For adults to pause and reflect upon the costs of war, they sometimes require confrontation with a child's suffering.
As the photos at the Historical Society demonstrate, seeing 9/11 as an unjustified attack has always caused discomfort; it would require confrontation and combat.
Citing the example of 19th-century abolitionists who urged an end to slavery, Professor Bell said he believed that reform usually required confrontation, pain and sacrifice.
"Sometimes that means that the best way to get to that North Star is working with the other party and looking for compromise, and other times it's going to require confrontation".
Mr. Obama, finally comfortable with the fact that debates require confrontation, replied sharply: "When I went to Israel as a candidate, I didn't take donors, I didn't attend fund-raisers, I went to Yad Vashem, the — the Holocaust museum there, to remind myself the — the nature of evil and why our bond with Israel will be unbreakable".
Similarly, Ed Bullins opted for a black-oriented realism, because black lifestyle, experience, and resistance required confrontation with the reality of oppression through showing anger and rage on stage.
As Armour suggests, "working from the recognition of a primordial maternal sacrifice (rather than belief in a transcendent Father God) requires confrontation with pain and loss, not compensation for them" (Armour 2002, 223).
Changing the way someone thinks or acts requires confrontation.
Are we seeing a true shift in the Obama presidency where he revises his theory of change and discovers that political progress sometimes requires confrontation before you reach consensus?
Paul Moore, public editor of The Baltimore Sun, said most readers complain about what they perceived as bias, which was a difficult allegation to disprove and could require confrontations with reporters.
As he saw it, "[f]or good or bad, the Sixth Amendment requires confrontation --which he understood to mean faconfrontation --whichion--"and we are not at liberty to ignore it".
