Sentence examples for confronts the reader from inspiring English sources

In Kill All Enemies (Puffin) Melvin Burgess confronts the reader with uncomfortable truths.

But that is what the best historical writing does; it confronts the reader with staggering possibilities.

The First World War Memoirs of C P Blacker, edited by John Blacker (Pen and Sword Books ), an original, plain-spoken record of the First World War which confronts the reader fairly with the Siegfried Sassoon verdict on the whole affair.

This post-Benjaminic reading confronts the "reader's" notions of conclusory interpretations and challenges reactions based on normative comprehension.

Both use the convention with an intentional jolt, confronting the reader immediately with a passage of inexplicable violence.

Mr. Sorokin, one of Russia's most celebrated writers, has spent decades puncturing those expectations, typically by confronting the reader with shocking (but, I am sorry to report, unforgettable) visions of violence, cannibalism and scatology.

An assortment of disparate, subjective and sometimes inaccurate points of view confront the reader, and the reader may not safely presume that a favorite character will prevail, or even survive.

Michael Sr .confronted the referee.

Joyous fantasy and sorrow co-exist in John Burningham's books, never more so than in Granpa (now a film by the makers of The Snowman), which sets up a beautiful relationship between a little girl and her grandfather, only to confront the young reader with the unambiguous emptiness of Granpa's chair on the last page.

It's no longer wild animals, but the fears are just as real, so I make a journey with the reader, confront the horror of humanity, and deliver them safely home.

So, when Howard does finally confront the moving finger, the reader is terrified of how the outcome is going to create a loss for Howard.