Immigrants, dreaming of a new Eden but encountering instead the realities of unpredictable native peoples, a fierce climate, unfamiliar wildlife, and physical and cultural deprivation, were the subject of prose sketches by the Strickland sisters, Susanna Strickland Moodie and Catherine Parr Strickland Traill.
Dreaming of the young Britt Ekland but encountering instead yellowing editions of Herbert Marcuse and fabric knit into Rorschach patterns by the Conceptualist Rosemarie Trockel, they retreated, forlorn, into the gray autumn.
Thus, when resistance to national objectives is encountered, instead of dealing with them pragmatically the resistance is seen as a test of will.
What I encountered instead was an artist at the absolute top of his game -- and it is an astonishing game.
What a surprise to encounter instead a textbooklike review of the subject -- well written, but not the kind of book to curl up with.
Where you might expect to see a security guard by the main rotunda entrance, you encounter instead Marc Quinn's "Self," nine pints of his blood frozen into a cast of his head and encased in a gently humming refrigerated case.
The theory of resistant spectatorship posits that individuals interacting with media and information may have the agency or power to oppose, reject, or reassemble the message they encounter instead of passively accepting it.
Online dating site OkCupid is presenting Firefox visitors with something other than the standard home page you'd normally encounter – instead, there's a lengthy message apologizing for the interruption and explaining that OkCupid opposes the political views of Mozilla's new CEO Brendan Eich, who made donations to a campaign in support of California's anti-LGBT Proposition 8 campaign.
Obama's executive order requires American institutions to seize Iranian state assets they encounter instead of just turning them back.
He said he expected to smell human waste, but instead encountered the light chemical odor.
She had expected to be a full-fledged member of an intellectual community, as she had been in the Christian Federation, but instead encountered male chauvinism typical of the times.
