Sentence examples for pugnacity and from inspiring English sources
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.
Mr. Le Pen "expresses ideas held by many Frenchmen, but he is the only one to express them with so much pugnacity and intensity," Mr. Moisi said.
His pugnacity and links with Mr Brown limit his appeal, but he has probably gained more respect within the Labour tribe than any other candidate.The storm after the calmThere are great opportunities for whoever takes the crown.
Other fans, like Mr. Langone, have roots in the 2008 presidential campaign of Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York mayor whose pugnacity and politics roughly mirror Mr. Christie's.
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.
Jones evidently admires Hartley's pugnacity and is prepared to take a calculated risk on the professionalism of a player who is all too aware he has missed more than a year of rugby to suspension.
And without making a big deal of it, he riffled through genres — doo-wop, Tin Pan Alley, honky-tonk, gospel — while splashing gleefully around the keyboard and projecting a diehard pugnacity, in and out of the songs.
His pugnacity fascinated and repelled people in equal measure.
To achieve that, Mr. Hargrove combined equal measures of intellect, pugnacity, charisma and a willingness to take on unfashionable causes.
Even before his swipe at Mr. Paul, Mr. Christie dominated the stage, mixing pugnacity, brio and wit to such effect that toward the end of the program Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana pointed in Mr. Christie's direction to praise "leadership like frankly you see here".
But, not to spoil a good twist, Solondz deliberately undercuts that very mockery, as Fantasy — for all his bravado, pugnacity, vanity, and self-righteous demands — ends up something of a hero whose ambitions, strangely but with an achingly sublime humor, match up with Solondz's as clearly as do Dave's.
