Sentence examples for a direct encounter from inspiring English sources

When he was an adolescent, Sehgal says, a direct encounter with the political process disenchanted him permanently from parliamentary politics.

The sense of a powerful presence felt but not seen, made manifest but never revealed, was far more dramatic than a direct encounter with the current.

So this is a revolutionary event, a direct encounter between photography and painting, at a gallery that has always stood for the pure daub.

Tavernor concludes with a discussion of measure in our own time, when space travel presents to humankind a direct encounter with the unfathomable measure of the universe.

It was a direct encounter with the quiet magnificence of nature that was the real gold I brought back from my wanderings in Arizona and New Mexico.

Not only could he avoid a direct encounter with Johnston, but gunboats carrying troops and supplies could flank him on each river as he proceeded to Richmond.

Also, before any direct encounter with American pragmatism, he developed a manuscript on personality in the social world that stressed the pragmatic elements of the everyday social world.

Far from the disengagement with experience that Berio suggests, Feldman's music is a more direct encounter with the substance of sound than most composers have achieved.

The mood seemed to lift somewhat during the day, and a U.S. official said that after one of the group sessions, Jalili paused to chat with the chief U.S. negotiator, Wendy Sherman, marking a rare direct encounter between representatives of two nations estranged for more than three decades.

North Korea can portray the meetings domestically as evidence of its international importance, while the United States has a high-level direct encounter that it cannot officially engage in.

But making a distinction between active and passive recruitment is clearly more complex than the direct encounter of a recruiter with a potential employee [ 8, 14, 28].