| The disputatious ceremony concludes, fittingly enough, with a traffic jam involving two processions trying to go in opposite directions. |
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| To place those two disputatious lawyers side by side, even in after-life, would have been a certain recipe for conflict. |
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| If they persist in carrying on like this, these disputatious divorced dads will lose the sympathy vote. |
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| Chirac has been lofted to a pinnacle of popularity, with virtually no public dissent, even from France's normally disputatious intellectuals. |
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| 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. |
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| We are a disputatious and ingenious species and have a pretty good track record of solving problems sensibly. |
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| It is one of the many places where America's policy elite is working with its customary disputatious energy to shape national strategy. |
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| Biographer Brenda Maddox describes Rosalind as a disputatious kind of woman with some personality problems. |
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| And yet beneath the mellow exterior lies a fiercely independent, and at times disputatious, thinker. |
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| There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquillity. |
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| I imagine the Professor as a particularly disputatious pet-shop owner. |
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| It's simply impossible for me to 'belong' to this quarrelsome, hostile, disputatious, and deservedly infamous group. |
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| But words, in the context of the disputatious Holy Land, matter a great deal, too. |
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| That thought has occurred to disputatious Tories, who would cheer if the coalition foundered. |
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| The resolution of disputes and disputatious circumstances is often central to the economics of the sector. |
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| Interreligious dialogue, unthinkable in a more disputatious age, stimulates conversations our ancestors in faith could scarcely imagine. |
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| Each of these phases and eras produces its own distorted knowledge of the other, each its own reductive images, its own disputatious polemics. |
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| 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. |
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| As a result, some people came to see Pareto as disputatious, caustic, and careless of people's feelings. |
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| He was a stout, squat figure, with a square face and broad black eyebrows, that announced him to be opinionative and disputatious. |
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| A look at the Canadian media on any given day will demonstrate that we are actually a disputatious lot, not at all behind-hand in debating political and social issues and making claims on behalf of our various groups. |
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| Pervasive distrust about the other parent's ability to care adequately for their child and discrepancies in perceptions about parenting practices generally typified the couples likely to be highly disputatious. |
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| His reverence for Aristotle conflicted with his rejection of Aristotelian philosophy, which seemed to him barren, disputatious and wrong in its objectives. |
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