In particular, they argued that the leadership's confrontational mind-set, suspicion of outsiders and disdain for the rights of women and Christians were blocking it from securing a legal foothold in the political system and gaining wider social acceptance.
He has a confrontational intellect.
I don't mind being confrontational at all.
Ms. Murkowski, rarely confrontational, passed succinct judgment.
Its confrontational raunch 'n' roll brings to mind the willfully transgressive theater of the 1960s, when getting naked and talking dirty felt newly liberating.
None of this, mind you, is in a confrontational tone.
But unlike, say, Judd's sternly confrontational metal and wooden geometries, they don't mind seducing.
Other such confrontational responses and deliberate counter studies come to mind, as for example, the decades-long controversies on the risks connected with smoking, asbestos, or currently on-going bisphenol A and mobile telephones, where 'manufacturing uncertainty' has been well researched and documented, for example, by Michaels and Morforton [5].
The demonstrators' more confrontational tactics have drawn frowns from some traditionally minded civil rights activists.
It's just that I'm much more capable of speaking my mind, saying what I think, in a non-confrontational way, that is.
Mr. Lawrence's entrance brings to mind another long-passed icon: a floodlight catches him in confrontational silhouette behind a scrim that slides open and we're transported back to the days of Arsenio Hall.
