Sentence examples for being confronted by something from inspiring English sources
Despite an improving global economy, Joe Hockey is spending money in a manner that suggests the Australian economy is being confronted by something as severe as the 2008-2010 global financial crisis.
Was the advice based on flawed financial calculations or were they venting about being confronted by something they feel is unattainable?
He was confronted by something fleshy, repulsive, and pixelated.
To be confronted by something that happens to you like that is always good".
Even with this foreknowledge, it's hard not to feel a stab of resentment as you're confronted by something as sentimentally sucker-punching as Before I Die.
In these conservative times, it's refreshing to be confronted by something that asks so many questions – about sexuality, beauty, music and performance – and for all his avant-garde originality, Arca is an entertainer.
That would be brilliant, all these people queuing up to see this legendary fearsome reptile, only to be confronted by something that resembles what you'd get if the accident that created the Incredible Hulk had happened to a parrot.
At Metro the visitor is confronted by something completely different: an example of an artist making much out of very little, committing acts of ingenious recycling in which existing materials and artistic thought are brought into an unusual kind of mutually enhancing alignment.
Up ahead they anticipated a target-rich cavalry environment, in which Wellington's retreating army would be dealt the coup de grâce, but as they breasted the ridge and entered the reverse slope plateau, they were confronted by something totally unexpected: a chequerboard configuration of infantry squares".
"Once people are confronted by something they don't understand, the first instinct is fear and an obvious backlash," he says.
May 2011: Along with many other Nottingham Forest fans, once again I'm confronted by something that, by rights, should terrify me to my core: the play-offs.
