militantly

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His pince-nez sparkled militantly, as he gazed upon the stolid throng.

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  • Like Makiya, Hitchens is a former Trotskyist who is influential in Washington circles as an advocate for a militantly interventionist policy in the Middle East. —  Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
  • Diane Abbott, a militantly Leftist Labour backbencher, likewise sent her son to a private school. —  Home | Mail Online
  • He has called the New York art scene of the time "militantly democratic" and one marked by "liberating candor and humane values." —  The New York Review of Books
  • Even if The Church would come down on the side of doctrine in some cases, I would no longer assert that this would make it 'militantly anti-science.' —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
  • His 'newsflash' about the centrality of Catholic dogma to this discussion just begs for someone to point out the painfully obvious irony, namely, that Catholic dogma has a most militantly anti-science track record. —  Intellectual Conservative Politics and Philosophy
 

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