Back in the present, Joe begins a combative Hepburn-Tracy kind of romance with Tessa Kendrick (Claudie Blakley), a British marketing consultant whose specialty is teaching Western businesses how to sell to China.
The true Parisian is distinguished by his or her gouaille, a slang word meaning a kind of combative wit.
Owsley Stanley, known as Bear, the early LSD chemist and sound engineer for the Dead in the '60s and '70s, reacted with a kind of combative pluralism.
I got a sense of what this kind of combative approach might sound like when I called Grover Norquist, the anti-tax zealot who convenes a weekly meeting of influential Republican operatives.
The CBSO horns delivered the opening theme like a challenge, setting the stage for a performance that bristled with combative energy, and the kind of vivid incident that Nelsons finds in everything he conducts.
Striking for a few moments at least the kind of combative tone many of his supporters have been waiting for with decreasing patience, he said: "I will not waste time with those who have made the calculation that it's better politics to kill this plan than improve it".
It's as if Saint Etienne are guarding against the tendency of ardent, fortysomething music fans to cleave to a kind of combative nostalgia, the steadfast, sneering belief that your past automatically beats anyone's present, that everything was better in your youth.
Mallory was sitting up waiting for me, still in her nightgown but with her glasses on boxy little black-framed things that looked like a pair of the generic reading glasses you find in the drugstore but were in fact ground to the optometrist's specifications and which she wore as a kind of combative fashion statement.
CONSIDINE: And there was something kind of combative about what Basquiat was doing with his art, right?
Then, in an interesting twist, programmers started thinking that most people who savor this kind of combative dialogue are probably rooting for one team or the other.
Epstein was always a vibrant man, the kind of quintessentially combative New Yorker whose day hasn't properly started until he's got into an argument with someone.
