Sentences with phrase «confrontational tone»

Rejecting the male - dominated presence of painting and sculpture, works like Yoko Ono's Cut Piece (1964), Judy Chicago's infamous Dinner Party (1974 - 1979) and Suzanna Lacy's Three Weeks in May (1977) came to define the confrontational tone of the movement — which challenged the perspectives, history, and violence against women both within the art world and at large.

Introduce dogs face to face: Pointing two dogs at each other face to face sets a confrontational tone.

When a guy says he'll take a baseball bat to Albany and presents a confrontational tone beyond that of Eliot Spitzer's, does he really believe he can work with folks like Speaker Silver?

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So when a developer gets stuck, I sit with him and ask questions, using a curious tone, never confrontational.

Therefor my tone is confrontational with him by choice.

There were rarely raised voices or interruptions during the Buffalo mayoral debate before the Democratic primary, but the tone Wednesday evening was undeniably confrontational.

But it was notably less confrontational in tone than the March event, where Governor Andrew Cuomo made a «surprise» appearance and vowed to «save» charters from the de Blasio administration.

Cuomo's decision to name senior Blackstone Group official William Mulrow as his «secretary,» or top aide, for his second term is being seen by influential Democrats as a likely - to - fail effort to tone down the confrontational image the governor and his former secretary, Larry Schwartz, earned in his first term.

Cameron urged the eurozone countries to be «bold», like Britain; his hectoring tone sums up the British government's confrontational, know - it - all attitude to the government.

Assembly Majority Leader Ron Canestrari struck a conciliatory tone on budget negotiations while chatting with reporters earlier today, insisting the Legislature doesn't want to be «confrontational» with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, considering the fact that this is his first budget.

«They were provocative, they were confrontational, they have stake in this outcome, and they have set a tone for unnecessary roughness, for unnecessary brutality,» insisted civil rights attorney Ron Kuby, who is representing the arrested protestors.

If a manager adopts an aggressive tone, the employee is far more likely to react to the bad news in a confrontational manner than in cases in which the manager takes time to explain the situation and the underlying causes.

Hong's sharp social insight and satirical tone has not gone away, but without the more explicit content of the earlier films, the work is less confrontational and radical in its impact.

From Axtman's strategic glamorization of race and social injustice to internal questions of participation versus rebellion as depicted in the work of Jayson Musson, the tone of this exhibition ranged from confrontational to contemplative.

While he has since toned down his viscerally confrontational works, tending more toward loose and colorful expressionist paintings, Melgaard often completely transforms the sites in which...