pugilistic

It's all part of the show, one that is increasingly pugilistic.

New York was once the capital of the pugilistic universe.

For a moment, the old pugilistic Mailer looks as if he might flash with his left.

A cats' club (social, musical, and pugilistic) used to meet on the wall to the right of my window.

With each dark day, the waves grew more pugilistic.

He struck me as being extremely tactical, organised and pugilistic.

Hemingway was 20 years younger and near the height of his pugilistic powers.

Any thoughts of a pugilistic career, however, went down for the count a couple of weeks ago.

Does he get all teary and pugilistic over the issue of whether his mother breast fed him?

Nothing afforded them more pleasure than to see me go through the attitudes of a pugilistic encounter.

He is best known for his pugilistic skills.

Later, he made drumming seem an equally pugilistic activity.

DeBrusk, a rookie, has shown more hockey than pugilistic skills.

"I am in awe of your pugilistic talents," she said coolly.

His parents, though, were not so good early on at handling Poeschek's pugilistic prowess.

I'm here to perform the duties of a pugilistic impresario."

The first regular took a nineteenth-century pugilistic stance and said, "Put up your dukes."

The Star has maintained a more pugilistic pose since Diana's death.

Like boxers in a ring, they confronted one another, only the contest had little to do with the pugilistic art.

Later, he taught pugilistic procedures to James Dean for a movie based on his own ring experience.

The imageers' choice of metaphor put my proboscis into pugilistic play.

"That's why you often see the knees and fists raised in the 'pugilistic' attitude.

Suddenly, I got a pugilistic epiphany borne on a burst of adrenaline.

This fight is not about pugilistic skills.

In boxing parlance, he had again staked his claim to pugilistic fame.