Many of the commuters he met looked uneasy — a natural reaction, perhaps, when confronted on the subway by a smiling man in a suit with an outstretched hand.
On the main stage, Beck looks a little bewildered, as a gentleman born, raised and still resident in the sun-kissed loveliness of California is perhaps wont to be when confronted with the sight of what is officially muddiest Glastonbury ever.
It is hard, perhaps, to tout new structures when confronted with real-time atrocities in Syria and Sudan.
Perhaps reflecting the continued frustration that doctors may feel when confronted with a patient who has a pre-existing DNR order is that 55% of those in our survey considered it illogical for a patient to undergo anesthesia in the presence of a DNR order.
And even if it were prepared to think of these things, France, whether run by Mr Sarkozy or by Mr Hollande, will resist the closer political union that Germany might demand as its price.Perhaps leaders will change their minds when confronted with the dreadful prospect of a break-up; perhaps the ECB will bend the rules again rather than face extinction.
Just as a corrective – perhaps an overcorrective – to the opposite view, which I tend to flinch when confronted with: that it's all rather deep and mysterious and special and precious.
Perhaps some people have an "it's only a movie" mechanism that kicks in when confronted with horror imagery.
But we feel there should be some discussion of whether this might apply to the adult organism – perhaps even some presentation as to whether adult Jabba flies are compromised or not when confronted with bacterial pathogens, if such trials have been done.
In the big-money world of top-level soccer, the anxiety that players feel when confronted with a new person charged with determining their playing time is, perhaps more than anything else, a powerful catalyst.
Its best bits are too numerous to detail in full, but perhaps reached their apex in an analysis of why Alec so frequently resorts to vicious homophobic slurs when confronted with paparazzi.
