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"truculent" Definitions
  1. tending to argue or become angry; slightly aggressive

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But she is no less truculent in the face of sentimentality.
There's a tense confrontation with some truculent, dissatisfied fans in Berlin.
Yet Trump may not have exhausted his longstanding impulse for truculent nationalism.
His critics, however, accuse him of inciting murder in his frequent, truculent speeches.
" Pishevar, meanwhile, thanked Sherpa, but also references "truculent opponents out to settle scores.
The Trump movement, so truculent itself, has demanded timid acquiescence from its opponents.
But 2.53st century Republicans have not, for reasons that go beyond Trump's truculent personality.
The top three are a rising China, truculent Russia, and the radical Islamist threat.
His solipsistic immaturity can sometimes bother me, but his truculent bravery often delights me.
The truculent, if low-profile, aide represented a divisive presence within the West Wing.
Lisa Kudrow plays Linda, Mae's truculent diva of a mother — to great comic effect.
The House managers were not just vying with an opposition party and a truculent defender.
It seems Trump's truculent-if-ineffective support for coal hasn't impressed anyone in the industry.
"They were rather truculent towards each other, but they loved each other dearly," Nessel tells PEOPLE.
But a growing and increasingly truculent segment of Iran's population doubts the standoff is worth it.
Partly, it's ideological: Trump is a truculent isolationist and has been since at least the 1980s.
The truculent sovereign could be yanked away, for a blessed hour, from Twitter to a teleprompter.
But a 50-member National Assembly is elected by the people (including women) and is often truculent.
But music directing too had its infuriating sides: politicking and socialising, ladies' committees, truculent boards, shop stewards.
But in the world of comics, superheroes are now — and have always been — a ludicrously truculent lot.
And China is not merely contending with a truculent Mr Trump and his more hawkish economic advisers.
Nearly everyone seems thwarted, and they respond with resignation, dissipation or truculent and empty gestures of rebellion.
"He is a truculent and dangerous person, and that's how he should be presented to the nation," he said.
Or, might China instead harden and turn inward, developing a more truculent, disruptive policy of "Made in China 2025"?
Cohen's truculent tendencies were also on display a year before that interview when he threatened Daily Beast reporter Tim Mak.
And if talks collapse many fear that France's famously truculent fishermen could blockade ports to stop movements of British fish.
Worse, the audience set the tone for a debate that was more truculent than necessary and less enlightening than desirable.
The unreliable ratings made a truculent 7 and 5 percent say they were more likely to read and share, respectively.
A purely muscular approach, if this comes to pass, will make Beijing a more truculent partner for Washington across the board.
I will get truculent and really outraged if people try to cast white people in these roles that I'm making up.
In the stands, Manchester United's fans watched on in truculent silence, fretting and murmuring and worrying about what was to come.
The move represents the largest gamble to date for two truculent leaders who have engaged in a harrowing nuclear stare-down.
Then, there is Angela's brother, Robbie (Lucas Hedges), truculent and spiky, who is more exasperated than stirred by his mother's campaigning wrath.
Kara Swisher of NYT Opinion calls him the "id of tech," while Jonathan Guthrie of Lex compares him to a truculent teenager.
No one doubts Trump could return to truculent populism if he deems it necessary to motivate core supporters, whatever economic advisers say.
It also ends, for now, the storm of global anticipation for what would have amounted to a landmark diplomatic encounter between two truculent leaders.
" He wore a truculent look, and added, "We saw Guaidó's ass—which he offered up to the gringos—before we ever saw his face.
It also explains his undisguised contempt for contemporary European democracy and his efforts to replace it with something more Trumpian: xenophobic, protectionist and truculent.
Themo Melikidze's Tamerlan emerges as a terse and truculent quasi-fanatic, while Dzhokhar (Alex Wolff) is repellently trivial-minded in his sense of entitlement.
Thus ideological militancy and more totalitarian-type rule by an absolute leader at home will also entail a less cooperative and more truculent China abroad.
Roger Cohen When Donald Trump met Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany earlier this month, he put on one of his most truculent and ignorant performances.
The 71-year-old's truculent defiance of political tradition has drawn comparisons with U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, as have his references to his libido.
Much has already been made of the emerging tension between the hawkish Bolton, Trump's truculent new adviser, and the more prudent and pragmatic secretary of defense.
The EU's politicians and civil servants were not happy about dedicating so much time to one small country and its truculent and often ill-informed politicians.
With the truculent personality of some physically strong, emotionally hypersensitive people, he swaggered into action by ladling molten lead into junctions of gallery walls and floors.
But the bloc still faces hurdles implementing its climate goals that include truculent member states like pro-coal Poland and Britain's plans to exit from the bloc.
He's got the big name, most intractable conservatives like Jim Jordan to "yes" and it's a huge help that the most truculent conservative outside groups are now supportive.
Known for her fierce temper and hostility towards the West, she was described in one 2001 U.S. diplomatic cable on WikiLeaks as a "truculent and petulant foreign minister".
Known for her fierce temper and hostility toward the West, she was described in one 2001 U.S. diplomatic cable on WikiLeaks as a "truculent and petulant foreign minister".
Truculent unions—which cheered the failed sale—mean even the most hard-nosed buyer would have a hard time carrying out the restructuring the authorities admit is necessary.
Trump previously said he will seek to enlist Putin this week on a mission to confront an increasingly truculent North Korea during their second face-to-face meeting.
His truculent response caused anger in Britain, where there have been several major Islamist militant attacks this year, with one minister describing Trump's tweets as "alarming and despairing".
Nobody knows which president will show up — the truculent one railing about inadequate military spending by the allies or the boastful one taking credit for recent spending increases.
"It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is white supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power," he wrote.
It is as if Mr Trump wants America to give up defending the system it created and to join Russia and China as just another truculent revisionist power instead.
Her book, which our critic Parul Sehgal calls well researched and "wonderfully truculent," argues that women are regarded as unreliable narrators who can't even testify to their own pain.
There was a similar — and similarly important — back-and-forth about the Manichaean, truculent language that she uses to talk about Americans on different sides of the economic divide.
I know all this because it was explained to me by an exasperated office manager who put on the sort of voice usually reserved for addressing truculent 5-year-olds.
He has a famously truculent relationship with the news media and remained tight-lipped throughout the coalition negotiation process, leaving analysts speculating about whom he would anoint as prime minister.
Everything Mr. Johnson says and does is calculated to advance the narrative that he has been forced — by an irresponsible Parliament, overreaching courts and truculent Europeans — into breaking his promise.
My nephew and I could see the tiredness in LeBron's eyes—he had conviction, and some evident fury at his team's failures, but he mostly skipped the Warriors' truculent, endless complaining.
As Robert Jones's turntable set revolves, we become acutely aware of "the maid from Lorraine" who is Joan as the lone woman amid a sea of mostly truculent or adversarial men.
Though it's not particularly surprising, given the Trump administration's truculent approach to other congressional oversight investigations, it's a particularly bold statement, and one that raises questions about the constitutional division of powers.
My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa, and I refuse to allow my enemies to drag my Sherpa family into their fight with me.
Specialists in the region say it never intended to, that South Korea's Moon exaggerated the North's willingness to deal and lavished praise on Trump to lure the truculent U.S. president into bargaining.
The latter, in retrospect, grew fickle and scattershot, coarsened by mercenary cynicism, whereas McQueen stayed focussed and intent, and there was no calculation in the feelings that fed his truculent visual wit.
" To Coates, Trump's "ideology is white supremacy in all of its truculent and sanctimonious power"; to pretend otherwise is to treat "white labor as noble archetype, and black labor as something else.
That peace starts fragmenting early in the picture, outside a nightclub, where an indolently truculent Snow Patrol member, Juju (Kaalan Rashad Walker), takes a shot at Priest and instead hits a bystander.
Tokyo (CNN)President Donald Trump will seek to enlist his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week on a mission to confront an increasingly truculent North Korea during their second face-to-face meeting.
America, what is left of it, is slipping away a little bit more every day, with a blessing and a wave from the truculent Trump supporters who simply get giddy whenever liberals lament.
And even if you can't fight, "Knuck If You Buck," with its ghostly keyboard beats and Crime Mob's truculent lyrics, will instantly make any listener inherit the spirit of wanting to knock someone out.
Although French, a fine writer, can be downright eloquent when she wants to, here she uses an abrasive voice to capture this working-class cop's truculent attitude toward the colleagues making her life a misery.
One is the truculent, uncooperative Jason (Will Pullen), who's white and doesn't seem interested in resuming a fruitful life; the other, the black Chris (Khris Davis), is doing his best to get back on track.
The movie lights up whenever it shows archival footage of its antagonists: Jacobs is sensible, warm and witty; Moses is cocksure, occasionally truculent, openly contemptuous of the people his big ideas are likely to displace.
Add to this the strategic rationale that it's better to have Turkey as a truculent ally within NATO than as a dangerous foe, and you have something that almost resembles a normal explanation for policy.
Speaking for the third straight year to an annual gathering of telecoms executives at the Mobile World Congress here, Zuckerberg sought to show his company could be a valuable, if truculent, ally to the wireless industry.
For example, it takes ages to get through Lubumbashi airport (in the Democratic Republic of Congo) because truculent security officials slow things down in the hope that passengers will give them "un cadeau" to hurry up.
He is a pacific soul, and the irony that has tolled through the trilogy is that, though averse to conflict, he keeps being wrenched into it, either by more truculent apes or by the dumbness of man.
As a new ambassador, Sondland quickly "garnered a reputation for his truculent manner and fondness for the trappings of privilege," according to a dishy report by the Washington Post's Greg Miller, Paul Sonne, Greg Jaffe, and Michael Birnbaum.
Mr Cuccinelli's image as a brittle conservative ideologue was complemented by the public perception that truculent Republican majorities in the House and the Senate were largely responsible for the shutdown, refusing overtures from the Obama administration to compromise.
Marie, a narrowly conceived character nevertheless played well by Bérénice Bejo, is uptight and withholding; Boris, by turns warmly bearish and broadly truculent as played by Cédric Kahn, is controlling and manipulative, not to mention aggressively self-pitying.
He was actually an unrepentant white supremacist who beat his own slaves, systematically ruptured their families and did his best to make even freed blacks' lives miserable in the reluctant peace, of which he was a truculent architect.
In the House, 218 votes would be needed for passage — and if no Democrats sign on, that means at least some members of the famously truculent Freedom Caucus would have to deem the bill conservative enough for their tastes.
But building anything new in New York City is often a Sisyphean task, requiring multiple approvals from a variety of city and state agencies, and needing to win the support of notoriously truculent community members, skeptical of new development and gentrification.
His talent for theatrical self-destruction and Dickensian cliffhangers was on vivid display Friday at a Rose Garden press conference when, with his best truculent bulldog face, he pronounced himself willing to testify under oath about his conversations with Comey.
But only recently, in releasing a book challenging the historical validity, biblical origins, philosophical cogency and moral sanity of the standard Christian teaching on the matter of eternal damnation, have I ever inspired reactions so truculent, uninhibited and (frankly) demented.
"Inevitably, attention will focus on whether the US president projects a commitment to internationalist values or reiterates his commitment to truculent nationalism in the name of making America 'great again,'" Summers wrote in an op-ed for the Financial Times.
And in the days and weeks to come, Rubio will get even more help and money than he has so far from Republican bigwigs who are desperate to see someone less truculent and divisive than Trump or Cruz burst into the lead.
With Bannon's departure, those who saw his truculent blend of nationalism and racial grievance—Bannonism, if you wish—as the ballast in Trump's otherwise foundering ship have been left to ponder who will now lead whom and where it will all end.
The personal chaos of Lucious's life is driven home most effectively not by any of his truculent sons or even his estranged ex Cookie, but by real-world hip-hop titans Birdman (as himself) and French Montana (not as himself, oddly enough).
Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said the outcome showed the limitations of Mr. Trump's truculent approach to trade, in which he tries to ratchet up pressure on trading partners to force them into making a bilateral deal.
Trey Edward Shults's "Waves" is another tragedy where the writing feels remembered; it's full of regular teenagers whose speech is neither too truculent nor exalted but vividly common; people speak less in the second half and Shults's powers of descriptive observation take over.
He fired his well-respected lawyers and hired Sidney Powell, a truculent former federal prosecutor, who embraced right-wing conspiracy theories suggesting Mr. Flynn had been a target of a politically biased F.B.I. cabal and accused prosecutors of misconduct in his case.
As for square dealing, one of the reasons Trump's truculent January phone call with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull so shocked Australians is that the American president appeared to renege on Barack Obama's pledge to resettle 1,250 refugees held in Australian detention centers.
While the immediate effects of an anti-sedition law are likely overstated by its opponents (the police are probably not going to start rounding up pro-democracy legislators), it could have a major psychological and chilling effect in curbing a famously truculent body politic.
SEOUL (Reuters) - Four years into his tenure, North Korea's young leader Kim Jong Un has proven unpredictable and truculent, not only for the United States and South Korea but for his closest ally, China, defying it by conducting nuclear tests, the latest this week.
That led to speculation that Tuesday's decision might be a ploy to persuade a truculent Parliament to endorse the unpopular exit deal struck by Prime Minister Theresa May, ahead of a critical vote on the plan now expected during the week of Jan. 14.
They are ordinary modern realities documented in Maya Dusenbery's well researched, wonderfully truculent new book, "Doing Harm," one of a cluster of new investigations into gender bias in medical treatment that also includes "Ask Me About My Uterus," by Abby Norman, and "Invisible," by Michele Lent Hirsch.
Trump's address was an opportunity to change the narrative of his presidency from one of an administration in disarray to one of a man on a methodical mission, and to accomplish that, he donned a new kind of tie and a new kind of tone: less truculent, more inspirational.
If a Clinton administration and a Senate with a Democratic majority drafted legislation with genuinely bipartisan appeal, it's always possible that Paul Ryan or some other House speaker could pass it over the truculent objections of the most conservative House members, with a combination of less strident Republicans and Democrats.
There will be no corks popped at Lyft's San Francisco headquarters over the sudden, stunning downfall of Travis Kalanick, Uber's truculent former chief executive, and no giddy high fives will be exchanged over the chain of scandalous events that have demoralized Uber's staff, shredded its executive ranks and damaged its reputation.
"The right way to take those problems on is together with other nations, not in a way that is so truculent, so inconsistent with international norms that we drive the rest of the world to siding with China, which has been the effect of the approach that has been taken here," he said.
A truculent MJ fan might think it's just because the socialists are trying to spread the wealth while robbing the G.O.A.T. Robber Baron of his due; the same seems to have happened to James, the current generation's greatest player, who has been so persistently amazing that it stifles the media's urge to reward him.
In a characteristically truculent Twitter thread on Tuesday as voting was underway, Mr. Bevin snapped at the "historically challenged national media" for being surprised at the competitiveness of the Kentucky race, pointing out that only four Republicans had been elected governor since the 1920s and that registered Democrats in the state still outnumbered registered Republicans.
The late surge of aggression has become a calling card for the welterweight champion and should he ever be pushed into a deciding round like that in the future, we can only hope that his body is able to keep up with his truculent mindset as he enters his 15th year of prize fighting.
Mining companies that often run out of cheaply accessible land-based resources and are increasingly harassed over the deforestation and pollution linked with mining are attracted to the idea of plundering the deep seabed, where there are no truculent communities to protest about local environmental harm and any damage will be out of sight and out of mind.
We have the spirit of rebellion in us and, completely incapable as we are of turning that into a coherent political movement, we have turned it full force on an austere sexagenarian who fills us with truculent resentment, a mean grandad who refuses to buy us a world-class striker for Christmas, no matter how big a strop we throw.
And the moments when Sanders could have anticipated a possible Biden comeback — the days after his victory in Nevada — weren't spent reassuring either set of Democrats that they could support his campaign without supporting a far-left revolution; they were spent in an either admirably principled or insanely truculent argument about how, no matter what the Cuban Communists did to political prisoners, you gotta hand it to their literacy efforts.
But after this introduction came little development — some unison, then another rotation of solos with new music (by Mr. Newsome), requiem-like this time, the dancers goaded by the stratospheric melisma of the vocalist Kyron El. Individual dancers made an impression (especially the imperiously truculent Leggoh LaBeija), but there was more flash-and-fade than inventive variation, and all the artists were subsumed in the sensory-overload collage, the color scheme, the concept.
House Democrats took the historic step Wednesday of impeaching President TrumpDonald John TrumpRepublican group targets Graham in ad calling for fair Senate trial Democratic presidential candidates react to Trump impeachment: 'No one is above the law' Trump attacks Schumer at fiery rally in Michigan MORE, a momentous move that will send long-lasting reverberations throughout the Capitol and the country, both already fiercely divided over the truculent figure in the Oval Office.
Indeed, criticizing Trump for inconsistency when it comes to foreign policy is a bit rich when you consider that both Democrats and Republicans have treated Pakistan as an ally, knowing full well that its secret service has trucked with terrorists and coddled the Taliban — the people killing U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan; they've both treated Saudi Arabia as an ally because we needed its oil, knowing full well that its export of Salafist Islam has fueled jihadists; they both supported decapitating Libya and then not staying around to support a new security order, thus opening a gaping hole on the African coast for migrants to flow into Europe; they've both supported NATO expansion into Russia's face and then wondered aloud why the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is so truculent.

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