Sentence examples for silent confrontation from inspiring English sources

Later, his coldly silent confrontation with the underling jailer is blood-freezingly bizarre.

Anywhere in the city outside a museum, he said, this kind of silent confrontation would seem quite mad.

He explained that if he maintained the Cold War's "silent confrontation" with China "in the end we would reap a nuclear war.

After weeks of confrontation with police, silent protest has become the latest form of demonstration.

Again, there is a no-win dilemma: an aggressive or angry claim that the idea was yours is likely to provoke a testy confrontation, but remaining silent and allowing idea theft to pass without comment will diminish your status, encourage similar conduct in the future, and leave you feeling resentful and discouraged.

It's clear enough in retrospect that this confrontation between the silent majority and limousine liberalism was always a form of American class struggle.

But as the European Union endorsement became inevitable last week, he agreed that it was better to try to stop the candidacy now than to stay silent and possibly set off a bigger, public confrontation later.

But groups claiming to represent Hong Kong's "silent majority" who did not want to see confrontations also spoke out, saying they gathered more signatures for their cause.

Her final scenes in the series -- the silent grief during Peter's trial and her fateful confrontation with Alicia -- are worth their own trophies.

On Monday, about 50 African American men in suits gathered on the front steps of the federal courthouse in downtown L.A. and held a silent vigil for those who have died in police confrontations.

Amid the flying bottles and canisters and plastic bullets, 51-year-old Henry Lee sat silent on a law chair at the center of the confrontation.