Ohlmeyer insisted the changes in "Monday Night" were not to revive the rambunctious, contentious spirit of the series in the 1970's and 80's, when Cosell, Frank Gifford and Don Meredith transformed televised football.
Plato has Zeno continue his second response to Socrates (quoted above) by saying, "It was written by me in such a contentious spirit when I was still young..
The contentious spirit of Trump's speech was reflected in the atmosphere outside, where thousands of supporters and opponents gathered, separated by police onto opposite sides of the street.
Across the Manhattan skyline in the summer, buildings shine in incandescent splendor, setting the scene for the contentious and vehement spirit of New York City's East Village in lifelong skater Jack Greer's film Circles in Tompkins Square.
Charles Bell, in his biography of Wheelwright, provided a mixed assessment of the character of Wheelwright, calling him contentious, lacking a conciliatory spirit, and never one to shrink from controversy.
After the storm and following a contentious election, the pioneer spirit in our people would have us shake off the fear, pick up the pieces and go to work fashioning a future better than the past.
Perhaps the kindest way to think about David Grindley's misfired revival of "Pygmalion," which opened last night at the American Airlines Theater, is that it was devised to soothe the restless spirit of the ever-contentious Shaw.
The Pope followed his heart and brought a reconciling spirit to even the most contentious places in the world.
China, Korea, and Japan, however, have been uniquely linked for several millennia by a common written language and by broad cultural and political connections that have ranged in spirit from the uncritically adorational to the contentious.
Like most writers, we could be contentious and factional beyond belief, but there was a generous spirit and a lot of good shoptalk at the early meetings of the S.F.W.A.
Rome did not press its claims to Greek dioceses in Italy and Greece under the jurisdiction of Constantinople, and the Roman legates consented to the Byzantine demand to condemn Western additions to the Nicene Creed, without explicit mention of the contentious use of the word filioque (Latin: "and the Son"), whereby the Holy Spirit was said by some to proceed from the Father "and the Son".
