Sentence examples for pugnacity to from inspiring English sources
He's a tiny bloke but there's a nice pugnacity to his batting.
Conner O'Malley is a stunt-happy comedian who employs self-consciously shouty pugnacity to devastating effect.
That song also features the rising teen-rap brutalist Chief Keef, who is perhaps the first clear inheritor of Waka Flocka Flame-style pugnacity to have the potential to break through to more than a local audience.
Leary's fighting-Irish characters can be exhausting after a while — they tend to careen from overbearing pugnacity to morose regretfulness, without stopping for long on any middle ground, but that pattern makes sense in "Rescue Me," since Tommy's life has no middle ground.
Greaves gets behind the scenes at a meeting of journalists with Frazier, who responds with a brilliantly sarcastic pugnacity to a silly question and then finds Lancaster there with him as well, taking a hat off the fighter's head and promising to have it "cleaned and blocked".
He also tied human emotions, especially anger and pugnacity, to religious faith.
Sarkozy's right-wing sympathies and pugnacity seemed to jar with Dati's more liberal sensibilities, but the two of them went on to become extremely close.
Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager who brought pugnacity and pragmatism to the Baltimore Orioles dugout, leading the team to five 100-win seasons, four American League pennants and the 1970 World Series championship, and tormenting a generation of umpires along the way, died early Saturday.
Isabelle leaps from encounter to encounter with an ironic abruptness, and her sublime pugnacity gives rise to a riotous tirade during a jaunt in a rich landowner's ample woods.
"Many of us have just given up," says the official.He has got away with it, thanks largely to his rustic pugnacity, which he uses to needle the upper castes and charm the lower ones.
But pugnacity comes naturally to Mr. Perrin, a compact man who will talk about his Cajun ancestors and the injustices visited upon them as long as a person will let him.
