Sentence examples for combative sense from inspiring English sources

"Among full-time homemakers, this overdeveloped capacity for denial is often accompanied by a highly combative sense of indignation about views that challenge their own," Ms. Bennetts wrote in a HuffingtonPost.com article.

But there is a combative sense of ownership in game spaces that isn't present in reality, the idea that since you've purchased a universe from a shelf, you own that space.

His combative common sense is an antidote to the sometimes hectoring Rachel, "doing my head in with all his preachifying".

From the FSA flags fluttering from every corner, to posters of bin Laden, Zarqawi and al-Khattab, or the framed picture of the "Sunni martyr" Saddam Hussein in Ziad's shop, a combative, defensive sense of Sunni-ness has enveloped Tabbaneh's urban poor.

If people don't feel as though a combative approach makes sense (and it typically shouldn't make sense), their options are limited to any number of processes that lend themselves to cooperation, such as mediation and collaborative law.

Sensing a threat to his business, he can become combative, litigious and aggressive; sensing an opportunity for good publicity, he can be friendly and generous.

It was a combative novel that met that sense of there being a crisis and de-crisised it through its absolute fidelity to a set of generic tropes".

But as an abbreviated anthology of theatrical duets that are by turns romantic, combative and funny, this one made conceptual sense.

Mr. Falwell and the combative Christian groups have given the program a sense of urgency by supplying a meanness it lacked.

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.

It makes sense that Elaine would become more combative and would give up on any notion of real romance.