Both Uses of
confront
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Yet a chance word will call them forth suddenly and they will rise up to confront him in the most various circumstances, a vision or a dream, or while timbrel and harp soothe his senses or amid the cool silver tranquility of the evening or at the feast, at midnight, when he is now filled with wine.†
Chpt 14
- What spectacle confronted them when they, first the host, then the guest, emerged silently, doubly dark, from obscurity by a passage from the rere of the house into the penumbra of the garden?†
Chpt 17 *
Definition:
-
(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence