pugnacity

But while the political press were busy recoiling like salted slugs on a hot sidewalk over his vulgar pugnacity during the town hall, Mr. Trump was working side deals directly with voters.

What counts is pugnacity, acting out and blind, unswerving allegiance to the party line.

He had better pick up his pace of invectives if he wants to compete in the Republican pugnacity sweepstakes.

Republicans will be forced to articulate an agenda beyond retrospective grievances and prospective pugnacity, and Democrats will be at first speechless, then forced to defend their agenda.

It was a pugnacity that analysts said could help establish him as a political threat to Vladimir Putin despite his professed fealty to the Russian president.