Bellicosity from the brass is the order of the day.
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Why is this bellicosity so prominent with regard to cancer?
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The social-networking accounts of Communist Party newspapers brimmed with bellicosity.
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For his part, Arizona's Miller has embraced a jut-chinned bellicosity.
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North Korea's bellicosity has also worked to damage China's international standing.
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One reason, no doubt, was concern about how Trump would interpret the development: If he believes that his reckless bellicosity is what brought North Korea to the table, this could bring more reckless bellicosity from him.
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He represents concepts like protectionism and isolationism, but also elitism and bellicosity.
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That bellicosity didn't end once Trump beat Cruz for the GOP nomination.
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Russian irredentism and Chinese bellicosity in the South China Sea are troubling.
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Mr. Putin's authoritarianism and bellicosity have been sustained by genuine popular support.
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And bellicosity is not unusual in the final stretch of a campaign.
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Warren's unbridled bellicosity Wednesday night offered an unconventional answer to that question.
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Trump's short-sighted, uninformed, bellicosity can provide a focal point for mobilization.
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Let's just pray his current bellicosity is all hot air and no balloon.
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The government's response to this Trumpian bellicosity reflects how Australia is moving right.
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She's not wrong, as judged by television's continuing fascination with middle-aged male bellicosity.
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Mr. Serraj's confident thrust appeared to soften the bellicosity of Tripoli's self-declared government.
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After his bellicosity and belligerence, I daresay they have little personal affection for him.
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Cha's warning made Trump's State of the Union bellicosity toward North Korea particularly frightening.
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Our portrayals of North Korea are all too often caricatures of bellicosity and backwardness.
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This was rash bellicosity, and no one has been held to account for it.
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Given the national security adviser's particularly extreme bellicosity, that would probably be for the best.
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Or you can focus on his irascibility, his grandiosity and the bellicosity of his believers.
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A powerful faction in the government in Iran justifies domestic oppression by referring to American bellicosity.
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Instead, Trump has maintained a relationship with the world marked largely by its bellicosity and opportunism.
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When Russian President Vladimir Putin announced new nuclear weapons on March 1, Bolton responded with trademark bellicosity.
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First, Pruitt's bellicosity as he attempts to dismantle Obama-era environmental rules can't hide his shoddy workmanship.
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Religiosity and bellicosity are on his mind, along with racism and the eradication of Native American languages.
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Williams tempers its violence with something more contemplative, until all of L.L.'s bellicosity is drained away.
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One reason to worry is that both sides have shown such a capacity for bellicosity and miscalculation.
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Contrary to Beltway commentariat consensus, American bellicosity is not merely the result of uncontrolled executive branch war-making.
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, have ring-fenced Trump's recklessness and bellicosity.
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Kim's softer gesture, in view of his proclivity for rhetorical bellicosity, creates excitement and expectations of diplomatic progress.
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And so I think the bellicosity of rhetoric is used as a (Inaudible) or a device to negotiate that.
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And Mr Trump is pursuing his trade agenda with a reckless bellicosity that makes a chaotic outcome more likely.
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Trump certainly has China's attention with his bellicosity on North Korea, but there are limits to what he can do.
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There is a bellicosity of rhetoric related to the fact that the trading system has been uneven for seven years.
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Brinkmanship with North Korea threatens American troops, allies in Asia, even American soil, while his bellicosity fortifies his own base.
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Walt, however, exhibits as much disdain for Trump's bellicosity as he does for the liberal internationalists that he indicts here.
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If Washington is to curb Beijing's expansionism, it will need to make China bear the economic costs of its growing bellicosity.
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He's threatened the country in previous tweets as well, and Daisley acknowledged Trump's "bellicosity" on the site, but downplayed its importance.
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On Soccer ST.-ÉTIENNE, France — It began in Marseille, a little more than a week ago, with bitterness followed by bellicosity.
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In fact there is evidence that his bellicosity is paying political dividends, which means we can expect more of the same.
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The first instinct is that negotiating with our foes is a sign of weakness, to be avoided in favor of bellicosity.
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The main question is whether Trump's bellicosity and general diplomatic incompetence will destabilize the already-fraught relationship between India and Pakistan.
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Abroad, the administration's bellicosity risks isolating the United States from the remarkably successful regional and international coalition Obama and Trump have assembled.
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With China, too, policy has veered: trade bellicosity one moment, blandishments designed to enlist Beijing's help in squeezing North Korea the next.
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He convinced Western leaders that the bellicosity of their Soviet counterparts was a consequence more of fear and weakness than of ideological conviction.
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The Kim regime's mix of boorish bellicosity and medieval mores inspires its adversaries to patronize, if not mock, what is a formidable foe.
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" With an undercurrent of bellicosity, he spoke of protecting borders, casting himself as a defender not just of territory but of Western "values.
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But the tentative steps taken by the two Koreas are much more positive developments than is the sour bellicosity of the Trump administration.
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Since both China and the West fear his regime's collapse into bloody chaos as much as its nuclear bellicosity, he would find willing helpers.
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And despite his bellicosity, Mr. Trump has dangled the idea of meeting Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, just as he met the North Korean leader.
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Instead, the US decided to treat this as a problem to be dealt with the only way it knows how, with bellicosity and brutishness.
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But his recent bellicosity toward Iran has unsettled some of his supporters who were drawn to the noninterventionist aspect of his "America First" promises.
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"This bellicosity undermines U.S. interests and, by escalating tensions and forfeiting diplomacy, risks putting us on a path towards conflict in the Middle East."
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"The two men are only a few years apart in age, and look alike, both rotund, given to bellicosity, and otherwise all business," writes Burleigh.
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Torture over more than five years of captivity had imbued him with a humanity that transcended politics, even if did not dim his cantankerous bellicosity.
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They also note that, for all Mr Trump's bellicosity, he has done little to stop Iran becoming more assertive—and indeed attacking major oil installations.
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It's unclear what prompted the Trump's renewed bellicosity, though this isn't the first time the president has appeared to threaten nuclear war seemingly on the fly.
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Maintaining America's current levels of border enforcement requires the co-operation of Mexico's government, which Mr Trump's bellicosity does not make more likely to be forthcoming.
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What will push the elite to make the hard choices on who should lead this country out of its extreme isolation, economic decay and dangerous bellicosity?
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When Cohen blames Israel, and the occupation of the West Bank, for ongoing bellicosity, he ignores the ugly truth of what is keeping the occupation necessary.
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" Already, the senator asserted, the new administration's bellicosity toward Mexico has increased the likelihood that its citizens will elect "a very left-wing, anti-American president.
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This extended period of patience with North Korea has left Tillerson, President Trump and his entire administration with limited options in dealing with Kim and his bellicosity.
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" Not to be outdone by North Korea's bellicosity, Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States.
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News Analysis Mr. Trump has yet to resolve the two conflicting instincts on national security that emerge from his speeches and his Twitter feed: bellicosity and disengagement.
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President Trump had been at loggerheads with Bolton for months: repeatedly contradicting him, joking to friends about Bolton's bellicosity, and literally exiling his national security adviser to Mongolia.
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The flurry of bellicosity has, even more than usual over the first six months of Donald Trump's presidency, led to critics of the president loudly questioning his sanity.
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These realities also directly contradict a deeply ideological (and ahistorical) narrative that – short of war – massive defense buildups, bellicosity and tough talk bring authoritarian regimes to their knees.
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This Trump doctrine, in practice, isn't the isolationism that he sometimes promised on the campaign trail; nor is it the flailing bellicosity that many of his critics feared.
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Softening the bellicosity of "Daddy Lessons" at the C.M.A.s lets the song seem more like a multiracial party, with black horn players playing alongside an especially funky white one.
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The dissonance between Mr. Trump's public bellicosity toward foreign automakers and his more accommodating posture in private reflects his growing concern about the fallout of his confrontational trade policy.
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A former police officer who was nicknamed Big Bambino, Mr. Rizzo rose to power during the city's crime-ridden 1960s and '70s, cracking down on lawlessness with a legendary bellicosity.
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By reversing the proposition, Mr. Sarkozy hopes that his new patriotic spirit will erase the worst memories he left — of his obsessive ego, his arrogance, his bragging and his bellicosity.
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In short, recent Russian bellicosity around the globe amounts to (a) propping up the few allies that Moscow has left or (b) lashing out when Russia loses (yet another) ally.
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To an extent, such words were in line with his history of bellicosity toward North Korea, whose nuclear program and brutal regime are indeed grave threats and demand an effective response.
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Rather, it was the testimony we heard and evidence we uncovered that Mr. Bolton had a habit of twisting intelligence to back his bellicosity and sought to remove anyone who objected.
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"As hard-liners seek to match Trump's bellicosity and undermine moderates and the will of the Iranian people," Mr. Abdi said, "human rights proponents like Sotoudeh often become the first victims."
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With John Bolton -- national security adviser -- and Mike Pompeo -- readying to take over at the State Department -- Trump gets enablers capable of amplifying his bellicosity, bolstering the credibility of military threats.
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In Kim's New Year's Day address, the North Korean despot issued a perfunctory bleat of bellicosity, declaring his nuclear arsenal functional and capable of reaching the entirety of the United States.
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This reality focuses all on the potential of the Panmunjom meetings as each regional summit can contribute to the foundation of reversing the bellicosity between Trump and Kim just months ago.
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He yearned to be compared to Ronald Reagan, a former TV star who overcame a reputation for bellicosity and racial dog whistles to become the most beloved Republican president of modern times.
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So it is potentially helpful to our negotiations that Trump combines a temperamental bellicosity with a deep skepticism about the democracy-promoting objectives of U.S. foreign policy over the last 20 years.
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At the moment, at least, there is a small glimmer of hope for peace between the Koreas, while there is none while Mr. Trump elects to inject his bellicosity into the problem.
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How did we lose faith in George H. W. Bush's optimistic vision of American global engagement and sink into the toxic brew of bellicosity and isolationism that Donald Trump now promotes and exploits?
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President Trump's inconsistency and bellicosity will not result in a denuclearized North Korea, but the fear of a US attack in both North and South may result in a de-escalation of tensions.
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It showed that after three years in office, Mr. Trump has yet to resolve the two conflicting instincts on national security that emerge from his speeches and his Twitter feed: bellicosity and disengagement.
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By first raising the level of bellicosity between the United States and North Korea to dangerous heights and strengthening sanctions, Trump seemed to be pressuring Pyongyang to make concessions in exchange for better relations.
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Over time, U.S. politicians have chosen either to ignore Iranian bellicosity or to try to win the peace with alternating attempts at diplomacy, heavy sanctions and various forms of what could be called bribery.
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This year, the United States disinvited China from taking part in its annual RIMPAC Pacific naval drills, in part due to espionage fears but also in protest against China's growing South China Sea bellicosity.
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Trump's recent exhortations to Gulf Arab states to " stand united" against Iran, as well as his past bellicosity toward Tehran, suggest that his administration could pursue a more aggressive Middle East policy going forward.
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Meanwhile Trump himself is far more publicly unmastered and privately ignorant than J.F.K. But in fairness, Trump also has confined his real bellicosity to Twitter, without ordering any Kennedy-esque military misadventures or escalations yet.
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In his first tweet after the missile strike, he struck a very different tone from the bellicosity of recent messages, hailing the fact that the strikes did not appear to have inflicted any US casualties.
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War fears As he grappled with the rising recriminations of the hurricane, Trump also had to defend his handling of the standoff with North Korea, as critics warn that his bellicosity is making the situation worse.
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"The South Korean government, being quite frightened about Washington's bellicosity, is quite ready to welcome the North Korean initiative, and this might lead to an annoyance in the US," said Andrei Lankov from Seoul's Kookmin University.
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He hijacks a Republican Party that has paved the way for him with years of ranting, bigotry, bellicosity and what Robert Kagan, in The Washington Post, has rightly called "racially tinged derangement syndrome" with respect to President Obama.
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He didn't note Russia's bellicosity on the European continent or in cyberspace, their persistent threats to the territorial integrity of Ukraine and their efforts to undermine the European Union, not to mention their interference in Western election processes.
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Despite the regimes obvious bellicosity of rhetoric, North Korea has also been at pains to point out that they have sought a full peace treaty to replace the armistice and feel that the U.S. has spurned such proposals.
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"Like North Korea, Iran is responding to Trump's bellicosity by its own display of strength, to show it is not cowed," said Mark Fitzpatrick, executive director of the Americas office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a British think tank.
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Although some may view Bolton's appointment as the triumph of bellicosity over diplomacy, the selection is better interpreted as the administration's gradual embrace of globalist policies that protect American security interests while also supporting the aspirations of the Iranian people.
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Having the ear of Mr Trump, who likes their style if not necessarily their bellicosity, they have taken the lead on security issues such as Iran—to which Mr Pompeo promised on May 9th a "swift and decisive" US response to any provocation.
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And it appeared to reflect a decision by the administration that increasing threats against Kim could cause him to capitulate -- even though Trump's bellicosity has utterly failed to halt North Korea's accelerating bid to twin a nuclear bomb with a long range missile.
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Trump and Bolton have voiced serious criticism of the Iranian regime, but in recent days Trump has said he is willing to talk to Iran and has told associates that he is irritated by Bolton's bellicosity towards Iran, according to sources cited by CNN.
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Because of Pompeo&aposs and Trump&aposs overlapping worldviews — their bellicosity toward Iran and opposition to the 2015 nuclear deal, unequivocal support for Israel, and stated commitment to fighting terrorism — diplomats hoped the State Department might be more empowered than it had been under Tillerson.
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The report by the New York-based consultancy and the non-profit business lobby comes at a time of heightened friction between China and the United States over trade, and warns that "policy bellicosity especially from Washington" was casting a darker shadow over the economic relationship.
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And whatever our worries might be about Mr. Trump's impulsiveness and arrogance, we cannot escape the essential truth that the pressure he has applied to North Korea and the uncertainty his bellicosity has engendered on both sides of the demilitarized zone has helped bring about this opportunity.
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Even some of the president's own advisers have quietly asked each other in recent days if Mr. Trump's bellicosity toward North Korea is part of some thought-out strategy that they have not been told about or what they suspect is just more on-the-fly instinct.
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But while the North Korean leader's verbal bellicosity has already been factored into the system, the same attributes are far more destabilizing when they come from the President of the United States -- and the possibility of miscalculation by one side or the other is increasing by the day.
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Both capitals still want America's military assets, troops, warships and missile systems out of the region -- though for all their own tempered bellicosity about Trump's damage to diplomacy, it's pretty clear what they really want is less interference in what they consider to be their own back yard.
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It was a fitting image for a devoted daughter who exists as an almost surreally detached counterpoint to her father's bellicosity, and yet may be his most important ally, particularly if he finds himself facing a Democratic opponent who aspires to be the first female president of the United States.
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William Jennings Bryan resigned as Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state over what he considered unnecessary bellicosity on the eve of World War I. In contrast, most members of Abraham Lincoln's cabinet tried to keep their jobs with Andrew Johnson, even after the new President showed his determination to undermine Reconstruction and the rights of newly freed African-Americans.
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"If we become super provocative in ways that show the Iranian people there has been no advantage to this, that there is no gain, and our bellicosity is pushing them into a corner, that's dangerous and that could bring a very different result," said Kerry, who led U.S. negotiations on the deal under former President Obama.
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Trump may think he's mustache-averse, but what he's likely to realize over the course of the next few months is that this particular form of facial hair — in addition to Mr. Bolton's established track record for bellicosity — can signal a tendency toward the sort of masculine impulsiveness and aggression that is dear to Mr. Trump's own heart.
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Thus Trump is friendly to Putin for the same reason that he praised the Chinese Politburo after Tiananmen Square and now praises Xi Jinping; the same reason that he likes the Saudi royals and buddies up to Recep Tayyip Erdogan; the same reason that after a brief period of bellicosity he's ended up as a tacit apologist for Kim Jong-un.
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