Jennifer Beals

It became very clear to the director that it would be foolish not to use our friendship. I had tried to talk to him about it because all the relationships in the film are so, not negative, but antagonistic. There's not a lot of love going around.

American Actress

Bobby Knight

I enjoyed needling the press. If I didn't enjoy it, I wouldn't have done it. Writers have rarely played, so as a coach, you have antagonistic feelings about some guy writing up the story of the game who's never even attempted to play it.

American Coach

Blase J. Cupich

Listen, talk, be respectful of people - and make sure that you have openness to where people are coming from. And you don't do anything that is unnecessarily antagonistic, that is only going to make you feel good because you've done it.

American Clergyman

Whitfield Diffie

I certainly enjoy going on stage and lecturing and talking to Congress. That's a personality explanation. And given government proposals, I thought I had a clear view that they were antagonistic to human freedom.

American Scientist

Trofim Lysenko

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

Russian Celebrity

David Longstreth

I used to feel that musical knowledge and emotional truth-telling were antagonistic. But I was too curious about chords and instruments and recording to stay locked in that mentality.

American Musician

Cindy Sherman

The more horrific works came out of a feeling that everyone accepted my stuff too easily. I was deliberately trying to be antagonistic towards collectors and critics.

American Photographer

Noam Chomsky

Public opinion in Egypt is very antagonistic to the way the dictatorship, Mubarak dictatorship, interpreted relations with Israel. Very antagonistic.

American Activist

Gary McCord

Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.

American Athlete

Plato

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

Greek Philosopher

Use 'antagonistic' to describe emotions that directly oppose friendliness or agreement.

Negative Emotions

Apply the term in situations involving arguments, debates, or conflicts.

Conflict Settings

Recognize that using 'antagonistic' can convey a strong emotional reaction and tension.

Emotional Impact

In medical contexts, it means one agent actively works against another's effects.

Medical Opposite Actions

Remember that in medical or scientific contexts, 'antagonistic' has a specific, technical meaning.

Technical Usage

Use 'antagonistic' carefully; in everyday speech, people might not understand its medical sense.

Medical Jargon

Use it when someone's words or actions are designed to provoke others intentionally.

Provoking Reaction

Choose 'antagonistic' to emphasize the intensity or aggressiveness of an action or statement.

Intensity in Language

It's often used in the context of political or social discussions to describe aggressive opposition.

Public Discourse

 are a few sea turtles that do not leave the harbour during the wintertime and they are so reliant upon the fishing boats that are there and the scraps that are being thrown over the fish, uh sorry thrown over the net as scrap that they have. This has been a major part of their daily diet, so we can see two sea turtles here that are fighting over the scraps that are being thrown. And for two sea turtles to fight like this, they're typically solitary creatures. So what we're creating is an environment where sea turtles are interacting on a daily basis and in an antagonistic way.

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 classroom they took a fundamentally dehumanizing experience a bunch of thirty kids with their fingers on their lips not allowed to interact with each other a teacher no matter how good has to give this kind of one size fits all lecture to thirty students you know blank faces slightly antagonistic and now it's a human experience now they're

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 "The glass house of globalization has to be open to all if it is to remain secure. Bigotry and ignorance are the ugly face of exclusionary and antagonistic globalization."

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