Their confrontational live performances, light years before punk rock, are the stuff of legend.
A confrontational fuse was lighted.
And a band called H-Alpha — Briggan Krauss on alto saxophone, Ikue Mori on laptop, Jim Black on drums — had played its rugged noise-jazz, which felt all the more confrontational under harsh lighting.
Just chat with her, keep the conversation light, avoid confrontational subjects.
But Pruthu Fernando, an Asian elephant expert at the Centre for Conservation and Research in Sri Lanka, said driving elephants away with loud noises and light is still confrontational.
His images often fell on the hallucinatory side of visionary and could be confrontational, even repellent: synagogue lamps scintillating with light, translucent spirits evoked in séances, disemboweled bodies on autopsy tables.
She struggles with disobedient shutters and an angry sunrise and hits upon a biblical line: "Let there be light…" The poems tend to the confrontational and the first to accost me was Thomas Tsalapatis's The Box.
The raw tone of her filming is nonetheless canny and precise; blunt closeups in contrasty light have a rough sculptural solidity, and the confrontational simplicity of the images evokes a rare blend of anger and analysis, affirmation and questioning.
And even if the confrontational scavenging hypothesis fails to find support, the research it suggests should shed much light on both the history of our species and evolutionary processes in general.
Discussing his appeal to white voters at the time, Mr. Powell, the light-skinned son of Jamaican parents, noted that he spoke English well and was not confrontational.
