Sentence examples for had been argumentative from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tuttle had been argumentative from the beginning: about the fee — twelve dollars — the size of the canvas, and the prospect to be shown through the window.

By Julian Barnes Mr. Tuttle had been argumentative from the beginning: about the fee — twelve dollars — the size of the canvas, and the prospect to be shown through the window.

"I'm going to pursue this through all the channels I have because when there are issues of bigotry we should pursue them very strongly". In a statement, bar manager Matt Taylor said Mr Amaechi was refused entry because staff received a radio message that a group matching his party's description had been "argumentative and aggressive" with another venue's door staff.

My mom mentioned my behavior in Maine—I had been argumentative, intense, obsessed with the loons.

Cross has been argumentative throughout the trial and Johnson County district court judge Thomas Kelly Ryan ordered Cross removed from the courtroom for a period on Monday after he repeatedly interrupted the proceedings and declared that Ryan was carrying out an unconstitutional trial.

At the Poop Deck, a second-floor tavern with a porch that catches a breeze off the Gulf that rarely makes it inside the bar, neither man was known to have been argumentative or to have dressed as a woman.

They said the meetings sf the five fiction judges had been noisy and argumentative before they agreed on their double choice.

The couple had been engaged in an argumentative conversation, which had abruptly ceased.

Ramzi's attorney said Thursday that Siraj Ibn Wahhaj had been acting "differently" and "more argumentative" for a few weeks before his disappearance, but gave no other warning of what was coming.

The speakers impressed me, on several occasions, by finding exactly the same flaws I myself had, be they argumentative points that had natural counter-arguments or more specific weaknesses in the evidence the opposition had used.

Ever since Mrs Dylan Thomas, at a literary party, stuck her elbow into the bowl of ice cream that TS Eliot was eating from, before presenting it to the great poet with the instruction to "Lick it off," these things have been democratic, argumentative and often memorable.