Sentence examples similar to combative tea from inspiring English sources
With her clients, I expect she has to damp herself down, throw a tea towel over the cheery, combative and slightly camp sparks that usually fly from her person.
A notable exception is a provocatively ugly black-and-white stripe painting deliberately misstretched on its circular support, by Steven Parrino, who died in January; like an obstreperous drunk at an herbal-tea party, it injects a combative energy that is otherwise missing.
Fine for kids and tea towels; not fine for the muscular combative voice of the urban poet.
Donnelly, a state assemblyman from San Bernardino County and former Minuteman border patrol leader, struck a more combative tone as he championed the tenets of the tea party.
In the post-racial Age of Obama -- even if post-racialism is still more an objective yet to be achieved -- might it not have been better for Gates to have looked beyond the Ogletrees and Dershowitzes of the illustrious Harvard Law Faculty to the less combative padres of its Divinity School to provide a congenial setting for tea -- or brandy -- in the interests of reconciliation?
If you happen to be on basically O.K. terms with the world, meaning that the world is doing all right by you, the alert, irritated, combative work of the American artist Martha Rosler may not be your cup of tea.
David Hedrick, a Tea Partier who launched an eventually unsuccessful run for Congress after achieving viral fame for a combative tirade at a town hall meeting in the summer of 2009, is supposedly out to save Christmas from Barack Obama with a new Tea Party children's book.
Not that he was combative.
He is not being combative.
