Sentence examples for pugnacious with from inspiring English sources
It's probably what you'd expect from someone with a personality not unlike our President's — thin-skinned and pugnacious, with a tendency to treat women as chattel.
Elektra, which followed in 1909, was no less pugnacious, with the Freudian connotations of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's libretto framing the ancient House of Atreus as a possible allegory for a crumbling dynastic Europe.
Geoff is evidently a little lower down the social scale than his wife: a former trade unionist at the local manufacturing plant who rose from the shopfloor to management level, and a man whose personality and politics are still coloured by the bitter losses of the Thatcher era, and who becomes pugnacious with a drink inside him.
Pascale Ogier brings an exhilarating feral passion to her role, starting with her pugnacious confrontation with a suave motorcyclist (Jean-François Stévenin); she died in 1984, at the age of twenty-five, and this movie may be her greatest showcase.
Franco is a pugnacious buffoon with a gnawing Napoleonic complex who just wants to prove that he was no fool.
It appeared to be designed as a permanent – and pugnacious – installation, with none of the usual ropes and pulleys.
Ms. Rich's pugnacious engagement with her illness even gave her the fortitude, she said, to move to India for a year to learn Hindi.
Mr. Sharon, a pugnacious septuagenarian with a long, checkered career in public service, is leading Mr. Barak by a very large margin in the polls.
The co-creator of The Simpsons, Sam Simon – who died on Sunday, aged 59, after an appropriately pugnacious battle with cancer – truly was a remarkable man.
Kotler is a wry and pugnacious protagonist, with an iron-clad commitment to the Jewish cause that has been tempered in his struggle with Soviet tyranny.
The son scored the century for his team, but he also scored it for the father – and for everyone who remembered the gritty, pugnacious Tyke with a tear in their eye whether in sunny Cape Town or snowy Sweden.
