Danny is a truculent teenager, expressing unhappiness through behaviour that perplexes his parents and leads to eventual expulsion from school. |
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The truculent aggression and stiff-necked unilateralism of both teams are already well known. |
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Read a selection of past interviews and you're left with a picture of a truculent, grumpy old curmudgeon. |
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Those who sought to defend the rights of property-owners were exposed to truculent and often offensive questioning. |
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She was very argumentative and truculent and when I tried to calm her down, I noticed something strange. |
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Instead, they gradually fell into a sullen silence, their noisemakers clacked to a dead stop, and the truculent trumpet blasts were shushed. |
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So how did this truculent loner become one of our best loved national mascots? |
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No group or organisation can be held accountable, nor should they be for the actions of a small group of truculent individuals. |
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Regarding the Middle East, it is mistaking truculent asperity and tiresome repetition for Churchillian wartime eloquence. |
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He might take it as a national mandate to pursue the policy of truculent unilateralism. |
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Perhaps all this success and recognition has softened what was once a rather truculent disposition. |
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Journalist: The antithesis of Texier is Yvon Taillandier whose truculent mental world has been copied by many fashionable painters. |
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If he is not always affable and urbane, he at least is never truculent or overbearing. |
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Juan, the truculent gun-brandishing leader, imposes Maoist thought control on Yvonne, his lover, and Pauline. |
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As in 2002, a truculent nation demands a monarchy on its own, emotional terms. |
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He certainly looked very truculent and, I could see, he had absolutely no recollection of seeing us before. |
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A small fearless chap, truculent, brilliant of health and overflowing with life, he's found his place in the leading bunch. |
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His exacting personal standards, morose private nature and unapologetic misogyny often gave him a truculent, dyspeptic appearance which was well deserved. |
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But his truculent behaviour and volatile temper is outraging purists. |
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Colleagues say the negotiating skills he displayed during his dealings with truculent Glasgow councillors showed he has the mettle for the big time. |
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Her tone in doing so was truculent, self-satisfied and arrogant. |
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He is, however, notoriously truculent and would demand a high salary. |
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He was an actor who dared to tread the boards at the York Theatre Royal in the 18th century, when it was known to host one of the most raucous and truculent audiences around. |
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It is that truculent attitude that most irritates many military men. |
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I got a ride to Göbekli Tepe from an overweight, truculent taxi-driver, a friend of the hotel receptionist. |
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But he has been unusually truculent towards China, even for a presidential candidate. |
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Anne Reid invests Mrs Elliot with a smothering motherliness, and Geoffrey Hutchings is quietly hilarious as her truculent husband. |
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The U. S. is the world's most truculent rogue nation which has no respect for the sovereignty and freedom of other countries. |
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Fitz was a truculent beast, straining on the leash and inopportunely lying down. |
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Their Jesus turns out to be a rogue preacher with a truculent social agenda: a man, in fact, very much like themselves. |
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Humour, friendship, honesty and optimism are their values, which make this little world as charming as it is attaching, led by Victor Lanoux, who is more truculent than ever! |
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Gingrich isn't the answer: he's hot-headed and truculent. |
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Aggiornamento with the increasingly truculent magistrates was a major plank of Choiseul's recovery strategy for the state. |
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An extraordinary maelström of images: baroque, strong, fulgurating, truculent, always unexpected, always sublime, whose breath and power are the sign of an authentic genius. |
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She excruciates you in the manner of one of your teenage children who simultaneously drive you up the wall and yet, through their truculent absolutism, remind you of what is lost in middle-aged compromise. |
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A self-regarding, truculent, miserable, paralyzed man. |
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He finally managed to get rid of one of the most truculent of those shareholders last month by acquiring the stake held by Liberty Media, a conglomerate run by his old friend, turned thorn-in-the-side, John Malone. |
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A change in president to one more sympathetic to the truculent unions that represent airline workers may make future deals harder to push through. David Castelveter of the ATA argues that the government could do more to help. |
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Being a decisive manager doesn't mean being truculent or living apart. |
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Alas weather in Haute-Loire at an altitude of approximately 1000 meters was exceptionally bad wasting the pleasure of finding themselves with forty people of which a quarter of truculent hunters. |
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I trust that the European Council will follow the spirit of the Constitution, which requires a third of Member States to trigger such a mechanism and not simply a single truculent member. |
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Even people who are bored by the classics and detest the contemporary may change their minds when they've heard this truculent Franco-American's choices and clear, energetic explanations. |
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When we were touring on a riverboat near Dandong, the truculent North Korean soldiers from the other side of the river gave us a steely-eyed death stare. |
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