Word: confrontational
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wasn't - between the first and second plane they were already talking about what would happen to hedge funds. When I was growing up, it was forbidden to talk about money or success. That's the country I was raised in. TIME: Do you ever feel compelled to confront a one-dimensional image of America here? Malkovich: Well, it's a pretty big country, with an extraordinarily disparate population. It takes incredible hubris to want to explain the place. There is room for lots of opinions. But if someone says Sept. 11 was the chickens coming home to roost...
...Labor Party conference last Wednesday was riddled with duplicity on the issue of Iraq. Now almost two years removed from his presidency, perhaps he has merely forgotten the warnings he once delivered and the actions he once took—or didn’t take—to confront Saddam Hussein’s loathsome reign of terror...
...largest media stakeouts since the Chandra Levy case broke. Moose, who served for 27 years (including six as chief) on the Portland, Oregon police force, has some experience with the media, but nothing that could have prepared him for the blunt force of the cameras and microphones that confront him, sometimes four or five times a day, during his 20-hour shifts...
...infinitely more complicated when a couple makes friends as a couple and there are no clear loyalties. For starters, many married people read the divorce of close friends as a threatening act. It breaks the cocoon that surrounds the foursome. The intact couple sometimes doesn't want to confront the fact--or let each other see--that there's life after divorce. The now separated friend becomes a third wheel on outings. And, suggests matrimonial lawyer Robert S. Cohen, many wives feel threatened by newly single women in their midst. Finally, people don't know what...
That is, in my reading, we confront here a world-view that assigns greater moral value to the lives of some human beings—Palestinian civilians—than to the lives of others—Israeli civilians (not all of them Jews, to be sure). Here the petition’s rhetoric is simply shameful, its dehumanizing effects thoroughly offensive. Yet again, Summers got it right: anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...