Sentence examples for confrontational work from inspiring English sources

The high-brow chic associated with Mr. Stoppard seems at odds with the grittier, more confrontational work that became the Royal Court's signature.

They quickly attracted attention for their idiosyncratic and sometimes confrontational work, and for being a highly distinctive couple, both personally and physically: Jones was tall, black and powerfully built, while Zane was small, lithe and Italian-Jewish.

This work was a commission for Khalil-Bey, a Turkish-Egyptian diplomat, as was Courbet's most confrontational work, the infamous "Origin of the World," an unembellished close-up of a woman's lower torso and open thighs.

She worked steadily throughout the decade and was one of a small number of actors who made the transition from civil-rights-era fare into the more confrontational work of the Blaxploitation era, in the seventies.

And the invention of a beautiful female detective who needs to prove herself can only be called pure Hollywood, though the role is crisply written by Haggis and sternly fleshed out by the toughest of cookies, Charlize Theron, who adds intellectual clarity to the hard-rock confrontational work she did in "Monster" and "North Country".

The couple, who have been collecting contemporary art for 11 years, opened the Goss-Michael Foundation in late June with "A Tribute to Tracey Emin" — a splashy and raucous exhibit of her often confrontational work, which includes a giant pink-and-blue neon heart that reads "George Loves Kenny".

(Many of the more confrontational works will be displayed in a free museum inside the hotel, and the 90 rooms will feature smaller works on paper).

But this didn't stop her returning to live in London in the 1970s; nor did her confrontational works peter out.

But "Strike Oppose", an exhibition at the nearby Barjeel Art Foundation, displayed more confrontational works, including Kader Attia's neon piece (see picture above) from the private collection of Sultan Sooud al-Qassemi.

One consequence of the culture wars of the last decade, including the tumult over "Sensation," in which a controversial work prompted Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani to try to cut off the museum's city financing, seems to have been to increase skepticism toward new art, particularly the abrasive and confrontational works that Mr. Norton sometimes embraces.

But at least I admit to those thoughts.' Also lurking behind the harsh realism of Dead Man's Shoes is the spectre of Alan Clarke, the British dramatist responsible for such confrontational works as Made in Britain, in which Tim Roth played a skinhead thug, and Scum, the notoriously tough borstal drama which introduced Ray Winstone to the film world.