pugnacity

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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

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

As imitation slides into emulation, so emulation slides into Ambition; and ambition connects itself closely with Pugnacity and Pride.

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

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)