Sentences with phrase «seem confrontational»

Our industry has historically had a challenge gaining the respect of the public, and this may never change, so why would we seek to seem confrontational when feedback is requested, by refusing to offer helpful hints.

Some might say the ISTDP therapist's interventions seem confrontational or overly forceful, but proponents of the modality believe it to be what people in treatment truly need at a certain juncture of treatment.

The fierce gender politics Miriam Schapiro embedded in her «femmages», while historically important and largely successful, by now have been sufficiently absorbed into the mainstream so that the artworks included here hardly seem confrontational.

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... She didn't seem to feel like she wanted a drawn - out, confrontational thing.

Musk is usually very forthcoming about Tesla's business on earnings calls, and Wednesday's call was no exception, but throughout he seemed annoyed and at times confrontational that the market and the media have fixated on speculation that Tesla is running out of customers.

It is the loud & confrontational (believers & atheists alike) that seem to feel they are supreme and drive a wedge into what could be a peaceful relationship with a majority of believers.

Jesus is arguably not so unkind or arrogant as that, but there seems nonetheless a similar quality of adolescent rudeness here, a confrontational style that appears almost instinctive, unbidden by the behavior or words of elders.

With Glenn's retirement, ASoB seems to be evolving into a more confrontational blog.

It might seem like 98 minutes would barely scratch the surface of how the digital world has affected our lives, which is partly true, but in this thesis-less, ten - chapter tale — from «The Early Days» to «The Future,» with many morally, philosophically, and emotionally confrontational stops in between — Herzog smartly takes a broad, bird's - eye perspective of our early techno - evolution.

There's a token confrontational moment with their reality, but Efraim is such a sociopath he doesn't blink and David is too invested in still seeming like a good guy despite the war profiteering to pontificate on the cost of war.

It seems that all of these characters are on screen because they're interesting — they have unpredictable, confrontational personalities, and live in a rarely depicted, insular community where their eccentricities interweave and conflict — but not because Baker has genuine emotional insight on them or their circumstances.

Even a departure like his underrated 2000 period piece Esther Kahn seemed perversely idiosyncratic and confrontational, what with its deliberately blank lead performance by Summer Phoenix and its plain, unburnished images of Victorian England.

Arthur, on the other hand, seems to take real pleasure in threatening folk, and his general demeanour seems to be cockier and more confrontational than the original Redemption's doomed cowboy.

Hope I didn't come off as confrontational, and further that alluding to a flight attendant hadn't seemed that way; I hadn't meant it to.

As much as this may seem like a confrontational approach, in reality, this helps avoid conflicts and prevents unnecessary fights.

Arthur, on the other hand, seems to take real pleasure in threatening folk, and his general demeanour seems to be cockier and more confrontational than the original Redemption's doomed cowboy.

I saw the heading, but chose not to open it up because it seemed too confrontational.

Whatever comes next, it seems to say, she will always be more brassy than confrontational.

On Artfcity, Whitney Kimball observed, with some justification, that young artists these days seem broadly reluctant to incorporate confrontational political content into their work.

Close - up, confrontational, and searching, they are pictures in which the artist seems to seek understanding of himself by scrutinizing his visage.

I don't know if that would be something that would be helpful for more senior partners, but apparently, that seems less confrontational.»

Thereby it seems that our conflict interactions were indeed confrontational for parent and child, and induced more dyadic negativity than dyadic positivity.

You seem very confrontational I'm not sure why.

These salespeople don't seem to realize that by adopting a confrontational attitude, they are unwittingly rendering a disservice to their clients and as a consequence they are not properly performing their agency duties.