Sentence examples for confrontational mood from inspiring English sources

That day there was an uneasy, confrontational mood in the air.

In an interview in the Sunday Telegraph Cruddas said he needed closure, adding: "I'm in a confrontational mood because I've been through the wringer.

With the United States riven both by the Vietnam war and the civil-rights movement's increasingly confrontational mood, much of the hippie community opted for a stoned radical avoidance.

New deaths fuelled a grimly confrontational mood at the end of a week that saw around 800 people killed, and fast-fading hopes for the future of the 2011 revolution that had come to symbolise the Arab spring.

If the confrontational mood of those three weeks is what most outsiders associate with the Ford sewing machinists, it is not how the striking women recall their 20-year-plus careers with the firm.

Instead he is in confrontational mood, believing, apparently, that he will benefit whether he survives or is thrown out, since in the latter event he would win kudos as a political martyr and improve the chances of his Pakistan People's Party whenever the next vote is held.

The mood is confrontational, the setting suggests a dusky nightclub and the music is raucous blues and gospel belted out live by E. Faye Butler.

So confrontational was Van Gaal's mood it was difficult to remember a Cup final had just taken place and he was the winning manager.

CHICAGO -- Near the end of a two-day summit here that brought together mayors and federal officials to talk about city design, the mood turned confrontational.

His subtly distanced but exact feeling for characters and atmosphere provides a perfect frame for Finney's confrontational performance, with its abrupt mood swings from anarchic humor to dangerous surliness to seventh heaven.

As dusk fell, the mood became more confrontational.