Sentence examples for confrontational stage from inspiring English sources

But as the film moves from its early mix of rapture and humor into this more serious, confrontational stage, it runs into trouble.

"We had to go in". As Spaniards respond with dismay to the violence shown by demonstrators, who launched attacks on police, and the response of some riot police, during scuffles in the area around Madrid's parliament building last week, the long-running drama of the country's deflating economy has lurched into a newly confrontational stage, amid fears that there will be more violence to come.

The New York duo Suicide played spare, experimental music with a confrontational stage act inspired by that of The Stooges.

Maybe so, but Mr. Sharon's confrontational staging emphatically underscored implicit antiwar sentiments.

First presented in 1994 by Lincoln Center Theater, in a less confrontational staging, "Hello Again" has here been given a production that rips the shirts (and dresses) off its characters' backs, the better for us to realize that two is the loneliest number, even amid a crowd of spectators.

There's no denying that Phaedra(s) is a challenging piece, both in its kinetic, confrontational staging, and in its dense flood of text, performed in a heightened, non-naturalistic manner; in the Kane section, Huppert recites the stage directions aloud in a haunted, robotic style.

If, as a woman, I have been allowed to be aggressive or confrontational or violent on stage, the character is always thought of as the villainess.

On the protesters' side, the confrontational approach took centre stage a few weeks ago when a bank was "occupied" and its windows smashed.

This staging is confrontational, unblinking in its determination to flesh out a shadowy narrative.

She was confrontational in person and on stage, but her courage went hand-in-hand with a gleeful, teenage desire to shock and outrage that was a major impulse in punk.

There are two sides to her: she's got an in-built grit that allows her to cut a sometimes forceful figure on stage, spiky and confrontational; she's also got a hugely appealing sense of fun.