Sentence examples for as bellicose from inspiring English sources

Chomsky gathered around him at M.I.T. a group of young students who were nearly as bellicose as he was.

A former fire-eating army officer who spent 17 years in America, at one time managing a 7-Eleven store, Mr Rajapakse has proved as bellicose as Mr Prabhakaran and General Fonseka combined.The government's profligacy and misrule is taking a toll.

In her first three days as president, Geena Davis Mackenzie Allenn proved as bellicose as any alpha male, sending the Sixth Fleet through the Taiwan Straits to intimidate China, and ordering U.S. troops into action to save a woman in Nigeria who's about to be executed under Sharia law for adultery.

Rwanda, for its part, has sounded as bellicose as ever.

That's not as bellicose as it could have been.

"Seldom has a conquistador as bellicose as Mr. Ramsay landed with such a whisper," he wrote.

The West tends to see all Islam as fundamentalist, bellicose and puritanical, and Sufism as a sexy, proto-New Agey, un-Islamic departure.

Here is a scene from Mike Nichols's 1966 film adaptation of Albee's 1962 drama, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?," starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as a bellicose alcoholic couple and Sandy Dennis and George Segal as young innocents joining them for after-party drinks.

For all its nuclear sabre-rattling, Kim Jong-un's regime no doubt struck the studio as a relatively risk-free target, about as realistic to its home audience as the bellicose planets that invade America in sci-fi blockbusters.

The language was later attacked as too bellicose, and was softened, but it has effectively re-emerged as official policy in the current Bush administration.

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