How To Use Pugilist In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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There was a long-standing tradition of professionalism, which centred around jockeys and pugilists for the most part.
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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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He was a priest, but a sinister one: swarthy, blunt-featured and built like a pugilist.
ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
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The researcher concurred that their ‘views of life have come from association with ‘flash-men’ of every order, with pugilists, pickpockets, cockfighters, and all the habitués of pot-houses or bucketshops.’
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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.
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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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POL´-LUX, β _Geminorum_, Ovid's "Pugil," the pugilist of the two brothers.
A Field Book of the Stars
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Increased travel by pugilists, pedestrians, rowers, and wrestlers from the 1840s had a direct link with the railways.
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In many cases it was financial necessity that forced great pugilists back, with disastrous consequences.
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But Gingrich the pugnacious pugilist has not been satisfied to rest on his unpleasantness.
John Feffer: The New Marx
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With a jutted-out pugilist's jaw that just manages to outreach his impressive paunch, the author seems rumpled, a little silly, but defiant.
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Although the bare-knuckle San Diego pugilist makes a virtue of being unpopular, it's actually a hell of a more pragmatic company than its shrill marketing would have you believe.
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The pugilist blocked his opponent's blows and then put in a sudden right to the jaw.
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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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The pint-sized pugilist carved a niche in the local professional fight game, a victory which catapulted him into the record books.
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There were a couple of butts, but none of the dirty tactics both pugilists have used in some past fights.
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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'
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According to the OED, a pugilist is one who practices the art of boxing -- a boxer or a fighter.
Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England'
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Remember that if he wasn't playing football, Hall would be a professional pugilist and probably a bloody good one given that he can knock a player down, even when he didn't mean to throw the punch!
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That said, modern boxing appears almost genteel alongside its prizefighting predecessor in which bareknuckled pugilists fought to exhaustion, with fights often lasting several hours.
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While not the gritty young pugilists often associated with old-school boxing gyms such as Gleason's, the men exemplify the type of boxer who has become a mainstay of New York's traditional fight halls.
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The two pugilists traded blows early on, and seemed fairly evenly matched.
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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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Whatever braggadocio the most fearsome pugilists in world boxing are coming up with, they are themselves each assured of a purse of at least $17.5m for meeting in the ring, making it the richest boxing bout in history.
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Of course, I also think that Britain is a nation of inarticulate, pugilistic slobs.
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Thirdly, there is the tendency of the press, which is now the great moulder of public opinion, to take what we may call the pugilist's view of international controversies.
Reflections and Comments 1865-1895
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Then the aging pugilist, too, turned earnest, and emoted about how all political consultants respect one another deep down, because unlike the candidates they elect, they live "in the trenches.
Ed Rollins, Republican strategist, joins political consultant hall of fame
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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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Ed Balls used the leadership campaign to showcase how effective he can be as a pugilist against the government.
Ed Miliband: You thought fighting your brother was tough. That was the easy bit
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The pugilist is his own general and never learns the high lessons of obedience; the soldier learns to subordinate himself to his commander, and to fight bravely and effectively under the direction of another.
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
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When Sonny did embark on a comeback he went to Europe and reeled off a series of wins against some non-threatening pugilists.
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Among the spectators was Khamzat Dzhabrailov, 54, a former Soviet middleweight boxing champion who used to spar with Kadyrov when the latter was a teenage pugilist, said: "The Brazilians are afraid to play strongly because Ramzan will break their necks if they win.
For football fans in Grozny, it's just like watching Brazil. No, really
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They are sometimes pugilistic, invariably dominant, and often greedy for power.
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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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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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We were nine USA Olympic Champion pugilists competing in the 1960 Rome Olympic Games.
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In the offseason, General Manager George McPhee felt the Caps needed to toughen up, so the club traded for pugilist DJ King.
Statistical analysis: Midseason Capitals awards
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The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said at the time there was "Buckley's chance" of Mr Harkins becoming a Labor Senator, calling him a "pugilist".
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Pugilists, criminals, showmen, and oddballs also captured the public fancy: P. T. Barnum was a great early impresario of this new world of celebrity.
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Often at the end of a day when they had successfully charged a suspect he would lapse into a kind of braggadocio, the thin, frangible coating of allure that he often put on would disappear totally, and his pugilist walk would become more pronounced.
Bottled Spider
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No statue of a warrior was sculptured in the varied attitudes of attack and defence; no wrestler, no _discobolus_, no pugilist exhibited the grace, the vigor, or the muscular action of a man; nor were the beauties, the feeling, and the elegance of female forms displayed in stone: all was made to conform to the same invariable model, which confined the human figure to a few conventional postures.
Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
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He had no other subject of conversation with this hybrid: and being equally disposed for hot discourse or for sleep, the deprivation of the one and the other forced him to seek amusement in his famous reading of character; which was profound among the biped equine, jockeys, turfmen, sharpers, pugilists, demireps.
The Amazing Marriage — Volume 2
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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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Rule changes have altered amateur boxing so much that to pugilists the sport now bears only a passing resemblance to its professional cousin.
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He said the tournament had also attracted female pugilists, adding that the Copperbelt would contribute bantamweights Charity Mobola, Sally Mwape and Ireen Mwanagoma.
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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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Having been picked up by a black cab from the Hilton Hotel, where I had been watching the pugilists weigh-in on Friday afternoon, my reverie was soon rather rudely interrupted.
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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.
