pugnaciously वाक्य

As the parties head for a seemingly inevitable proxy fight, Wall Street is already framing the struggle as a Mutt-and-Jeff contest between two tobacco-company-owning former smokers : Harper, 68, 6-foot-6-inch food expert with his big rumbly voice and folksy gravity, and LeBow, 57, the bearded, feisty, blunt-spoken deal maven who is, as he says pugnaciously, " 5-foot-7 { in shoes ."
Honestly, the people I meet I can class into groups by their reading habits, because their reading habits dictate their thinking habits : average people, who read magazines or other'light'reading, and who reason almost exclusively in emotional / interpersonal terms ( what does it say about person A that they went to to party X with person B, wearing clothes by Q ); smart people, who read history, news, and science books or other'serious / factual'material, who reason in hard nosed and generally pugnaciously factual manner ( " this " is factually true, and " that " is poppycock, so don't be an idiot ); brilliant people, who read philosophy and'heavy'fiction, and reason with depth and nuance.