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The Daily Telegraph , however, called it a "strangely nerve-wracked speech, at once belligerent and insecure, that seemed to reveal an inner uncertainty about what his Government is trying to achieve, and why."
When his Majic Bus students encountered a couple of belligerent Buchananites spouting nativist claptrap, Brinkley's immediate reaction was to treat the pair as loonies and hustle his students back onto the bus.
or “Though the Enemy Be Tens of Thousands Strong” seems excessively belligerent today, we should not forget jingoistic attitudes in Europe and America at the time.
(Yes, there will be a party; yes, gifts are appropriate; and yes, my clothing sizes and preferences in porcelain figurines [drunken belligerent clowns] will be posted as soon as those lovable bumblers at Shining Path get the site up and working.)
Israel is increasingly belligerent, while Arab states no longer trust the United States as a mediator.