Beginning in the pre-Revolutionary War period, African American writers have engaged in a creative, if often contentious, dialogue with American letters.
The core of the movie is psychoanalysis itself; the director, Arnaud Desplechin, turns its contentious dialogue into a sort of real-time screenplay for Picard's dreams and memories, which emerge as a radically subjective historical drama that fuses political conflicts, family troubles, and erotic tensions.
The incidents surrounding the trial created a contentious national dialogue that dominated the news agenda for weeks.
The contentious dialogue dragged on for weeks, reaching a climax of sorts earlier this week when Rogers was reported to have said he would remove Lewis from the relay team if Lewis caused any more disruptions.
The authoritative character is portrayed as a circus-barker whose smoke and mirrors presentation of the American Dream leads to contentious dialogue with Badu.
The glib alluring notion that spins through 80 minutes of contentious dialogue is that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks an unquenchable animal impulse, a principle of aggression we labor in vain to suppress.
Levine and Sheil make a plausibly edgy, cultured pair (his opening riffs on Philip Roth are as smart as they are crisply declaimed) whose bonds are facing their first serious strain, which is captured in understatedly contentious dialogue and nuanced glances.
It was clear, however, that she and Pollan had set an important precedent: they had convened the two sides of a contentious debate in a respectful dialogue.
A few months ago, I met another such outstanding teacher, Greg Davis, who teaches at The Wellington School, a private, Columbus, Ohio school that supported his efforts to host a "Civility Day" for all middle school students to discover the right way to dialogue in a contentious election season.
The dialogue has remained a contentious element.
A great example of this is the recent debate around net neutrality, a contentious issue that exemplified the very notion of public dialogue.
