The phrase "an inability to confront" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's difficulty or failure to face a particular issue or challenge.
Example: "Her constant avoidance of difficult conversations is a clear indication of an inability to confront her fears."
Alternatives: "a failure to face" or "an unwillingness to address".
Like many other people, he said, he found the EU "frustrating as hell, with bankrupt slogans and an inability to confront problems".
If today's new German playwrights aren't interested in his ambitious, political plays, it reveals their supposed theatrical revolution for what it is: an inability to confront a daunting historical legacy.
During the Vietnam War, Hannah Arendt noted that members of the Democratic Administration had frequent recourse to phrases like "monolithic communism," and "second Munich," and deduced from this an inability "to confront reality on its own terms because they had always some parallels in mind that 'helped' them to understand those terms".
Indeed, in a country where some 50percentt of first marriages end in divorce and a hefty percentage of the population has known various kinds of dysfunction, upholding a Christmas-card image of the nuclear family as the gold standard of virtue shows at best a woeful lack of compassion and an inability to confront the cultural upheavals of the last 50 years.
From Taiwan to Sudan and IPR enforcement to currency revaluation, the West has consistently demonstrated an inability to confront China on terms that either the Communist Party or the general Chinese public find persuasive.
Shepard's play, like much of his work, is not only a study of a ruinous sibling passion, but a paean to a vanishing west and an indictment of an American inability to confront reality.
Our inability to confront a simple but unacknowledged truth is equally troubling.
It is, say the complainants, a sign of both his inability to confront his actions and the church's inability to deal with him.
This inability to confront a person extended to colleagues and visitors, but others were always welcome.
But there is a deeper reason for America's inability to confront Isis successfully.
Buoyed by a resurgence of popular fundamentalism and protected by sympathetic political and military figures, he has become a striking symbol of Indonesia's inability to confront the threat from home-grown militancy.
