Meanings of bellicose attitude in English

The bellicose attitude of Parliament had given much alarm to the Dutch.

The bellicose attitude of the tiny body brought a smile to Donaldson's mouth.

Alec's bellicose attitude aroused party spirit in him.

His bellicose attitude vanished abruptly, he stopped cursing, and his knife went back into its sheath.

Mark by this time is also frothing at the mouth; and, standing in a bellicose attitude, hisses:

I gaped at him, stricken dumb; into Larry's bellicose attitude crept a suggestion of grudging respect; Olaf, trembling, watched silently.

His poor economic record has become linked in the public mind with what is seen as a bellicose attitude on arms control.

I dare not speak, or could have asked them their mission, and they seemed quite dumbfounded at my bellicose attitude towards them.

Along with these would go a raging assertion of the Monroe Doctrine and a bellicose attitude toward other European powers on less substantial grounds.

"What think you would the reverend elders say to this bellicose attitude and this profane tongue of yours?"