking for the perfect beach mate.

Mr. Klein, a lifelong Bronx resident known for his political pugnacity and personal flair, has responded aggressively to the accusations, issuing a pair of letters on Friday testifying to his good character.

It was the first public indication of a trait that would become a hallmark of Gallo's administration — an unstinting pugnacity and willingness to publicly question the motives, integrity or competence of individuals and entities both public and private.

«Modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors.

So deep - seated in us is the instinct of pugnacity!

For the roughly thirty years I knew Stuart, there was pugnacity in our dealings.

But pugnacity has other expressions besides that.

In a slum neighborhood a boy is born magnificently endowed with the old native instincts — ambition, pugnacity, adventurousness, self - regard.

With gloomy lucidity he portrayed the future German revolutionary who would become terrible by «making contact with the primal forces of nature, by conjuring up the demonic powers of old Germanic pantheism so that a pugnacity awakes in him which we already find among the ancient Germans — a pugnacity which does not fight to destroy or to win but merely in order to fight.»

Cuomo has reacted with a combination of passivity and pugnacity.

He retains the pugnacity, the restlessness, the sense of being an outsider that I remember from the 1990s.

In retrospect, all the themes of this summer - long contest were apparent that evening: the rivalry between the Miliband brothers, the pugnacity of Ed Balls, the boldness of Diane Abbott and the positioning of the underrated Andy Burnham as the voice of working - class aspiration.

For me, the definitive Good Queen Bess will always be Glenda Jackson in her monumental 1971 TV miniseries Elizabeth R, in which her febrile intelligence and pugnacity were perfectly channeled.

You can feel every argument swiftly brewing just from the precise angle of Ronan's gaze, out of a car window, or the shades of pugnacity and indignation a peerless Metcalf can broadcast using little more than her chin.

Even Winston Churchill suffered years of political exile for his pugnacity.

Since then, with the exuberance of an Iowa cheerleader and the smart - alecky cynicism of a Brooklyn roller - rink queen, she'd taken him under her wing, defending him against the not infrequent fallout from his lack of social graces, pugnacity, and proclivity to take on quixotic battles for truth and justice that no one else much cared about.