bellicose

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• McQuade said the choice of Fernich suggests the campaign may be mostly concerned with presenting a bellicose image.

• Over his decades in New York politics, the Governor’s bellicose personality hasn’t changed, but the landscape around it has.

• In the last decades of his life he became reclusive and bellicose.

• This explains why the Tea Party faithful often appear to be so bellicose.

• Despite bellicose statements to the contrary, China did nothing to intervene as the U.S. bombers passed through the area.

• In 2009 he published a book defaming Hitchens and Richard Dawkins because he was irked by their bellicose brand of atheism.

• Meanwhile, the usually tentative European powers have joined the more bellicose part of the choir.

• The bellicose ardor of the stripling seemed to strike the royal envoy even more forcibly than anything he had yet seen.

• Naturally those parts of the river which remained unexplored were supposed to be the land of the "bellicose dames."

• For one or the other to make way by temporarily backing, was, of course—to bellicose goats—entirely out of the question.

• Two bellicose goats once encountered each other in the middle of a narrow bridge spanning a deep gulf and a raging torrent.