But at other times he is more bellicose.
Buckley, on the other hand, was a bit more bellicose.
Relatively docile species are more aggressive when facing more bellicose neighbours.
President Yeltsin has, at several key points, repudiated the more bellicose claims of his noisier opponents.
And Mr Giuliani is far more bellicose than any other candidate.
Mahatma Gandhi, outlined in white, is paired with the more bellicose Pakistani leader Bhagat Singh.
Suddenly, in 2004, he was becoming more bellicose, more lyrically direct and more overtly political, too.
Battle lines are drawn and the rhetoric between the two sides is becoming more bellicose by the day.
One senior Treasury Department official told me that Nauru had grown only more bellicose -- to the point of extortion.
The Kremlin on Tuesday sought to clarify that the more bellicose comments by officials did not represent official policy.
On other questions, he was always ready to compromise, often sounding far more bellicose in public than his private moderation justified.
