But it is clear that no thinking whose primary focus was on an openness toward the world, and a confrontation with one's mortality, afforded the means necessary for grasping the hidden meaning of consciousness, which begins in the double constitution of the subject by life and by the encounter with the Other.
On another level, India serves not as background but as protagonist, the force that causes events to unfold and propels each of Ms. Payne's characters into confrontations, not with mysticism, but with one another.
If confrontation with one's own voyeurism is discomfiting, do not blame Mr. Durang.
His lawman here is Brendan Gleeson, playing Father James Lavelle, an embattled priest facing a high-noon confrontation with one of his flock.
And although no flareups or meltdowns proceed from the intemperate consumption of rotgut in red Solo cups, it does happen, in the new season, that a twenty-six-year-old woman, seven beers into her evening, initiates a confrontation with one of her male roommates.
It is awful because it involves direct confrontation with one's own extinction.
A particularly jarring scene from our upcoming documentary— Age of Consent features Justin Payne, the subject of the film, in the midst of a confrontation with one of his targets.
Gingrich, the recently embattled, always controversial and irascible former speaker of the House from Georgia, had just watched a massive crowd inside the convention center respond to him with a passionate standing ovation after his confrontation with one of the debate's moderators.
In some cases, our desire to take a moment in the coffee room or stop for a mid-morning water cooler conversation can result in a face-to-face confrontation with one or more of these characters: The Weasel, The Jerk, The Climber, The Gossip or the Lone Wolf.
But it was in confrontation with this one that I was offered this series of understandings.
