There was never any sort of armed confrontation, of course, nor was any home ever burglarized, no door ever locked.
Violence and confrontation, of course, recognize no formal frontiers — witness the tally of nine dead last week among pro-Palestinian activists aboard a Turkish ship, the Mavi Marmara, boarded by Israeli commandos in international waters as it sailed across the Mediterranean to defy Israel's blockade of Gaza.
In this context, the New Atheists have chosen their course: confrontation.
Just imagine, for example, being blindsided by the following dramatic confrontation, which of course could never happen to you!
To get the attention of the often surly attendees, Robyn Schneider said, the workshop always begins with a mock confrontation between the course instructor and a participating social worker....Schneider would not say whether Puffy participated in the role-playing, but she did say that all members of the class are required to take part to some degree.
About 46% of Americans in polls agree with this stunning statement: "God created human beings pretty much in their present form at one time within the last 10,000 years or so". In this context, the New Atheists have chosen their course: confrontation.
Avoiding such confrontation, "is of course much more likely to happen in poorer countries, where tobacco smoking is on the rise and hence the risk for public health," Friel says.
Earlier this year, I wrote about what some people call golf rage, the propensity of golfers to get into confrontations on the course — often over etiquette issues, like slow play.
The only way golf course confrontations would make sense is if there were grandstands by the holes and nongolfers regularly came by to heckle us for being dumb enough to play this game.
When Thomas Jefferson succeeded Adams, he pursued a more successful course of confrontation.
