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.
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.
My mom mentioned my behavior in Maine—I had been argumentative, intense, obsessed with the loons.
Or it might be that beer drinkers' argumentative style has been honed over hours in the pub.
It is ironic that he is likely to be remembered for the odd occasions when he has been at his most argumentative.
Marsalis has been described as brash and argumentative, and he has certainly seemed eager to do combat in the arena of jazz criticism.
Nevertheless, the appeal to personal identity, construed as a distinct argumentative strategy, has been somewhat influential (see, e.g., President's Commission 1981, 38 9).
My wife is anything but unpleasant or argumentative, but she has been shouted at, dressed down, badgered and bothered multiple times, particularly in recent years.
The 31-year-old singer, who has described herself as "an argumentative little shit", has been both loved and hated by the press and public for a decade now, as is the fate of pop stars with opinions.
