All 4 Uses of
confront
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- And yet all these questions were not new ones suddenly confronting him, they were old familiar aches.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- He found himself confronted with many new and unlooked-for perplexities.†
Chpt 3.2
- He was still confronted by the question, how could she have remained so long in that position without going out of her mind, since she could not bring herself to jump into the water?†
Chpt 4.4
- If I confront you with that workman for instance and you say to him 'were you drunk or not?†
Chpt 6.2
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