Sentence examples for confronting ideas from inspiring English sources

I think that what happened is that people got too far away from the data, and confronting ideas with data.

"Education should be about confronting ideas you find really objectionable, figuring out why it is you find them objectionable, fashioning a reasoned argument against them, confronting the person you disagree with and trying to change their mind, being open to them changing your mind.

"Universities cannot be viewed as a sanctuary for comfort but rather as a crucible for confronting ideas," writes president Robert J. Zimmer.

That is important because across the book we can see how Afro-Cubans and African Americans many times had confronting ideas about shared political and cultural projects, and even categories such as race, gender and nation.

In recent years, writers such as Sheila Heti, Leslie Jamison, and Lena Dunham have published books and essays that confront ideas of self-surveillance, self-loathing, and self-respect with humor, sadness, and detailed descriptions of bodily functions, asking their readers to consider the boundaries that get placed around representations of women.

For, they would argue, we can only confront ideas through the language in which they are expressed.

We work together as a team, we are not afraid to confront ideas in positive but also challenging ways.

By being fearless in her sexual identity, she perverted the mainstream and caused millions of people to confront ideas surrounding gender, religion, and personal agency.

By mapping the journey and the time scale of the exchanges of these objects online, the collective intends to "confront ideas held around the possibilities for change, the scope of, and thus our understanding and interpretations of, our networks and territory".

But collaboration in shipping faces some of the same barriers confronting most ideas that challenge convention: inertia, tradition and risk aversion.

Thomas Quinn for The Big Issue opined that the removal of the cemetery as a whole could be construed as Miller asking "whether we should sweep away the past in the name of progress" or if we should be "confronting set ideas about what makes us human in the first place".