pugnacity
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Between Passivity and Pugnacity To some extent, the military is also a victim of the general concern over powerlessness in the face of huge, impersonal, Kafkaesque institutions.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pugnacity from Moscow and aerial assaults by Iran and Iraq on shipping in the Persian Gulf naturally prompted concern, even skittishness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pugnacity was aroused, but it might have an evil effect as well as a good, so far as the management had any control.
From The Psychology of Management The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and Installing Methods of Least Waste by Gilbreth, Lillian Moller
Pugnacity, declares my uncle, is a form of sentimentalism, and all sentimentalism is despicable.
From Modern American Prose Selections by Rees, Byron J. (Byron Johnson)
Chap. xi, "The Instinct of Pugnacity," pp. 279-95; "The Instinct of Pugnacity and the Emotion of Anger," pp. 49-61. 4th rev. ed.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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