Sentence examples for hard confrontational from inspiring English sources

That kind of person, the hero of most westerns, is hard, confrontational, raw and tough to control.

French writing, from Voltaire to Sartre to Houellebecq, has a hard, confrontational edge to it, driven by big ideas, which does not exist in the same way in the English-speaking world.

Jonathan: New York is hard, confrontational, cocky.

"Her work is very hard-driving, confrontational, intense, self-engaged," Ms. Sawon said.

And the invention of a beautiful female detective who needs to prove herself can only be called pure Hollywood, though the role is crisply written by Haggis and sternly fleshed out by the toughest of cookies, Charlize Theron, who adds intellectual clarity to the hard-rock confrontational work she did in "Monster" and "North Country".

"They went through a period of time when they took a very hard-line, confrontational position with the City of Richmond, and I don't think it was working for them very well," said Tom Butt, a councilman who has been critical of Chevron and who won re-election in November, despite the oil company's support for three other candidates.

Yet over the past several months, Mr. Bush has picked a fight with the federal work force in a way that has revived concern among labor unions -- and hope among conservatives -- that he is intent on being a hard-nosed, confrontational chief operating officer for Washington Inc. even as he rallies the government and the nation behind him in his role as commander in chief.

Supporters of neocon hard-line confrontational approaches are now saying "we told you so", pointing out that this choice of venue gives a blank check to oppressive regimes and shows that the new administration's support for democracy in the Middle East has waned.

On our porch, my husband and I have had our best conversations, mostly relaxed and easy talks at the end of long days; it's hard to be confrontational on a porch.

Both the painful wounds of exile and concern about the future of the island, rekindled now that Raúl Castro has settled into power, are never far from the surface in Cuban Miami, even among young people whose politics vis-à-vis Cuba are far less hard-line and confrontational than those of their parents and grandparents.

We knew, since we had no clothes on, that we had to look confrontational and hard.