McCorvey fought back with characteristic pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Roe V. Roe] Reference
Formality and tradition cannot repress his pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
War, and acquisitive instinct; and hate; and pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Want of pugnacity too often passes for want of courage. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
The defect of his character was his unreasoning pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
His mother looked at him and she saw pugnacity written all over him. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Such were the tenets of his quiet pugnacity of faith in human beings. From Wordnik.com. [Frank H. Nelson of Cincinnati] Reference
Occasionally, however, pugnacity is displayed in its simple animal form. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
This, in a youth not seventeen, urged well for the pugnacity of the man. From Wordnik.com. [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference
Shanahan resented it, and dealt with it the way he was taught, with pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Shanahan takes his life's work to D.C. and Washington Redskins] Reference
The 'Mercury' missed his power of organisation, his splendid gift of pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Grey Town An Australian Story] Reference
Professor McDougal has called "the replacement of individual by collective pugnacity.". From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
But pugnacity and perseverance are not necessarily connected with intellectual genius. From Wordnik.com. [The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners] Reference
I have also to remark that the sparrows here betray much less pugnacity than in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 363, December 16, 1882] Reference
The unrest that precedes a national crisis had developed into irritability and pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
And you can ` t underestimate the pugnacity of Michigan and Florida in doing what they did. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 6, 2008] Reference
It diagnosed the fundamental instincts of men, sex-appetite, will-to-achieve, and pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Buddhism and Buddhists in China] Reference
GEORGE WILL, COLUMNIST: The man for whom pugnacity is a political tenacity, Rudolph Giuliani. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2007] Reference
But the Boers were only joking; they retired after an out-of-range demonstration of pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference
GEORGE WILL, COLUMNIST: The man for whom pugnacity is a political philosophy, Rudolph Giuliani. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2007] Reference
Individuals display at once curiosity and fear, pity and pugnacity, acquisitiveness and sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The boys of this region, from generation to generation, had been renowned for exceeding pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War] Reference
The fact is, his testiness, his pugnacity, was also -- those were also ingredients of his success. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 1, 2004] Reference
The City State, self-contained, self-supporting, truly democratic, is marked by a similar pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference
Major Brooks possessed, unfortunately for himself, a great amount of irritable vanity and pugnacity. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Old Liverpool] Reference
All his pugnacity was engaged in what seemed to be a profitless struggle with the speech of the grammar. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Progress, and custom; and pugnacity; and reflection; and variation from normal; science as an instrument of. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Cats have no temptation to wander in herds; the exhibition of pugnacity in a sheep would strike us with wonder. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
We are being saved not by the reasoned conviction of the populace, but by its native pugnacity and bull-dog courage. From Wordnik.com. [Cambridge Essays on Education] Reference
From the day of the marriage it had been clear who would contribute the spark of pugnacity to the Levoisier ménage. From Wordnik.com. [Murder Without Icing]
Lord SALISBURY displayed more pugnacity in a reassertion of views that had been described as "mediæval superstition.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31] Reference
He threw himself into the fight with all the pugnacity of his disposition, and, while his blood was up, revelled in the fray. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Her new no-holds-barred pugnacity and gleeful perseverance have revamped her image in the eyes of begrudging white male voters. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Ostertag: Hillary Clinton's Legacy] Reference
The "boiling point" varies in different individuals and races, and pugnacity is generally more readily roused in men than in women. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
A really intelligent camera would show in his face a mixture of wholesome pugnacity, concentration of thought and feminine tenderness. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
They may exercise pugnacity, gratify spite, assuage a wound to national pride, or enhance or dim a military reputation; but that is all. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
The pugnacity of Irishmen has grown into a proverb, until, in the belief of many, a genuine Milesian is never at peace but when fighting. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
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