bellicose

The British talk of war and are at their most bellicose.

You and I, of course, were born in that bellicose century too.

Weary, you must understand, was never a bellicose young man.

She was bellicose, a sign of being on the defensive with her.

Iran is becoming more bellicose in its stand toward the West.

He was in one of his bellicose moods, and I knew them well.

The idea has a long history in art (as, of course, does its bellicose opposite).

Now he was no more than about fifty yards away from the bellicose woman.

In recent years, however, those relations have become markedly more bellicose.

In the days after the attack, he'd been so bellicose that his father called to tell him to tone it down.

Iraq has continued to make public statements in a bellicose tone.

History, it seems, has not quite released this Continent from its bellicose past.

After all, anthropologists themselves are one of the most bellicose tribes on earth.

"But listen to him and he stands out as a bellicose drug warrior."

Such pride sometimes takes the form of arrogant, bellicose nationalism.

Even in more bellicose times, the allure might seem elusive to some people.

He was about to add more to the insult, when suddenly the bellicose light in his eyes faded.

The bellicose mood was a very rare one with Ransom.

His bellicose mood was directed toward a sketch on the black stone before him.

In the course of bellicose adventures, "the Japanese resources and blood are exhausted."

Of all the 90,000 known species of flies, these are the most bellicose.

With all his bellicose language, Patton had grasped a crucial truth.

Such a concept is embedded somewhere at the core of every culture, even the most bellicose.

He speaks with a Southern accent and seems to be of a rather bellicose mentality.

M's mood was not only bellicose this morning, but sarcastic.