Mr. Perry seemed to have two clear advantages over the rest of the field: his genuinely strong jobs record in Texas, and his engaged and confrontational style, which seemed to suit the Republican mood and draw a stark contrast to the more cerebral and even-tempered Mr. Romney.
Similar divergences mark the discourse on Ferguson, where "good" protesters are those who march in line and start community groups, and "bad" ones are those who engage in confrontational street actions, throw Molotovs, and remain leaderless and unpredictable.
The SPLC also saw a significant decline in extremist nativist groups that engage in confrontational activities beyond mere political organizing, such as harassing undocumented residents or undertaking border patrols.
Though Van der Werf spent his formative years engaged in more confrontational forms of activism, he is convinced the future lies in helping to enforce the law – not in breaking it.
By nearly all accounts, pent-up frustrations boiled over as the president and the very lawmakers who have consistently opposed much of his agenda engaged in spirited and at times confrontational exchanges over immigration, spending, White House tactics and other issues during a private 75-minute session.
For weeks, the two men have been engaged in a rare back-and-forth series of confrontational public exchanges.
For insisting on her "middle way," she was criticized by white Southerners as overly confrontational and by civil rights leaders as insufficiently engaged.
Woman: The Feminist Avant Garde from the 1970s, a powerful and often confrontational exhibition, made me wonder what happened to politically engaged art.
Steele's job is to keep the frontline troops engaged, keep the cash coming, and give the party a new free swinging, even confrontational style.
Scenes include a naked man being showered with bits of paper, men doing the pogo, and a man and woman engaged in tentative ballet while conducting a dialogue about genocide.Mr Galili's artistic style is confrontational: athletic, unsentimental and often witty.
