thrustful

Arnold at 70 is a less thrustful conductor than he was, generally adopting speeds on the slow side.

Parker and Glendenen played the Oxford bowling strictly on its merits - tidy, without being thrustful.

With the wingmen snugly tucked in, and the sections neatly slotted behind each other, the squadron had the thrustful look of a giant spearhead.

Gavin Long noted that Vasey was "highly strung, thrustful, hard working... concealed a deeply emotional even sentimental nature behind a mask of laconic and blunt speech.

Although less skillful than Shearer, Jordan was a more "thrustful" player, more suited to Southern League football, and by December he had become the regular inside-left.

This was commissioned by the thrustful chatelain of Pau, Gaston Phoebus, from his distinguished military architect, Sicord de Lord at; and was built some time in the 1370s.

We didn't think of ourselves as antisocial or reclusive, but our brief experience with the thrustful and dynamic Tony had been enough to remind us that the next few months would require firmness and ingenuity.

Described as a "stocky and thrustful winger", he was used as cover for Fred Tully and Bill Luckett and his only first-team appearances came at outside-left in the last two matches of the 1933-34 season, both defeats.