confrontal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confrontal
form: most confrontal
Etymology: From confront + -al.
Senses: examples: text: I have been in many of these overly structured and disciplined schools. I have noticed that in these schools of confrontal teaching, teachers and children seemed to be caught in a common grimness.
ref: 1973, Harold B. Gores, “[Schools For Young Children—The Recent American Past] Panelist’s Response”, in Robert H. Anderson, editor, Education in Anticipation of Tomorrow: The Lamplighter Seminar, Worthington, Oh.: Charles A. Jones Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 26:
text: “When can I have an answer—I have other offers” (c) is better, if you feel confrontal on a given day; it lets the person know you’re valued. […] This is a question that you must answer in terms of your immediate reaction: what is your initial response when faced with a confrontal person? When dealing with confrontal people, taking the offensive in some way is the best strategy (b and d).
ref: 1987, Dorothy Leeds, “The Quiz: Part One”, in Smart Questions: A New Strategy for Successful Managers, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill Book Company, →ISBN, part one (The System), pages 20–21:
text: The sense of abandonment to paint, or of wild painterliness, and of an imagery more fantastic than descriptive – freely transformative of a subject matter rather than transcriptive of its common appearance – and of a certain sense of confrontal alienation: all these are the signs of Expressionism, or rather, in the 80s, of Neo-Expressionism.
ref: 1988, Donald Kuspit, Brian Maguire: An Essay by Donald Kuspit, Dublin: The Douglas Hyde Gallery; Derry: The Orchard Gallery, →ISBN:
text: Supportive and cognitive psychotherapies are often useful in guiding the elderly alcoholic toward a life without alcohol and as many other drugs as possible. The elderly will respond to confrontal and directive forms of psychotherapy for alcoholism and drug dependence as they do for other psychiatric illnesses.
ref: 1991, Giovanni Caracci, Norman S. Miller, “Alcohol and Drug Addiction in the Elderly”, in Norman S. Miller, editor, Comprehensive Handbook of Drug and Alcohol Addiction, New York, N.Y.: Marcel Dekker, Inc., →ISBN, section II (Special Populations), page 190:
text: It is most important to note here that Dr. [M. Scott] Peck’s two cases of demonic possession grew directly out of a charismatic Christian religious practice called “deliverance”—a form of confrontal prayer challenge in which the participants (usually a minister and a prayer group), exhort a possibly possessed person to bring forth his demons.
ref: 1992, Robert A[llen] Baker, “Calling All Corpses or Dial ‘D’ for Dead”, in Hidden Memories: Voices and Visions from Within, Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 201:
text: Several designs from the fund of Ukrainian folk art occur sporadically, such as Ukrainian confrontal birds, or, for those familiar with twentieth century Pennsylvania German art, Ukrainian distlefinks.
ref: 1993, Thomas E. Graves, “Keeping Ukraine Alive through Death: Ukrainian-American Gravestones as Cultural Markers”, in Richard E. Meyer, editor, Ethnicity and the American Cemetery (Material Culture), Bowling Green, Oh.: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, →ISBN, page 42:
text: “Sweetness and Light” is so imaginatively evasive because it is so tactical: it simultaneously causes the enemies of culture to disintegrate without a confrontal attack and builds its complex constructive apprehensions without conventional definitions and professional formulae.
ref: 2003, “Culture and Anarchy: An Essay in Political and Social Criticism: Matthew Arnold”, in Lynn M[arie] Zott, editor, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism: Criticism of the Works of Novelists, Philosophers, and Other Creative Writers Who Died between 1800 and 1899, from the First Published Critical Appraisals to Current Evaluations (Gale Literary Criticism), volume 126, Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 23, column 1:
synonyms: confrontational
confrontative
glosses: That confronts.