All 7 Uses of
confront
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd.†
Chpt 2.3 *
- To be confronted with such pity, and such earnest youth and beauty, was far more trying to the accused than to be confronted with all the crowd.†
Chpt 2.3
- He had never heard a sound so sweet and dear as the sound of her compassionate voice; he had never seen a face so tenderly beautiful, as hers when it was confronted with his own on the edge of the grave that had been dug for him.†
Chpt 2.10
- When he had sat in his saddle some half-hour, taking note of these things, Darnay found himself confronted by the same man in authority, who directed the guard to open the barrier.†
Chpt 3.1
- Doctor Manette, whom this visitation had so turned into stone, that he stood with the lamp in his hand, as if be woe a statue made to hold it, moved after these words were spoken, put the lamp down, and confronting the speaker, and taking him, not ungently, by the loose front of his red woollen shirt, said: "You know him, you have said.†
Chpt 3.7
- Giving this citizen, too, good night, as he confronted him at his counter, he laid the scrap of paper before him.†
Chpt 3.9
- The two opposing kinds of pride confronting one another, I can see, even in this Bastille; the gentleman's, all negligent indifference; the peasants, all trodden-down sentiment, and passionate revenge.†
Chpt 3.10
Definition:
to deal directly with an unpleasant situation or person
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence
or:
to challenge someone -- often by presenting evidence