Sentence examples for confronting characters from inspiring English sources

When confronting characters that the participants admitted to envying, brain regions involved in registering physical pain were aroused: the higher the subjects rated their envy, the more vigorously flared the pain nodes in the brain's dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and related areas.

But Boris Strugatsky was celebrated less for his social criticism than for confronting his characters with philosophical quandaries that had no apparent answer.

For a scientifically trained writer whose optimism about technology seemed boundless, Mr. Clarke delighted in confronting his characters with obstacles they could not overcome without help from forces beyond their comprehension.

"One character confronts another character, but he's scared of her, and he perceives himself to be in jeopardy.

The mirror images of characters confronting one another echo "Persona," while the couple's erupting domestic battles recall "Scenes From a Marriage".

The mirror images of characters confronting one another echo "Persona," while the couple's domestic battles recall "Scenes From a Marriage".

The problems that confront the characters could easily be transferred "to England, to America.

She also quotes Ian McEwan, who said that after the terrorist attacks of September 11th he found it "wearisome to confront invented characters".

The theme of imprisonment runs through the collection, and Thomas Bernhard forces us to confront his characters' sense of confinement with dizzying, claustrophobic whirls of syntax.

In The Four Books, Yan confronts his characters with brutality, but also immerses them in religion and myth, and not just of the Chinese variety.

Brought up in Hackney, schooled in Canning Town, Elba certainly witnessed some of the challenges of the street that confront the characters in The Wire, but you get the impression he rarely faced them himself.