Sentence examples for very bellicose from inspiring English sources
"When I came to the Senate minority, I thought that we were very bellicose and very antagonistic at times out of frustration of failure," Mr. Paterson said.
He reported, with chagrin, that "the excitement has sadly interfered with the lessons of some of the hotheaded ones," but wrote with admiration of other boys who took "the matter coolly, as sensible young men" and did not "exhibit a very bellicose spirit nor vapor much about 'blood and thunder' and the 'cannon roar' and such like".
But this Israeli government, clearly the most right-wing in the nation's history, has adopted a very bellicose posture.
"The new administration has shown a distinct readiness and willingness to use force and a very bellicose approach to counterterrorism in different parts of the world," said Alex Moorehead, the director of Columbia University's Project on Counterterrorism, Armed Conflict and Human Rights.
After a year of very hot and bellicose rhetoric, the governor sounded different tonight.
The real effort should be in pressuring China, North Korea's primary sponsor, to make it very clear that its bellicose comments and aggressive actions will not be tolerated.
Hagel: "North Korea, with its bellicose rhetoric, with its actions, has been skating very close to a dangerous line.... it is very important that that rhetoric be ratcheted down, that those actions be neutralized.
In the 1950s, as part of the broader US project of reinventing Japan as an unthreatening regional ally against communist China, the American publisher Knopf set about marketing a picture of Japan - through carefully selected and translated works of its modern fiction - as a non-bellicose land of exotic aestheticism; the very opposite of Japan's aggressive, jingoistic pre-war image.
"North Korea...with its bellicose rhetoric, its actions, has been skating very close to a dangerous line," the Pentagon chief said.
And yet many people were shocked by the revelation two weeks ago that left-leaning bloggers were trying to drop a Google bomb on the campaigns of dozens of Republican candidates — not least because its bellicose promise seemed to throw into question the very integrity of search engine results.
Preservation, in other words, is not conceptually outside of war, but very much embedded in it, where it can more effectively monitor, report on, influence and limit bellicose action.
