pugilist

How To Use pugilist In A Sentence

• And yet, Socrates, rhetoric should be used like any other competitive art, not against everybody-the rhetorician ought not to abuse his strength any more than a pugilist or pancratiast or other master of fence; because he has powers which are more than a match either for friend or enemy, he ought not therefore to strike, stab, or slay his friends. Plato's Gorgias - Selected Moments
• The fact that foreign nations are able to thrash them does not convince them that those nations are superior, any more than a gentleman's physical defeat by a pugilist would satisfy him that the pugilist is a better man. New Forces in Old China : An Inevitable Awakening
• Or maybe its a little pugilistic prestidigitation to avoid showing an aging action queen huffing and puffing in between roundhouses.
• And yet, Socrates, rhetoric should be used like any other competitive art, not against everybody, -- the rhetorician ought not to abuse his strength any more than a pugilist or pancratiast or other master of fence; -- because he has powers which are more than a match either for friend or enemy, he ought not therefore to strike, stab, or slay his friends. Gorgias
• Buried in his pugilistic proclamation - in which he also declared war on ‘nonviolent civil disobedience’ - was a curious invitation.
• a pugilistic career
• There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism, which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part.
• 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
• 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
• 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