Word: antagonistical
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Brown got off to a slow start last year with some tough losses, including a 7-6 heart-breaker to perennial antagonist Dartmouth. But the Bruins won their last four Ivy games, and things look ripe for Brown to pick up where it left...
...foreign policy. Among the prospective victims were two emperors, two kings of France and three sultans. The documents record virtually no offer of assassination to have been rejected by the Venetian government. From 1456 to 1472, it accepted twenty offers to kill the Sultan Mahomet II, the main antagonist of Venice during that period. In 1514, John of Ragusa offered to poison anybody selected by the government of Venice for an annual salary of fifteen hundred ducats . . . In the same period the cardinals brought their own butlers and wine to a papal coronation dinner for fear they might otherwise...
...says, none of them are truly "spontaneous" in the sense that structure is never left to chance. There is a well-conceived skeleton within nearly every show bit, which any kind of good theatrical or literary comedy naturally demands. Usually, this framework involves such plot structures as protagonist versus antagonist in a jealous conflict over lovers, mixed identities, transferred allegiances, tragic irony, and a variety of double plots. In the musical comedy parody (after Rogers and Hammerstein) of the finale, for example, the first scene introduces the all American boy and girl who proceed in subsequent vignettes to be confronted...
...have dubbed the Queen Mary, Rocky at the tiller, Happy handling the sails. Later in the week, Rockefeller appeared at a tent party in Newport, R.I. During his speech, he was interrupted by hecklers. When the crowd tried to eject one of them, he protested. Then he quieted his antagonist: "Courtesy requires you to wait until I complete my speech. One of the great traditions of this country is freedom of speech and another is courtesy." Right under that Newport tent, Nelson Rockefeller began the healing process for which he had been chosen...
President Nixon argued that his confidential material is not subject to judicial review, yet he subjected his argument to judicial disposition. He let his antagonist, the judiciary, decide the dispute. Contrary to settled Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence at least since Coke, that antagonist was the judge of its own cause...