agonistic

How To Use agonistic In A Sentence

• It's here that he rails for the umpteenth time against lesser critics who have dared to suggest that his boisterous, agonistic account of writerly influence might be weighted in favour of a certain masculinist tradition. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
• So essentially antagonistic class interests sharing the same region find themselves allying with each other in their mutual self-interests.
• By these tests we plainly understand the “flesh” to be antagonistical to the Spirit. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
• I am not in any way saying this to be antagonistic, nor to disparage anyone's beliefs; that isn't my way, or my purpose in starting this.
• The ceremony at the square was watched by more than three thousand people, including many who had been so antagonistic to him.
• Deeply antagonistic to reformist compromises with bourgeois democracy, syndicalists also disputed the Leninist strategy of organizing revolution via a vanguard party.
• Urine-borne chemical cues influence the progression and outcome of agonistic encounters in lobsters and crayfish.
• a dialectical and agonistic approach
• His brothers had been, by turns, indifferent and antagonistic to this last-born of the Angevin eaglets... with one exception. HERE BE DRAGONS
• It is clear that you and your daughter have had a difficult and at times antagonistic relationship over the years. Times, Sunday Times