The phrase "adversarial dialogue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a conversation or discussion characterized by opposition or conflict between the participants.
Example: "The debate turned into an adversarial dialogue, with each side unwilling to compromise on their views."
Alternatives: "contentious discussion" or "hostile conversation".
It's the first of many instances of often adversarial dialogue that also struck me as off, out of keeping with the subdued energy of a studio and the deference you'd expect in this relationship, especially as it begins.
In the latest demonstration of Mr. Brown's uncanny ability to wrest political humiliation from good intention, he has been publicly drawn this week into an embarrassing adversarial dialogue with the distraught mother of a slain British soldier — Exhibit A on the list of people whom it is unwise to antagonize.
Over the following months, Legend helped launch a campaign to end mass incarceration -- a prime issue for the Obama administration -- while challenging the often adversarial dialogue over racism.
Or the many organisations that aim to improve relationships – whether personal or institutional ones – yet are deeply adversarial workplaces, where honest and open dialogue is distorted by accountability systems and management practices that promote the opposite ways of working with colleagues.
Those bodies then have to bring these concerns to a federally appointed review panel that may not have a grasp of Aboriginal rights or "operate under a very formal, adversarial process with little opportunity for real dialogue," he wrote.
"The dialogue has become more political and adversarial," Dr. Shuren said.
In either case, there are expectations that the visit could signal the start of a dialogue that shifts the focus away from adversarial suspicion toward a more constructive vision of relations between the countries.
"It is my belief that the adversarial nature of collective bargaining likely will diminish the quality of the dialogue that I believe must characterize the coming years," he wrote to the adjuncts, "and will limit our capacity to work together".
This should help herald a less adversarial approach that transcends the campaign against terrorism to seek genuine global engagement and dialogue.
"Because he had a sharp legal mind and a keen understanding of Socratic dialogue, I could count on him to ask the toughest, hardest questions — probing and uncomfortable, but not adversarial," Pearlstine said in an interview.
