| We're both obscurely addicted to odd sports, both had empires, are bellicose, mistrustful of foreigners, and are passionate gardeners. |
| For eight years the policy of containment has worked and despite the bellicose rhetoric being bandied about last week, it will probably continue. |
| At the end of the 19th century, people were full of hope and expectations of a more peaceful, more contented, less bellicose world. |
| In contrast, moderate voices are rarely heard and often relentlessly overruled by barrages of bellicose opinions. |
| It was a particularly bellicose speech, and living in occupied West Berlin, within a mile of the Wall, it had a particularly scary resonance. |
| The sculptures seem like bellicose battleships, flaunting jagged-ribbed fins and sawtooth incisors. |
