She confronts not a thing or body part but a person, another embodied consciousness and its realm of meaning.
His thumb-slapping electric bass technique is the first and last thing that confronts a listener on "Renaissance," framing the album as an object lesson in the temptations of virtuosity.
And a remarkable poem, "Personal Essay," confronts a creative crisis in which things, emptied of "pathetic, clinging analogies," symbolize, allegorize, and "embody nothing but themselves".
Addressing why the New Zealand media is reluctant to take on the story of the subjugation of an entire people, happening so close to home, he says, means confronting an "uncomfortable thing".
It would be harder to confront a friend about things like cleanliness, or the lack thereof, she said.
When you're putting away these square, dog-eared, popcorn-butter-stained things, you're confronting an entire cosmos of collective memory.
Marker agrees that confronting the thing that frightens you is a helpful tactic.
Confronting such things as a blackly humorous skull mask, made from a real skull, we know exactly where we stand with the Aztecs: aghast.
It's a hell of a thing to confront all of these problems at once, but that's what John Raidt did in a wide-ranging report for the centrist think tank the Atlantic Council.
"His art confronts us with things we think we already know - inviting us to look at them afresh.
