It is they that need to be confronted head on, and they cannot be confronted by pretending that they are the aberrant manifestation of an isolated fringe.
He is asking his father: "Daddy, will we ever have a safe space?" It's a succinct, witty point about privilege and victimhood that also taps into what has become a popularly held view: that universities are now mollycoddling hothouses full of delicate special snowflakes who cannot be confronted with a contradictory opinion without being "triggered".
What's more, as the only superpower, America cannot be confronted successfully.
But most specialists on counterterrorism and counterinsurgency, inside and outside the government, say terrorism cannot be confronted from a comfortable distance, such as by airstrikes or proxy forces alone.
Incidence rates cannot be confronted to proportions of MDRO within each species, because the first relate mostly on carriage while the latters are only based on clinical samples.
Then, the archetypes begin to function, as happens, also, in the lives of individuals when they are confronted with situations that cannot be dealt with in any of the familiar ways.
That painful pattern suggests that America's next president will be confronted by military and humanitarian crises in Africa that cannot be solved with foreign trips or inspiring speeches -- and quite possibly cannot be solved at all.
What's terrifying in a story by Stephen King or Peter Straub is, finally, nothing less than the sensation of pure helplessness, of confronting something that cannot be conquered — or regulated, or even understood — by reason alone.
Focusing on the post-disaster reconstruction of Constitución, a Chilean costal city severely damaged by the 2010 tsunami, we argue that environmental management theory has not fully recognised that, sometimes, we humans confront excessive forces that cannot be diplomatically managed or assumed as manageable objects that will readily accept our invitation to compose a common world.
