| The usage guru Bryan A. Garner told me that he long admired Kilpatrick's pugnaciousness and iconoclasm. |
| She presides over her uptown domain with benignity, unpredictable wit, two-fisted pugnaciousness, and a remarkable insight into the human condition. |
| He is mild-mannered, too, and does not appear to share the ideological pugnaciousness and cultural resentfulness of his putative future colleagues Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. |
| The distinctive Nixonian blend of pugnaciousness and self-pity comes through clearly in the 297 pages. |
| If they fought back, the pugnaciousness was knocked out of them at once. |
| One evening the latter thought fit to twit him with his pugnaciousness. |
