"contentious dialogue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a conversation between two people who are arguing or disagreeing about something. For example: "The two political leaders engaged in a contentious dialogue, unable to come to a resolution."
Beginning in the pre-Revolutionary War period, African American writers have engaged in a creative, if often contentious, dialogue with American letters.
The glib alluring notion that spins through 80 minutes of contentious dialogue is that beneath the surface of civilized behavior lurks an unquenchable animal impulse, a principle of aggression we labor in vain to suppress.
Levine and Sheil make a plausibly edgy, cultured pair (his opening riffs on Philip Roth are as smart as they are crisply declaimed) whose bonds are facing their first serious strain, which is captured in understatedly contentious dialogue and nuanced glances.
The core of the movie is psychoanalysis itself; the director, Arnaud Desplechin, turns its contentious dialogue into a sort of real-time screenplay for Picard's dreams and memories, which emerge as a radically subjective historical drama that fuses political conflicts, family troubles, and erotic tensions.
The authoritative character is portrayed as a circus-barker whose smoke and mirrors presentation of the American Dream leads to contentious dialogue with Badu.
The incidents surrounding the trial created a contentious national dialogue that dominated the news agenda for weeks.
(Reuters) ASIA KOREAS: CONTENTIOUS TALKS South and North Korea agreed to open a high-level economic dialogue this month to discuss rebuilding the North's dilapidated economy and providing it with electricity.
Substantive cooperation with Iran in an area of mutual concern like counternarcotics could improve the atmospherics of United States-Iranian relations and also advance the dialogue on contentious issues of nuclearization, international terrorism and the future of Iraq that now keep the countries almost at swords' points.
It was clear, however, that she and Pollan had set an important precedent: they had convened the two sides of a contentious debate in a respectful dialogue.
The way in which the Thomas flap has erupted into view so long after the contentious hearings suggests that the dialogue over morality will be ongoing.
Another contentious issue in the HIV/AIDS dialogue in sub-Saharan Africa is the question of whether HIV/AIDS could be caused by witchcraft or other spiritual factors.
