Sentence examples for the pugnacity from inspiring English sources

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

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

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.

But specialists in the calamitous recent history of what was once the most vibrant economy in West Africa say such tools underestimate the pugnacity of a man who has fought a 30-year battle to gain and hold power.

If United did not cope or at least show the pugnacity that has served them well in former crises, it may have been because they could scarcely accept their unlikely predicament.

The only thing that has changed is that now the left is expressing itself with the same pugnacity as the right, Democrats say.

This poise was the most notable aspect of the press conference, outside of the absence of the words pugnacity, truculence and belligerence.

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

"I'm naturally pleased that we have an intelligent man near power, but it wasn't that he wanted to lead Canada into the next century," he says, with some of the quiet pugnacity of his father, the novelist Mordecai.

Mr. McCain's lead-with-the-chin approach to Russia reflects the same pugnacity that resulted in obscenity-laced dust-ups with fellow Republican senators, but it's less endearing when the risk is nuclear war.