How To Use Belligerence In A Sentence
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A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
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Here, however, the contenders were not humans but birds: ordinary village cocks chosen for their natural belligerence.
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And during those twenty-seven years he had lost none of the belligerence that had so endeared him to the old Afrikaner regime.
A CONVICTION OF GUILT
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Signs of Reye's syndrome include vomiting, lethargy and behavioral changes, such as belligerence.
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I must not use my temperament as an excuse for immaturity or belligerence.
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The level of triumphalism and belligerence churned out by our columnists has been embarrassing to behold.
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He isn't an ideological pacifist, he just doesn't get the point of aggression and belligerence.
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Her increasing belligerence alienated her from her old friends.
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He looked for signs of disgust, contempt, belligerence and validation.
Times, Sunday Times
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He is renowned as much for his belligerence as for his acuity.
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Isn't there a danger of voters perceiving such belligerence as the antics of a loser?
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They bring a sense of confrontation rather then conciliation, belligerence rather than humility and gracelessness rather than gracefulness.
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Underneath all that anger and belligerence is a good kid.
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Please try to stop this belligerence towards me.
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Sometimes it's so difficult to maintain a logical through-line in spluttering belligerence.
Times, Sunday Times
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These policies are, in turn, aggravating hostilities and allowing the Bush administration to justify its belligerence.
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The leader's belligerence is dangerously irresponsible.
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But what does get through to him is sabre-rattling - unaesthetic and ugly belligerence.
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And with that she combined abuse of Republican politicians and the entire Washington establishment that tolerated their existence with her unique mix of affected aristocratic politesse and unblinking belligerence.
O: A Presidential Novel
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They hide our real thoughts and intentions and subdue our natural belligerence.
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They consume their victuals from an upside-down position in the belief it causes indigestion, sends the blood to the head and therefore increases belligerence gainfully.
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The only thing belligerence cures is old age. — tony
The Early Word: Obama Open to Drilling Compromise - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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His intensely physical lead performance careens from raving belligerence to groveling abjection.
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In fact after reading what the minister did on Wednesday, the President must have felt awfully mortified because he knows belligerence is not for leaders.
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It was the rebel that you most loved, the belligerence that couldn't accept mediocrity.
Times, Sunday Times
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Skilling's arrogance, belligerence and lack of contriteness under questioning made him a lightning rod for the rage generated after Enron sought bankruptcy protection in 2001.
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But what does get through to him is sabre-rattling - unaesthetic and ugly belligerence.
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His touches are average dark ambient and he palliates what could otherwise be the sound of dread and belligerence.
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The result is either belligerence or isolationism - or both.
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Towards the end, Sam's boisterousness bordered on belligerence.
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Such shows of belligerence in the face of the party's latest crisis are unlikely to win over critics on his own back benches.
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Towards the end, Sam's boisterousness bordered on belligerence.
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The prime minister's belligerence is dangerously irresponsible.
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He could be accused of passion, but never belligerence.
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Considering that the “belligerence” and the “civil liberties violations” are pretty much the same 15 months into this administration, I gather that your main complaint is that people are calling Obama a fascist for the wrong reasons.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Racism and The Tea Partiers
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The whole glib tone of this, the truly jingoistic and arrogant belligerence would be totally unacceptable.
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Arms and bodies lock together, intimate and aggressive, the closeness fired with belligerence.
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The intolerance and belligerence of these groups find their ideological partner in the violent, Hindu nationalist groups who feel compelled to "purify" India by removing its "unclean" minorities.
Wajahat Ali: Indian Muslims: Defining their Loyalty After Mumbai Attacks
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The hippos nearest to us watched with a kind of uncomprehending belligerence such as we had become used to at the airports in Zaire, but most of them simply lay there with their heads up on their neighbours 'rumps wearing huge grins of oafish contentment.
Last Chance to See
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I remember the quiet coaching, the studious attention to detail, and the perfect foil for the belligerence of Telfer.
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But if younger activists want me to move over, they'll have to offer something more than mere belligerence.
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Full of intense vulnerability, belligerence and a delicate, mousy charm, Henderson manages to mumble throughout the entire film and still emerge as one of the best reasons to go and see it.
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All of it reeked of animosity, belligerence, and things the pixies could not even begin to comprehend.
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It was also seen by some as an implicit rebuke to right-wing Republicans who had alienated unaligned voters by their apparent intolerance and belligerence.
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But what does get through to him is sabre-rattling - unaesthetic and ugly belligerence.
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While real physical aggression is relatively rare, verbal aggression or belligerence is relatively common.
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He often looks perplexed, as though interrupted from a dream, and you wonder if in the noisy belligerence of the dressing room he does not fade from view like an apparition.