truculence , also: truculency

And I have just enough natural truculence in me to do it.

And today, his truculence paid off, at least in the Kremlin.

He nodded, slowly, but the truculence remained on his face.

Other countries might be invited to join - including China, despite its current truculence.

The truculence had not left Armor's face, but he was talking anyway, and from his heart, too.

Today's proceedings offered perhaps the most pronounced evidence of growing truculence.

As expected, they looked up with truculence writ large on their faces.

He turned to Christian once more, and his manner changed to an unpleasant truculence.

"This outcome is a direct result of your own truculence.

The initial truculence level was down on last season.

And let's hope His Truculence is in a good mood.

Unfortunately, I failed to acknowledge the edge of truculence in her voice.

This was no mere truculence on the boy's part, he saw, but genuine terror.

His tone was a strange mixture of truculence and terror.

There was truculence in his voice, not very much, but more waiting there if I wanted it.

During one recent race, however, the technology seemed unable to counter some camels' own truculence.

"There happens to be more to this piece of truculence than appears on the surface," the Ambassador cut in.

She saw guilt, and a touch of truculence, and went on.

And this truculence has fired much of the enduring reggae for the past 20 years.

Their truculence, in both word and deed, is a matter of historical record and fact.

So far, the storms of this season have not shown the truculence of last season's.

It seems certain that Whittle will be the focus of continued truculence and agitation.

But at his core there is a truculence.

Is this payback for French truculence over the war in Iraq?

When he spoke again all the truculence, all the anger had vanished from his voice.