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  • I'm going to her house, to confront her on why she ditched me.   (source)
    confront = deal directly with an unpleasant situation
  • People don't like being confronted with things they don't understand, I guess.   (source)
    confronted = deal directly with an unpleasant situation with someone
  • Confronting his younger brother—less vicious but powerful in his own way—was more than he'd bargained for.†   (source)
  • There was the smell of pea soup, something burning, and confrontation.†   (source)
  • Why don't you go to your boss and confront him?†   (source)
  • But mostly, they manipulate us into confronting one another face-to-face.†   (source)
  • When the call came, my father and the Islamic studies teacher went out to confront him.†   (source)
  • Then one of them confronted old humpbacked Nammy Proggs, who was standing not far from the entrance to the Small Items shop.†   (source)
  • My grandfather, a respected judge, confronted him, but the thief stabbed him in the throat, killing him instantly—and robbing Baba of a father.†   (source)
  • I can't tell if he's just not ready to confront the seriousness of his disability or if he really does care more about getting dumped by Monica, but he won't talk about anything else.†   (source)
  • Then, readying my weapons, I ran forward, leaping from platform to platform, to confront the first of my adversaries.†   (source)
  • He should have prepared for the inevitability of a life-or-death confrontation, but he hadn't, and now his options are limited.†   (source)
  • Lori stayed up all night to confront Dad, but he didn't come home.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be close to concluding his life without publicly confronting his past.†   (source)
  • Somehow it was worse to be confronted by an animal like this in a kitchen, instead of the open forest.†   (source)
  • Another confrontation seemed inevitable, and part of him simply wanted to get it over with.†   (source)
  • Stooping to gather the dropped clippings, she was confronted by the face of Sam Westing.†   (source)
  • He saw in his mind Bonzo and his vicious little knot of friends, confronting him, threatening him; he had been able to shame Bonzo into fighting him alone.†   (source)
  • When Laura came to Reenie with welts on the palms of her hands, Reenie confronted Mr. Erskine, but was told to mind her own business.†   (source)
  • He recognized in her then a wizened version of the little girl with Shirley Temple curls, the one who had confronted him in the Mellen diner and asked for the secret he didn't know.†   (source)
  • Finally, reaching Saint Jude's, we saw there was no crowd of people outside the emergency room, so we jumped out and ran in, only to be confronted by a mass of people on the inside.†   (source)
  • "Ah," said the Count with the smile of the chess champion who has been confronted with a new gambit.†   (source)
  • When I confronted Ken, he stammered a bit and finally said, "It's for medicinal purposes, don't worry about it."†   (source)
  • When he gets there, a river confronts him rather than a stream.†   (source)
  • After being confronted and shot multiple times, classmate Valeen Schnurr screamed, "O my God, O my God," at which one of the gunmen asked her if she believed in God.†   (source)
  • I'm supposed go to the Underworld and confront the Lord of the Dead.†   (source)
  • And, of course, the problems of race that Malcolm confronted have not disappeared by any means.†   (source)
  • A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds-barred approach to capturing it.†   (source)
  • African Americans, largely excluded from this new industry, found themselves confronting new economic challenges even as they won basic civil rights.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Traynor was standing in the living-room doorway, both hands raised to her mouth, apparently witnessing some unseen confrontation.†   (source)
  • Disliking the captain more and more, Langdon turned away from the odd confrontation and switched on the cell phone.†   (source)
  • Thomas quickly stepped behind a taller boy to avoid his own confrontation with Ben.†   (source)
  • PETROCELLI leans back in her chair and visually confronts STEVE for a long beat.†   (source)
  • She confronted him.†   (source)
  • Klaus had tried to confront Olaf with knowledge he'd learned in Justice Strauss's library and failed.†   (source)
  • And a warrior isn't afraid of confrontation.†   (source)
  • How else can a child confront death?†   (source)
  • Knowing that he would probably be confronted with it anyway, he blurted out every bad thing about himself he could think of.†   (source)
  • He confronted Peter in the cabin.†   (source)
  • He sat with his tray just in front of his knees, confronting his reflection in the hand mirror.†   (source)
  • I was about to confront them when this other thing popped up.†   (source)
  • While the other cops spread out, two big sheriff's deputies marched across the field and confronted the Cypress Bay fans.†   (source)
  • I felt heavy, as if I were moving through water, as if I were confronting much more than a tenth-grade girl with an unusual name.†   (source)
  • Avoiding a confrontation.†   (source)
  • The confrontations weren't as regular as the sneaking out, but there were some terrific battles that I anxiously ignored.†   (source)
  • I don't get mad all that often, because of my fear of confrontation and all, but when I do get mad, look out.†   (source)
  • Yesterday, after they confronted her at breakfast, Spencer had wandered outside to see what the sirens were all about—ambulances still made her nervous, from both The Jenna Thing and Ali's disappearance.†   (source)
  • He looked incredibly uncomfortable, although in all fairness Josie imagined it was a little off-putting to be confronted by the daughter you'd abandoned before birth.†   (source)
  • Owen's naturally good mind would mature when confronted with the academic challenges; Owen's superstitions would vanish in the company of the academy's more worldly students.†   (source)
  • I tell her the story of John, the sister, and Du's sudden departure, my fear of confronting Bud with it.†   (source)
  • It had been weeks since their confrontation.†   (source)
  • He just cries into his hands, feeling sorry that he's finally being confronted, and not at all sorry for what he actually did.†   (source)
  • On the advice of Dr. Golan, who thought it would be good for me to "confront the scene of my trauma," I was enlisted to help my dad and Aunt Susie sort through the detritus.†   (source)
  • Jon watched the confrontation.†   (source)
  • That night I slept easily, and it was only on waking up that this illusion was gone, and I was confronted with myself, and what I had done to Finny.†   (source)
  • The demon of choice confronted her then, teased her, challenged her.†   (source)
  • But now, as he came up and stood by him confronting the angry spirits, Mr. Smith looked at him and smiled.†   (source)
  • So I decided to confront her about the free-lance work I'd done for her firm, eight pages of brochure copy on its tax services.†   (source)
  • If someone confronted him about it later, he would have his excuse in his pocket.†   (source)
  • So George and Harold took Mr. Krupp down to the cafeteria to confront the evil lunch ladies.†   (source)
  • "Ahhh," Szpirglas said, as though confronted with a particularly stubborn child.†   (source)
  • Whenever she was confronted with an accident around the home, she was in complete control.†   (source)
  • He was describing the boardroom confrontation with the man who called him a warmonger.†   (source)
  • The goal was to create tension and provoke confrontations that would force the federal government to step in and enforce the laws.†   (source)
  • I was confronted with yet another dilemma.†   (source)
  • Confronted with the spectacle of William Spiver, they had forgotten about Ulysses.†   (source)
  • It was time to confront her sister, but it wouldn't be Tita who would start the argument.†   (source)
  • One was going to confront Old Qian, a stern and frightening man who stalked our alleys speaking to no one.†   (source)
  • When she confronted him about these things, he never explained or apologized.†   (source)
  • If there was a confrontation, he didn't doubt she would refuse to go down quietly.†   (source)
  • To be fair though, when confronted by the sheer enormity of the distances between the stars, better minds than the one responsible for the Guide's introduction have faltered.†   (source)
  • Before he could say a word, I confronted him.†   (source)
  • So not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront just a few years later, the narrow escapes I would experience, or the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life.†   (source)
  • I found myself confronted by a strange woman, tan and very fit-looking: flat gray eyes, lined coppery skin, and teeth that went in, with a split between them.†   (source)
  • I can't very well confront her with her carelessness, her sarcasm and her hard-heartedness, yet I can't continue to take the blame for everything.†   (source)
  • He believed that if the Koreans were honest about where they came from and were willing to confront those aspects of their heritage that did not suit the aviation world, they could change.†   (source)
  • Karla immediately confronts Maraa Isabel.†   (source)
  • There's no point in confronting her about it.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether it's because of the confrontation or because of the darkroom.†   (source)
  • And yet, all the time, I think we must have had an idea of how precarious the foundations of our fantasy were, because we always avoided any confrontation.†   (source)
  • I don't like confrontation.†   (source)
  • I thought I could keep the Ra'zac away from you and, once they had left, confront you about Saphira.†   (source)
  • Although the old man never confronted me about it, there was one occasion when he came close to forcing the whole thing out into the open.†   (source)
  • He didn't care about anything except confronting his whiskered nemesis.†   (source)
  • I must think how best to confront him.†   (source)
  • Most children recognize the hypocrisy of emphasizing a linear, clean and de-sexed past while they confront daily the muddy, uncertain and hybrid truths.†   (source)
  • The boy's parents didn't confront us about the incident.†   (source)
  • I wasn't sure whether I remembered that because it was true or because I wanted to avoid any kind of confrontation with Weylin.†   (source)
  • Others who believed the story didn't want any part of the confrontation and wouldn't have come no matter what the weather.†   (source)
  • But for all of FORCE's calculations and preparations, no one had adequately planned on the inevitable confrontation with the Ousters.†   (source)
  • The old woman had been frail but mentally sharp, and she confronted the nurse about the missing checks and the unexplained charges to her bank account.†   (source)
  • Confronting Ambrose required no real bravery on my part.†   (source)
  • Normally she wasn't back so early, but I knew the moment I saw her face that she'd come back only for the purpose of confronting me.†   (source)
  • Trust Minerva's incarnation to confront Dede with the question she herself has avoided.†   (source)
  • Part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.†   (source)
  • Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry.†   (source)
  • She specializes in helping families when one member is confronting a terminal illness.†   (source)
  • Or it may represent a breach of the truth (in a more traditional philosophical tradition) or a confrontation with terrors she has denied and can only exorcise by facing them.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel is confronting his fears and thinking more rationally.†   (source)
  • We turned a corner and stopped cold, confronted with Inspector Adjunct Ceit holding a stun stick, the sort of thing Station Security might use.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was time to confront my fate, and Lena's fate.†   (source)
  • To build it Burnham had confronted a legion of obstacles, any one of which could have—should have—killed it long before Opening Day.†   (source)
  • I marched back up to her room and confronted her with the evidence.†   (source)
  • Ripe fruits, acrid sweat, urine, flowers, dark spices, and other things I've never even seen—I can't say what goes into the composition, or why it rises up to confront me as I round some corner hastily, unsuspecting.†   (source)
  • George had stayed after the others had filed out, and then had confronted Jack angrily.†   (source)
  • They next faced the problem that confronted all young people in the city who wanted to continue in one another's company past a certain hour.†   (source)
  • As he trailed me through an isolated passage to the open hallway, we were confronted by a chorus of chants from sideburners.†   (source)
  • I grabbed my pistol and went to confront the criminal.†   (source)
  • A typical likeness is the way the world is seen as being the subject of a drama in which the forces of Good and Evil confront each other in a relentless struggle.†   (source)
  • It seems that whenever he is confronted by any individual, he sort of takes it rather aggressively, more so than the average individual ...for the record, [he] had some psychiatric help in the service, but he has never been in any hospital.†   (source)
  • Perhaps so directly confronted with it, I might in time have gained the courage to truly take my life, not to whine and beg for others to take it.†   (source)
  • It is easier to confront a threat as a mass, a group, not individuals who must be evaluated one by one...and most of us knew someone who had been injured or killed by a Downworlder.†   (source)
  • I didn't mention Scott by name, because I didn't want Tom to go round there and confront him-God knows what might happen.†   (source)
  • Confronted by alien authority figures, Michael froze.†   (source)
  • There were also dangers, but in a summer-long series of simple, effective lessons, Sasha taught the boy that preparation, knowledge, and discipline can deal with any form of danger; that danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.†   (source)
  • There was a vote today, and everyone but me was in favor of a confrontation about your level of serious commitment to the school and the squad.†   (source)
  • I feared confronting him.†   (source)
  • His emotions tell him to go back and kill that manager, get his swords out of the trunk, dive in through the little sliding window like a ninja, track him down through the moiling chaos of the microwaved franchise and confront him in a climactic thick-crust apocalypse.†   (source)
  • His intuition told him that he would never have the courage to confront him face to face, because he was the patron.†   (source)
  • I never knew, but it would not have surprised me: to learn he had been in the front line of the army that confronted the team on the ridge, though I have no doubt the strategy was planned by the senior man, Sharmak, who had done so much damage already.†   (source)
  • But Jordan was now in full-on confrontation mode.†   (source)
  • It was at age 14 that I confronted the most severe personal problem of my life, one that almost ruined me forever.†   (source)
  • If I confronted him, he would just think I'm being controlled to say these things by the angels and that would get me nowhere.†   (source)
  • On one of his visits, they confronted him about it.†   (source)
  • At the top of the staircase, Seward's son Frederick confronted Bell and the stranger.†   (source)
  • But it never reached the extremes Dr. Urbino had hoped for, which was to see Italianizers and Wagnerians confronting each other with sticks and canes during the intermissions.†   (source)
  • She was an organiser who could handle employees with warmth and trust but who at the same time wasn't afraid of confrontation and could be very tough when necessary.†   (source)
  • But Juan and Pablo and myself went to Tenorio and confronted him, but we could not charge him with anything because we had no proof.†   (source)
  • He looks at me, a nonbeliever confronted with, if not evidence, then at least the possibility of God.†   (source)
  • I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a business suit, his days of glory shrunk to a little gold cup on his mantel with a date engraved on it like the date on a tombstone.†   (source)
  • I may have overstepped, but as a leader and fellow Christian, I felt I needed to confront him.†   (source)
  • My mind threatens to glaze over and shut down as it does when I'm confronted with a particularly difficult sort on the screen and I feel overwhelmed.†   (source)
  • The pattern froze before it could be vocalized, confronted by the single thought: This is my son.†   (source)
  • Sarah Byrnes has always used pretty rough language, so I won't say exactly what she said the first time Dale confronted her, but I will say she said it twice: once about Dale and once about his mother.†   (source)
  • Later I would think, maybe if I had told her, she would have confronted him, would have done something, but who can know these things?†   (source)
  • And then I'd be forced to confront him with the question I was dreading.†   (source)
  • Dan tugged Abby along, anxious to confront whatever was coming.†   (source)
  • I tossed them to her, and then turned to confront a heavier load.†   (source)
  • One eventually had to confront it.†   (source)
  • Part of me always wondered what my father would do if directly confronted with the truth.†   (source)
  • Once Annie and Robert had tried talking to her about him, believing it better to confront the issue of what they should do with him.†   (source)
  • In school I was never confronted with drugs, surely never sought them out.†   (source)
  • Confronted with a real war, Holman sought assistance from an unusually powerful ally.†   (source)
  • Together they confronted their grief and began to heal, finding comfort in their shared circumstances and beliefs.†   (source)
  • Now that it stared them so hideously in the face, each could see how desperately the other had been trying to avoid this confrontation.†   (source)
  • Everyone in the room could see that a confrontation might boil up with the C.D.C. if the Army decided to move in on the monkey house.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, word of the confrontation had rushed around the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • Or maybe someone had just snuck on the school grounds after brutally killing Chris Ford and abducting Brad Higeons, and now they were sneaking off again, and if I confronted him/her I'd be murdered, too.†   (source)
  • A month before the coup, I had a confrontation with Walid, who'd been teasing me over my name (such an easy target).†   (source)
  • The first thing you've got to do is ...is be brave and confront the issue.†   (source)
  • And he came toward her, grabbed her by the back of the hair, and yanked her face upward to confront the blanket of rage in his eyes.†   (source)
  • On Saturday, the second day of 1960, both rooms were booked for 2:00 p. m.-the hour that four detectives from Kansas had selected for their first confrontation of Hickock and Smith.†   (source)
  • R.V. said NOP didn't believe in violent confrontation, but we could see from the look on his face that he wasn't happy about that.†   (source)
  • But, even now, he remembers that he knew with great clarity what he needed to do, how he needed to turn away from slights and confrontation and let his grades speak loudly for him.†   (source)
  • He had begun to imagine confronting the man and shooting him down.†   (source)
  • The boy confronts the man.†   (source)
  • By Monday morning, my mood is so foul that I have the reckless courage to confront Rashmi in the breakfast line.†   (source)
  • Any man confronted with superior strength is weak, even if he has an athletic body like Dubcek's.†   (source)
  • As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.†   (source)
  • He said I was quite brave, and that was my cue to reveal our confrontation with the peckerwood dentist and Momma's incredible powers.†   (source)
  • Don't confront Jack.†   (source)
  • I had rehearsed what I would say so many times that I had been sure I would not forget my little speech, but confronted with Mr. Grumbloch's perpetual frown and sharp blue eyes, I could only conjure up three words: "I'm not Valerie."†   (source)
  • 'Maybe we're confronted with a gang, with two men working together who just happen to have opposite names.†   (source)
  • "All right," said Brave Orchid, who had tried to talk her niece into confronting her father five years ago, but all she had done was write him a letter telling him she was in Los Angeles.†   (source)
  • One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me.†   (source)
  • When the druid denied this and told the king of the prophecy, the king was furious and confronted his nephew.†   (source)
  • We had spent much of the seven years of our marriage avoiding confrontation.†   (source)
  • The captain had the look in his eye of the Almighty confronting a particularly wicked city, and maybe Cox was just sane enough to recognize that here was someone who might be even madder than he was, at least for the time it took to turn Cox and those around him into much smaller lumps.†   (source)
  • Confronted with the end of my life as I knew it, I adopted my standard pose when in over my head and scared: I closed myself off, telling myself that I had gotten into this mess and it was no one's fault but my own.†   (source)
  • I wanted to run and confront Jenks, but I knew I couldn't.†   (source)
  • May I suggest we confront the initial question of Mr. Buckley's right to enter this case as local counsel?†   (source)
  • The young American president was attempting a deft diplomatic maneuver, hoping to confront a very real threat by not allowing U.S. military personnel actually to take part.†   (source)
  • It was a bleak and awful-sounding word, yet I had no idea at all what shape it might take if ever I confronted it.†   (source)
  • He "abhorred dispute," as he said, shrank from the contentiousness of politics, and instinctively avoided confrontation of any kind.†   (source)
  • She was afraid of tears and yelling— the things that should be expected with a confrontation of this kind.†   (source)
  • This he could certainly have done; and he had decided to confront rather than ambush them, in the hope that the bucks would surrender without fighting.†   (source)
  • The island truly was an Ending of Endings, and somehow he knew that the confrontation with the Winter King would end here.†   (source)
  • A scene of total disorder confronts him as he moves toward the door.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he did not wish to be confronted by the sorts of queries that I would have raised in response to such information.†   (source)
  • If they knew where he lived, they would have waited for him there in the first place, rather than risk confronting him in the open as they had.†   (source)
  • It fell to Mike Strank to confront Rene's liabilities and turn this weak link into a useful integer in the chain.†   (source)
  • I would have, but I confess that after our previous encounters, I'm—pardon the phrase—once bitten, twice shy when it comes to direct confrontation with the Pravus.†   (source)
  • Regaining the memory and the confrontation with her mom had created a whole new set of issues, but ones Echo felt she could deal with as long as she had Mrs. Collins.†   (source)
  • One of them confronted her, likely questioned her, then got rid of her.†   (source)
  • Confronted with the immediate needs of a five-year-old child with third-degree burns across half her torso, it was impossible to wallow in self-pity.†   (source)
  • On my way to combat training, I'm concocting a plan to confront her—something involving a chair and rope and maybe a gag so she has no choice but to listen to me—when Cain appears beside me as suddenly as a ghost.†   (source)
  • There was nothing to keep her from lunging at him, but she wanted to avoid any confrontation that would prolong the exposure.†   (source)
  • When people are confronted with a synthetic face like Baldi's and a synthetic voice, they are very accepting and comfortable with it.†   (source)
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