There are many different situations that induce anxiety, and it's helpful to pinpoint exactly what might be making you anxious and take steps to confront it.
I'm now an English professor at Harvard, and in recent years some of my students have seemed acutely anxious when they are asked to confront the crueller strains of our cultural legacy.
The deeper problem is that in framing the debate like this, the parties and the media fail to confront (or make anxious voters confront) the truth that immigration is the symptom rather than the cause.
Gilbert doesn't tell a very consistent story about herself; she writes that she was a very anxious child whose parents forced her to confront her fears – "Scared of the ocean?
But, Dr. Landrigan said: "Because pediatricians and others are so anxious to promote breast-feeding, they've been reluctant to confront the fact that breast milk is not as good as it could be and as it used to be.
Kirk, on the brink of retirement, failed to take charge, in effect leaving his deputy to confront a divided faculty, an exorcised student body and an anxious board of trustees.
But by bombarding users with distorted and deracinated images, the Internet instead just forces us to confront increasingly bizarre minispectacles, often right when we're most vulnerable — alone, anxious, looking for answers.
Backstage, anxious Clinton staffers were watching on a monitor, waiting for her to address the tape — and to confront Trump.
The socialist candidate seems to have caught the mood of a nation more anxious than most about globalization, torn between universalism and provincialism, plagued with economic frailties that no government has been brave enough to confront.
