Sentence examples for truculent manner from inspiring English sources

Abdul Jabbar is "short, pudgy, with... thick glasses", with a "surprisingly truculent" manner.

The grumpy, truculent manner of many city residents is also intact, and still has its perfect expression in their snarl of an accent.Near Tiananmen, I came across a group of middle-aged men in shorts seeking refuge from the clammy heat in the shade of some trees.

Downgrade Christie for his truculent style.

He bid defiantly, 'Athletes are better people than you.' His manner was unmistakenly truculent and threatening.

"Slapstick" enjoys a first printing of a cool one hundred thousand copies, and Vonnegut's popularity, which has grown even as his literary manner becomes more truculent and whimsical, has attracted comment from many reviewers, who usually find it discreditable to author and audience alike.

She was frisked in an invasive, truculent and illegal way.

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.

Charmless, truculent, arrogant, boring.

And I was really truculent".

Jacopo Olmo Antinori plays the truculent Lorenzo.

But his diffidence hides a truculent pride.