英语词汇“truculence”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

A hundred expressions chased each other across Loki’s face: cunning and shiftiness, truculence and confusion. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

While Bobby knew of Jackie’s reputation for truculence and tolerated him nevertheless, he was careful not to include him in all areas of his life, knowing instinctively when Beers wouldn’t be welcomed by others. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of returning the salute, Bull stopped the car completely and stared with visible truculence at the guard who held his salute as rigidly as some umpires who call strikes on batters with exaggerated formality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Crowe has settled into middle age and fatherhood, the media's focus on his reputation for truculence has abated, for which he is grateful. For Russell Crowe, directing 'Water Diviner' is risky; reward is 'freedom' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

The girl, indignant, gathers up the clothes and stalks away; there’s a genuine truculence in her step. Turning Points: Three Movies Centering on Young Women 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z

And this was my reward: truculence and borderline bullying. Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses, by John Harris 2012-06-22T23:15:00Z

It also seemed to crystallize her peculiar mixture of vulnerability and high-decibel truculence. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z

Zelda’s wisdom, natural warmth and good humor are far more appealing than the truculence, emotional fragility and intellectual insecurity of Rachel. | 'The How and the Why': Student Meets a Mentor She Has Met Before 2011-01-18T22:30:20Z

He is benevolently condescending and professorial, inviting us to share his delight in the early American audience's "wonderful" naiveté and truculence. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

But in its contemplation of what Cash called “the savage ideal” in Southern culture, an ingrained white male truculence, it remains a volume be reckoned with. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z

The Art of Dissent deserves a gold medal for its incisive, guileful, eloquent truculence. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 2012-07-31T10:45:01Z

Entirely resentful of the new world into which she is plunged, her truculence is expressed via a high school demotic. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z

In his first of four solo acoustic concerts at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Young made himself gloriously at home, cutting a figure of sharp conscience and wry truculence as he foraged through his catalog. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z

Many of the points Spufford makes against Dawkins are valid, but if he is right in saying atheist polemicists caricature religious faith, so does his condescending truculence toward atheists distort their argument. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

While it might seem easy to pity the alienated Hogan, his ornery truculence and the me-against-the-world attitude that flares when he drinks makes us see how hard he might be to live with. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Once thought of either as an example of musicianly truculence, or as an unlistenable contractual obligation, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music has lately earned a surprising reputation as his most influential work. Music picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z

The truculence of their utterances is only to be expected. The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z

There's a hint of truculence, perhaps, about the mouth, though the eyes invite you to overlook it. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Perhaps what the Panthers need is a few more bounces and a little less truculence. Golden Knights know from experience Game 1 victory doesn’t ensure win over Panthers 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z

At an event in Rochester, N.H., later on Thursday, Mr. DeSantis flashed a hint of truculence after a reporter asked him about Mr. Trump’s claim that he could fix the country’s problems in six months. Ron DeSantis Snaps at a Reporter: ‘Are You Blind?’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

One can consider DeSantis’s dislikes admirable but still wonder: Do most Republicans, does the nation, want another president defined by truculence? Opinion | Glenn Youngkin is no surly GOP brawler. Many might welcome that. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Our cranky nation, with its constant surplus of truculence, could benefit from a smidgen of Thomas Jefferson’s live-and-let-live spirit. Opinion | Trying to protect students from a coach’s prayers did them no favors 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

The president is rightly impatient with vaccine resistance, which often expresses only the mindless truculence of those who feel fully alive only when furious. Opinion | Presidential impatience with covid doesn’t excuse wielding extra-constitutional power 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

And he’s defended that position, albeit with unnecessary truculence, in numerous appearances on Capitol Hill. Column: Stop saying the USPS should be 'run like a business.' It's not a 'business' 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Would a Biden or Trump administration be preferable if, in 2021, China, whose increasing truculence is displayed from the South China Sea to the Himalayan border with India, seized one of Taiwan’s nearby islands? Opinion | A President Biden’s first priority must be restoring foreign confidence in the U.S. 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

It was a stance of undifferentiated truculence toward the institutions and manners of liberal democracy. Opinion | The difference between Trumpism and fascism 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

A busy, busy businesswoman/man with truculence towards the holiday spirit is sent to a small town where Christmas is everything. A man's guide to surviving Hallmark's "Countdown to Christmas" marathon - Golf Digest 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Some liberal Democrats, concerned the response to the Trump administration’s truculence has been too timid, want their party to do more to force compliance with oversight requests. Trump’s defiance of oversight presents new challenge to Congress’s ability to rein in the executive branch 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z

Some liberal Democrats want their party to do more to force compliance with oversight requests, concerned the response to the Trump administration’s truculence has been too timid. Trump’s defiance of oversight challenges Congress’s ability to rein in executive branch 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z

This is a reality the PRC denies with fluctuating, but currently intensifying, truculence. Opinion | What Hong Kong’s resistance means for Taiwan 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z

Now Trump must decide whether to fight a war he and the country don’t want, or to accommodate an Iran whose truculence he helped create. Opinion | The escalating crisis with Iran is Trump’s self-inflicted wound 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Trump’s trade war, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to be based on any consistent purpose except truculence. Column: Slowing to a 2.1% annual growth rate, Trump's economy comes off its sugar high 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

He was never going to reproduce the flair and verve of his Napoli side overnight, particularly given his Chelsea squad is broadly unsuited to that style and has consistently been prone to bouts of truculence. Would letting Maurizio Sarri leave really be sensible for Chelsea? | Jonathan Wilson 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

History is clear that moments of high trade truculence, such as that pursued against Japan in the early 1990s, accomplished little while imposing substantial costs. Opinion | Four reasons Chinese officials aren’t buying Trump’s trade threats 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

Though he opposes such measures, the fact that the House is moving towards Medicaid expansion represents a huge shift from the McAuliffe years, when the mere mention of the programme sparked truculence from Republicans. Ralph Northam pushes for Medicaid expansion in Virginia 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

The other is that the wall would be a waste of money as well as an unfortunate symbol of U.S. truculence. Opinion | How to get to yes on a deal for the ‘dreamers’ 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

To address Jerusalem, city of passions, with such truculence was to invite disaster, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis tried to impress on a president captive to his impulses. Opinion | Year One in Donald Trump’s World 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

At the very least, Japan and South Korea will most likely feel the need to develop their own nuclear capability in the face of North Korea truculence. N. Korea should follow Kazakhstan’s lead 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

This legislative truculence is one of those things that defies common sense. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

Give no ground to your critics, Mr. Bannon urged the president, with characteristic truculence. Bannon Was Set for a Graceful Exit. Then Came Charlottesville. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

But I still think, of all forms of rebellion, foot-dragging British truculence is the hardest to beat. I prefer my Handmaid’s Tale without the sass and Scientology | Emma Brockes 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z

If no diplomatic breakthroughs on major issues were achieved, it is also the case that there were no outward displays of truculence from either side. Opinion | The most important economic challenge that China poses 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z

Folklore also presented her with a set of emotions that, while releasing her, eventually, from sixties truculence, nevertheless felt true, not genteel. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

Much of the coverage, naturally, centered on Balotelli’s reputation, his truculence and his rebelliousness. Surging on the Riviera, With Mario Balotelli in Tow 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The editors have managed to pull together a memoir using material in Rosset’s papers, and have produced a book that has the charm and some of the truculence of the man himself. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z

Her composed manner bore little resemblance to her brother’s theatrical truculence. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

There was a general truculence about the notion that the threat of Donald Trump should compel progressives to shuffle into line behind the candidate. Elizabeth Warren Versus the Revolution 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

Unlike Shannon, Kevin Spacey attacks his character with jowly, slyly stylized gusto, delivering the signature Nixonian tirades with crabbed truculence and flawlessly funny timing. ‘Elvis & Nixon’ revisits a bizarre piece of pop-political ephemera 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z

For perhaps the first time since the state’s stingy Yankee truculence led it to oppose the New Deal, Vermont was seen as an impediment to social progress. Bernie Sanders, Guns, and the Idea of Vermont 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z

Political polarization, as it solidified in the years following his election, became a rebuke to his Presidency: even normal procedural truculence could be taken to suggest that the President’s view of Americans was naïve. A State of the Union for the Age of Polarization 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Liberals have no monopoly on truculence, but the need to be told what to think does seem to set them apart. Dreams From My Uncle 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z

And right now the party's animating spirit is pugnacious truculence. The Path to Political Salvation 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

He urged the U.S. to be robust in resisting Soviet subversion and truculence, rather than plunge into an uneconomic level of rearmament. America’s Shameful Retreat on Iran 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The Shiite militias’ shift from truculence to acquiescence in Tikrit seemed tied to remarks at Friday Prayer in Karbala by a spokesman for Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Shiite Militias in Iraq Back Off Boycott Over U.S. Strikes on ISIS 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Will a review system know, for instance, that someone gets out to the cab a little late because of mobility issues instead of truculence? Mind Your Manners, Companies Are Rating You 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

Dubbed a rivalry matchup by NBC on its national broadcast, the game began with enough truculence to justify the label. Mistakes plague Capitals in 4-2 loss to Red Wings

She may have made 11 studio albums and been a guest vocalist on more than 120 tracks, but truculence is a known aspect of Blige's character. Mary J Blige interview: 'The UK is a better place to make music than the States' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z

What prevented an agreement in Vienna was not congressional initiative but Iranian truculence. How to break the Iran nuclear stalemate

But we can probably do more to blunt both Russia’s and China’s truculence in the long-term by developing our energy production, traditional and alternative. Obama's Foreign Policy Goes Right and Wrong on China, Russia and Iraq 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

There is an almost superstitious truculence on the part of world monetary elites to consider the restoration of the gold standard. The Global Importance Of Paul Volcker's Call For A 'New Bretton Woods' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z

Should Putin’s truculence persist in the face of international calls for him to pull back from Ukraine, Russia’s membership in the World Trade Organization could also be put at risk. Power Delusions: U.S., Russia Face Off Over Ukraine 2014-03-06T10:56:53Z

Could it be that they dreamed up Llewyn as a subordinate character to dance mischievously around Jim and Jean, then saw him commandeer the narrative by the sheer force of his truculence? Corliss at Cannes: Inside Llewyn Davis -- Confounding and Lovingly Scored 2013-05-19T20:05:23Z

Banning orders, hairdryer dressing downs and an air of general truculence and menace would not be too much of a stretch. What next for Fergie? Vintner, pundit or leader of the Labour Party? 2013-05-08T16:00:01Z

In 1986, Hinault summed up the truculence of the ageing stag: "If we have a war, it'll be a fair war and the stronger one will win." Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome set cycling's bickering bar Sky high 2013-02-02T22:00:03Z

The danger for Turkey is that its truculence, whether over the Mavi Marmara ship incident with Israel or over the loss of its F-4 off the Syrian coast, begins to look toothless. Analysis: Syria crisis shows limits of rising Turkish power 2012-07-09T08:08:08Z

But it is not about Nabal's truculence I wish to speak. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z

Nares saw him clearly, a big, brawny man swaying half-naked on his feet with short cotton draperies hanging from his waist, and his truculence was a guide to his profession. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z

And with truculence called on the passengers to assent. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z

It’s true Santorum has toned down the truculence he flashed in early debates. Santorum Stymied in New Hampshire? Hostile Crowds Greet GOP Upstart 2012-01-09T19:05:10Z

For a little space the two men looked at each other, the Deacon to outward seeming with the casual interest of a chance meeting, and the boy with a lowering truculence which augured trouble. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z

An American husband, of the class largely evident in Havana, escorted his family abroad with truculence and an air of shame at being exposed in such a ridiculous situation. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z

Still, the truculence of character that had brought her warring down to "Post Offic" remained to be settled. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z

Grandma was one-fifth tact, three-fifths determination, one-fifth truculence, and the whole of her was will power of a very concentrated kind. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z

Perceiving that Isabel made no reply, Nannie addressed her again, with both in her manner and her words perhaps a superfluity of truculence. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z

On the administration side the laboring oar was taken by Toombs, who spoke with more truculence than he had shown in the Thirty-fourth Congress. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z

What I mean is that I believe the truculence of Germany may be trusted, from one month or one week to another now, to force the American hand. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z

A drink or two added to his truculence, as well as to his desire to resume the game interrupted that morning. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z

Besides, she was a sharp and quizzical old thing, and from the height of her own self-consequence she stole glances at him that were a nice mingling of caution and truculence. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z

He is a middle-aged, broad-shouldered, haughty-looking man, with an air of savage truculence on his aristocratic face. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z

The jauntiness, the pompous self-assurance, and the truculence that so distinguished him among his fellows disappeared from his mien; it was as though years of anxiety and care had suddenly passed over him. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z

But his displays of truculence in the face of temporary misfortune seem to have been drawn from another sport, or another world, altogether. Is Hamilton starting to lose his grip? 2011-07-08T19:26:38Z

“Camped off” or enclosed, there is no limit to his absolutely fearless truculence. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z

Beyond the gates I found the warning again repeated with a more emphatic truculence and a finer particularity. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z

His tufty chin beard was aggressively thrust, his two great hands were stuck in the waist of his trousers, which gave him further an air of truculence. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z

Its proclamations, its Socialist articles in the Officiel, the truculence of the mayors and deputies, had at last rallied round it all the revolutionary groups. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z

The men stood silent and uncomfortable under his scrutiny, but a surly truculence was in their eyes as they endeavored to return his stare. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z

As the flesh of Christ cannot be corporeally chewed without wickedness and truculence, so it is not food of the belly.... Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z

The doctor, who had been present on the occasion when Leonard had fallen foul of Father Cameril, and who had been amused at the husband's truculence, had also noted the anxious look of the wife. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z

This group of poems belongs in the main to the early youth of the poet, and displays a truculence and a controversial heat which are absent from his more mature writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z

"Don't dare to offer me a word, either of you," said the Great Lady, in a whisper of Homeric truculence. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z

A look of mingled craft and truculence spread over the seamed, sallow face of the woman. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z

Behind that truculence his mind was always whirring. Gary Neville: angry, resolute, relentless and David Beckham's bedrock 2011-02-03T21:19:05Z

GIB campaigners would be disappointed by this, believing that, while it gets around the truculence of Treasury officials, it carries with it greater risk. Oliver Letwin could break deadlock over green investment bank 2011-02-01T13:13:10Z

The priest nodded, and Steinbaum, now carrying himself with a certain truculence, essayed to lead the girl’s faltering tongue through the Spanish phrases. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z

Her look was one of unmistakable truculence, of hostility. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z

She still viewed me in truculence and disgust, but there was a subtle change in her demeanor. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z

He shoved his horse past me and up to Miss Bennett, his red moustache bristling, truculence in every outline of his heavy shoulders. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z

Tony flung out the words; yet he had an odd air of keeping his own truculence under control. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z

She asked Aliyev if he knew the reasons for Turkish truculence concerning gas redistribution. US embassy cables: BP accused of 'mild blackmail' by Azerbaijan during winter gas shortage 2010-12-15T21:30:02Z

Where Burke values “truculence” in his N.H.L. teams, including in Wilson’s Maple Leafs, the Americans have been restrained in the strictly officiated Olympic tournament. For Wilson, Success and Failure Intersect 2010-02-27T21:49:00Z

And it's doing so in an entertaining and risk-taking style with a bit of the "truculence" Mr. Burke says he wants from his players. For U.S., It's 1980 All Over Again 2010-02-19T04:22:00Z

"He has the right level of truculence," Mr. Burke said after the game. 2010-02-17T00:46:00Z

This increasing truculence is a direct reflection of a rapidly shifting economic balance of power. 2010-02-08T21:15:00Z

In his early years, Mays was looked after — some said coddled — by Manager Leo Durocher, whose celebrated truculence with opponents and umpires was matched by his paternal attitude toward his star center fielder. 2010-01-30T19:55:00Z

The elephant he feared and respected for its power and occasional truculence, and endeavored to destroy on the infrequent occasions when chance gave an opening to his own crafty ferocity. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open

The seventh book of the Life of Apollonius by Philostratus is a revelation of the mingled caution and truculence of the methods of Domitian. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius

Their most obsequious devotions did not temper the preacher's truculence, any more than his strongest onslaught discouraged their good works. Witching Hill

It must be, then, that from his hiding place that intriguer was inciting a spirit of truculence in the Carrs to which the Gregories were automatically responding. The Tempering

"Do you doubt my word!" cried the Scot, with instant frowning truculence. The Firebrand

I had a printed document from them, which was severe to the point of truculence. The New Gulliver and Other Stories

He had, with an assumed truculence and fury, cold logic, an invariable gentleness, an unruffled courtesy, and yet could never close a speech without being denounced by a journeyman hatter, with an Italian name. The Trembling of the Veil

"Then you decline to take any interest in our cause?" he demanded belligerently, his sudden truculence contrasting very curiously with his peaceful face. Thirty

The man hesitated, and his glance savoured of repressed truculence. The Tempering

The sources from which all the immigrants were recruited made inevitable an element of lawlessness and truculence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens"

The former, without exception, seemed to carry themselves with the swaggering truculence of the true adventurer; the latter seemed sullen and aloof, like caged animals. Warrior of the Dawn

There is no truculence in modern unbelief," he said, "it is a matter of passionate regret. The New Warden

He seemed, Mr. Spokesly imagined, to be assuming truculence to cover timidity. Command

Gone now was his domineering truculence, gone all but the smouldering of his old, self-confident ferocity. The Tempering

Our diffidence was deemed truculence: our reluctance to accept a high doctrine of subservience was measured as insubordination. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war

Tall, strongly built, altogether fitter and more muscular than the stalwart Senator, he carried with him an impression of truculence, of a savage forcefulness, not often clothed in the staid garments of city life. The Bartlett Mystery

He was a tall, spare man, and in his voice there was a ring of authority, not to say truculence, that boded ill for any man who did not jump when spoken to. Doubloons—and the Girl

Perhaps his visit to the Post Office for letters had something to do both with his truculence and his present air of fascinated interest in Evanthia's face. Command

Only once did he show a bit of his old gallant truculence. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea

But he also knew that with six or more against him to show truculence would only have been to make himself ridiculous. The Deaves Affair

Coburn found himself regarding the faces around him with an unexpected truculence. The Invaders

"What do you want?" he demanded, with truculence. Doubloons—and the Girl

Abud had seen the peril, too, and lost all his truculence in the face of the greater danger. Astounding Stories, July, 1931

How the reptile propensities of his mean nature had thriven beneath the sudden sunshine of unexpected prosperity!—See already his selfishness, truculence, rapacity, in full play! Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1.

Spite of all the truculence of his language, and through all his strenuous thrust and parry, Dr. Beecher's sincerity, integrity, and piety shine forth unclouded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865

The independent tenure of the land by a vast number of small farmers, who are their own masters, gives an air of carelessness, almost of truculence, to the well-to-do Danish peasants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor"

But the sight of all this truculence and the ostentatious way in which the little green flags were trampled on and insulted, was too much for Jimmy and his inspired companions. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country

Pocket spoke out with a truculence which his brothers had inherited, but not he, valiantly as he might try to follow a family example. The Camera Fiend

Having abandoned all hope of assistance from Huntington, he was thinking of other measures, and was scarcely as attentive as he might have been to the increasing truculence of his host. The Heart of Thunder Mountain

There was something in the way he spoke, a note of arrogance, a suggestion of truculence, which nettled Gorman. The Island Mystery

He drank heavily, and when under the influence of spirits abandoned his well-polished manners, and displayed a coarseness, a savage truculence, such as he had been careful never to show before. The Twins of Suffering Creek

He therefore met truculence with diplomacy, threatening looks with flattery, and hard words with a long story. Nan of Music Mountain

It would be fatal at this point to show weakness or truculence. The Comings of Cousin Ann

Any soft young fool, she asserted, with the directness and not unattractive truculence of her generation, can get a commission and muddle through, but it took a man to enlist as a private soldier. The Rough Road

The very truculence of the fellow stung the derelict to a sudden defiance. Anthony Lyveden

The ex-sergeant, whose spirit of meekness in proposing himself had been in extraordinary contrast to the condescending truculence of other candidates, had been thankfully retained. Captain Jim

It was sycophantic, and yet behind the cringing air of an old man who had been worsted in his struggle with fate was a shadow of old truculence. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands

"People," declared Miss Radford with truculence, "have to take me as they happen to find me!" Love at Paddington

But Oliver and his pirates laughed with the truculence befitting their vocation, and bowing with ironical politeness, let their victim depart to the parody of a popular song: “Good-bye, Doggie, we shall miss you.” The Rough Road

Stonor shook hands with him, affecting not to notice the signs of truculence. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]

The frown still narrowed Harlan’s eyes when they rested upon the horseman; and his brows were drawn together with unmistakable truculence when Haydon dismounted near the corral fence. 'Drag' Harlan

Tiflin's face seemed to writhe, now, with self-doubt and truculence; his eyes were on the photos of the heroes, beginning way back; Goddard. The Planet Strappers

Pitt and Grenville also concerted plans with the Austrian Court, which, chastened by the disasters in Switzerland, now displayed less truculence. William Pitt and the Great War

Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Henley saluted the Boer War in verse of much truculence, but no quality; and when Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Henley lacked quality one began to inquire into causes. From a Cornish Window A New Edition

But away from their control some deeds of truculence occurred. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2

He is an entertaining fellow with his enthusiasms, his truculences, his fluctuating standards of honesty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914

The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado

It is not correct to say that Zionism is but a "gesture of truculence" or an act of desperation against Anti-Semitism. Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil

It goes counter to the national delusion of uncompromising courage and limitless truculence. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Mr. O'Brien states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914

The colonists resented the intermittent tyranny and the persistent truculence of the most part of the royal governors. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III

It's evident," said the chairman of the Dail Committee, with truculence, "that we're a pack of worthless, finagling' and maybe even Protestant renegades from the ways an' the traditions of your fathers! Attention Saint Patrick

To add to the truculence of his natural expression, he was now somewhat under the influence of liquor and looked perplexed. Laramie Holds the Range

That manner, of course, is not incompatible with a certain superficial boldness, nor even with an appearance of truculence. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

He seemed to have lost all his old truculence. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales

Most critics, again, would find in Swift a truculence, sometimes latent and sometimes flagrant, that would deprive him, too, of his place among these great masters of free and exuberant farce. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.

"Why, we will hang you up by the heels and cut slices off you!" said Sir Toady, with frowning truculence. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North

"Why didn't these wonders take place in our presence?" asked Mrs. Quigg, who had returned to something like her original truculence of doubt. The Shadow World

But from the beach below the barrier seemed of the last truculence and efficacy. Patsy

Every curve of her features seemed to express a fine arrogant acrimony and harsh truculence. Clayhanger

He folded his arms with a hint of truculence. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

Chamillard is against us; he seems all powerful now; the King loves him for his truculence. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV

Amaryllis could not know that her very truculence was a fan to his flame. Ambrotox and Limping Dick

And presently Elk-at-Bay, he who bore the chieftain's message and confiscated the agent's cigars, edged his way to the front, but with far less truculence of mien than when the agent stood unsupported by soldiers. Under Fire

On the other hand, a sense of their power has sometimes given leaders of labor unions a lack of discretion, a truculence and an unreasonable and unjust attitude. Ethics in Service

You are not to be improved by the piety of his expression, nor disgusted by its truculence. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871

Friends will be those who can be cowed into truculence or bought. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life

The other was becoming interested in spite of himself, and his truculence melted a bit, although his tone was still sneering. Man of Many Minds

"I cannot be interrupted," cried De Sylva, whose iron self-restraint seemed to be yielding before British truculence. The Stowaway Girl

He flung himself into a chair at the table, ordered the waiters about with truculence, and, having thus relieved his mind, began complaining of his bad luck. My Friend the Chauffeur

You can no more dig beneath the subtlety of Sikh politeness than you can overbear his truculence, and it is only by results that you may know your friend and recognize your enemy. The Lion of Petra

The race had changed his mood completely, filling him with a joyous truculence. The Mayor of Warwick

But the All-American School, dominant in the States and Southern Republic, maintained with truculence that a Spanish stallion from the Pampas was the only sire for God Almighty's Mustang. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs

She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot

He held his head up with a sort of truculence in its poise; it was the head, massive, sensuous- lipped, slow-eyed, of a whimsical Nero. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories

They became very much terrified by his truculence, and henceforth lived amongst us, dejected, like a pair of mutes. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle

He was a plump, dark Cuban, with a brooding truculence. Romance

"I am going to attend to it at once," declared Lieutenant Feraud, with extreme truculence. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale

There was about him the air of a man accustomed to be obeyed, and yet there was no swagger or truculence in his bearing. Bert Wilson in the Rockies

It does not mean either sycophancy or truculence, but freedom to every individual to make the most of himself and so help others to make the most of themselves. The Vitalized School

The man's head was big, like the rest of him, and covered with shaggy, tawny hair which seemed to bristle with truculence. The Trail Horde

Nothing could have been more unlike his saturnine self-centred truculence of restraint. Romance

It struck Tallente that he was aware of the object of the meeting and his manner, obviously intended to be ingratiating, had still a touch of self-conscious truculence. Nobody's Man

He essayed the most vehement kind of subjects, even in the classical field, where he treated them with truly romantic truculence. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

There was still a certain air of bravoure, of truculence, which attracted, and might still charm. Mike Fletcher A Novel

There is no truculence about him, no show of physical force. Humanly Speaking

"If you'll kindly give me back my hand, I might be induced to fetch you another clump or two, just to prove my reality," she suggested, with a delightful hint of the old truculence. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

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

That hideous old barrack stared with all the uncompromising truculence of bare white stone on nature that smiled agreeably round it in lawn and underwood. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)

"Don't tell me, sir, that they didn't put him there because they knew they could count on him!" roared old Powhatan, with the accumulated truculence of eighty quarrelsome years. One Man in His Time

Nor is my compassion altogether free from a sense of superiority to the object of it—superiority untainted, howbeit, by truculence. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales

There was nothing of assertiveness or truculence in this steady movement by which Liberal policy and outlook was given a new orientation, Quebec replacing Ontario as the determinant. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics

Freeman's boisterous truculence made such a deafening noise, and raised such a blinding dust, that it takes some little time and trouble to discover the hollowness of the charges. The Life of Froude

He spoke with truculence, and now de Courcelles did not interfere. The Hunters of the Hills

But his natural truculence, and his not altogether unnatural exultation at the frustration of these plans for his own upsetting, overcame all else. A Maid of the Silver Sea

"Commander," said the spokesman, with nothing of the late truculence in his tone, "we have just held a meeting of the guild, and unanimously agreed to ask you one question, and offer you one suggestion." The Sword Maker

The earlier Reviewers were discreditably savage on women-writers, and Lady Morgan had her share of their truculence. The English Novel

Domestic difficulties in the Party have not smoothed down TIM's natural truculence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892

Little babyish blue eyes they were with curly corners, a gay light in the sombre truculence of his face. The Divine Fire

That checked his queer truculence; and Cally, desperate with the need to drive home her meaning, swept on with no more nervousness. V. V.'s Eyes

Bob, following, noticed the peculiar truculence imparted to Darrell's appearance by the fact that in walking he always held his hands open and palms to the front. The Rules of the Game

On two later occasions Browning sang the same battle-hymn against the enemies of God and with a little too much vehemence—not to say truculence—as is the way with earnest believers. Robert Browning

With all his truculence, he was too good a politician to lay his tongue to the man tagged with an invisible, but none the less protective, tag of a man higher up. Analyzing Character

They would have called our more sober reticence by the name of feebleness: their truculence we stigmatize as slander and Billingsgate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863

Since the Treaty of 1783 the English seemed to act deliberately with studied truculence, as if the Americans would not and could not retaliate. George Washington

He was clearly deficient in that subservience and ready obedience to authority which was the best passport to promotion in the Civil Service; there was in his disposition already a certain truculence and impatience. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire

Then, to stop any repetition of the offence, and more effectually to curb the overbearing truculence of the frontiersmen, he himself built, as already mentioned, a fort at Massac, not far from the Mississippi. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807

He had no notion what shape that gentleman's hostility might take, nor how far his truculence might aspire. The Castle Inn

I was only philosophising upon these scenes of inexpensive patriotism which fill even the most urbane and peaceful among us full of truculence. Ailsa Paige

They had reached that dangerous stage of truculence, when they did not think it mattered whether they spoke with common diplomatic reticence. George Washington

The white- lipped peccaries make no effort to escape observation by being either noiseless or motionless; they trust for defence to their gregariousness and truculence. Through the Brazilian Wilderness

If he pursued a course that has since seemed to be a marvel of truculence, the explanation should be sought in the circumstances of his mission more than in the nature of his personality. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism

The savage truculence of the murderer had triumphed, but not until he had battered in the face, destroying features and rendering recognition almost impossible. The Rome Express

As I ordered my more delicate meal, the younger of the two gentlemen cast upon me a look of latent truculence, such as I have often remarked among my compatriots of the South. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861

As Washington prophesied, the French thought better of their truculence. George Washington

The collared peccary also trusts to its truculence, but seeks refuge in a hole where it can face any opponent with its formidable biting apparatus. Through the Brazilian Wilderness

From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness. Theory of the Leisure Class

"Certainly I let her pass—" But under the green dwarf's stern gaze the truculence of the guardian faded. The Moon Pool

Ginx has been waiting through three chapters to explain his truculence upon the birth of his twelfth child. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire

He laughed harshly again, then suddenly showed truculence. Penrod

Where much persecuted the survivors gradually grow more willing to run, but their instinct is not to run but to trust to their truculence and their mass-action for safety. Through the Brazilian Wilderness

"How do you know that that isn't what I've felt too—from the beginning?" he demanded of her, almost with truculence. The Market-Place

They outgulched the Gulch in the virulence and fluency of their blasphemy, in the truculence of their speech and manner, and in their reckless disregard of all social laws. The Captain of the Polestar

Now, however, he found to his surprise that his fury had lapsed to a profound contempt, in which there was bitterness, but no truculence. The Octopus : A story of California

Maurice cried with astonishing truculence, contorting himself into what he may have considered a posture of defense. Penrod

Why it should have shown such truculence and heedlessness I cannot imagine, unless perhaps it was a female, with eggs near by. Through the Brazilian Wilderness

"I don't believe in disguises," said Weymouth, with a certain truculence. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

Since you know so much about it," said Mrs. Levitt with a certain calm, subdued truculence, "you may as well know everything. Mr. Waddington of Wyck

Instantly a spirit of aggression, of truculence, swelled up underneath waistcoats and starched shirt bosoms. The Octopus : A story of California

Richard seemed to have lost much of his truculence of manner. The Box with Broken Seals

His hair and beard were freshly trimmed, and he had a cleanlier look than we have hitherto noticed; moreover, his expression had lost a little of its habitual sullen truculence. Till the Clock Stops

The admixture of deep spiritual reverence with intense truculence in his voice was dissimilar from anything I ever had heard. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu

At thirteen minutes past nine he composed his face into a dour truculence, an expression to which the heavy conformation of the lower part lent itself admirably. The Loudwater Mystery

He had, or affected, a truculence which was simply brutal, its savagery intensified rather than mitigated by a bluff, boisterous bonhomie. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

"Why not?" she replied, with a faint note of truculence in her tone. The Box with Broken Seals

"If they didn't treat you right—" She smiled, genuinely this time, at his sudden truculence. The Gray Dawn

At the same time there was not a suspicion of truculence or even repulse in his carriage. Weighed and Wanting

He stood on the hearth-rug and glowered at him with heavy truculence. The Loudwater Mystery

There was a certain truculence in his walk which annoyed her; but she was wonderingly conscious of the fact that she was no longer afraid of him. With Edged Tools

"Now, Simon Armour," began the baronet with some truculence. There & Back

The others likewise resumed their seats; and the Count cried out, but with less of truculence in his tone: "What message sent the Archbishop to Castle Bertrich?" The Strong Arm

In one the prevailing characteristic may be mildness and affability of manners, whereas in another it may be truculence and incivility. Two Summers in Guyenne

The whole movement was made in silence, without a cheer or yell, for, like the porter and the Scythians, the most unconscionable villains in our ergastulum quailed before the truculence of the frontier sergeants. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire

He could not quite follow what all this was about, but there was no mistaking the truculence of Adair’s manner. Mike

They are much more explicit, and the pains and penalties for the violation of them are now absolutely unholy in their truculence. My Tropic Isle

"What is your desire?" he said with less of truculence in his tone than there had been at the beginning. The Strong Arm

They not only let all the menials pass unquestioned also, but it was some little time before their vigilance resumed its former truculence. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons

And indeed it made you shudder to think of that enormous ferocity, that dynamic truculence, doing its best to destroy you in a space twenty-four feet square. Snake and Sword A Novel

Occasionally I stopped to pick up a stone and cast it over the fence, thinking with some truculence that my neighbour would probably throw it back again. Adventures in Contentment

He could not quite follow what all this was about, but there was no mistaking the truculence of Adair's manner. Mike and Psmith

Some found him truculent, but he never displayed any truculence to me. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement

It shows the melodramatic truculence which was echoed in the exhortations of the general and of other men who should have had more judgment. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863

His eyes darted away the instant they met hers, but Betty had seen enough to show her that she had mistaken nervousness for truculence. The Prince and Betty

The powers of a committee varied according to the determination and truculence of the members of it. The Gold Bat

He had, with an assumed truculence and fury, cold logic, an universal gentleness, an unruffled courtesy, and yet could never close a speech without being denounced by a journeyman hatter with an Italian name. Four Years

The momentary submission of the King of Burmah, or Mien, as it was, and is still, called by the Chinese, had been followed by a fit of truculence and open hostility. China

The prisoners changed their attitude, and eyed Brown and the Rajput with an air of truculence again. Told in the East

His first thought was that the man facing him from the hearth-rug was the very Duncan Vyse of old: small, starved, bleached-looking, with the same sidelong movements, the same queer air of anaemic truculence. Tales of Men and Ghosts

Adela's reproof was not wholly without effect; her brother got through the evening without proceeding to his extremest truculence, still the conversation was entirely of his leading, consequently not a little argumentative. Demos

A smile, which could not mask its cunning, came on to his lips, and all of a sudden he exchanged his truculence for amiability. Veranilda

If the unmarried Betty had a fault, it was a certain sweet truculence, a pretty self-assertiveness which sometimes betrayed intolerance of human foibles. The Red Planet

This note of joyous truculence, with the little out-thrust of the underlip, brought, as so often before and since, laughter and applause. Letters of Franklin K. Lane

The use of the expletive "dangerously," as suggestive of the truculence of the people to whom it refers, is critically allowable in view of the main intention of the author. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas

Maggie almost wished that his old mood of truculence would return. The Captives

Then his truculence broke in a malicious amusement. The Kentons

"Not quite so much truculence, young lady," replied her brother. The Major

My father, as Head of the House and his own senior by eighteen years, tried often to admonish him; but his perversity of spirit and his truculence were such that he had to desist. The Lady of the Shroud

He was the viking sort of man, big, good-looking, and with an air of kindly truculence. Cabbages and Kings

"Can you think of a more suitable person?" he asked, with a faint note of truculence in his tone. The Devil's Paw

At last, at the beginning of 1917, the German truculence became too great even for President Wilson to palliate. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography

"All right, sir," said the man, with a sort of studied truculence, "I'll take my chance." The Quest of the Sacred Slipper

To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard

His manner was courtly, with a sort of kindly truculence in it, tempered by a merciful eye. Cabbages and Kings

But Smollett was poor, and he was angry; he had the examples of Pope and Swift before him; which, as far as truculence went, he could imitate. Adventures Among Books

The true Prussian truculence always oozes out when it has not a safe margin of superiority in strength on its side. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography

His lordship conceived that the fellow's truculence and utter lack of proper deference must be corrected. Captain Blood

His manner in the Casa Gould was, of course, very different—devoid of all truculence, and even slightly mournful. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard

Even in his gaiety there was an unpleasant spice of greed and truculence. A Book of Scoundrels

Symptoms of truculence at once became alarmingly pronounced on both sides. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William

Roosevelt had set a precedent for controlling corporate truculence. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography

The Deputy-Governor went out with dragging feet, followed by guards, his momentary truculence utterly spent. Captain Blood

He possesses the size, power, and truculence of the rhinoceros, together with all that animal's keenness of scent and hearing but with a sharpness of vision the rhinoceros has not. The Land of Footprints

High cheek bones and prominent maxillary muscles enhanced the truculence indicated by his chin. Dope

He was unable to cast aside his outward truculence though it was but a relic. Penrod and Sam

But she was troubled by my truculence, the more so because I had been always addressing her with a politeness she did not deserve. 'Twixt Land and Sea

The yeoman took alarm at that ferocious truculence. Captain Blood

Thus challenged, the obvious truculence faded out of Ogle's bearing, quenched by the old habit of obedience and the natural dominance that was the secret of the Captain's rule over his wild followers. Captain Blood

But, next to this truculence, which was the first and most alarming trait to intrude itself upon the observer's attention, the outstanding characteristic of Chief Inspector Kerry was his compact neatness. Dope

But while Seton Pasha hid the grimness of his nature beneath a sort of humorous reserve, the dangerous side of Kerry was displayed in his open truculence. Dope

单词	truculence
例句	truculence A hundred expressions chased each other across Loki’s face: cunning and shiftiness, truculence and confusion. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z While Bobby knew of Jackie’s reputation for truculence and tolerated him nevertheless, he was careful not to include him in all areas of his life, knowing instinctively when Beers wouldn’t be welcomed by others. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The truculence went out of the boy and a magnanimity took its place. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of returning the salute, Bull stopped the car completely and stared with visible truculence at the guard who held his salute as rigidly as some umpires who call strikes on batters with exaggerated formality. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z As Crowe has settled into middle age and fatherhood, the media's focus on his reputation for truculence has abated, for which he is grateful. For Russell Crowe, directing 'Water Diviner' is risky; reward is 'freedom' 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z The girl, indignant, gathers up the clothes and stalks away; there’s a genuine truculence in her step. Turning Points: Three Movies Centering on Young Women 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z And this was my reward: truculence and borderline bullying. Why I won't be going to see the Stone Roses, by John Harris 2012-06-22T23:15:00Z It also seemed to crystallize her peculiar mixture of vulnerability and high-decibel truculence. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Zelda’s wisdom, natural warmth and good humor are far more appealing than the truculence, emotional fragility and intellectual insecurity of Rachel. \| 'The How and the Why': Student Meets a Mentor She Has Met Before 2011-01-18T22:30:20Z He is benevolently condescending and professorial, inviting us to share his delight in the early American audience's "wonderful" naiveté and truculence. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z But in its contemplation of what Cash called “the savage ideal” in Southern culture, an ingrained white male truculence, it remains a volume be reckoned with. Books of The Times: ‘The New Mind of the South,’ by Tracy Thompson 2013-04-23T17:04:03Z The Art of Dissent deserves a gold medal for its incisive, guileful, eloquent truculence. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London's Olympic State edited by Hilary Powell and Isaac Marrero-Guillamón 2012-07-31T10:45:01Z Entirely resentful of the new world into which she is plunged, her truculence is expressed via a high school demotic. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver 2013-05-03T17:41:01Z In his first of four solo acoustic concerts at Carnegie Hall, Mr. Young made himself gloriously at home, cutting a figure of sharp conscience and wry truculence as he foraged through his catalog. From The Times, the Best Bands and Acts Heard All Year 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Many of the points Spufford makes against Dawkins are valid, but if he is right in saying atheist polemicists caricature religious faith, so does his condescending truculence toward atheists distort their argument. An Essayist Searching for Alternate Worlds 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z While it might seem easy to pity the alienated Hogan, his ornery truculence and the me-against-the-world attitude that flares when he drinks makes us see how hard he might be to live with. ‘Lost Lake,’ a Two-Character Play by David Auburn 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Once thought of either as an example of musicianly truculence, or as an unlistenable contractual obligation, Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music has lately earned a surprising reputation as his most influential work. Music picks of the week 2010-04-16T23:09:00Z The truculence of their utterances is only to be expected. The Eagle bears the standard Scottish stereotype 2011-03-28T09:55:28Z There's a hint of truculence, perhaps, about the mouth, though the eyes invite you to overlook it. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z Perhaps what the Panthers need is a few more bounces and a little less truculence. Golden Knights know from experience Game 1 victory doesn’t ensure win over Panthers 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z At an event in Rochester, N.H., later on Thursday, Mr. DeSantis flashed a hint of truculence after a reporter asked him about Mr. Trump’s claim that he could fix the country’s problems in six months. Ron DeSantis Snaps at a Reporter: ‘Are You Blind?’ 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z One can consider DeSantis’s dislikes admirable but still wonder: Do most Republicans, does the nation, want another president defined by truculence? Opinion \| Glenn Youngkin is no surly GOP brawler. Many might welcome that. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Our cranky nation, with its constant surplus of truculence, could benefit from a smidgen of Thomas Jefferson’s live-and-let-live spirit. Opinion \| Trying to protect students from a coach’s prayers did them no favors 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z The president is rightly impatient with vaccine resistance, which often expresses only the mindless truculence of those who feel fully alive only when furious. Opinion \| Presidential impatience with covid doesn’t excuse wielding extra-constitutional power 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z And he’s defended that position, albeit with unnecessary truculence, in numerous appearances on Capitol Hill. Column: Stop saying the USPS should be 'run like a business.' It's not a 'business' 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Would a Biden or Trump administration be preferable if, in 2021, China, whose increasing truculence is displayed from the South China Sea to the Himalayan border with India, seized one of Taiwan’s nearby islands? Opinion \| A President Biden’s first priority must be restoring foreign confidence in the U.S. 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z It was a stance of undifferentiated truculence toward the institutions and manners of liberal democracy. Opinion \| The difference between Trumpism and fascism 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z A busy, busy businesswoman/man with truculence towards the holiday spirit is sent to a small town where Christmas is everything. A man's guide to surviving Hallmark's "Countdown to Christmas" marathon - Golf Digest 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Some liberal Democrats, concerned the response to the Trump administration’s truculence has been too timid, want their party to do more to force compliance with oversight requests. Trump’s defiance of oversight presents new challenge to Congress’s ability to rein in the executive branch 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Some liberal Democrats want their party to do more to force compliance with oversight requests, concerned the response to the Trump administration’s truculence has been too timid. Trump’s defiance of oversight challenges Congress’s ability to rein in executive branch 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z This is a reality the PRC denies with fluctuating, but currently intensifying, truculence. Opinion \| What Hong Kong’s resistance means for Taiwan 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Now Trump must decide whether to fight a war he and the country don’t want, or to accommodate an Iran whose truculence he helped create. Opinion \| The escalating crisis with Iran is Trump’s self-inflicted wound 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Trump’s trade war, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to be based on any consistent purpose except truculence. Column: Slowing to a 2.1% annual growth rate, Trump's economy comes off its sugar high 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z He was never going to reproduce the flair and verve of his Napoli side overnight, particularly given his Chelsea squad is broadly unsuited to that style and has consistently been prone to bouts of truculence. Would letting Maurizio Sarri leave really be sensible for Chelsea? \| Jonathan Wilson 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z History is clear that moments of high trade truculence, such as that pursued against Japan in the early 1990s, accomplished little while imposing substantial costs. Opinion \| Four reasons Chinese officials aren’t buying Trump’s trade threats 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Though he opposes such measures, the fact that the House is moving towards Medicaid expansion represents a huge shift from the McAuliffe years, when the mere mention of the programme sparked truculence from Republicans. Ralph Northam pushes for Medicaid expansion in Virginia 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z The other is that the wall would be a waste of money as well as an unfortunate symbol of U.S. truculence. Opinion \| How to get to yes on a deal for the ‘dreamers’ 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z To address Jerusalem, city of passions, with such truculence was to invite disaster, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defense Secretary James Mattis tried to impress on a president captive to his impulses. Opinion \| Year One in Donald Trump’s World 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z At the very least, Japan and South Korea will most likely feel the need to develop their own nuclear capability in the face of North Korea truculence. N. Korea should follow Kazakhstan’s lead 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z This legislative truculence is one of those things that defies common sense. A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Give no ground to your critics, Mr. Bannon urged the president, with characteristic truculence. Bannon Was Set for a Graceful Exit. Then Came Charlottesville. 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z But I still think, of all forms of rebellion, foot-dragging British truculence is the hardest to beat. I prefer my Handmaid’s Tale without the sass and Scientology \| Emma Brockes 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z If no diplomatic breakthroughs on major issues were achieved, it is also the case that there were no outward displays of truculence from either side. Opinion \| The most important economic challenge that China poses 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Folklore also presented her with a set of emotions that, while releasing her, eventually, from sixties truculence, nevertheless felt true, not genteel. Angela Carter’s Feminist Mythology 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Much of the coverage, naturally, centered on Balotelli’s reputation, his truculence and his rebelliousness. Surging on the Riviera, With Mario Balotelli in Tow 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The editors have managed to pull together a memoir using material in Rosset’s papers, and have produced a book that has the charm and some of the truculence of the man himself. How the publishing industry took on the taboo. 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z Her composed manner bore little resemblance to her brother’s theatrical truculence. When a Populist Demagogue Takes Power 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z There was a general truculence about the notion that the threat of Donald Trump should compel progressives to shuffle into line behind the candidate. Elizabeth Warren Versus the Revolution 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z Unlike Shannon, Kevin Spacey attacks his character with jowly, slyly stylized gusto, delivering the signature Nixonian tirades with crabbed truculence and flawlessly funny timing. ‘Elvis & Nixon’ revisits a bizarre piece of pop-political ephemera 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z For perhaps the first time since the state’s stingy Yankee truculence led it to oppose the New Deal, Vermont was seen as an impediment to social progress. Bernie Sanders, Guns, and the Idea of Vermont 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Political polarization, as it solidified in the years following his election, became a rebuke to his Presidency: even normal procedural truculence could be taken to suggest that the President’s view of Americans was naïve. A State of the Union for the Age of Polarization 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Liberals have no monopoly on truculence, but the need to be told what to think does seem to set them apart. Dreams From My Uncle 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z And right now the party's animating spirit is pugnacious truculence. The Path to Political Salvation 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z He urged the U.S. to be robust in resisting Soviet subversion and truculence, rather than plunge into an uneconomic level of rearmament. America’s Shameful Retreat on Iran 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z The Shiite militias’ shift from truculence to acquiescence in Tikrit seemed tied to remarks at Friday Prayer in Karbala by a spokesman for Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. Shiite Militias in Iraq Back Off Boycott Over U.S. Strikes on ISIS 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Will a review system know, for instance, that someone gets out to the cab a little late because of mobility issues instead of truculence? Mind Your Manners, Companies Are Rating You 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Dubbed a rivalry matchup by NBC on its national broadcast, the game began with enough truculence to justify the label. Mistakes plague Capitals in 4-2 loss to Red Wings She may have made 11 studio albums and been a guest vocalist on more than 120 tracks, but truculence is a known aspect of Blige's character. Mary J Blige interview: 'The UK is a better place to make music than the States' 2014-08-31T04:00:00Z What prevented an agreement in Vienna was not congressional initiative but Iranian truculence. How to break the Iran nuclear stalemate But we can probably do more to blunt both Russia’s and China’s truculence in the long-term by developing our energy production, traditional and alternative. Obama's Foreign Policy Goes Right and Wrong on China, Russia and Iraq 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z There is an almost superstitious truculence on the part of world monetary elites to consider the restoration of the gold standard. The Global Importance Of Paul Volcker's Call For A 'New Bretton Woods' 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z Should Putin’s truculence persist in the face of international calls for him to pull back from Ukraine, Russia’s membership in the World Trade Organization could also be put at risk. Power Delusions: U.S., Russia Face Off Over Ukraine 2014-03-06T10:56:53Z Could it be that they dreamed up Llewyn as a subordinate character to dance mischievously around Jim and Jean, then saw him commandeer the narrative by the sheer force of his truculence? Corliss at Cannes: Inside Llewyn Davis -- Confounding and Lovingly Scored 2013-05-19T20:05:23Z Banning orders, hairdryer dressing downs and an air of general truculence and menace would not be too much of a stretch. What next for Fergie? Vintner, pundit or leader of the Labour Party? 2013-05-08T16:00:01Z In 1986, Hinault summed up the truculence of the ageing stag: "If we have a war, it'll be a fair war and the stronger one will win." Bradley Wiggins and Chris Froome set cycling's bickering bar Sky high 2013-02-02T22:00:03Z The danger for Turkey is that its truculence, whether over the Mavi Marmara ship incident with Israel or over the loss of its F-4 off the Syrian coast, begins to look toothless. Analysis: Syria crisis shows limits of rising Turkish power 2012-07-09T08:08:08Z But it is not about Nabal's truculence I wish to speak. One Day at a Time and Other Talks on Life and Religion 2012-03-31T02:00:20.873Z Nares saw him clearly, a big, brawny man swaying half-naked on his feet with short cotton draperies hanging from his waist, and his truculence was a guide to his profession. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z And with truculence called on the passengers to assent. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z It’s true Santorum has toned down the truculence he flashed in early debates. Santorum Stymied in New Hampshire? Hostile Crowds Greet GOP Upstart 2012-01-09T19:05:10Z For a little space the two men looked at each other, the Deacon to outward seeming with the casual interest of a chance meeting, and the boy with a lowering truculence which augured trouble. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z An American husband, of the class largely evident in Havana, escorted his family abroad with truculence and an air of shame at being exposed in such a ridiculous situation. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Still, the truculence of character that had brought her warring down to "Post Offic" remained to be settled. The Happy Warrior 2011-12-18T03:00:18.863Z Grandma was one-fifth tact, three-fifths determination, one-fifth truculence, and the whole of her was will power of a very concentrated kind. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Perceiving that Isabel made no reply, Nannie addressed her again, with both in her manner and her words perhaps a superfluity of truculence. A Duel 2011-11-20T03:00:13.840Z On the administration side the laboring oar was taken by Toombs, who spoke with more truculence than he had shown in the Thirty-fourth Congress. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z What I mean is that I believe the truculence of Germany may be trusted, from one month or one week to another now, to force the American hand. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z A drink or two added to his truculence, as well as to his desire to resume the game interrupted that morning. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Besides, she was a sharp and quizzical old thing, and from the height of her own self-consequence she stole glances at him that were a nice mingling of caution and truculence. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z He is a middle-aged, broad-shouldered, haughty-looking man, with an air of savage truculence on his aristocratic face. 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The jauntiness, the pompous self-assurance, and the truculence that so distinguished him among his fellows disappeared from his mien; it was as though years of anxiety and care had suddenly passed over him. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z But his displays of truculence in the face of temporary misfortune seem to have been drawn from another sport, or another world, altogether. Is Hamilton starting to lose his grip? 2011-07-08T19:26:38Z “Camped off” or enclosed, there is no limit to his absolutely fearless truculence. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z Beyond the gates I found the warning again repeated with a more emphatic truculence and a finer particularity. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z His tufty chin beard was aggressively thrust, his two great hands were stuck in the waist of his trousers, which gave him further an air of truculence. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z Its proclamations, its Socialist articles in the Officiel, the truculence of the mayors and deputies, had at last rallied round it all the revolutionary groups. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z The men stood silent and uncomfortable under his scrutiny, but a surly truculence was in their eyes as they endeavored to return his stare. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z As the flesh of Christ cannot be corporeally chewed without wickedness and truculence, so it is not food of the belly.... Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The doctor, who had been present on the occasion when Leonard had fallen foul of Father Cameril, and who had been amused at the husband's truculence, had also noted the anxious look of the wife. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z This group of poems belongs in the main to the early youth of the poet, and displays a truculence and a controversial heat which are absent from his more mature writings. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z "Don't dare to offer me a word, either of you," said the Great Lady, in a whisper of Homeric truculence. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z A look of mingled craft and truculence spread over the seamed, sallow face of the woman. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Behind that truculence his mind was always whirring. Gary Neville: angry, resolute, relentless and David Beckham's bedrock 2011-02-03T21:19:05Z GIB campaigners would be disappointed by this, believing that, while it gets around the truculence of Treasury officials, it carries with it greater risk. Oliver Letwin could break deadlock over green investment bank 2011-02-01T13:13:10Z The priest nodded, and Steinbaum, now carrying himself with a certain truculence, essayed to lead the girl’s faltering tongue through the Spanish phrases. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z Her look was one of unmistakable truculence, of hostility. The Mesa Trail 2011-01-27T03:00:37.207Z She still viewed me in truculence and disgust, but there was a subtle change in her demeanor. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z He shoved his horse past me and up to Miss Bennett, his red moustache bristling, truculence in every outline of his heavy shoulders. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Tony flung out the words; yet he had an odd air of keeping his own truculence under control. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z She asked Aliyev if he knew the reasons for Turkish truculence concerning gas redistribution. US embassy cables: BP accused of 'mild blackmail' by Azerbaijan during winter gas shortage 2010-12-15T21:30:02Z Where Burke values “truculence” in his N.H.L. teams, including in Wilson’s Maple Leafs, the Americans have been restrained in the strictly officiated Olympic tournament. For Wilson, Success and Failure Intersect 2010-02-27T21:49:00Z And it's doing so in an entertaining and risk-taking style with a bit of the "truculence" Mr. Burke says he wants from his players. For U.S., It's 1980 All Over Again 2010-02-19T04:22:00Z "He has the right level of truculence," Mr. Burke said after the game. 2010-02-17T00:46:00Z This increasing truculence is a direct reflection of a rapidly shifting economic balance of power. 2010-02-08T21:15:00Z In his early years, Mays was looked after — some said coddled — by Manager Leo Durocher, whose celebrated truculence with opponents and umpires was matched by his paternal attitude toward his star center fielder. 2010-01-30T19:55:00Z The elephant he feared and respected for its power and occasional truculence, and endeavored to destroy on the infrequent occasions when chance gave an opening to his own crafty ferocity. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open The seventh book of the Life of Apollonius by Philostratus is a revelation of the mingled caution and truculence of the methods of Domitian. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Their most obsequious devotions did not temper the preacher's truculence, any more than his strongest onslaught discouraged their good works. Witching Hill It must be, then, that from his hiding place that intriguer was inciting a spirit of truculence in the Carrs to which the Gregories were automatically responding. The Tempering "Do you doubt my word!" cried the Scot, with instant frowning truculence. The Firebrand I had a printed document from them, which was severe to the point of truculence. The New Gulliver and Other Stories He had, with an assumed truculence and fury, cold logic, an invariable gentleness, an unruffled courtesy, and yet could never close a speech without being denounced by a journeyman hatter, with an Italian name. The Trembling of the Veil "Then you decline to take any interest in our cause?" he demanded belligerently, his sudden truculence contrasting very curiously with his peaceful face. Thirty The man hesitated, and his glance savoured of repressed truculence. The Tempering The sources from which all the immigrants were recruited made inevitable an element of lawlessness and truculence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" The former, without exception, seemed to carry themselves with the swaggering truculence of the true adventurer; the latter seemed sullen and aloof, like caged animals. Warrior of the Dawn There is no truculence in modern unbelief," he said, "it is a matter of passionate regret. The New Warden He seemed, Mr. Spokesly imagined, to be assuming truculence to cover timidity. Command Gone now was his domineering truculence, gone all but the smouldering of his old, self-confident ferocity. The Tempering Our diffidence was deemed truculence: our reluctance to accept a high doctrine of subservience was measured as insubordination. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Tall, strongly built, altogether fitter and more muscular than the stalwart Senator, he carried with him an impression of truculence, of a savage forcefulness, not often clothed in the staid garments of city life. The Bartlett Mystery He was a tall, spare man, and in his voice there was a ring of authority, not to say truculence, that boded ill for any man who did not jump when spoken to. Doubloons—and the Girl Perhaps his visit to the Post Office for letters had something to do both with his truculence and his present air of fascinated interest in Evanthia's face. Command Only once did he show a bit of his old gallant truculence. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea But he also knew that with six or more against him to show truculence would only have been to make himself ridiculous. The Deaves Affair Coburn found himself regarding the faces around him with an unexpected truculence. The Invaders "What do you want?" he demanded, with truculence. Doubloons—and the Girl Abud had seen the peril, too, and lost all his truculence in the face of the greater danger. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 How the reptile propensities of his mean nature had thriven beneath the sudden sunshine of unexpected prosperity!—See already his selfishness, truculence, rapacity, in full play! Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. Spite of all the truculence of his language, and through all his strenuous thrust and parry, Dr. Beecher's sincerity, integrity, and piety shine forth unclouded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 The independent tenure of the land by a vast number of small farmers, who are their own masters, gives an air of carelessness, almost of truculence, to the well-to-do Danish peasants. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" But the sight of all this truculence and the ostentatious way in which the little green flags were trampled on and insulted, was too much for Jimmy and his inspired companions. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Pocket spoke out with a truculence which his brothers had inherited, but not he, valiantly as he might try to follow a family example. The Camera Fiend Having abandoned all hope of assistance from Huntington, he was thinking of other measures, and was scarcely as attentive as he might have been to the increasing truculence of his host. The Heart of Thunder Mountain There was something in the way he spoke, a note of arrogance, a suggestion of truculence, which nettled Gorman. The Island Mystery He drank heavily, and when under the influence of spirits abandoned his well-polished manners, and displayed a coarseness, a savage truculence, such as he had been careful never to show before. The Twins of Suffering Creek He therefore met truculence with diplomacy, threatening looks with flattery, and hard words with a long story. Nan of Music Mountain It would be fatal at this point to show weakness or truculence. The Comings of Cousin Ann Any soft young fool, she asserted, with the directness and not unattractive truculence of her generation, can get a commission and muddle through, but it took a man to enlist as a private soldier. The Rough Road The very truculence of the fellow stung the derelict to a sudden defiance. Anthony Lyveden The ex-sergeant, whose spirit of meekness in proposing himself had been in extraordinary contrast to the condescending truculence of other candidates, had been thankfully retained. Captain Jim It was sycophantic, and yet behind the cringing air of an old man who had been worsted in his struggle with fate was a shadow of old truculence. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands "People," declared Miss Radford with truculence, "have to take me as they happen to find me!" Love at Paddington But Oliver and his pirates laughed with the truculence befitting their vocation, and bowing with ironical politeness, let their victim depart to the parody of a popular song: “Good-bye, Doggie, we shall miss you.” The Rough Road Stonor shook hands with him, affecting not to notice the signs of truculence. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] The frown still narrowed Harlan’s eyes when they rested upon the horseman; and his brows were drawn together with unmistakable truculence when Haydon dismounted near the corral fence. 'Drag' Harlan Tiflin's face seemed to writhe, now, with self-doubt and truculence; his eyes were on the photos of the heroes, beginning way back; Goddard. The Planet Strappers Pitt and Grenville also concerted plans with the Austrian Court, which, chastened by the disasters in Switzerland, now displayed less truculence. William Pitt and the Great War Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Henley saluted the Boer War in verse of much truculence, but no quality; and when Mr. Swinburne and Mr. Henley lacked quality one began to inquire into causes. From a Cornish Window A New Edition But away from their control some deeds of truculence occurred. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 He is an entertaining fellow with his enthusiasms, his truculences, his fluctuating standards of honesty. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, May 20, 1914 The desert regions of the West seemed always to breed truculence and touchiness. The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado It is not correct to say that Zionism is but a "gesture of truculence" or an act of desperation against Anti-Semitism. Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil It goes counter to the national delusion of uncompromising courage and limitless truculence. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind Mr. O'Brien states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 The colonists resented the intermittent tyranny and the persistent truculence of the most part of the royal governors. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III It's evident," said the chairman of the Dail Committee, with truculence, "that we're a pack of worthless, finagling' and maybe even Protestant renegades from the ways an' the traditions of your fathers! Attention Saint Patrick To add to the truculence of his natural expression, he was now somewhat under the influence of liquor and looked perplexed. Laramie Holds the Range That manner, of course, is not incompatible with a certain superficial boldness, nor even with an appearance of truculence. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind He seemed to have lost all his old truculence. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Most critics, again, would find in Swift a truculence, sometimes latent and sometimes flagrant, that would deprive him, too, of his place among these great masters of free and exuberant farce. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. "Why, we will hang you up by the heels and cut slices off you!" said Sir Toady, with frowning truculence. Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North "Why didn't these wonders take place in our presence?" asked Mrs. Quigg, who had returned to something like her original truculence of doubt. The Shadow World But from the beach below the barrier seemed of the last truculence and efficacy. Patsy Every curve of her features seemed to express a fine arrogant acrimony and harsh truculence. Clayhanger He folded his arms with a hint of truculence. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Chamillard is against us; he seems all powerful now; the King loves him for his truculence. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Amaryllis could not know that her very truculence was a fan to his flame. Ambrotox and Limping Dick And presently Elk-at-Bay, he who bore the chieftain's message and confiscated the agent's cigars, edged his way to the front, but with far less truculence of mien than when the agent stood unsupported by soldiers. Under Fire On the other hand, a sense of their power has sometimes given leaders of labor unions a lack of discretion, a truculence and an unreasonable and unjust attitude. Ethics in Service You are not to be improved by the piety of his expression, nor disgusted by its truculence. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Friends will be those who can be cowed into truculence or bought. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life The other was becoming interested in spite of himself, and his truculence melted a bit, although his tone was still sneering. Man of Many Minds "I cannot be interrupted," cried De Sylva, whose iron self-restraint seemed to be yielding before British truculence. The Stowaway Girl He flung himself into a chair at the table, ordered the waiters about with truculence, and, having thus relieved his mind, began complaining of his bad luck. My Friend the Chauffeur You can no more dig beneath the subtlety of Sikh politeness than you can overbear his truculence, and it is only by results that you may know your friend and recognize your enemy. The Lion of Petra The race had changed his mood completely, filling him with a joyous truculence. The Mayor of Warwick But the All-American School, dominant in the States and Southern Republic, maintained with truculence that a Spanish stallion from the Pampas was the only sire for God Almighty's Mustang. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs She was as far removed from the plangent reverie of Rousseau as from the savage truculence of Swift. Critical Miscellanies (Vol 3 of 3) The Life of George Eliot He held his head up with a sort of truculence in its poise; it was the head, massive, sensuous- lipped, slow-eyed, of a whimsical Nero. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories They became very much terrified by his truculence, and henceforth lived amongst us, dejected, like a pair of mutes. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle He was a plump, dark Cuban, with a brooding truculence. Romance "I am going to attend to it at once," declared Lieutenant Feraud, with extreme truculence. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale There was about him the air of a man accustomed to be obeyed, and yet there was no swagger or truculence in his bearing. Bert Wilson in the Rockies It does not mean either sycophancy or truculence, but freedom to every individual to make the most of himself and so help others to make the most of themselves. The Vitalized School The man's head was big, like the rest of him, and covered with shaggy, tawny hair which seemed to bristle with truculence. The Trail Horde Nothing could have been more unlike his saturnine self-centred truculence of restraint. Romance It struck Tallente that he was aware of the object of the meeting and his manner, obviously intended to be ingratiating, had still a touch of self-conscious truculence. Nobody's Man He essayed the most vehement kind of subjects, even in the classical field, where he treated them with truly romantic truculence. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture There was still a certain air of bravoure, of truculence, which attracted, and might still charm. Mike Fletcher A Novel There is no truculence about him, no show of physical force. Humanly Speaking "If you'll kindly give me back my hand, I might be induced to fetch you another clump or two, just to prove my reality," she suggested, with a delightful hint of the old truculence. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man 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 That hideous old barrack stared with all the uncompromising truculence of bare white stone on nature that smiled agreeably round it in lawn and underwood. The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) "Don't tell me, sir, that they didn't put him there because they knew they could count on him!" roared old Powhatan, with the accumulated truculence of eighty quarrelsome years. One Man in His Time Nor is my compassion altogether free from a sense of superiority to the object of it—superiority untainted, howbeit, by truculence. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales There was nothing of assertiveness or truculence in this steady movement by which Liberal policy and outlook was given a new orientation, Quebec replacing Ontario as the determinant. Laurier: A Study in Canadian Politics Freeman's boisterous truculence made such a deafening noise, and raised such a blinding dust, that it takes some little time and trouble to discover the hollowness of the charges. The Life of Froude He spoke with truculence, and now de Courcelles did not interfere. The Hunters of the Hills But his natural truculence, and his not altogether unnatural exultation at the frustration of these plans for his own upsetting, overcame all else. A Maid of the Silver Sea "Commander," said the spokesman, with nothing of the late truculence in his tone, "we have just held a meeting of the guild, and unanimously agreed to ask you one question, and offer you one suggestion." The Sword Maker The earlier Reviewers were discreditably savage on women-writers, and Lady Morgan had her share of their truculence. The English Novel Domestic difficulties in the Party have not smoothed down TIM's natural truculence. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892 Little babyish blue eyes they were with curly corners, a gay light in the sombre truculence of his face. The Divine Fire That checked his queer truculence; and Cally, desperate with the need to drive home her meaning, swept on with no more nervousness. V. V.'s Eyes Bob, following, noticed the peculiar truculence imparted to Darrell's appearance by the fact that in walking he always held his hands open and palms to the front. The Rules of the Game On two later occasions Browning sang the same battle-hymn against the enemies of God and with a little too much vehemence—not to say truculence—as is the way with earnest believers. Robert Browning With all his truculence, he was too good a politician to lay his tongue to the man tagged with an invisible, but none the less protective, tag of a man higher up. Analyzing Character They would have called our more sober reticence by the name of feebleness: their truculence we stigmatize as slander and Billingsgate. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 Since the Treaty of 1783 the English seemed to act deliberately with studied truculence, as if the Americans would not and could not retaliate. George Washington He was clearly deficient in that subservience and ready obedience to authority which was the best passport to promotion in the Civil Service; there was in his disposition already a certain truculence and impatience. Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire Then, to stop any repetition of the offence, and more effectually to curb the overbearing truculence of the frontiersmen, he himself built, as already mentioned, a fort at Massac, not far from the Mississippi. The Winning of the West, Volume 4 Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 He had no notion what shape that gentleman's hostility might take, nor how far his truculence might aspire. The Castle Inn I was only philosophising upon these scenes of inexpensive patriotism which fill even the most urbane and peaceful among us full of truculence. Ailsa Paige They had reached that dangerous stage of truculence, when they did not think it mattered whether they spoke with common diplomatic reticence. George Washington The white- lipped peccaries make no effort to escape observation by being either noiseless or motionless; they trust for defence to their gregariousness and truculence. Through the Brazilian Wilderness If he pursued a course that has since seemed to be a marvel of truculence, the explanation should be sought in the circumstances of his mission more than in the nature of his personality. Washington and his colleagues; a chronicle of the rise and fall of federalism The savage truculence of the murderer had triumphed, but not until he had battered in the face, destroying features and rendering recognition almost impossible. The Rome Express As I ordered my more delicate meal, the younger of the two gentlemen cast upon me a look of latent truculence, such as I have often remarked among my compatriots of the South. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 As Washington prophesied, the French thought better of their truculence. George Washington The collared peccary also trusts to its truculence, but seeks refuge in a hole where it can face any opponent with its formidable biting apparatus. Through the Brazilian Wilderness From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness. Theory of the Leisure Class "Certainly I let her pass—" But under the green dwarf's stern gaze the truculence of the guardian faded. The Moon Pool Ginx has been waiting through three chapters to explain his truculence upon the birth of his twelfth child. Ginx's Baby: his birth and other misfortunes; a satire He laughed harshly again, then suddenly showed truculence. Penrod Where much persecuted the survivors gradually grow more willing to run, but their instinct is not to run but to trust to their truculence and their mass-action for safety. Through the Brazilian Wilderness "How do you know that that isn't what I've felt too—from the beginning?" he demanded of her, almost with truculence. The Market-Place They outgulched the Gulch in the virulence and fluency of their blasphemy, in the truculence of their speech and manner, and in their reckless disregard of all social laws. The Captain of the Polestar Now, however, he found to his surprise that his fury had lapsed to a profound contempt, in which there was bitterness, but no truculence. The Octopus : A story of California Maurice cried with astonishing truculence, contorting himself into what he may have considered a posture of defense. Penrod Why it should have shown such truculence and heedlessness I cannot imagine, unless perhaps it was a female, with eggs near by. Through the Brazilian Wilderness "I don't believe in disguises," said Weymouth, with a certain truculence. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu Since you know so much about it," said Mrs. Levitt with a certain calm, subdued truculence, "you may as well know everything. Mr. Waddington of Wyck Instantly a spirit of aggression, of truculence, swelled up underneath waistcoats and starched shirt bosoms. The Octopus : A story of California Richard seemed to have lost much of his truculence of manner. The Box with Broken Seals His hair and beard were freshly trimmed, and he had a cleanlier look than we have hitherto noticed; moreover, his expression had lost a little of its habitual sullen truculence. Till the Clock Stops The admixture of deep spiritual reverence with intense truculence in his voice was dissimilar from anything I ever had heard. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu At thirteen minutes past nine he composed his face into a dour truculence, an expression to which the heavy conformation of the lower part lent itself admirably. The Loudwater Mystery He had, or affected, a truculence which was simply brutal, its savagery intensified rather than mitigated by a bluff, boisterous bonhomie. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places "Why not?" she replied, with a faint note of truculence in her tone. The Box with Broken Seals "If they didn't treat you right—" She smiled, genuinely this time, at his sudden truculence. The Gray Dawn At the same time there was not a suspicion of truculence or even repulse in his carriage. Weighed and Wanting He stood on the hearth-rug and glowered at him with heavy truculence. The Loudwater Mystery There was a certain truculence in his walk which annoyed her; but she was wonderingly conscious of the fact that she was no longer afraid of him. With Edged Tools "Now, Simon Armour," began the baronet with some truculence. There & Back The others likewise resumed their seats; and the Count cried out, but with less of truculence in his tone: "What message sent the Archbishop to Castle Bertrich?" The Strong Arm In one the prevailing characteristic may be mildness and affability of manners, whereas in another it may be truculence and incivility. Two Summers in Guyenne The whole movement was made in silence, without a cheer or yell, for, like the porter and the Scythians, the most unconscionable villains in our ergastulum quailed before the truculence of the frontier sergeants. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire He could not quite follow what all this was about, but there was no mistaking the truculence of Adair’s manner. Mike They are much more explicit, and the pains and penalties for the violation of them are now absolutely unholy in their truculence. My Tropic Isle "What is your desire?" he said with less of truculence in his tone than there had been at the beginning. The Strong Arm They not only let all the menials pass unquestioned also, but it was some little time before their vigilance resumed its former truculence. The Headsman The Abbaye des Vignerons And indeed it made you shudder to think of that enormous ferocity, that dynamic truculence, doing its best to destroy you in a space twenty-four feet square. Snake and Sword A Novel Occasionally I stopped to pick up a stone and cast it over the fence, thinking with some truculence that my neighbour would probably throw it back again. Adventures in Contentment He could not quite follow what all this was about, but there was no mistaking the truculence of Adair's manner. Mike and Psmith Some found him truculent, but he never displayed any truculence to me. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement It shows the melodramatic truculence which was echoed in the exhortations of the general and of other men who should have had more judgment. Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1 April 1861-November 1863 His eyes darted away the instant they met hers, but Betty had seen enough to show her that she had mistaken nervousness for truculence. The Prince and Betty The powers of a committee varied according to the determination and truculence of the members of it. The Gold Bat He had, with an assumed truculence and fury, cold logic, an universal gentleness, an unruffled courtesy, and yet could never close a speech without being denounced by a journeyman hatter with an Italian name. Four Years The momentary submission of the King of Burmah, or Mien, as it was, and is still, called by the Chinese, had been followed by a fit of truculence and open hostility. China The prisoners changed their attitude, and eyed Brown and the Rajput with an air of truculence again. Told in the East His first thought was that the man facing him from the hearth-rug was the very Duncan Vyse of old: small, starved, bleached-looking, with the same sidelong movements, the same queer air of anaemic truculence. Tales of Men and Ghosts Adela's reproof was not wholly without effect; her brother got through the evening without proceeding to his extremest truculence, still the conversation was entirely of his leading, consequently not a little argumentative. Demos A smile, which could not mask its cunning, came on to his lips, and all of a sudden he exchanged his truculence for amiability. Veranilda If the unmarried Betty had a fault, it was a certain sweet truculence, a pretty self-assertiveness which sometimes betrayed intolerance of human foibles. The Red Planet This note of joyous truculence, with the little out-thrust of the underlip, brought, as so often before and since, laughter and applause. Letters of Franklin K. Lane The use of the expletive "dangerously," as suggestive of the truculence of the people to whom it refers, is critically allowable in view of the main intention of the author. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas Maggie almost wished that his old mood of truculence would return. The Captives Then his truculence broke in a malicious amusement. The Kentons "Not quite so much truculence, young lady," replied her brother. The Major My father, as Head of the House and his own senior by eighteen years, tried often to admonish him; but his perversity of spirit and his truculence were such that he had to desist. The Lady of the Shroud He was the viking sort of man, big, good-looking, and with an air of kindly truculence. Cabbages and Kings "Can you think of a more suitable person?" he asked, with a faint note of truculence in his tone. The Devil's Paw At last, at the beginning of 1917, the German truculence became too great even for President Wilson to palliate. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography "All right, sir," said the man, with a sort of studied truculence, "I'll take my chance." The Quest of the Sacred Slipper To these provincial autocrats, before whom the peaceable population of all classes had been accustomed to tremble, the reserve of that English-looking engineer caused an uneasiness which swung to and fro between cringing and truculence. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard His manner was courtly, with a sort of kindly truculence in it, tempered by a merciful eye. Cabbages and Kings But Smollett was poor, and he was angry; he had the examples of Pope and Swift before him; which, as far as truculence went, he could imitate. Adventures Among Books The true Prussian truculence always oozes out when it has not a safe margin of superiority in strength on its side. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography His lordship conceived that the fellow's truculence and utter lack of proper deference must be corrected. Captain Blood His manner in the Casa Gould was, of course, very different—devoid of all truculence, and even slightly mournful. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Even in his gaiety there was an unpleasant spice of greed and truculence. A Book of Scoundrels Symptoms of truculence at once became alarmingly pronounced on both sides. Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Roosevelt had set a precedent for controlling corporate truculence. Theodore Roosevelt; an Intimate Biography The Deputy-Governor went out with dragging feet, followed by guards, his momentary truculence utterly spent. Captain Blood He possesses the size, power, and truculence of the rhinoceros, together with all that animal's keenness of scent and hearing but with a sharpness of vision the rhinoceros has not. The Land of Footprints High cheek bones and prominent maxillary muscles enhanced the truculence indicated by his chin. Dope He was unable to cast aside his outward truculence though it was but a relic. Penrod and Sam But she was troubled by my truculence, the more so because I had been always addressing her with a politeness she did not deserve. 'Twixt Land and Sea The yeoman took alarm at that ferocious truculence. Captain Blood Thus challenged, the obvious truculence faded out of Ogle's bearing, quenched by the old habit of obedience and the natural dominance that was the secret of the Captain's rule over his wild followers. Captain Blood But, next to this truculence, which was the first and most alarming trait to intrude itself upon the observer's attention, the outstanding characteristic of Chief Inspector Kerry was his compact neatness. Dope But while Seton Pasha hid the grimness of his nature beneath a sort of humorous reserve, the dangerous side of Kerry was displayed in his open truculence. Dope
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