pugnaciousness

"They have skated right at the edge of controlled pugnaciousness."

In addition to having a natural pugnaciousness, he had the desired ability to sing and play the piano.

Indeed, they said such comments only fueled the competitive pugnaciousness that has helped drive the network's success.

Such pugnaciousness would only have made matters worse.

And for all his new pugnaciousness, Quayle is still more than capable of pulling a stunning boner.

Bridwell's pugnaciousness fit right in with McGraw's style of play.

His administration was to become known for its orthodoxy, pugnaciousness, authoritarianism, and embroilment in controversy.

Father pushed his way through the crowd trying his best to conceal his pugnaciousness.

His pugnaciousness is less attractive when it is aimed at an individual whose only sin was to make a legitimate criticism of the administration.

When he dived into the audience to scrap with fans, his pugnaciousness seemed organically connected with the music.

However, his pugnaciousness was belied by a happy demeanor and an inability to resist Susie's charms.

The feisty pugnaciousness remains.

His pugnaciousness as a young lawyer is suggested by his characterization of police interrogation: "the law of the rubber hose."

Naively volatile, he can be moved to violence when angry, but, in obedience to the conventions of comedy, his pugnaciousness is usually deflected or foiled.

Cardinal O'Connor has all the pugnaciousness - the ready, fire, aim style - New Yorkers expect of their civic leaders.

Trial lawyers have always been taunted as the pit bulls of the legal world, but now they can plead that their pugnaciousness is determined by body chemistry.

Mr. Gillespie, now 63 and exhibiting in the flesh none of the pugnaciousness of that early self-portrait, seems to have accepted his outsider status.

These episodes often devolve into gross-out humor and violent slapstick pratfalls, of which Bombo is the usual victim despite his great size and pugnaciousness.

For all his pugnaciousness, Mr. Fisher said that imposing sanctions on Fuji products in this country would "represent a failure on all our parts."

Its commandant-general, Servaas de Wet, who recalls James Cagney in his bantam pugnaciousness, said he had 10 commando units undergoing training.

Mr. Lauder, 53, has the air and bearing of the very wealthy, yet he sometimes alternates between extreme self-confidence and caution, between pugnaciousness and pliancy.

Most of the Republican "creative" people were trained at the old Carl Ally agency in New York City, a shop known for its pugnaciousness and biting wit.

In the court papers, some of that pugnaciousness emerges as Mr. Duka says that when someone is attacking your religion or way of life, "then you go jihad."

On this seventh day of the new Congress of People's Deputies, speakers offered the nation fresh bouts of pugnaciousness and demands for a score of different reforms.

And it was a contest in which his attack tactics, so often identified with the class of '94, came under criticism from a Republican establishment disquieted by the pugnaciousness of the Gingrich prodigy.