If so, that will represent a departure from the truculent spirit of Obama and his adversaries during his first term.
And it turns out those hard-charging characteristics are exactly what is needed to tangle with the truculent contenders.
It was with an ugly and truculent manner, if more warily, that the man closed in.
But outnumbering them by far were faces set in truculent mold.
George, who was big and lank, and truculent in appearance, nodded.
I could have embraced that figure of grotesque and truculent devotion.
The Illanun chiefs, for all their truculent aspect, were much too prudent to attempt to move.
He was a truculent, untamable rough, evidently inspired with gin.
Or was I, after all my grind, to yield a place to the truculent Coxhead?
De Marle was helpless with illness, but truculent in temper.
1540s, from Latin truculentus "fierce, savage," from trux (genitive trucis) "fierce, wild."