Sentence examples for the pugnacity of 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?
Siamese fighting fish, (Betta splendens), freshwater tropical fish of the family Osphronemidae (order Perciformes), noted for the pugnacity of the males toward one another.
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.
The president-elect has the blunt pugnacity of the Breitbartian style.
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. Mullan's direction isn't glib or overstated, and the reward is a brace of memorable performances by the girls, played by Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Wandh, Mary Murray aNora-JaneaNoonemnem who has the vivid beauty of Gene Tierney and the charismatic pugnacity of Jimmy Cagney.
Ian McKellen defined her as "... a punk chanteuse, a post-grunge valkyrie, with the wounded soul of a poet and the explosive pugnacity of a Canadian".
