All 4 Uses of
confront
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- No man who has passed a month in the death cells believes in capital punishment No man who has passed a month in the death cells believes in cages for beasts And so, confronting her face to face, finding that the leftward veer of her chin, the way she held her glass, stood with one strong foot thrown forward, weight squared and balanced like a fencing master's—finding that above all the music in her voice, however deadly to a man armed only with a shield of wood—rekindled the past more violently than Batavia's streets or the stink of its water or the hellish heat that lay on it in August like a dying beast—he had been shocked to a sudden pain of love or anguish or something between, a vacuum†
Chpt 5
- She was frightened, half-convinced she was confronting some monstrous apparition.†
Chpt 11 *
- She was, at any rate, no sneaking pleasure thief: she made no bones about it, confronted the world with as much boldness as her lover of the moment allowed her.†
Chpt 12
- His stomach closed as if what he confronted were not a man but an upright crocodile.†
Chpt 18
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