The new military-led regime has subjected journalists to months of passive-aggressive treatment (obtaining press credentials has become a bureaucratic nightmare) and a few episodes of outright aggression (arresting several reporters on trumped-up charges, including support for terrorism).
Christie launched a carefully crafted self-promotion campaign showcasing his "tell it like it is" attitude and was outright overly aggressive, at times crossing over into being a bully.
It is passive, like not answering pages or phone calls, and tends toward the subtle: condescension rather than outright abuse, and aggressive or sarcastic remarks rather than straightforward insults.
They are an indication that the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service are focusing on offshore tax evasion in their battle against shelters and transactions that regulators consider too aggressive or outright abusive.
However, anticipating the eventuality of direct links between Taipei and Beijing, Maria Yu, a Cathay spokeswoman, said the airline has changed its business mix so that such traffic amounts to only 3% of its total business, using a combination of aggressive expansion and outright acquisitions in China, Australia, Japan and, mostly recently, India.
The show finds plenty of drama in the preparations for a celebrity pool party, and the JustFab employees featured on-camera can be entertainingly passive aggressive and even outright confrontational (within the first few minutes, someone has already been called a bitch, and Simmons has affectionately told Goldenberg to "loosen the fuck up").
This sudden rise to the top did not humble young Gunnlaugsson, who developed an aggressive and at times outright arrogant style of leadership.
Yet his newfound mates differ from, say, the backwoods weirdos of "Deliverance" in that these louts enable their guest's freak-out with what Grant calls "aggressive hospitality" rather than outright hostility.
Meanwhile, UKIP leader Nigel Farage said Mr Cameron, Mr Miliband and Lib Dem leader Nick Clegg had shown "appalling weakness" and accused them of engaging in "outright appeasement" in the face of aggressive SNP tactics.
Most parents were, at worst, endearingly irrational; a select few were aggressive, deceptive and occasionally outright crazy.
