All too often when a singer confronts matters of the darkest heart – or in this case, a broken heart – they dress their songs in ambiguous poetry, the better to distance themselves, perhaps, from any lingering pain, and also to keep the private private.
Occupy Our Homes, on the other hand, confronts the system with its failures – predatory lending, homelessness, and empty bank-owned houses.
In a later scene in this episode, when Barksdale's sister, Brianna, confronts them both, Avon seems more explicably upset and conflicted, brooding, failing to make eye contact, taking his anger out on his sister instead of String.
However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
It is not the story of Everyman, who on the road to death and judgment confronts the forces that have shaped his life: family, friends, material possessions, knowledge, beauty, strength, and comes to see that goodness is what should predominate.
At a future conference – 2013 perhaps – there will be serious trouble for the leadership when the party confronts this difficult fact.
In a subtle way, not to be exaggerated but significant nevertheless, it confronts the nationalists with some of the realities of union which, safe in Scotland, they could caricature or even ignore.
Knausgaard, feeling trapped by young children, bravely confronts the enemy and then recruits it to the cause of what Connolly called "good art".
In one of its best scenes, his wife Coretta Carmen Ejogoo) confronts him about his frequent extramarital affairs.
Jon Cruddas Sitting amid piles of policy papers and pamphlets, many of which were never adopted (to his intense frustration), the MP for Dagenham speaks of an existential threat to Labour unless it confronts the scale of its failure.
Mikhail Bakhtin, in his landmark study of the French poet Rabelais, describes the grotesque as an aesthetic which constantly confronts us with the primary needs of the body – the body as an instrument for eating, drinking, urinating, defecating, reproducing at the most animal of levels.
