Sentence examples for combative dialogue from inspiring English sources
Combative dialogue is the genre's hallmark.
The first session between healer and patient unfolds as a battle of wills between two entrenched enemies, with the actors rattling off their clipped, combative dialogue as if auditioning for a David Mamet play.
The sensual courting of the forbidden and its attendant guilt; a paranoiac hunger for revenge; the double self locked in eternal combative dialogue; the concurrent fear of, and desire for, death -- these elements of Poe's work are all part of the mise en scène, if you know to look for them.
It's been kind of a combative dialogue and he's under investigation right now and stuff?
Then, in an interesting twist, programmers started thinking that most people who savor this kind of combative dialogue are probably rooting for one team or the other.
Much of "Red," directed by Michael Grandage, unfolds as a combative Socratic dialogue between teacher and pupil, a master class of questions and answers about the methods and purpose of Rothko's art.
The dialogue that Hittman writes is terse, insightful, and combative, and it's delivered almost like an ongoing string of asides, of internal or private monologues that the characters quietly but forcefully fling at one another.
In recent weeks, Trump's belligerent attitude, coupled with his lack of political experience and inflammatory rhetoric, had made Cruz look by comparison like a calm, level-headed candidate who is open to dialogue – itself a far cry from the early combative spirit that Cruz had displayed in the Senate.
The relationship between NGOs and the private sector used to be primarily combative rather than collaborative and, in many ways, I welcome the new spirit of dialogue and partnership.
The exhibition's subtitle, "Dialogue With Steel," is entirely appropriate, for it accurately describes the artist's slightly combative, argumentative relationship with his material.
Knowing how unhappy, how critical, how combative my wife could be and knowing how blind and deaf I was to the emotional dialogue among us, I trust Chelsea's narrative.
