Sentence examples for confrontational aggression from inspiring English sources

But while the play tantalises and intrigues, it never quite achieves the fluidity Zeller perfected in The Father: there is a discernible pattern to Anne's alternation of confrontational aggression and morose depression.

Watched again, a quarter of a century on, what is so striking is not the confrontational aggression but the movie's humanity, idealism and lack of cynicism, bolstered by intelligent and powerful performances.

As social ties became more important to survival, Wrangham thinks, human ancestors may have inflicted the same kind of capital punishment, weeding out males who acted with intense and confrontational aggression.

Avoid confrontation and aggression.

Confrontational and boiling over with aggression yet uncomfortably emotional and with schizophrenic turns of both pace and tone, Palm Reader are gloriously challenging in the way all of the best hardcore is.

Peer victimization [ 1] includes both confrontational behavior and relational forms of aggression (e.g., gossip and ostracism) and is a major problem in schools worldwide.

He became aggressive and confrontational.

By contrast, the countries of Central Europe, like Poland, supported by the Nordic countries, the Netherlands and Britain, want a more confrontational stance toward Russia, to show Moscow that aggression has costs.

In their culture, squaring your shoulders during a conversation can be considered confrontational; they were unused to this level of direct aggression.

Because proactive aggression is planned and unprovoked, these distorted thoughts probably concern both direct, confrontational behaviors, and calculated, nonconfrontational behaviors.

However, Malcolm X and like-minded others pursued change with what many would call "aggression," employing assertive discourse, advocacy for self-defense, Black Nationalism, and over all more confrontational methodology.