Weir shoots subsequent scenes as if characters are engaged in psychological confrontation with their surroundings; the rocks framed in ominous ways, like monoliths from another world.
For Philip's prime minister, the duke of Lerma, Rubens painted his first major equestrian portrait (1603), which took the Venetian tradition of Titian and Tintoretto a giant step forward in the conveyance of physical power and psychological confrontation.
H. G. Wells was haunted by its adumbrations of an inescapable doom, and his masterpiece, "The Time Machine," can be viewed as a psychological confrontation with impossibly remote but still potent fears.
"In a way, Sharon is leading the United States into a psychological confrontation with the Arab world at the moment in time when the United States is considering a military attack on Iraq," said Abdel Raouf el-Reedy, a close Mubarak friend and former Egyptian ambassador to Washington.
What we are left with is a series of emotional, psychological and dialectical confrontations, unremitting in their force simply because there is no extraneous directorial or design concept behind which the characters can hide.
Ms. Houston's 2009 interview with Ms. Winfrey portrayed it as a passionate and then turbulent marriage, marred by drug use and by his professional jealousy, psychological abuse and physical confrontations.
To assure psychological support during potential stressful confrontations with palliative patients one psychologist trained in psycho-oncology was introduced prior to the commencement of the intervention and offered immediate help to the participants by phone during the whole study.
Instead, workmanlike exposition, confrontation and flat psychological revelations rule the stage version — including the flashback framing device of the memories of Miss Brodie's smartest pupil, who has grown up to become a nun and best-selling author (played by Caroline Lagerfelt), who recalls her childhood when she is interviewed by an American reporter (Matthew Rauch).
They created an ever-inflating social, psychological and historical context for this confrontation until the dispute legitimately assumed epic proportions.
