152 examples of argumentative in sentences

He had no imagination and little poetic feeling, nor did genuine passion ever inflame into fervor of declamation his quiet, argumentative style.

He was exactly the man for that time, for that question, and for the persuasive and argumentative part of the great controversy which he had undertaken.

He addressed them in a stirring and argumentative harangue, pointing out union under his standard as the only safeguard against French conquest.

Perhaps, as so frequently happened, he was secretly ashamed of having shown such a suspicious and argumentative disposition on the preceding evening, and meant to make amends for it by an unusually cheery manner.

" "It is easier for girls to be good than for boys," rejoined Hollis in an argumentative tone, "Is it?

In the summer of 1822 I wrote my first argumentative essay.

My performance was entirely argumentative, without any of the declamation which the subject would admit of, and might be expected to suggest to a young writer.

His perfect command over his great mental resources, the terseness and expressiveness of his language and the moral earnestness as well as intellectual force of his delivery, made him one of the most striking of all argumentative conversers: and he was full of anecdote, a hearty laugher, and, when with people whom he liked, a most lively and amusing companion.

The more impassioned his pleading, the more utterly he held his own emotion in check; the more biting his subtly chosen words, the more courteous his manner; now deadly earnest, now humorously scornful, now graciously argumentative, but always skilfully and designedly convincing.

It seemed to him that Sir Timothy stood before him, surprised, pompous, argumentative.

This is what Mohammed felt and now declared to be of infinite moment, that idols and formulas were nothing; that the jargon of argumentative Greek sects, the vague traditions of Jews, the stupid routine of Arab idolatry were a mockery and a delusion; that there is but one God; that we must let idols alone and look to Him.

Argumentative facts might be produced ad infinitum to prove that the legal enactments for the government of the slave states of America have been framed so as to vest in the proprietor as much control over the lives and persons of those they hold in servitude as any animal in the category of plantation stock.

Such power made him one of the great Victorian masters of argumentative prose.

Select passages that show his special clearness, concreteness, also his rhetorical and argumentative power.

She seemed to be entertaining a little crowd of confused and argumentative Sheilas.

Wherefore, the first kind is that concerning the written document and the intention of it; the second arises from the laws which are contrary to one another, the third is ambiguous, the fourth is argumentative, the fifth we call definitive.

I myself am of opinion (probably quite wrongly) that I could make a better argumentative case for the North in the Civil War on the question of slavery.

After the examination was closed, while Col. Taylor was engaged in a very able, lucid, and argumentative speech, on the part of the prosecution, some man collected a parcel of the rabble, and came within a few yards of the court-house door, and bawled in a loud voice, 'part thempart them!'

This afternoon went to church and heard one of Dr. E.'s argumentative sermons.

After this luxurious meal everyone was very festive and amiably argumentative.

They are of that broad, palpable kind against which the refinements of argumentative apology play in vain.

With his strong, easy, exact, elastic language, the instrument of a powerful and argumentative mind, he plunged into the deep realities of the inmost spiritual life, of which cultivated preachers had been shy.

He would not accept the best argumentative burr that our chauffeur could produce as sufficient explanation or guarantee.

It gives me pleasure to have conversed with you, for I love the young when they are straightforward and not too 'argumentative.'

And presently Fenwick, placed at his ease, began for the first time to expand, became argumentative and explosive.

152 examples of  argumentative  in sentences