Sentence examples for confrontational in the from inspiring English sources

Eagleburger admits that Healy was "tough and confrontational" in the M.D.A. fight.

Tsipras had requested the meeting and had been confrontational in the days preceding it.

She said Mr. Lazio was so confrontational in the first debate that Mrs. Clinton won it.

You don't get very far by getting confrontational in the industry I work for.

Though both steps would be "dangerously confrontational" in the newspaper's view, its use of withdraw regarding loans and abrogate about the treaty suggests that it would find the latter step more troubling.

The encounter was probably doomed from the start: Cage's music had become increasingly confrontational in the 1960s and the "Atlas" score required many performers to play only a handful of notes, otherwise sitting in silence, leading some to feel they were pawns in the composer's inscrutable game.

Mr. Neilson, a Scottish bad-boy playwright who was a pioneer of the confrontational in-yer-face English theater movement of the 1990s, has written several infamous provocations ("Penetrator," "The Censor") filled with all manner of bodily fluids.

In this sense, you show your care in a way that may even be unpleasant or confrontational, in this situation, for the higher good of the person in your care.

"We had a confrontational relationship in the beginning," he said.

It's confrontational but in the best sense.

The confrontational scene in the council chamber of the doge's palace crackled with intensity.