Sentence examples for a pugnacity from inspiring English sources

In a conservative time, a time of war, Fox viewers like their news from a strong American perspective, with flags rippling in graphics and a pugnacity toward the nation's critics -- the people John Gibson, host of Fox's nightly "Big Story," referred to last week as the peanut gallery.

Still, there is a swagger to the man, a confrontational style, a pugnacity that is likely to play well among those Republican primary voters and caucus goers who are in the mood for a fight.

His left hand slams the keyboard in a persuasive emulation of Bud Powell or Thelonious Monk, and some of the figures (as at 2 55-3 10) have a chromatic wildness — and a percussive pugnacity — worthy of Taylor's.

He's a tiny bloke but there's a nice pugnacity to his batting.

Over the years, though, she has shown a steely pugnacity, mixed with disarming charm.

What drove him, those who knew him say, was a constitutional pugnacity.

Her passions were for cinema (preferably European), photography, European writers and philosophers, and for aesthetic pronunciamentos of a particular pugnacity.

The push-and-pull of their impossible relationship is captured by the director, Maurice Pialat, in images of a frank pugnacity as well as in his crashingly abrupt editing.

There, he works on leaks and toilets with a grim pugnacity while tenants talk, to him and to others, about their own families.

And without making a big deal of it, he riffled through genres — doo-wop, Tin Pan Alley, honky-tonk, gospel — while splashing gleefully around the keyboard and projecting a diehard pugnacity, in and out of the songs.

The psychology of Tyvian's self-destructive urges and Eva's emotional sadism is elided in favor of visual philosophy: with a chilled pugnacity, Losey presents deceptive appearances as the harrowing reality of modern life.