in-your-face

Between dogs, what I called an in-your-face—presenting oneself in front of, and very close to the face of, another dog—is effective at getting attention—but not if the dog is engaged in rollicking play with someone else.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Between dogs, what I called an in-your-face—presenting oneself in front of, and very close to the face of, another dog—is effective at getting attention—but not if the dog is engaged in rollicking play with someone else.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Less recognized means include bumping, pawing, or simply orienting oneself right up in front of someone else: what I have called an in-your-face in my data of dog play behaviors.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

Less recognized means include bumping, pawing, or simply orienting oneself right up in front of someone else: what I have called an in-your-face in my data of dog play behaviors.

INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009

In an in-your-face pure punk explosion, The Mystic Knights & The Cobras were a free-for-all of music and dance where anything and everything goes that set the pit in front of the stage, and the rest of the audience, on a nonstop twenty minute frenzy.

Melissa Webster: The KerPUNK Festival and the Power of the Internet Melissa Webster 2012

I don't really mind this in-your-face stuff because it makes good conversation between me and my husband.

Deborah Chud: A Healthy Food Blogger Faces the Opposition Deborah Chud 2012

What the audience takes in -- some ticket buyers enthusiastically, others not so, from what I could tell -- is an in-your-face belittling of part of the land's checkered past.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010

I don't really mind this in-your-face stuff because it makes good conversation between me and my husband.

Deborah Chud: A Healthy Food Blogger Faces the Opposition Deborah Chud 2012

What the audience takes in -- some ticket buyers enthusiastically, others not so, from what I could tell -- is an in-your-face belittling of part of the land's checkered past.

David Finkle: First Nighter: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Is Bloody Awful David Finkle 2010

Both emit a "Don't b.s. me," in-your-face bluntness learned living in a state filled with no-nonsense Italians and Irish.

Gov. Christie Rests His Case Daniel Henninger 2011