Sentence examples for deliberately confrontational from inspiring English sources

Her performances are deliberately confrontational, and she relishes the occasions when audiences confront her back, challenging her ideas and pushing her to get better.

Nor was he attracted to Charlie's style of deliberately confrontational satire.

Electro rock provocateur Kirin J Callinan claims he has never been deliberately confrontational.

Worse, it isn't horrible in a deliberately confrontational or creepy or cathartic way.

The Republican message was clear, consistent and deliberately confrontational on the issues of God, guns and gays.

Many were enraged by tactics they saw as deliberately confrontational and a danger to the country's relationship with Europe.

Baraka's Black Magic (1969) and It's Nation Time (1970) typify the stylistic emphases of the poetry of this movement, particularly its preference for street slang, the rhythm of blues, jazz, and gospel music, and a deliberately provocative confrontational rhetoric.

The bit was typical Limbaugh — confrontational, deliberately insensitive and funny.

The 32-year-old Mr. Bradshaw — one of the most deliberately and effectively confrontational American playwrights of his generation — specializes in portraits of an id-driven world in which crimes against nature are more or less natural and presented without obvious moralizing or head shaking.

Despite loving her mum and appreciating her efforts, she aims to be like her non-confrontational dad, deliberately weeding out any characteristics she sees as inherited from her more highly strung mother.

I replied to my editor that I found the article vaguely homophobic, but since its style seemed consistent with the general tone and "voice" of VICE, which one might identify as snarky, ironic, gonzo, occasionally juvenile, polemical, confrontational and even deliberately offensive, it didn't bother me so much.