Sentences with word «truculence»

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.

There is, however, a regrettable tone of truculence in the response to Pawlikowski's challenge.

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.

Framing the translation itself are a lengthy introduction and a «Concluding Scientific Postscript,» written with the lucidity and cheery truculence characteristic of Hart's essays.

Pearce is very good at showing the little touches of transgression that this relationship involves: Moll asks Pascal to come to the family home to do some odd jobs, and Pascal, with instinctive truculence, smokes in the house and muddies up the carpet; Johnny Flynn's performance shows how Pascal is savouring the sense that he has the rights of a disapproved - of boyfriend, and it is by rudeness that he will bolster this position.

If you're the new owner of a pit bull and want to stop potential truculence around animals, socialize him while he's a young pup.

Anthony finishes up with a bit of stalker truculence; boasting that he can read Dr. Gavin Schmidt's Twitter feed even though Dr. Schmidt has blocked him («Help!

Redstone's truculence is reminiscent of her father Sumner, who built his media empire around Viacom cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, later adding CBS and Paramount film studios.

As the Los Angeles Kings systematically dismantled the home - standing Phoenix Coyotes Tuesday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference Final, three plays defined the Coyotes» truculence.

They see a controlling fierceness and a truculence of character that divide the movement and the Democratic Party.

Of course the issue of reparative therapy fits with a broader narrative of gay rights and the truculence of religious conservatives in acknowledging equality for homosexuals.

A deliciously irritable Billy Bob Thornton stars as Willie Stokes, a coarse, washed - up, boozed - up department store Santa Claus whose self - loathing has transformed into a general nastiness and truculence that oozes from every pore.

Limon nails two conflicting worlds: the U. S. Army with its rigid codes and knuckleheaded, cover - your - butt officers and occupied, pre-miracle Cold War Korea, a place marked by the truculence of an ancient society knuckling under to a new one.

She writes: «It refers to the political uses, on both the right and the left, of insolence, impertinence, discourtesy, truculence, tactlessness, and intractability, as well as a particular skill in the art of timing the political.»

There is a truculence in their attitude — why try to hide it?