At this grave hour we raise our fervent prayers to Our Lord Jesus Christ that He, through the intercessions of his most pure Mother, should protect from confrontation the fraternal peoples of Russia and Ukraine.In response, Patriarch Kirill declared that he would indeed do everything in his power to prevent civilian deaths in "a land so dear to my heart".
They see this campaign as a poetic confrontation between good (themselves) and pure evil (Karl Rove and his group, American Crossroads).
Paw Paw, a pure act of imagination, reveals, in its empathy, regret, tenderness, and confrontation with death, July's own grandeur, polyphony, mordant wit, metaphysical seriousness, and bitter wisdom — and her definition of art in those very terms.
The alternative, in my opinion, is pure "balance of power" politics -- and highly symbolic, but risky, legal confrontations.
Here's a clip of the confrontation and arrest: "[A police officer] gave me a look of pure hate," Wolf wrote.
No, what makes Fight Club so great is the way it transforms these themes into thrilling, pure cinema, and I don't think there's any better example than that first confrontation between Brad Pitt and Edward Norton in the car park behind the bar.
It was pure baseball theater, filled with tension, laced with irony and embellished by the kind of endgame confrontation Franco had relished for so many years before Benitez took his job.
They are caught in something that is not action so much as a sequence of confrontations, in which their power effects nothing but to grind each other down, in a pure conflict of egos, diamond-cut-diamond.
Confrontation is inevitable".
"He wants that confrontation.
