Sentence examples for intimate confrontation from inspiring English sources

The finale of the poem is divided between this intimate confrontation and the public spectacle of Hector's funeral.

Mr. Ginkas's tactics are presumably meant to bring you into a more intimate confrontation with the depths of human despair epitomized by Katerina Ivanovna's plight.

Elizabeth's sister, Bridget, is a nun who has devoted herself to looking after Aids patients in Zululand - cue intimate confrontation between humanist and religious positions.

The waterfront's thicket of shadow and mist yields to an almost unbearably intimate confrontation between the mismatched lovers, who square off in their squalid room in a set of separate closeups that relegate them to two different worlds.

Coogler, who previously directed "Creed," his 2015 reboot of the "Rocky" series, has a distinctive mode of dramatic inspiration: he catches the existential struggles of life and death in quiet moments of intimate confrontation.

A night-club scene of music and dancing goes from the general to the specific, from the event to the experience, from the public invitation to the intimate confrontation, in the space of a cut.

Ever since recovering from a mysterious lung ailment in childhood, "I have been a little bit obsessed with the way we die, and with our intimate confrontations with mortality," Roiphe wrote in an e-mail message.

Cimino catches emotion in motion, as in the whirling euphoria of a roller-skate dance and the deadly vortex of an encircling cavalry charge, yet these turbulent delights are pierced by arresting points of stillness and eloquent silences, which pack as much dramatic impact in a knowing exchange of glances across a throbbing crowd as in fierce intimate confrontations.

The same is true of the audience: that budget buys so-called production values — a manicured lighting scheme that's achieved only with a large battery of equipment and a large crew to deploy it, which gives this movie of intimate confrontations the polish of a high-budget film and enables it to compete in the market with other high-budget films.

But making "Into the Abyss," Mr. Herzog said, particularly jarred him with the difficulty of its intimate, on-camera confrontations.

De Silva [ 5] reiterates that men and young boys adopt different behaviours according to the context, whether in the presence of intimates and/or in confrontation with authority.