Sentence examples for of pugnacity from inspiring English sources

But the costs of pugnacity will soon mount.

But the rush of pugnacity was fading, and what had begun as an invasion was becoming a sit-in.

With a mix of pugnacity and pride, Katz testified that he had earned nothing more than a 2.1 grade-point average at Brooklyn College.

"Saddam Hussein clearly now knows I mean what I say," Mr. Bush said, confronting European skeptics with more than a touch of pugnacity.

Worse, the Game, never a fluid rapper, sounds positively lumpy, as if he were delivering verses while running up a steep flight of stairs, or as if the last few years of pugnacity have finally left him winded.

In recent years, he has made "La Danse," a film about the Paris Opéra ballet company, and "Boxing Gym," shot in Austin, which turns out to be a celebration not of pugnacity and power but of rhythm, speed, and balance — the body in harmony with the spirit.

Remarkable because, every night, CNN's Campbell Brown stages an exhibition of a different kind, one of honorable pugnacity, an exhibition that would have stimulated viewers of the past but instead makes her a part of her network's continuing decline in prime-time ratings.

"I'm naturally pleased that we have an intelligent man near power, but it wasn't that he wanted to lead Canada into the next century," he says, with some of the quiet pugnacity of his father, the novelist Mordecai.

Reston found himself disoriented, out of place in a new era of journalistic pugnacity.

You and McEnroe and Vitas Gerulaitis and Ilie Nastase, among others, were so wonderful to watch not only because of the tennis itself but also because of your pugnacity and style.

Like the British statesman Sir Winston Churchill, (with whom he shares traits of indomitable pugnacity), he might have to wait until the end of his career to achieve ultimate success and recognition.