My anxious bureaucratic face clashed horribly with what I was wearing, and I looked exactly like what I was: a forty-something civil servant on vacation, trying to pretend he's young".
When the colour of the onscreen face clashed with the colour that appeared in her mind's eye, she reacted slowly, as if trying to read traffic lights through tinted glasses.
The face-to-face clashes can give useful vitality to democratic politics, and Ed Miliband's calm against David Cameron's nasty apoplexy is very effective.
In Nanterre, youths with hoods and scarves to hide their faces clashed with riot police officers near a high school that was the site of earlier violence, and in Lyon protesters looted stores and fought with the police, sometimes setting fire to cars.
The final face-to-face clash between the two fierce White House rivals granted an unexpected 15 minutes of fame to Joe Wurzelbacher.
Intelligence agencies operate under a system of political clearance, and it is the responsibility of government ministers to decide what the scope of that cooperation should be in the face of clashes of interest or clashes of legality.
A policeman died after being shot in the face during clashes with protesters who were marking the 34th anniversary of the military coup that brought the dictator Augusto Pinochet to power.
Spanish indignado demonstrators who take to the streets to mark their first anniversary this weekend face potential clashes with police as a new conservative government launches a crackdown on public protest.
Brian McLaughlin's men now face crunch clashes at home to Leicester and away to Clermont.
