Pugilistic

Word PUGILISTIC
Character 10
Hyphenation pu gil is tic
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The word "pugilistic" in example sentences

There were other critics — Borrow always had plenty of critics — who found it difficult to make his admiration for the prize-ring fit in with his denunciation in one passage of “those disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions called pugilistic combats.” ❋ Unknown (1904)

In his "introduction" he satisfied some curiosity, but raised still more, when speaking of the English Gypsies and especially of their eminence "in those disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions called pugilistic combats." ❋ Edward Thomas (1897)

Probably they liked to know that this missionary called pugilistic combats "disgraceful and brutalising exhibitions"; and they were almost as certainly, as we are to-day, delighted with the descriptions that followed, because it brought for the first time clearly before them a real prize-fighting scene, and the author, a terrible child of fourteen, looking on -- "why should I hide the truth?" says he. ❋ Edward Thomas (1897)

They are likewise fond of resorting to the prize-ring, and have occasionally even attained some eminence, as principals, in those disgraceful and brutalizing exhibitions called pugilistic combats. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)

Senior party members recently approached Sydney drama coach and media specialist Marcus West to help Mr Abbott address his "pugilistic" image in the lead-up to the federal election - and to help make him more appealing. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There's a kind of pugilistic high to attain if you can make it through both sides without pausing, allowing the shifting roars and mutant fizz to bathe you like evil-eyed shoegaze. ❋ Unknown (2009)

An interesting thing about the NHL enforcer community is that with such a small group of players partaking in the pugilistic arts, most are familiar with each other and have fought multiple times. ❋ Katie Carrera (2010)

His involvement in a book about the Obama administration isn't a light I'd hide under a bushel -- my expectation would be that such a book would be entertainingly pugilistic and grudgey. ❋ Jason Linkins (2011)

He is a man with a convivial intellect and a pugilistic face, contradicted by a lovely smile. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But if Democratic figures inside and outside the White House are to be believed, Mr Emanuel's pugilistic approach may turn him into a scapegoat for much what has gone wrong, some of it fair, some not. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

The too-much-hyped championship contest between Floyd Mayweather and Victor Ortiz went down in pugilistic infamy at the end of the fourth round. ❋ Gordon Marino (2011)

Mr. Tribe noted that key cases depend on swaying Justice Anthony Kennedy, and lamented that cerebral liberals like Justice Stephen Breyer have been outmatched in public debate by the court's pugilistic conservative, Justice Antonin Scalia. ❋ Jess Bravin (2010)

Mr. Weiner, a Democrat whose pugilistic style and frequent cable-television appearances propelled him to the national stage, was long considered a front-runner in the 2013 contest to succeed Mayor Michael Bloomberg. ❋ Michael Howard Saul (2011)

I'd actually been thinking of brushing up on my pugilistic skills, and it had nothing to do with the movie. ❋ Ralph Gardner Jr. (2011)

The only thing standing between him and pugilistic immortality is Mariusz Wach, a 249-pound slugger from Poland, who is strongly favored. ❋ Russell Adams (2011)

Quarry died at age 53, his health ruined by pugilistic dementia. ❋ William Bradley (2011)

Those five chapters were the start of her children's debut Fly By Night, a rumbustiously imagined rollick through the adventures of the black-eyed orphan Mosca Mye and her pugilistic goose Saracen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

For all his pugilistic prowess, Krugman embraces the rhythms of academia as a safe retreat. ❋ Howard Kurtz (2010)

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