The continued truculence of the street gangs made every one afraid of going out alone. From LearnThat.org.
Farid’s nihilistic truculence is just a symptom of the larger problem. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Ground Attack] Reference
Dealing with the truculence is the referees, and they are not finding it easy. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
From a different point of view the qualities currently so characterized might be described as truculence and clannishness. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [For America, It's 1980 All Over Again] Reference
However, I doubt if Angelou's use of "truculence" if it is indeed her use at all; we don't really know is an instance of this tradition. From Wordnik.com. [Succulent truculence.] Reference
In 42 games, Mayers has a goal and four assists and 76 penalty minutes, supposedly bringing the kind of truculence Burke wants. From Wordnik.com. [Toronto Sun] Reference
"truculence" is a perfectly cromulent word because it embiggens any speaker!. From Wordnik.com. [Succulent truculence.] Reference
When he was conscious of a "veiled truculence" in the. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
Pink makes the changes more easy and lower truculence. From Wordnik.com. [Color affects emotions.] Reference
The Sergeant found a truculence to brace his argument. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
They must learn truculence and pride and competitiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
Killick's truculence only made Frederickson more patient. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Siege]
His truculence faded, because Poyly was fair to look upon. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
Mrs. Macbean was now staring at Hamish, all truculence gone. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Dentist]
There is no truculence about him, no show of physical force. From Wordnik.com. [Humanly Speaking] Reference
But the truculence changed to something gentler and anguished. From Wordnik.com. [Amitava Kumar: Nothing Is Beautiful Unless it Is Serious] Reference
This verbal fisticuffs and televised truculence are vitriol vérité. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Olbermann Versus O'Reilly: It's a Shoot] Reference
Amaryllis could not know that her very truculence was a fan to his flame. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference
Such obdurateness, truculence and refusal to accept reality is to be applauded. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer of Our Discontent] Reference
At that moment, the balance of expression was tipped on the side of truculence. From Wordnik.com. [Fear is the Key]
When he spoke again all the truculence, all the anger had vanished from his voice. From Wordnik.com. [Where Eagles Dare]
Domestic difficulties in the Party have not smoothed down TIM's natural truculence. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 27, 1892] Reference
There was truculence in his voice, not very much, but more waiting there if I wanted it. From Wordnik.com. [The Satan Bug]
The truculence had not left Armor's face, but he was talking anyway, and from his heart, too. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Son]
"People," declared Miss Radford with truculence, "have to take me as they happen to find me!". From Wordnik.com. [Love at Paddington] Reference
At least that made him look worried that his truculence had in some subtle way shed light for me. From Wordnik.com. [Two For The Lions]
The truculence in Tremayne's voice was one of the reasons, I reflected, why he was having trouble. From Wordnik.com. [Longshot]
Jonah Woodrose greeted them with a sheepish smile which did not entirely conceal a hint of truculence. From Wordnik.com. [Cargo of Eagles]
His dark hair was wavy and thick and she wondered if the messy-chic was on purpose or just truculence. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
So we just wait and watch, decrying the uselessness of the UN, and the truculence of China and Russia. From Wordnik.com. [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference
It was just as well that this was so, for there was no mistaking the truculence emanating from Ger - many. From Wordnik.com. [The HurricaneStory]
Her face, as well as her hat, was red, and was garnished with pince-nez and an expression of general truculence. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
They were the police force of the army, universally disliked, and they watched Hogan's approach with silent truculence. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Even before his studied truculence in response to the president's hospitality, Webb was going out of his way to make waves. From Wordnik.com. [George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb] Reference
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