Sentence examples for charged confrontation from inspiring English sources

Ms. Tharp takes her cue from the building defiance in Sinatra's singing to create a charged confrontation between two equals, a man who seeks to possess, and a woman who will not be possessed.

John H. White, a black man, was sentenced to two to four years in prison for fatally shooting a white teenager during a racially charged confrontation, enraging the family of the victim.

But viewers were treated to a highly charged confrontation between host Andrew Neil and US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, which saw the latter labelled the worst person to be interviewed on the show and an idiot.

"That allows a little more elbow room," he said, referring to the variations in translation and interpretation of the letter given by Chinese and American leaders as they sought their way out of a politically charged confrontation.

"They," in this case, referred to the Bravo cable channel; to the production companies that make the six "Housewives" shows for Bravo; and, more crucially, to the darker corners of reality television more generally, where producers seek out unstable and fragile characters, guiding them through story lines that can maximize discord and highly charged confrontation.

Police in Portland, Oregon, arrested 14 people on Sunday during a face-off between pro- and anti-Trump protesters, just over a week after two men were killed during a racially charged confrontation on a local train.

It's full of elaborate, emotionally charged confrontations with Ip's challenger Gong Er (played by Zhang Ziyi).

The story unfolds through a series of highly charged confrontations that are "operatic" in their intensity and, like the novel, Bentley's libretto flicks between past and present.

The viewer's patience, meanwhile, is tested by an endless succession of scenes that proceed quickly, awkwardly and almost without exception into racially charged confrontations.

NATO meetings have been transformed from highly charged confrontations into meetings that, in the words of one diplomat, "are as boring as Sunday mass".Still, joining NATO's integrated military structure is harder than leaving it.

We are familiar by now with an almost ritualistic pattern that accompanies certain kinds of court cases, in which arguments over guilt and innocence are accompanied by charged confrontations about the powers of the state.