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Schickel is alternately sycophantic (toward Eastwood) and pugilistic (toward any critic who has ever had unkind words for the actor--particularly Pauline Kael, who did seem to have a mission to make the tall man's Magnum shrivel).
That strong, Brandoesque jaw gives her a pugilistic cast--laugh at her and she'd slug you.
The Star has maintained a more pugilistic pose since Diana's death.
Before you dismiss Fish as either a danger to democratic values or a pugilistic idiot, you have to know three more things about him.
Reno reversed the standard narrative arc of congressional hearings, in which belligerent congressmen make witnesses look stupid, said Evan Thomas ( Inside Washington ). The attorney general's pugilistic secret?