Sentence examples for pugnacity of from inspiring English sources

The pugnacity of Walsh's comic direction infuses turbulently free enterprise with tragedy.

By their size, and the sheer pugnacity of their presence, they were a stand-in for the real thing.

Into a new leap in the pugnacity of extremist fringes surrounding increasingly despondent and dejected middle-class precariat?

His down-to-earth Swabian manner matches the state's spirit better than did the conservative pugnacity of Stefan Mappus, the premier he defeated.

If Darling lacks the pugnacity of a devious old Labour bruiser, he also struggles to compensate for it with a new Labour instinct for spin.

Fearless, self-admiring, effortlessly eloquent and assiduously self-promoting, he combined the pugnacity of a Norman Mailer with the wit of an Oscar Wilde.

In the 16th century, Luther's pugnacity on behalf of his rediscovered gospel expressed itself in combative writings aimed at various targets.

His left hand slams the keyboard in a persuasive emulation of Bud Powell or Thelonious Monk, and some of the figures (as at 2 55-3 10) have a chromatic wildness — and a percussive pugnacity — worthy of Taylor's.

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.

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.

But the costs of pugnacity will soon mount.