How To Use Truculence In A Sentence
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One day, it might even suit the Kremlin to encourage this truculence.
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Macarthy – switching from truculence to triumphalism as fast as the cockiest small boy; buckling a fine swash for the children in the audience; offering adult eyes a suggestion of pathos, of knowing that he is trapped in a dream yet still bewitched by its promise of "fun" – certainly has something to crow about.
Peter Pan – review
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When President Obama or Secretary Clinton lauds “smart power” as a self-sufficient counter to Islamofascism, Red Chinese hegemonism or Russian truculence, he (or she) implicitly claims the ability to consistently outwit Osama bin-Laden, Hu Jintao and Vladimir Putin.
European Union
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It isn't just in the last few years that teenagers, with the hormones bouncing around their bodies like bagatelle balls, have suddenly begun to exhibit signs of volatility and truculence.
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Endless banter was part of his game, but not the truculence and obscenities of the modern sledger.
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I said "Johnsonian" -- yet even in the great Doctor as we have him recorded there were a certain truculence and vehemence that are a little foreign to B---- 's habit.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
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In parting let me inject my own truculence and pugilism in this 1/2 punch: I cannot believe this is the conversation we are still having this far into our project and at this ridiculously low level at that.
Book Review: On Criticism by Noel Carroll
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The skilled carpenters and joiners enjoyed a sense of solidarity that quickly turned to truculence if they felt slighted and led to constant collective difficulties with their employers.
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It was a display of pointless truculence and ignorance and he was applauded for it.
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Meanwhile Russia, for all its truculence, has repeatedly delayed supplying the nuclear fuel for Bushehr.