Both Uses of
confront
in
Man And Superman
- …the time the polite critics of the XIX century, ignoring William Blake as superficially as the XVIII had ignored Hogarth or the XVII Bunyan, had got past the Dickens-Macaulay Dumas-Guizot stage and the Stendhal-Meredith-Turgenieff stage, and were confronted with philosophic fiction by such pens as Ibsen's and Tolstoy's, Don Juan had changed his sex and become Dona Juana, breaking out of the Doll's House and asserting herself as an individual instead of a mere item in a moral pageant.†
Chpt Ded.
- Straker, now highly indignant, comes back from the steps and confronts the visitor.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(confront) to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence