Word: antagonistic
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...promote sweeping change. The real significance of Hashimoto's arrival as Prime Minister is not that he brings a new style but that his elevation sets up a first in Japan: a battle between a savvy, dynamic defender of the status quo and an equally dynamic and hardheaded antagonist of the status...
Earlier in the day, Senators questioned former White House attorney Neil Eggleston and top Clinton aide Bruce Lindsey about Eggleston's attempt to share with Lindsey confidential documents concerning the Whitewater investigation. Those materials detailed a Small Business Administration criminal investigation of Clinton antagonist David Hale, an Arkansas judge; impeding the probe in any way would have been illegal. Investigators reviewed Eggleston's phone records, which indicate he left a message for Lindsey offering to brief him on the SBA papers. Lindsey was handling Whitewater press inquiries for the White House. But while Eggleston maintained that doing so would...
Anyone who continues the "cause" of division and intolerance on any side of an issue is as guilty as the antagonist who may have started it and passed it on to us. We have seen where that leads in this country and around the world. Debates and panel discussions are good until they seek to exclude...
Ordinarily, malicious efforts to this effect should be simply dismissed without providing the dignity afforded to principled debate. Refusing to participate in a destructive dialogue of this nature prevents the antagonist from achieving the desired goal of stirring racial animosity. In the absence of constructive dialogue however, the antagonist, by simply being audible, is often able to set the tone of the debate. Thus, while effective in denying him or her the attention he or she craves, ignoring the antagonist often facilitates his or her goal by allowing such claims to monopolize the discourse. As such, in the absence...
Playing the vague figure of Death, Robert Wallace is the most convincing antagonist of the three ballets. Along with dark figures running on stage called The Past (played by students of the Boston Ballet School), Wallace frightens and enchants at the same time. Ribeiro is delightful as the Mechanical Nightingale, with her precise movements. She is a cold, elegant wind-up doll, entertaining the Prince with the same repetitive moves until they are comical...