In another, it is a fascinating moment in a confrontation as much a struggle for the soul of the Church of Rome as of the Church of England.
If only Mr. Steele had offered this book as a series of autobiographical object lessons - it might have been a fascinating study in self-confrontation - rather than as a prescription for the world.
Saturday's pulsating Clasico at the Bernabeu offered a series of fascinating head-to-head confrontations as Real Madrid overpowered Barcelona to claim a deserved 3-1 victory.
The life doesn't explain the art; rather, life is an art in itself — whether a creation of sublime moments and fascinating gestures, or of terrifying confrontations and mighty endurances — that is illuminated by the same inner light, inspired by the same genius, inflected by the same touch that makes the works of art endure on their own.
What follows is difficult to classify generically: it is too carefully distanced to be a melodrama, too personally specific to stand as a civil-rights allegory (an expected third-act courtroom confrontation is derailed in a fascinating way).
Whether they're banal or idiosyncratic, these spontaneous moments — confrontations, conversations, accidents, celebrations — are fascinating and full of revealing details.
"The territory in which they operate is the dividing line between sanity and madness, order and disorder, and I find that borderline and the confrontations it produces to be fascinating".
In the play's superior first half, Majumdar raises fascinating ethical questions and avoids a too obvious confrontation of good and evil.
Bellows was no abstractionist — he borrowed forms from the masters, and his techniques are a kind of homespun Impressionism — but these early paintings contain fascinating hints of the limits of painting in confrontation with the incommensurable density of modern experience.
The book's unique method of a dialectic confrontation between scholars from different countries yields fascinating discussions about famous peculiarities of the Dutch Constitution.
