He crawled back onstage, and said, 'Carry on, carry on.' " The involvement of the audience — often raucous, spellbound, and confrontational — meant that, from the start, the Globe was viewed by a faction of the British critical establishment as a sideshow; there were actors and directors who would not work there.
The problem is, while the body is trying to bridge the gap between workers and management through non-confrontational means, it occupies a space in which it is not as actively pro-labour as many in the trenches would like, while still being an annoyance to certain sectors of management.
According to this supervisor, the Wikispace provided a non-confrontational means through which students could be honest and open in a way that some would find difficult face-to-face.
People such as Alan Vega of Suicide, who showed the punks what confrontational really meant (16 July, 78).
It can seem confrontational and mean, since it involves lots of crude disses, so go check some out before you decide to sign up.
As already stated, this is a confrontational approach meant to embarrass and should only be held in reserve for the worst offenders who will not be persuaded by other means.
Confrontational boycotts as means of influencing corporate behavior are a familiar tactic, of course, and often originate from the left.
It is his great motivational weapon, part of what Mourinho calls "confrontational leadership", his means to "create some conflict, with the intention to bring out the best from them".
"I was very confrontational with him — mean and nasty".
