Sentence examples for confrontational dialogue from inspiring English sources

"Cane River," for all its plain-spoken gracefulness, is a drama of the word made into image of bodies and landscapes, houses and cities, rivers and roads given a new dimension of existence by way of active thought, spoken in intricately confrontational dialogue, written in a notebook, read from a scholarly tome, even slipped on a scrap of paper into a waiting hand.

Lonergan's not a political filmmaker, but he is a civic one; in his jousting and confrontational dialogue between his central characters and the representatives of quasi-public functions, he unfolds the small battles that dangle like threads from the dense weave of mighty authority.

The action necessarily slowed once the long confrontational dialogues took hold.

These compositions, along with the more familiar "Changes" (1983) for guitar, played with imaginative ease by its dedicatee, David Starobin, were more reflective and less solemn than the confrontational dialogues of Mr. Carter's earlier works.

This would allow an "open and non-confrontational dialogue" with governments that turned awkward.

That was because Frank took a stand and didn't try to defend Obama against such an absurd and political irresponsible attack — rather he offered another vision of politics that was based on confrontational, but democratic, dialogue.

But late Wednesday he addressed the Catalans in a speech that felt more conciliatory than confrontational, calling for "negotiation" and "dialogue," exactly what has been lacking in the dispute so far.

Canada's Sheila Firestone had warned that there would be no change for the better with women in power "as long as we maintain a dialogue that is confrontational rather than an exchange of views that is consensus building," as she said some had been doing in Nairobi.

Calling someone out of the blue can feel confrontational and needy unless you have regular dialogue.

The dialogue has been instructive and never confrontational, teachers say.

Mr. Carlson refused to broadcast it, and Mr. Bregman was ambivalent about releasing his own recording on social media, wary of endorsing a kind of confrontational public discourse that leaves little room for dialogue.