Sentence examples for but argumentative from inspiring English sources
He is an unpretentious but argumentative man with a mustache and a Cheshire-cat grin who dresses in golf shirts and says "man" a lot.
Ferguson could still use firebrand language to motivate a sulking superstar — but then again, Moyes did that on at least one well-publicized occasion, when Rooney was a gifted but argumentative emerging star under his wing.
On leaving São Paulo, this is what stays with me most about Schendel: the contradictory nature of her character (loving but argumentative); of her work (delicate but profound); and of her identity (European but Brazilian; Jewish but also Catholic, or atheist, or maybe all of the above).
In agreement with the prevailing view in philosophy of science, we see model validation as a rather non-algorithmic, but argumentative process [ 15, 16]: Achieving a good statistical fit between a simulated and an empirical epidemic curve does not automatically mean that the model is valid.
My wife is anything but unpleasant or argumentative, but she has been shouted at, dressed down, badgered and bothered multiple times, particularly in recent years.
But his argumentative style and its predictable conclusions grow wearying in this lengthy biography.
But his argumentative personality brought about his expulsion from the group, and he made his way to Goa, a major Jesuit center, where he died in 1664.
But the argumentative and vain image he cultivated during his successful years, when he was a regular performer on television chat shows, made him fewer friends than he believed.
But this argumentative mode is nurturing simplistic thought in all kinds of areas, and when a government can find a receptive audience for its exciting stories about how a Big Society can nudge us into happiness, it's perhaps time to think a little harder.
Thus, the specific topoi provide not only premises but complete argumentative patterns.
This essayistic paper is an original piece of research but an argumentative reflection after more than 10 years of empirical research in the Dutch energy sector and inside network companies (cf. [3, 6 9]).
