belligerence

"You wanted to help," said the smith with a bit of his earlier belligerence.

She'd argued most of her belligerence out on the drive.

But, because of her belligerence, she was soon asked to leave, according to the sisters.

Did you, think I would be less inclined to answer your government's belligerence than he?

His belligerence just increased her desire to find out more.

Something in his eyes changed; belligerence gave way to speculation.

"That's for him to say and you to find out," Johnson said with all his old belligerence.

Surprisingly, she seems not to have appeared so far on the programs where belligerence is the point.

As it stands now, I am embarrassed at our national belligerence.

Of course there's always something to be said for persistence, even a little belligerence when it's needed.

It takes a lot of belligerence to put up a sign."

There was no trace of the belligerence he had shown a moment before.

It was the Belfast belligerence of 1963 all over again.

Yet when the men started battling, their belligerence turned comic.

But that failed to explain how their belligerence had evolved.

Erica asked, failing to keep the belligerence out of her voice.

There was the slightest edge of belligerence in Sam's voice.

They were not small men, but their belligerence faded under his gaze.

His voice had a touch of belligerence, and blinking, I closed the book.

Passivity in the face of belligerence is a dangerous course.

Then he dropped the belligerence and said: "We all live for a better time.

The servants looked at him with surprise and a degree of belligerence.

There was a mixture of belligerence and distress in their actions.

President Bush's trade chief said that even belligerence had been expressed by some foreign officials who have recently visited her.

That look of belligerence in his face, the tight, taut mouth.