He describes the in-house culture as "notoriously confrontational," and writes that because managers in departments of 50 or more people are required to "top-grade" their subordinates along a curve (and dismiss the least effective performers), "many Amazon employees live in perpetual fear" of termination.
"Cane River," for all its plain-spoken gracefulness, is a drama of the word made into image of bodies and landscapes, houses and cities, rivers and roads given a new dimension of existence by way of active thought, spoken in intricately confrontational dialogue, written in a notebook, read from a scholarly tome, even slipped on a scrap of paper into a waiting hand.
Though Noonan's piece is not simply a jab at Palin, but rather a larger message about the real political significance of one's actions and accomplishments, as well as the necessity to "earn your way into politics," it's also worth noting that Noonan has never shied away from writing confrontational columns about the former Alaska Governor.
In recent months, organizations including Women's March, Housing Works, and the Center for Popular Democracy, an umbrella group of local progressive organizations, have increasingly resorted to direct action over less confrontational strategies like letter writing and street protests.
A few months later, however, he began writing in a conversational and confrontational way that began to define a new era in business reporting – and a boom in startup coverage that changed the way the world thought about entrepreneurship.
Second, there are people writing about economic issues who are a lot less confrontational than I am; how often do you hear about them?
At The Wall Street Journal, Eric Sasson criticized Ms. Foster's speech — "It felt confrontational, defensive, disjointed," he wrote – and suggested it was a mistake to not make a more upfront statement.
The Village Voice's Nana Ekua Brew-Hammond described "Sasha Fierce" as "brassy, big-headed, confrontational, and witty" and wrote that all these adjectives suit "Ego".
Akpan, a Nigerian Jesuit priest currently assigned to a seminary in Zimbabwe, doesn't write in the confrontational, impassioned voice of the muckraker or the reformer.
Eric Scheidler, the head of Pro-Life Action Leagroupa group that leads confrontational protests outside such clinics, wrote earlier this month, "With Jeff Sessions at Justice, pro-life activists like me can breathe a sigh of relief".
