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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
  • THAT AUTUMN, TYLER CONFRONTED my father.†   (source)
  • There was the smell of pea soup, something burning, and confrontation.†   (source)
  • When the call came, my father and the Islamic studies teacher went out to confront him.†   (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)
  • Why don't you go to your boss and 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)
  • But mostly, they manipulate us into confronting one another face-to-face.†   (source)
  • Lori stayed up all night to confront Dad, but he didn't come home.†   (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)
  • Another confrontation seemed inevitable, and part of him simply wanted to get it over with.†   (source)
  • He seemed to be close to concluding his life without publicly confronting his past.†   (source)
  • Stooping to gather the dropped clippings, she was confronted by the face of Sam Westing.†   (source)
  • When confronted, Laura denied nothing, except the Camp Grounds sighting.†   (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)
  • I wasn't much for confrontation, and had never been in a fight in my life, but right was right.†   (source)
  • What is a man supposed to do when confronted with such madness?†   (source)
  • I had heard the shouts and feared a confrontation.†   (source)
  • I never confronted these demands head-on.†   (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)
  • Thomas quickly stepped behind a taller boy to avoid his own confrontation with Ben.†   (source)
  • And, of course, the problems of race that Malcolm confronted have not disappeared by any means.†   (source)
  • In seconds, the situation escalated into the largest confrontation I'd ever witnessed.†   (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)
  • Disliking the captain more and more, Langdon turned away from the odd confrontation and switched on the cell phone.†   (source)
  • African Americans, largely excluded from this new industry, found themselves confronting new economic challenges even as they won basic civil rights.†   (source)
  • She confronted him.†   (source)
  • Klaus had tried to confront Olaf with knowledge he'd learned in Justice Strauss's library and failed.†   (source)
  • PETROCELLI leans back in her chair and visually confronts STEVE for a long beat.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Traynor was standing in the living-room doorway, both hands raised to her mouth, apparently witnessing some unseen confrontation.†   (source)
  • He confronted Peter in the cabin.†   (source)
  • If someone confronted him about it later, he would have his excuse in his pocket.†   (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)
  • He wanted a public confrontation right away.†   (source)
  • And a warrior isn't afraid of confrontation.†   (source)
  • How else can a child confront death?†   (source)
  • I'm supposed go to the Underworld and confront the Lord of the Dead.†   (source)
  • The goal was to create tension and provoke confrontations that would force the federal government to step in and enforce the laws.†   (source)
  • Somehow it was worse to be confronted by an animal like this in a kitchen, instead of the open forest.†   (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)
  • When Daddy confronted her, she talked back, as always.†   (source)
  • It had been weeks since their confrontation.†   (source)
  • The boy's parents didn't confront us about the incident.†   (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)
  • Karin and I have had just one other confrontation.†   (source)
  • While the other cops spread out, two big sheriff's deputies marched across the field and confronted the Cypress Bay fans.†   (source)
  • It told of destiny, and of the many men who had wandered in search of distant lands or beautiful women, confronting the people of their times with their preconceived notions.†   (source)
  • If there was a confrontation, he didn't doubt she would refuse to go down quietly.†   (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)
  • One was going to confront Old Qian, a stern and frightening man who stalked our alleys speaking to no one.†   (source)
  • He was describing the boardroom confrontation with the man who called him a warmonger.†   (source)
  • Avoiding a confrontation.†   (source)
  • But now, as he came up and stood by him confronting the angry spirits, Mr. Smith looked at him and smiled.†   (source)
  • He didn't care about anything except confronting his whiskered nemesis.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • Whenever she was confronted with an accident around the home, she was in complete control.†   (source)
  • Only then, forced at six months to confront his destiny, does he begin to cry.†   (source)
  • It was time to confront her sister, but it wouldn't be Tita who would start the argument.†   (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)
  • Jon watched the confrontation.†   (source)
  • By Monday morning, my mood is so foul that I have the reckless courage to confront Rashmi in the breakfast line.†   (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)
  • The demon of choice confronted her then, teased her, challenged her.†   (source)
  • Before he could say a word, I confronted him.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Confronted with the spectacle of William Spiver, they had forgotten about Ulysses.†   (source)
  • I was confronted with yet another dilemma.†   (source)
  • There's no point in confronting her about it.†   (source)
  • There would be no confrontation.†   (source)
  • Karla immediately confronts Maraa Isabel.†   (source)
  • He looks at me, a nonbeliever confronted with, if not evidence, then at least the possibility of God.†   (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)
  • George had stayed after the others had filed out, and then had confronted Jack angrily.†   (source)
  • So George and Harold took Mr. Krupp down to the cafeteria to confront the evil lunch ladies.†   (source)
  • I'd snuck past him and Ashley earlier to avoid a confrontation.†   (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 thought I could keep the Ra'zac away from you and, once they had left, confront you about Saphira.†   (source)
  • I grabbed my pistol and went to confront the criminal.†   (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)
  • "Ahhh," Szpirglas said, as though confronted with a particularly stubborn child.†   (source)
  • I don't know whether it's because of the confrontation or because of the darkroom.†   (source)
  • But for all of FORCE's calculations and preparations, no one had adequately planned on the inevitable confrontation with the Ousters.†   (source)
  • Part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.†   (source)
  • Confronted by alien authority figures, Michael froze.†   (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)
  • At the top of the staircase, Seward's son Frederick confronted Bell and the stranger.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I was about to confront them when this other thing popped up.†   (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)
  • I marched back up to her room and confronted her with the evidence.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Confronted with a real war, Holman sought assistance from an unusually powerful ally.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • One eventually had to confront it.†   (source)
  • I must think how best to confront him.†   (source)
  • When she confronted him about these things, he never explained or apologized.†   (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)
  • Lord Darlington came to abhor anti-Semitism; I heard him express his disgust on several separate occasions when confronted with anti-Semitic sentiments.†   (source)
  • She specializes in helping families when one member is confronting a terminal illness.†   (source)
  • I could confront her.†   (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)
  • Confronting Ambrose required no real bravery on my part.†   (source)
  • Nathaniel is confronting his fears and thinking more rationally.†   (source)
  • I don't like confrontation.†   (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)
  • There was nothing to keep her from lunging at him, but she wanted to avoid any confrontation that would prolong the exposure.†   (source)
  • The pattern froze before it could be vocalized, confronted by the single thought: This is my son.†   (source)
  • It was at age 14 that I confronted the most severe personal problem of my life, one that almost ruined me forever.†   (source)
  • I never confront them with the question.†   (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)
  • He sat with his tray just in front of his knees, confronting his reflection in the hand mirror.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And now the question confronting me was this: What would that future be?†   (source)
  • Trust Minerva's incarnation to confront Dede with the question she herself has avoided.†   (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)
  • I have to confront him.†   (source)
  • "Don't confront Jack.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • And then I'd be forced to confront him with the question I was dreading.†   (source)
  • Part of me always wondered what my father would do if directly confronted with the truth.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • We had spent much of the seven years of our marriage avoiding confrontation.†   (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)
  • Children from poor homes often find themselves beguiled by a host of new temptations when suddenly confronted by great wealth.†   (source)
  • In school I was never confronted with drugs, surely never sought them out.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But Jordan was now in full-on confrontation mode.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Neferet nodded slightly to me, before she stood to confront Aphrodite.†   (source)
  • I tossed them to her, and then turned to confront a heavier load.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • The boy confronts the man.†   (source)
  • He had begun to imagine confronting the man and shooting him down.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, word of the confrontation had rushed around the neighborhood.†   (source)
  • On one of his visits, they confronted him about it.†   (source)
  • They left the path and crossed a field, where they were confronted by a chain-link fence.†   (source)
  • When they confronted him, he disappeared.†   (source)
  • I feared confronting him.†   (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)
  • His mother had told him which bus to take, but when he walked out to find it, he was confronted with an array of identical-looking yellow buses.†   (source)
  • It fell to Mike Strank to confront Rene's liabilities and turn this weak link into a useful integer in the chain.†   (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)
  • One day she marched around the side of the house and confronted me.†   (source)
  • But, unlike a Western woman, she didn't confront me, threaten, even pout.†   (source)
  • The island truly was an Ending of Endings, and somehow he knew that the confrontation with the Winter King would end here.†   (source)
  • I wanted to run and confront Jenks, but I knew I couldn't.†   (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)
  • His intuition told him that he would never have the courage to confront him face to face, because he was the patron.†   (source)
  • 'Maybe we're confronted with a gang, with two men working together who just happen to have opposite names.†   (source)
  • While the disagreement had nothing to do with us, the confrontation took place in our house when Madame Wang came to pick up Snow Flower and found Madame Gao eating pumpkin seeds and discussing thelogistics of Elder Sister's Delivering the Date ceremony in the main room with Baba.†   (source)
  • Maybe it was time to confront my fate, and Lena's fate.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • Why couldn't I confront him about it?†   (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)
  • Any man confronted with superior strength is weak, even if he has an athletic body like Dubcek's.†   (source)
  • "The first thing you've got to do is … is be brave and confront the issue.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He had thought Reb Saunders would confront him, not me.†   (source)
  • Jake made the snap decision to avoid a confrontation.†   (source)
  • Lucky and Jose realized that Cesar wasn't going to win this confrontation so they went out and pulled their hot-tempered coach back to the dugout.†   (source)
  • He's peaceful, even when confronting an enemy.†   (source)
  • But I had never been confronted with Skaaiat Awer until now.†   (source)
  • It is an issue which I can confront only by evading it.†   (source)
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