The phrase "appears confronted" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where someone seems to be facing a challenge or opposition, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "In the meeting, she appears confronted by the unexpected questions from the audience."
Alternatives: "seems challenged" or "looks faced with".
At his sixth press conference since taking office in 1958, Gen. de Gaulle ranged widely over international problems and issues — and what emerged appears to confront the Kennedy administration in Washington with something of an "agonizing reappraisal" of its policies in Europe.
In his second novel, Mark T. Mustian appears to confront an enormous subject: the Turkish deportation of Armenians during World War I, when hundreds of thousands died amid a hellish march into Syria — an expulsion that has, outside Turkey, often been labeled as genocide.
Canonical quantum gravity, in its loop formulation or otherwise, has to date been of greater interest to philosophers because it appears to confront fundamental questions in a way that string theory, at least in its perturbative guise, does not — certainly, it does so more explicitly and in language more amenable to philosophers.
MB appears and confronts Samus and Madeline.
Three hours later the couple cautiously made their way to a public phone box in the street below their flat, Smith taking the precaution of arming himself with a screwdriver and a kitchen knife to defend them in the event that Brady suddenly appeared and confronted them.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office released a photo of multiple leaders appearing to confront a displeased Trump.
Hadeel al-Hashlamon, a university student, was photographed appearing to confront soldiers minutes before she was shot on Tuesday morning.
The most refreshing views of Cuba are those devoid of romance, particularly those in which the subjects appear to confront the camera.
As leading East Asian latecomer firms begin to compete on the basis of new product development and in-house research and development (R&D), they appear to confront a difficult strategic dilemma.
A high school student seen with classmates appearing to confront a Native American veteran has issued a statement saying that video footage of the incident gave the false impression that the teens were instigators in the confrontation.
