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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.
The Washington Post goes with North Korea's belligerent admission for the first time Tuesday that it has and will continue to develop and test ballistic missiles as well as sell them to the likes of Iran, Iraq and Syria.
Reno reversed the standard narrative arc of congressional hearings, in which belligerent congressmen make witnesses look stupid, said Evan Thomas ( Inside Washington ). The attorney general's pugilistic secret?
With its belligerent grossness and misogyny, Hustler rebelled against the establishment men's mags' class condescension, the earnest philosophizing about the sexual revolution, the "thinking men's sex bomb" syndrome, at the same time that it was deliberately goading feminists.
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."