The kind of defiant and violent antagonism to the West that we now associate with Islamists was for centuries linked instead to places like Japan, Korea and China.
Live shows around this period were punishing affairs notorious for their dangerously high volumes, Gira's sometimes violent antagonism of the crowd and unusual tactics such as locking the audience in the venue or the "show" being played in complete darkness.
Because the Rights of Woman eliminates sexuality from a woman's life, Kaplan contends, it "expresses a violent antagonism to the sexual" while at the same time "exaggerat[ing] the importance of the sensual in the everyday life of women".
Their vital interests become plugged into obscure but violent local antagonisms, such as those between Russian-backed Kurds and Turkish-backed Turkomans, through whose lands run the roads supplying Aleppo.
Ms. Schenkar has much to say about the violent, lifelong antagonism between Highsmith and her mother, emotions so extreme that "chasms of unsatiated pain and need opened in each of them, and they devoured each other".
Here, youthful energies erupt in local antagonisms and violent confrontation.
Violent protests and ethnic antagonism broke out, and thousands of Bhutan's Nepalese residents fled to Nepal (Bhutan's government claimed that many of the Nepalese had resided in the country illegally).
It is when the film enters the battleground of the 1970s and 1980s that its starry-eyed view of Thatcher becomes problematic, for it is no longer just the story of "one woman's ambition" – it is of a nation plunged into violent strife and lasting antagonism.
Violent men die violently.
One quibble is that the interactions are a little too predictable: the father's excessive attention to the daughter, the mother's attempt to keep up with her son's taste in music, the kids' fighting and teasing and sometimes violent outbursts, the parents' little dance of antagonism and attraction.
