Sentence examples for confrontational image from inspiring English sources

A new generation, led by Eddie Murphy, had taken their lead from Pryor and projected a swaggering and confrontational image of African American manhood.

The confrontational image at MoMA (of Ms. Export splay-legged on a bench) is a re-enaction, though it acquired a life of its own when she had it screen-printed and posted it around town.

Snoop was forced to travel to shows on the 1997 Lollapalooza tour in a bulletproof van, prompting him to drop the gangsta chat from his lyrics and adopt the less confrontational image of a cartoon pimp.

By Alex Wong October 16, 2016 As the preseason has gotten under way, multiple teams have fashioned a new approach to the national anthem that acknowledges recent protests while presenting a less confrontational image.

Gossip (in fact, "the Gossip" when they started out) were involved with punk from their inception – not unusually, since the music is both relatively simple and cheap to make, and also instantly confers on its practitioners a certain confrontational image and outsider status.

As the preseason has gotten under way, multiple teams have fashioned a new approach to the national anthem that acknowledges recent protests while presenting a less confrontational image: players on the New York Knicks, Toronto Raptors, and Houston Rockets all locked arms during the anthem, in displays of unity.

Some of Rebel's more confrontational images, captured at close range, featured clearly agitated animals.

In "The Master," Anderson created sharp and confrontational images that provoked intense reactions from Phoenix and lent those reactions a powerful physicality.

The frank, confrontational images (with cinematography by Sean Price Williams) capture high-tension vectors head on; Robert Greene's editing keeps the mood swings sharp and swift.

Betzer's hectic vision of family pathology and historical dissociation comes to life in lyrical yet confrontational images, thanks to the cinematographer Sean Price Williams (whose work is currently on view in the Safdie brothers' "Good Time").

This higher contact between the two societies helps to erode the Cold War confrontational images guiding the current embargo policy and reinforce the advantages of a different policy of engagement.