Sentence examples for old confront from inspiring English sources
The new history and the old confront each other not in the form of academic debate or historiographical argument, but in the form of experience: one history is here, another there.
Gavin's stories revolve around a familiar theme — men searching for identity and meaning — but they're distinguished by his more specific concerns: how work shapes lives, and the differences in the way the young and the old confront the humbling problem of ambition and success.
When our son Samuel Andrew was born last November, I was 54 years old, confronting for the first time the duties of fatherhood.
And Windy — who exists in this world with the help of some magical realism ("It took me a month to go from being born to 30 years old") — confronts Luwanna (Kimberly Q), a wild woman in a peignoir with Lisa Simpson hair who has been entertaining Sapphire in bed.
Two men, thought to be 25 to 35 years old, confronted the guard.
The 36-year-old confronted fans and appeared to aim a kick at one supporter before being led away by his Marseilles team-mates.
The other much-mentioned image, of a young US girl with a flower (1967) shows a 17-year-old confronting a line of soldiers on an anti-war demonstration outside the Pentagon.
There are four boys who figure strongly in the action of this book, one of whom -- the boy downstairs, Seldon Wishnow -- isn't merely, like the younger Roth child, a 9-year-old confronted by too many problems but the book's most tragic figure, a trusting American kid who suffers something like the European Jewish experience.
The 28-year-old confronted the official during Monday's game against Athletic Bilbao early in the second half.
About midnight April 11, the two allegedly drove to the victim's home and, according to prosecutors, Gascon allegedly called the man asking him to come out of his house, at which point the 17-year-old confronted him.
By doing so, we gain lots of practice for living them when the challenges of old age confront us.
