MILAN — Sweet almond blossom, appliquéd over dresses and wrapped in the hair, confronted the cold, hard, round, gold coins.
Like newspapers, portals like AOL and Yahoo are confronting the cold fact that there is less general interest in general interest news.
The Nationals were able to salvage the final game of the three-game series, and for a team in dire straits — outfielder Denard Span confronted the cold reality that the team was "running out of time" — it was a boost.
At one point, with Fulham trailing 2-0 at Eastlands and Birmingham and Bolton leading elsewhere, Hodgson was confronting the cold reality of relegation for the first time in 32 years of management.
But there is a difference between knowing it exists in the abstract and confronting the cold, blunt accounting — seeing the cars and tuition it buys, realizing the land that was seized to pay for it, and working out how those funds might have been used for better health care or education.
But there is a difference between knowing it exists in the abstract and confronting the cold, blunt accounting seeing the cars and tuition it buys, realizing the land that was seized to pay for it, and working out how those funds might have been used for better health care or education.
According to Kennan, when American policymakers suddenly confronted the Cold War, they had inherited little more than rationale and rhetoric "utopian in expectations, legalistic in concept, moralistic in [the] demand it seemed to place on others, and self-righteous in the degree of high-mindedness and rectitude ... to ourselves".
Suddenly and abruptly, you are now forced to confront the new, cold reality.
To experience such moments one has to be pushed out of one's comfort zone, challenged, forced to confront the stone-cold reality that education is not meant to teach you what you already know.
