Sentence examples for in confronting us from inspiring English sources

In confronting us in this way, the film requires us to examine our own--collective, cultural--consciences, knowing that it has been practiced all too recently in our names.

That "suppose" turns testimony into art, and invites us in instead of confronting us.

"For almost 50 years, the works of Mark Di Suvero have stopped us in our tracks, confronting us with audacious colors and shapes and mesmerizing us with subtle energy and intricate proportion," said Teresa Heinz Kerry, above, the chairwoman of the foundation.

And the more we improve on each of these things...the more likely we will be able to solve the real problems confronting us in business and in policy, particularly our violent culture...and hopefully the healthier and stronger our nation will be.

"People tore down fliers [that announced meetings] and defaced them.... Male graduate students were confronting us in the hallway," Gómez recalls.

Think hard about the level of ignorance that is confronting us in this election.

This brings us to our second question: What is the biggest challenge confronting us in the War on Poverty today?

But if that option is killed in gestation, then we're back to Square 1 and there's little hope of progress in solving the vast challenges confronting us.

It was drafted in circumstances similar to those confronting us today: namely, the fear that recalcitrant members of Congress might repudiate our obligations in order to get their way.

As the catastrophe in Darfur confronts us with the limitations of our power, the idea of a common international humanity appears as remote as ever.

A second autopsy in Italy "confronted us with something inhuman, something animal," Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfa has said without elaborating further.