Word: antagonistically
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...trips, and he takes a small "pool" of newsmen onto his plane between stops. He always takes time out at the airport to say hello to the reporters before he begins his speech. In Portland last week, he opened his address with a testimonial to May Craig, the formidable antagonist at Presidential press conferences whose columns appear in Portland...
...caught the cadence and took up the chant. A quizzical smile spread across Humphrey's face, then turned to a laugh of triumph. Hubert was in fine form. He knew it. The delegates knew it. And no one could deny that Hubert Humphrey would be a formidable political antagonist in the weeks ahead...
...gravest mistakes was to underestimate his antagonist, bear-shaped District Attorney Henry Menasco Wade. Belli referred to him as a yokel and a hog caller. But Wade's slow twangy drawl and furrowed face camouflage a tough, sharp mind. Under Wade, says a veteran Texas trial lawyer, Dallas County has "the toughest prosecution in the state of Texas." During the trial, Wade made a sparrow-and-peacock contrast with Belli; he played the earnest, rumpled country boy v. the gaudy city slicker, complete with red velvet briefcase. And Wade certainly knew that in the eyes of a Texas jury...
...fist fights in the cafés, and worried queues leading to the squares that have public television sets. At 43, she is everything to Lisbon that Edith Piaf was to Paris, and because she is a singer of fados, she is also considered a liberator, a philosopher, an antagonist, a revolutionary...
...imposter, and since the Fascist group is so well organized. Considering the fact that this group has less cosmic intentions than those acerbic associations of Ian Fleming, this last act is quite amazing. Why, one whole hospital is completely staffed with Fascist members. In the end, though, the antagonist--who is an incredible heavy even by Hollywood standards--lies impaled on a flagpole...