Holder has also chosen to engage head-on in the fight to keep the gains achieved by the Voting Rights Act.
"I think there's a realization that they need to engage head-on the need to connect with average Singaporeans, not just rationally but also at the affective level," he said.
(In truth, early and late Barthes are not so easily told apart; as Michael Wood has argued, he was throughout his career a writer who engaged head and heart at the same time).
Long renowned as the grand puppeteer who pulls the strings from afar, Murdoch, perhaps on the advice of his lawyers, portrayed himself as the otherwise engaged head of a big global corporation — a busy man who knew little about what was happening at his individual London newspapers.
Both of these factors need to be engaged head-on, and both will require a staggeringly heavy lift.
The show opened with host Chris Rock engaging head-on with the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, sparked by the lack of acting nominees of colour.
The testosterone effect was "as if they directly engaged head-to-head in a contest for dominance" and lost, one researcher told a reporter when the study was published in 2009.
These concerns chime with the work of the Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff who emphasises the centrality of metaphor and mental structures, and suggests winning the argument is about re-framing debates rather than engaging head-on.
How to weather the insurgent barrage of Mr. McCain, whose clean sweep Tuesday also included his home state of Arizona, was a matter of growing concern for the Bush campaign, which has already spent $60 million and has beaten Mr. McCain in only one fully engaged head-to-head contest, South Carolina.
As the OWS movement spreads, activists are engaging head-to-head with the law to expose its injustices and challenge its inequalities.
