But when Mr. Clark enlisted, he was called "belligerent" for looking a white officer in the eyes.
My favourite is the Chinese version: a belligerent, deranged-looking teddy bear.
A second tattoo, of a belligerent-looking rooster, just below that on Mr. Mozgala's arm received a lukewarm review.
Nevertheless, Philip Seymour Hoffman pulls off a complicated feat by letting us see Bangs's big romantic chump heart beating under his belligerent-looking black leather jacket and ragingly cynical rhetoric.
(Lane is looking belligerent, and he pauses rather lengthily to consult some papers on the table before him.
Everything is already there in a subject's unstudied pose, in the floral dress against the floral patterned glider chair, in the way the sheriff points his gun down at the patchwork quilt as he sits looking belligerent and stupid on the bed, in the raised beer bottle and hard stare of the woman in the crowded club.
Starting her performance looking belligerent in a black tutu and vinyl gauntlets, Pink was hoisted on a rope and swung from one end of the arena to the other, concluding her song getting astride the hands of a clock, the face of which then burst into flames.
The two others were beginning to look belligerent.
Helpful for recognition purposes is the small, blue-chinned, belligerent Beethoven who looks out from contemporary portraiture, a world away from Max Klinger's muscled and towering godhead carved from multicolored marbles in 1902.
And he looked as belligerent as ever in the Hennessy Gold Cup at Newbury last month, producing a weight-carrying performance that itself invoked comparisons with Arkle.
"By the time I got back to my camera," Karsh later recalled, "he looked so belligerent he could have devoured me".
