He confronts himself head on with no fancy dress and no pretentious poses or expressions.
From this he concludes that the modern search for "true reality" behind mere appearances, which has brought about the world we live in and resulted in the Atomic Revolution, has led into a situation in the sciences themselves in which man has lost the very objectivity of the natural world, so that man in his hunt for "objective reality" suddenly discovers that he always "confronts himself alone".
Despite years of meditation and spiritual training, he was confronting himself like never before.
Physically getting away from his family liberates him in at least one sense, that now he can confront himself without their implicit and explicit pressure.
As the building burns to the ground, he makes it to Cortex's airship, where he confronts Cortex himself.
And it is indeed difficult to warm to, let alone empathise with, a character who endlessly considers his own state of mind, but "parr[ies] and ducks, like an outclassed boxer" when he is forced to confront himself emotionally.And yet there are scenes of intense warmth and wit, and these stand out on the slightly bleak horizon of the novel like shafts of sunlight.
After being discharged a month later and placed in the care of his wife and children, he is forced to confront himself — lonely, dejected and, quite possibly, already dead.
As he explains in the documentary, he had not been ready to confront himself before now.
But first Kirk has to confront himself and realize he's never come to terms with his own mortality.
He confronted Cubism by becoming more aggressively and transparently himself.
