| This, of course, is a vast improvement on those forlorn days when a few disputatious souls insisted that only soldiers had died in the war. |
| It is one of the many places where America's policy elite is working with its customary disputatious energy to shape national strategy. |
| And yet beneath the mellow exterior lies a fiercely independent, and at times disputatious, thinker. |
| Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems. |
| Chirac has been lofted to a pinnacle of popularity, with virtually no public dissent, even from France's normally disputatious intellectuals. |
| Similarly it is not possible to say whether the English are shown to be a nation vindicated by the god of battles or a band of disputatious mercenaries who simply get lucky. |
