At times, then, we seem confronted with a stark choice between neoliberal multiculturalism – inclusion without solidarity – and welfare chauvinism – solidarity without inclusion.
Being shown reasons against your own reasons may seem confronting but it's important to allow yourself to face her opposite reasoning rather than remaining ignorant or stubborn.
It may seem confronting but it is in facing your fears and unresolved issues that you can start to better understand your worldview and get to the heart of why you might have a tendency to see everything as a challenge.
Hamlet's character and inability to act has been discussed endlessly -- and Shakespeare's irony in this line is powerful, in that Hamlet kills three people -- Polonius, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern -- though he cannot seem to confront, face to face, the man who he believes has murdered his father.
He also faced impossible expectations among Houston fans and a challenge that seems to confront artists more often than athletes.
He does it on several occasions, seems to confront my questions head on but then answers another question entirely.
They peer at the mist, and the mist seems to confront them in turn, though no one grasps its brooding, pulsing aliveness.
Mr. Gober has not spoken of this before, but his art often seems to confront the cruelty of childhood's end.
Pacino shrewdly conveys Axler's dismayed sense that every time he gets up in the morning he seems to confront something so potentially upsetting and ridiculous he has no option but to retreat further into a haze of Alzheimery blankness and amused bohemian dismissal.
The problem that seems to confront any such strategy is that of making the proposed alternative a genuine one, i.e., of construing the relevant tropes in such a way that they do not simply collapse into, or ontologically depend on, entities of the relatively rich form that Socrates is wise.
