All 13 Uses of
confront
in
After the First Death
- Artkin could do that to people, intimidate them, draw them into conversations they did not want to be drawn into, force them into confrontations.†
Part 2
- His brother had died at seventeen, in the Detroit confrontation.†
Part 2confrontation = an argument or a hostile situation
- Men's faces paled when they confronted him in the mask, men many years older and* much bigger and stronger.†
Part 2
- He had the feeling that he must be doing something dishonorable if the operations and confrontations had to be carried out with faces hidden.†
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- Escaping from that face, she opened her eyes to confront the two strangers before her.†
Part 2
- The post office explosion in Brooklyn, the confrontation in Detroit.†
Part 4confrontation = an argument or a hostile situation
- In confrontation.†
Part 5
- Explosions and assassinations and confrontations cannot buy us back our homeland.†
Part 6
- And the usual vocabulary of intimidation to be used in robberies, confrontations: pigs, war, up with your hands, we will kill, die...Miro discovered that lie had a talent for language, and a teacher who had lived in Brooklyn many years before (Miro felt a kind of regret when later they had blown up the post office there) had encouraged him and brought him books and gave him special instructions.†
Part 6
- The important thing right now is finding you and confronting you face to face.†
Part 7
- His eyes were agonized as he confronted Artkin.†
Part 8
- He had ignored her until this moment of confrontation.
Part 8 *confrontation = an argument or a hostile situation
- She thrust herself to her feet, stood to confront Artkin.†
Part 8
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