Sentence examples for competitive kind from inspiring English sources

The subcategories describing Queensberry's personality in her book's index read: "courageous, combative and adventurous"; "craving for love"; "crusading urge, outspoken, unconventional"; "high-spirited and competitive"; "kind, generous and chivalrous"; "truthful and honourable"; "unhappy and dissatisfied"; "volatile temper".

Not the competitive kind, more like the "you rock no matter how many times you missed my pitch" kind of softball.

"Part of viewing yourself as an underdog can be dangerous and self-marginalizing as you kind of wallow in some sort of self pity," says Curry. "As I was growing up, I had high self-esteem and always had very much of a competitive kind of spirit.

He was smart, ambitious and competitive, the kind of person who seems destined to succeed".

At that moment, there was a sense of fullness and wellness, that had escaped me in my competitive (which kind of defeats the purpose) yoga days.

But now, to remain competitive, all kinds of companies are doing it.

"In this competitive environment, any kind of reputational stigma that you acquire will be used by your rivals, who are not above using any competitive technique to steal your client," he said.

"With Annabel you never got any of the negative fallout you get from people who are striving in an unkind, competitive fashion, the kind who, the minute they feel threatened, go psycho".

There was the quiet undercurrent of emotion, the genuine charm and ingenuousness, and a lack of competitive excitement, a kind of comic-book Zen detachment from the usual overheated art-world fretfulness.

A quick perusal of operating grants awarded to Arabidopsis researchers by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) in Canada and by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the U.S. shows Canadian grants to be five- to 10-fold smaller than those in the U.S. It's tough to be competitive with this kind of handicap.

An objective assessment would conclude, I think, that my accomplishments (so far) are impressive, and in normal times I'd be competitive for the kind of job I've always wanted, as a faculty member at a university where I can focus on research.