It felt nothing like 2000, when Roger Clemens threw a piece of Mike Piazza's bat at the Mets catcher during the World Series, or 2009, when Francisco Rodriguez, then the Mets' closer, confronted Brian Bruney on the field before batting practice.
One very close friend confronts you with an intervention and tries to get you to see that he's unhealthy for you; he's toxic.
Six of Kennedy's close friends confronted him in a house in Nottingham in the early hours of 21 October last year.
Schlosser comes closest to confronting this question in his brief essay on the migrant workforce in the Californian strawberry fields.
In three months' time – the courts permitting – Franco will join Trujillo and Carrero Blanco and, in doing so, enable the country to shuffle a little closer towards confronting his legacy.
Although it had an imposing curved facade, they drove up there the day of the closing and confronted what they had done.
When peace was restored, a group of his closest colleagues confronted him, accusing him of mishandling the war and failing to bring democracy to the country.
The indictments of the Gbagbos are welcome, but they don't bring the court any closer to confronting the fundamental causes of the violence that has plagued Ivory Coast — and most of sub-Saharan African — for centuries.
This obligation is clearly stated in the 1964 Public Libraries and Museums Act but has been seriously undermined by hundreds of libraries being closed or confronted with closure in the past five years, and severe cuts in opening hours and staffing.
It is that an influential and intelligent country has now heard about its wavering national identity for months; edged closer to confronting some of the issues where Muslim newcomers, Islam, and European society shear apart; and then turned back, nervously, to the noisy political safe zones where little that is meaningful gets done.
