Sentence examples for * pugnacity in from inspiring English sources

Prince Harry clearly has something of that royal pugnacity in the bloodstream.

The innate pugnacity in his batting was also shown in the field, where he was outstanding in almost any position.

In South Carolina, Newt's pugnacity in the two televised debates enabled him to stage a stunning upset win.

He knew how to mix faith and pugnacity in a way even Martin Luther King may not have been able to match.

Almost single-handedly, and without context, it rediscovers hip-hop's pugnacity in an era of extreme melodic sophistication, an idiosyncratic anomaly.

The controversial House and Senate hearings on United States intelligence operations were examples of a Congressional pugnacity in exerting its oversight rights.

Mr. Sununu also displayed that pugnacity earlier in the day on Fox News, where, in only 42 words, he brought up suggestions of Mr. Obama's past marijuana use, implied that Mr. Obama was comfortable in a socialist setting and noted that he had lived in Indonesia, which is an overwhelmingly Muslim country.

And it's no secret that the State Department and the White House want -- at least occasionally -- to rein in that pugnacity.

He is trying to remain "Johnny B. Goode" (the song blares over a loudspeaker at some McCain rallies), giving relatively cautious answers and trying to rein in his pugnacity, if not his wisecracks.

A much simpler pugnacity is depicted in a sixth dance (to Christopher Tye) in which Richard Chen See and James Samson fight on through milling crowds.

There was the working-class pugnacity of Randy Bryce, in Wisconsin; the sunny millennial socialism of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, in New York; and the historic turn promised by two talented black progressive politicians in the South Stacey Abrams, in Georgia, and Andrew Gillum, in Florida.