His mien is that of the contemptuous guerrilla fighter, mixed with that of a truculent teenager.
The head of the truculent oil-workers' union, Carlos Romero Deschamps, is a PRI candidate for the Senate.
Even a candidate less truculent and less wealthy than Carly Fiorina could have won in California against the superannuated Barbara Boxer.
Sure, Musharraf made a truculent speech condemning India's "occupation" of Kashmir, but that was rhetorical cover for cracking down on those groups.
Against the stereotype of the aging musician, Smith has, over the years, steered his band toward a heavier and more truculent sound.
He is Mary Kate's brutish brother, Will (a nicely truculent Ted Koch).
But there are suspicions that Mr Kabariti may have become too truculent for the king's liking in his comments about the Israeli government.
"Yelling, berating underlings, slamming doors, throwing chairs and loud, truculent phone conversations with vendors on speakerphone that everyone can hear can sometimes be career-stallers, " Oliver explains.
Like him, you are tough, dark, vulnerable, moody with a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft.
Serbia itself is likely to stay turbulent, its hardliners truculent.
Liberal journalists rendered similarly harsh judgments, although one wonders why they bothered, given that the professional scholars seemed quite capable of publishing their own truculent first drafts of history.
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He was picked as a conservative, and for the first few years acted like one, agreeing most of the time with the court's most truculent and passionate right-winger, Antonin Scalia.
But the truculent national climate is apparent.
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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced on March 15th that the modest array of U.S. missile defenses now in place would be enhanced in the face of a growing threat from the increasingly truculent regime in North Korea.
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So when Sonia Gandhi earlier this month presented her two candidates for president to Mamata Banerjee, the chief minister of West Bengal and a coalition member so truculent as to be a virtual member of the opposition, it may well have been in the hope of her vetoing Mr Mukherjee, a bitter rival in West Bengal.
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