Sentence examples for confrontational world from inspiring English sources

It was a very confrontational world, and we had this idea that maybe we should set up our own country.

Their support for the war, and their dismay over the U.S.'s humiliating defeat, eventually encouraged them to develop a militaristic and confrontational world view.

Although Brazilians have long been familiar with Dunga's confrontational style, the world media got a taste in Beijing, where a simple question by an English journalist on Dunga's feelings after the Argentina match was met with an ironic reference to England's sole World Cup triumph.

It's Only the End of the World is confrontational absurdism: a fascinating, sustained assault.

It rather tries to define itself by being confrontational with the outer world.

She says its why she does what she does, touring the world, presenting confrontational ideas to strangers night after night.

"By taking a confrontational stance with the external world, North Korea seeks to solidify its internal cohesion as it tries to establish Kim Jong-un as leader," said Kim Yong-hyun, a North Korea expert at Dongguk University in Seoul.

Russell Jackson That they not only talked up their own cricket in the kind of stirring, confrontational manner that made the world listen, but at times showed the full member/Associate divide up for what it is: outdated and elitist.

Such reverence for tabletop arrangements of edible and decorative objects might sound odd coming from the French painter who repeatedly scandalized the art world with his confrontational portraits of prostitutes and such.

Generally civil, cooperative ties will yield a much better world than bitter, confrontational relations.

Those abrasive and confrontational energies are what gave the world Fela, and Nollywood, and the huge contemporary music scene.