pugnacity

In fact, the speech had fired him with more pugnacity.

There is a new pugnacity in the battered world of the arts.

Now they had less than nothing to lose she felt an ancient pugnacity stirring within her.

With a touch of her old pugnacity, she said, "Back to the city?

The Martian had also his impulses of fear and pugnacity.

You must set your goals high and go for them with the pugnacity of a terrier.

It is a singular fact, though, that the white squirrel has not even a little pugnacity.

He also tied human emotions, especially anger and pugnacity, to religious faith.

When he faced me again, there was no trace of agitation, or pugnacity.

Durocher died in 1991, but his audacity and pugnacity got passed along.

Of course, the old pugnacity is still there.

The Mayor has routinely responded to these criticisms with the pugnacity for which he is sometimes known.

I never saw pugnacity overtake a man so fast.

Once there is a fight between free workers and a Remade man with the pugnacity of the newly changed.

This is not conceit, merely a kind of pugnacity.

Wladi - many men would like to have his pugnacity and light approach to life.

His pugnacity causes him to give way frequently to violent outbursts of anger.

He approaches the sensitive subject of Jesse Jackson with the same pugnacity.

Mr. Stark's pugnacity often gets the better of him.

What saves him, and the job, is the intellectual pugnacity generic to the Brooklyn-born.

The blow of the poisonous dart from behind a bush, to murder a woman or a child in their sleep, is not pugnacity.

Pugnacity was stamped upon him but there was a jauntiness as well.

The President combines courage and pugnacity with a tendency to fall into apathy after winning a fight.

The brigade became known for its cultivated pugnacity.