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Other times it's assaultive and other times words are just great".
Like most Broadway musicals these days, "Fela!" is assaultive.
The "March to the Scaffold" movement from Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique," at its tremendous climax, had weight and depth, but it wasn't assaultive or hi-fi-ish in the derogatory sense; it was music a big orchestra (the Cincinnati Symphony) in a big room.
The parade of singularly juvenile and unprepossessing merchandise can be assaultive.
Black Dice build collective improvisations with guitars, drums and electronics; they can be assaultive or meditative, but they rarely lack drama.
With their emphasis on cattle-prod manipulation and brute sensation, Mr. Noé's films can be assaultive — which, if you ask the filmmaker Harmony Korine, a friend of Mr. Noé's and something of a kindred spirit, is precisely their appeal.
Another recent study conducted in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro found that traumatic events correlated with all psychiatric diagnoses, being assaultive violence correlated with alcohol dependence and depression [ 14].
Because the arrest was illegal, they reasoned, any contact with Gray after that was assaultive.
