Sentence examples for being contentious from inspiring English sources

It dies in wealth," felt powerful without being contentious.

Maddow's show is built around a startling proposition: that cable news can be interesting, even addictive, without being contentious.

Mr. Taleb seems to revel in being contentious and controversial, perhaps betting that such notoriety will win him and his book some added buzz.

Brief contextual backgrounders use euphemisms including "settler" to avoid being contentious – while Burney strains to emphasise the importance of the actual truth in remedying the ills of more than 200 years of colonialism.

Every once in a while, some man who'd just met Alice — I remember a lawyer in the South of France, for instance, and a financier in Manhattan — seemed intent on being contentious or even offensive from the start, maybe as some sort of preëmptive strike.

Despite being contentious subjects, creationism and evolution are not dichotomic in people's beliefs.

This is contentious.

"I'm contentious.

The choice was contentious.

The race was contentious.

The appointment was contentious.