Hoffa, with its jaundiced script and a director wedded to his rose - tinted spectacles, is a mess, with only the sterling truculence of Nicholson's performance to mitigate it. (independent.co.uk)
There is, however, a regrettable tone of truculence in the response to Pawlikowski's challenge. (firstthings.com)
During this time there was only one thing with the power to mortify my existential truculence — the worshipful presence of my youngest brother, ten years younger, a little guy for whom everything we said and did was important, clever and true. (religion-online.org)