Sentence examples for confrontational acts from inspiring English sources

It has long been known that there is a bipolar dimension of overt covert antisocial behavior, with overt behaviors consisting of confrontational acts and covert behaviors consisting of more concealed acts (Loeber and Schmaling 1985).

This was our most confrontational act thus far, and police began to mass around the sitters.

A rejection would be its most confrontational act since it forced the resignation of Jacques Santer's European Commission in 1999 over allegations of corruption.

(Has the script been revised since the original production?) The main character, based on Kramer himself, breaks with the organization based on Gay Men's Health Crisis, but the play ends before the founding of the more confrontational ACT UP, in which Kramer was also instrumental.

Her handling of the chorus was especially weak, with monks wandering aimlessly in the monastery scenes and much silly business in the confrontational third act.

But while the president's action resonates with this history, it is also a highly confrontational political act in today's circumstances.

(Genzlinger) Off Off Broadway 'BROTHER' Nothing is quite what it seems at first in "Brother," Lisa Ebersole's confrontational one-act play about a pair of sisters who taunt each other, and a black man who suddenly joins them in the middle of the night in an East Village apartment.

(Brantley) Last Chance 'BROTHER' Nothing is quite what it seems at first in "Brother," Lisa Ebersole's confrontational one-act play about a pair of sisters who taunt each other, and a black man who suddenly joins them in the middle of the night in an East Village apartment.

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

He said Contostavlos acted in a confrontational manner when she turned towards her victim.

In a letter, he said the commission had never acted in a confrontational manner nor pursued an investigation based upon the content of a group's position.