"For myself, I was but seldom inspired to peals of true laughter, though I did relish that part when Mr. Black, confronting a fire raging in the Palace of Lilliput, douses the blaze through heroic use of such means as Nature has provided him," A. O. Scott, channeling Swift, wrote in The New York Times.
For myself, I was but seldom inspired to peals of true laughter, though I did relish that part when Mr. Black, confronting a fire raging in the Palace of Lilliput, douses the blaze through heroic use of such means as Nature has provided him.
The players stepped out at Wembley with all the joie de vivre of men confronting a firing squad.
I'll wager that if you'd asked the same group how many people had confronted a dangerous fire, the number would have been very few to none.
"Right at this moment, residents in the Adelaide Hills are being confronted by a fire which hasn't been seen in the hills since the 1983 bushfires of Ash Wednesday," South Australia fire chief Greg Nettleton said on Saturday.
But now he has begun to confront a series of policy choices that have provoked some political fire.
But "Wide-Awake Jake" still seems fresh as Jake confronts a menacing lion, a fire-breathing dragon and a sneezing giant, all easily vanquished.
To fight a fire means confronting a toxic soup of burning chemicals and their byproducts, including dioxins, furans and formaldehyde.
Monday's lawsuit alleges that the decision by officers to confront and fire at the teenagers was based on their race.
Confronting enemy fire atop a plateau accessible only by climbing a sheer rock face, he searches for wounded survivors and lowers them, single-handedly, by means of ropes and knots of his own devising, to an Army base below.
