Beginning in the pre-Revolutionary War period, African American writers have engaged in a creative, if often contentious, dialogue with American letters.
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 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.
The contentious dialogue dragged on for weeks, reaching a climax of sorts earlier this week when Rogers was reported to have said he would remove Lewis from the relay team if Lewis caused any more disruptions.
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.
(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.
The incidents surrounding the trial created a contentious national dialogue that dominated the news agenda for weeks.
Others worry that easy filtration could replace the meaningful (if contentious) social dialogue of the commons with autonomous, homogeneous communities, each automatically avoiding confrontation with challenging or uncomfortable ideas.
And a continuing dialogue, sometimes contentious, between the author and her "friend," her other self, with whom she debates the painful cases of Karen Ann Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan -- lofty dialogues indeed compared to the macabre gospels according to Dr. Jack Kevorkian and his media-wise lawyer, Geoffrey Feiger.
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.
