The 40 or so songs that comprise the eels repertoire are confrontational in sound (trebly, distorted, skronky to the max) and in lyric: frequently obnoxious and offensive but often hilarious – Accident, for example, is told from the standpoint of a car crash victim.
Mr Gingrich's presumed bid for the presidency depends on casting off his old image of the confrontational radical: to sound moderate, even if it boosts President Clinton, is to widen his electoral appeal.
In Cuba I noticed that Spanish sounded confrontational, like Hebrew, and concluded that both had something to do with the mix of socialism and hot weather (though the transition to capitalism hasn't improved Israeli manners much).
Both Mr. Giuliani and Mitt Romney are in a contest to sound more confrontational with the Iranians.
When the New York band, Suicide, arrived on the scene in the early 70s, audiences were rather confounded by their mixture of confrontational music, performance, and sound art.
Note the use of "and" rather than "but" to sound less confrontational.
If you feel that George Bush has been spineless overseas, Mr Giuliani is undoubtedly your man.Mitt Romney, who leads the Republican race in Iowa and New Hampshire, sounds less confrontational.
Despite the nature of the announcement, Mr Ahmadinejad sounded less confrontational than usual and held out the prospect that Mr ElBaradei's mission may not be in vain.
This confirms previous research where Indicating a gap was found to be the most common strategy used to realize Move 2 (e.g., Chin 1993) possibly because it sounds less confrontational to academic reviewers than other possible options, say, bluntly countering a previous claim.
My supervisor at the time was the first person to tell me this and as confrontational as demanding more sounds, it doesn't always have to be.
