agonistic poses.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

A dialectical and agonistic approach.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective : agonistic humor.    From Dictionary.com. 

Burckhardt and Nietzsche were colleagues in Basel, and each developed an "agonistic" theory of society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book review of Hugh Trevor-Roper's "History and the Enlightenment"] Reference

Testosterone pushes people (males) towards agonistic behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell curves] Reference

KING: So that means if you're an agonistic or an atheist, you're out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 9, 2008] Reference

A strictly atheistic or agonistic explanation is still always possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [God, Strings, Emergence, and the Future of the World By Nicola Hoggard Creegan] Reference

Huizinga's thesis is also a particularly agonistic and machismo view of play history.    From Wordnik.com.  [thinking with my fingers] Reference

Patterns of agonistic interaction and space utilization by agoutis, Dasyprocta punctata.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 11] Reference

I think you could also find other deep rule-informing structures justifications in agonistic and mimetic games.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plato’s game] Reference

Goodwin, J.W.S. Bradshaw & S.M. Wickens, “Paedomorphosis affects agonistic visual signals of domestic dogs.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak Dog] Reference

Now that I merely "believe", I find it to be one of the most agonistic and elemental narratives in the whole book.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: KEEPING IT SIMPLE.] Reference

Of course, you have to abandon the notion of utopia and may need to embrace "agonistic pluralism," ala Isaiah Berlin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philocrites: August 2003 Archives] Reference

Given the weight of history, the clash of ideas, and especially the agonistic culture of the Internet, pessimism is easy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ravenna: the latest chapter in Catholic-Orthodox ecumenism] Reference

Look elsewhere for agonistic social ontology: A response to Smith from The Immanent Frame posted by Nicholas Wolterstorff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teleological social ontology] Reference

In the sense that you know the mortgage market has become very efficient and they think maybe their role has become a little agonistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 20, 2008] Reference

Byron's angry curses rebuff sympathy and introduce a set of agonistic relations amongst himself, his poetry, his readers, and his victims.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romantic Anger and Byron] Reference

"We observed that a placebo that was believed to be an agonistic agent was able to enhance the release of these anti-pain endogenous opioids.".    From Wordnik.com.  [If You THINK You will FEEL Better . . . you will!. . . study on mind and reality . . .. . . neuroscience confirms the mind can create its own painkiller] Reference

Indeed, the seeds for an agonistic view of American.    From Wordnik.com.  [MuzzleWatch] Reference

Palagi E (2008) What does agonistic dominance imply in bonobos?.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

"The MyMedicalRecords PHR is provider-agonistic," Lorsch emphasized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

Iranian politics has moved from an agonistic to an antagonistic mode.    From Wordnik.com.  [MRZine.org] Reference

Recording was interrupted only during the daily agonistic interaction.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

The agonistic throes, the ecstasies, joys of the solemn musings day or night?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

The agonistic throes, the extasies—joys of the solemn musings, day or night?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of Joys] Reference

González-Suárez M, Gerber LR (2008) Determinants of agonistic interactions in.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Quantum, on the other hand, adheres to this convention in a pointedly agonistic way.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Valve] Reference

NET RIA Services is DAL agonistic, this part of the evolution story can change a bit.    From Wordnik.com.  [MSDN Blogs] Reference

It's a way to be maximally agonistic and get the most attention with the fewest words.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Verb] Reference

During 4 days under DD agonistic activity remained rhythmic with an average circadian period of 24.83 ±.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Mothers and sons seem to be inseparable and mothers provide agonistic aid to sons in conflicts with other males.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primates in the News] Reference

Mesothelioma prognosis gravely agonistic patients hawthorn attestant inspiratory crackles and clubbing of fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogpulse Top Links] Reference

Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) agonistic screams are graded vocal signals that are produced in a context-specific manner.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

An agonistic discourse will therefore be one marked not merely by conflict but just as importantly, by mutual admiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Debate Link] Reference

Stygimoloch spinifer (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) with comments on cranial display structures in agonistic behavior.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Two conflicting agonistic elements seem to have contended in the man, sometimes pulling him different ways like wild horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

The other five animals had no remaining rhythm of agonistic behavior: they just responded to attacks by the Numero Uno when necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Researchers reported for the first time direct support from mothers to their sons in agonistic conflicts over access to estrous females.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primates in the News] Reference