Sentence examples for capacity for aggression from inspiring English sources

For American writer Katherine Dunn, women's boxing reveals women's capacity for aggression, and should be seen in terms of a feminist movement.

Our first step towards understanding maternal filicide, therefore, isn't finding social workers or other agencies to blame but acknowledging the female capacity for aggression, violence and cruelty.

He gets an unreality effect, a note of superhero or secret-identity fantasy, that works particularly well when Tom's teenage boy suddenly finds in himself the capacity for aggression necessary to stand up to his tormentors at school.

It is Chang who glides through the film with mysterious precision and ambiguity, calm and ruthless in his capacity for aggression, and for enforcing his own kind of natural justice on his own turf.

Tara McKelvey's excellent book about women as torturers certainly makes the case for the female capacity for aggression in the face of security threats, complicating Fukuyama's problematic reduction of humans to biological sex differences.

The increase in goblet cells caused by prostaglandin analogues can be associated with a protective effect of the ocular surface but could also be a reflection of the higher capacity for external aggression of these drugs.

"Project Nim," a new documentary by James Marsh, is a probing, unsettling study of primate behavior, focusing on the complex dynamics of power, sex and group bonding in a species whose startling capacity for selfishness and aggression is offset by occasional displays of intelligence and compassion.

The film "is a probing, unsettling study of primate behavior, focusing on the complex dynamics of power, sex and group bonding in a species whose startling capacity for selfishness and aggression is offset by occasional displays of intelligence and compassion," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.

But he also has a capacity for violence and aggression".

Some capacity for territorial defence through escalated aggression and the enhancement of subsequent aggressiveness appears to occur in pigs when in their home pen.

Armchair pundits can theorise on whether this is because they are unable to hold the ball for long, or if the opposition's capacity for bungling in the face of aggression means that they do not need to.