How To Use Pugilistic In A Sentence
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A favorite uncle provided pointers on pugilistic defenses against bullies - namely her father, who was the first regular bully in her life.
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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.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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Of course, I also think that Britain is a nation of inarticulate, pugilistic slobs.
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Political infighting rarely comes to real fisticuffs, but the Scottish Tories at their Dundee conference this weekend were clearly being inspired by pugilistic events going on at Hampden.
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If Harold Bloom is correct – and he's been quite sure of himself for almost 40 years – the placid scene of influence is in reality a brawl, with writers engaged in pugilistic agon against their aesthetic progenitors.
The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
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Finding no solace at home, he is taunted, bullied and beaten by a pugilistic stepfather and eventually sent by his sympathetic, but passive, mother to a private boarding school to study his sixth form.
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They are sometimes pugilistic, invariably dominant, and often greedy for power.
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Mr. Reid has brought his pugilistic sensibility to his career ... link Actually, knowing a little bit about this guy, the word wiener should be in there somewhere.
Archive 2006-11-01
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He's depicted as a mad, pugilistic photographer with misogynistic tendencies.
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The Reform Party national committee will vote on whether to oust the pugilistic arch-conservative who is seeking that party's candidacy.
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Buried in his pugilistic proclamation - in which he also declared war on ‘nonviolent civil disobedience’ - was a curious invitation.
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To label as combative this epic standoff from this morning's show would be to understate the man's pugilistic expertise.
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Other venues for practice were Daffy's Club, held at Tom Belcher's at the Castle Tavern, Holborn, a place recorded in "The London Spy"; and the Pugilistic Society, mentioned by Byron, which held its first meeting at the Thatched House Tavern on May 22nd, 1814, while exponents as Gregson and Gully, Broughton and Slack were wont to foregather at Limmer's Hotel and meet there patrons and pupils there.
The London of the Ton - Part IV
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Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses.
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Buried in his pugilistic proclamation - in which he also declared war on ‘nonviolent civil disobedience’ - was a curious invitation.
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a pugilistic career
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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.
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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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.
George Borrow The Man and His Books
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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.”
George Borrow in East Anglia
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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.
Frances Hardinge: a bucketful of whimsy
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Daredevil possesses the acrobatic ability of a circus performer and the pugilistic skills of a boxer.
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Her continued efforts at world pugilistic dominance recommence on Jan.16 in championships in Pointe Claire, where she'll be battling again to maintain her ranking.
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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.
Cokemachineglow.com
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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.
The Pocket George Borrow
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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.
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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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.
Mark Salter Caught Up In 'O' Speculation
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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.
Dem Insiders Trash Rahm Emanuel, His Effect On White House 'Tone'
