Sentence examples for terrible confrontation from inspiring English sources

The stage is set for a terrible confrontation.

He says, "It's so subjective," because there was really no battle at the traffic triangle, no terrible confrontation.

The room had the air of a place that had witnessed a terrible confrontation, a battle lost.

This leads to a terrible confrontation with her mom, played by Ellen Barkin, and Aviva runs away from home for bizarre and disturbing adventures.

But his uncompromising demands have taken their toll on the children's mother, who is now in hospital, and causes a terrible confrontation with Ben's reactionary father-in-law, Jack Frank Langellaa).

This erupts into a painful confrontation of truth-telling and emotional blood-letting, which leads, more or less directly, to the terrible climax.

It's not like the debt-ceiling confrontation, where terrible things might well have happened right away if the deadline had been missed.

If you rewatch Tom Hardy's idiosyncratic turn as Bane in The Dark Knight Rises – the domineering personality, the love of violent confrontation, the terrible dress sense, the fondness of his own voice, all the bizarre "That's a lovely lovely voice" non-sequiturs – it becomes painfully apparent where the inspiration for such a monster could come from.

In recent days, Mr. Moussavi has been pushed inexorably toward a confrontation that carries terrible risks for both sides.

Second, at the very end of the story, Tolstoy insists that instead of attempting to avoid his own mortality, Ivan Ilyich at last managed to look death in the eye, and that direct confrontation destroyed the terrible fear which had until then so tormented him.

"The confrontation with the terrible notion of being part of the cause of the death of 71 people led us into helpless initial reactions, to confused and confusing information, to lapses," said the transport minister, Moritz Leuenberger, in a visit today to a memorial service in Germany.