The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered. (firstthings.com)
We can present the truth without belligerency; indeed, our speech should be «seasoned,» rather than armored. (redeeminggod.com)
He was deeply, deeply troubled by Stalin's — what Churchill saw was Stalin's belligerency particularly in Eastern Europe. (scientificamerican.com)