Word: antagonistic
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...ratcheted-up Hollywood. We are reminded in the interview scenes that one does not need the histrionics of digitized monsters or the pyrotechnics of world warfare to enrapture an audience. The greatest drama of all can take place on the stage of the human face.As Nixon’s antagonist, Frost, Sheen does an admirable, if overshadowed, job. At the film’s start, he plays the television personality to perfection, sporting an ever-present million-dollar smile. By its end, Sheen reveals a Frost transformed from entertainer to thinker, a man who has come to take himself seriously...
...English players, was bowled anticlimactically for nought. Watching from the press box, Fingleton and his mate, bowling great Bill "Tiger" O'Reilly, were beside themselves with mirth. Growden defends them: "And why not? They were laughing at a god with feet of clay ... Laughing at an old antagonist who'd just got his comeuppance...
...least one professor welcomed the news of Matory’s departure. The anthropologist’s longtime antagonist, law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, a fierce defender of Israel, said that he was “thrilled” that Matory was leaving...
...into trouble again just after taking office as governor. After reporters inquired as to whether Spitzer had used a state plane to fly to California for a fund-raising trip - he had not - Dopp asked state troopers to look into the state-funded travel habits of Spitzer's chief antagonist, Republican state senate leader Joseph Bruno. When the trooper request was made public, the state G.O.P. objected bitterly. Teams of investigators are still looking into whether the governor and his people illegally used their authority to try to intimidate Bruno...
...resources and influence is likely to grow between Asia's second and third biggest economies. But this need not necessarily lead to tension, as Bhaskar points out: "What matters is how China wants to see India in the long run - as a worthy global power, or as an antagonist that must be mired in South Asia. In the past China has leaned towards the latter approach; it has been arming Pakistan to bog India down. But the way things are evolving, particularly with continuing economic globalization, that may not continue to be the case." Both India and China realize that...