Confronted on this subject after most of the guests had departed, he laughed, and threw his arms around two correspondents, and said all that was past.
Considering the number of pregnant women who visit GPs and pharmacists annually and the prevalence of antidepressant use during pregnancy (2% to 8%), doctors and pharmacists will be confronted with this subject a number of times each year.
When he did at last confront the subject - "I thought, I've got to get all this down, before I forget" - he realised that the diet of war and detention, the killings he witnessed and the ruthless Japanese guards who excited his adolescent admiration "mapped out the blueprint for most of my fiction".
Hollinghurst knew he would one day have to confront the subject, but wanted to do so on his own terms.
So as gut wrenching and difficult as it was for me at the beginning, this show is part of me being able to accept my own depression, and get other people to confront the subject".
The movie, which was written and directed by Rodrigo García and opens on May 7, focuses on three complex women who confront the subject from very different perspectives.
I had hoped that the filmmakers would confront the subject of danger as a premise for delving into the marrow of Nancy's life as it is exposed, perhaps for the first time, and as she acknowledges its deepest substance, perhaps for the first time, while confronting her first experience of existential fear.
As the generations of firsthand witnesses give way to younger generations, literary works that confront the subject have often been more circumspect; recent novels by Susanna Moore and Ayelet Waldman achieve their emotional power by focussing upon characters peripheral to the terrible European history that has nonetheless altered their lives.
However, he did eventually bring himself to confront the subject systematically, namely in his lectures on aesthetics (first given in 1819, and then again in 1825 and 1832-3).
That friendship aside, I was surprised that some people outside of my close relationships were so unwilling to confront the subject.
