Additionally, an increase in bellicosity from the Obama administration will also drive internal Iranian dissidents right back into the arms of the regime. From Wordnik.com. [David Broder: War With Iran Will Save Economy, Obama Presidency] Reference
While I believe that “Right between the I†™ s†bellicosity is indicative of repressed altruism, he†™ s been blinded by the Right. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » New Bush Policy: All Gays Should Be Celibate] Reference
Much of this literary bellicosity is pathological. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
I mean, I don't know about the word "bellicosity.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006] Reference
A casus belli for bellicosity will make it through. From Wordnik.com. [Max and the Marginalized: If Only Every Day Could Be the Day Before the Caucuses] Reference
I was also pleased that the bellicosity was not as intense. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 19, 2006] Reference
For all the government's bellicosity, the fall of Kalima, some. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Whatever is driving Kim, no one can say it's U.S. bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [North Korea and Diplomacy] Reference
"However, I may have news of him," he said with less bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
This is why China's bellicosity towards Google makes little sense. From Wordnik.com. [Google's Faustian Bargain Unravels] Reference
His responses were filled with passion, bellicosity, and intolerance. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Rest] Reference
Obama's election was supposed to be a corrective to Bush's bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Only Nixon Could Go to China] Reference
“I think the American people have had enough bellicosity,” said Dean. From Wordnik.com. [Press Circus: Schmidt Declares Victory Absolutely, But Democrats Spin Spain] Reference
Instead one worries about what has always seemed her characterological bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and the Presidency] Reference
But war is not over and worse, there is no evidence yet that bellicosity is out of favour. From Wordnik.com. [Indra Adnan: Soft Power is Obama's Greatest Strength] Reference
They will relax their defensive stance, that is, after all, the source of their bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference
And, like all Iraqi peace initiatives, this one fell victim to Saddam's inherent bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [The Final Push] Reference
But at this point, not even Washington's closest allies will support that kind of bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: Countdown Iran] Reference
They need to take this one step further and compare it with Bush's bellicosity ie "Bring it on.". From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign: McCain Is A Reckless Hothead] Reference
This is the man who is a cauldron of boiling bellicosity, foaming at the mouth for a shot at Iran. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Challenges Obama To Visit Iraq] Reference
I would have voted for her - but she lost me on her 3am ads - and her "obliterate" Iran bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Was The Media Unfair To Hillary? Here's Our Rundown.] Reference
But she has a similar ruthlessness, bellicosity, and eagerness to destroy anyone who gets in her way. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Loeb: Pit Bull Palin] Reference
Most believed Mr. Chávez's bellicosity was a feint to distract Venezuelans from their economic woes. From Wordnik.com. [Colombia Crisis Nears Resolution] Reference
South African arms to Biafra in 1967, and asked: 'How could South Africa gain from Biafran bellicosity?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 15] Reference
Having said that, Tony Blair, as you say, kind of ratcheted up the bellicosity a little bit this morning. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 5, 2007] Reference
There just isn't an opening for Obama to address McCain's impulsiveness and bellicosity during the debates. From Wordnik.com. [Palin On Supreme Court Cases: ???] Reference
After that hard step comes the easy one: perhaps it comes with anger, bellicosity, or just a silly mistake. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Dubno: The End is Near: What's Your Personal Apocalypse?] Reference
McCain's bellicosity is simplistic -- much like many of his foreign affairs mantras, like "Victory" in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [Caryl Rivers: We'll Always Have Hungary] Reference
For all McCain's bellicosity "We're all Georgians now!" the US government can't cash the checks he's writing. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Campaign: McCain Is A Reckless Hothead] Reference
We didn't really need her racial innuendos and free-floating bellicosity to establish that women aren't wimps. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's Gift to Women] Reference
CARL BERNSTEIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: It's good news for the world and that it will stop Bush's bellicosity, one hopes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 3, 2007] Reference
This leaves us, alas, with the bellicosity of the sportsbabblers, driven to flail and threaten by their sense of betrayal. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Lipsyte: The Literature of Betrayal Arrives at the Ballpark] Reference
They see our foreign policy as self-centered; ask why they should help us when we are unwilling to curtail Israel's bellicosity. From Wordnik.com. [Making the Connection Between Iraq and Israel] Reference
Mr. Obama's bellicosity is no more attractive than Sarah Palin's attempts to pit "the real America" against the b ig-city slickers. From Wordnik.com. [On Presidential Rhetoric] Reference
Hillary could attract women Republicans wary of McCain's bellicosity while Obama would present the clearest choice between peace and war. From Wordnik.com. [At War With Themselves] Reference
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