Sentence examples for offensive spirit from inspiring English sources

The Magic came out with some renewed offensive spirit in the opening minutes of the third, cutting Atlanta's lead to 57-53.

There has been a series of attacks in recent months that suggests a new offensive spirit, though not necessarily the capacity to take and hold terrain.

When his army failed to trigger a carefully laid trap for retreating Federals at Spring Hill, Hood concluded that his soldiers lacked the customary offensive spirit he had experienced earlier in Lee's Virginia army.

On his 47th birthday he dined 15 captains in his flagship and outlined his plans to bring on a "pell-mell battle" in which British gunnery and offensive spirit would be decisive.

Privately, though, US officials are downbeat about the chances of the army retaking the Iraqi cities of Tikrit and Mosul - as well as other big centres lost to IS last summer - believing the training effort is going on too slowly and Iraqi government forces are lacking in offensive spirit.

Nicknamed "Ape" by his colleagues due to his imposing physique, he was described by a fellow pilot as "a big, smiling, long-armed giant from Putney, with an irresistible offensive spirit and quite fearless".

Sarah's cell phone played the beginning of "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," its vigorous twang not unlike a harpsichord, and so not completely offensive to the spirit of Mozart, who perhaps did not have to roll about in his grave as much as so many of his colleagues did, since the advent of electronic things.

In addition, this spot was also offensive to the Olympics spirit.

The spokeswoman added that the campaign was "offensive to the Olympic spirit" and the was "contrary to everything we as a company stand for".

Perhaps he would have been more forgiving of the French Army's lack of heavy artillery, its failure to replace enough of its colorful uniforms and its commitment to what was termed the "spirit of the offensive" if he had focused more on its pre-1914 debates on doctrine.

There, Pope John Paul II wrote that there are acts that "are always seriously wrong by reason of their object," including "whatever violates the integrity of the human person, such as mutilation, physical and mental torture and attempts to coerce the spirit; whatever is offensive to human dignity".