Sentence examples for to be confronted by something from inspiring English sources

To be confronted by something that happens to you like that is always good".

That would be brilliant, all these people queuing up to see this legendary fearsome reptile, only to be confronted by something that resembles what you'd get if the accident that created the Incredible Hulk had happened to a parrot.

In these conservative times, it's refreshing to be confronted by something that asks so many questions – about sexuality, beauty, music and performance – and for all his avant-garde originality, Arca is an entertainer.

"I don't want to be confronted by my future grandchild and [have] them say: 'Why didn't you do something?'.

The research strategy and the data have to be confronted by pattern-matching.

Even with this foreknowledge, it's hard not to feel a stab of resentment as you're confronted by something as sentimentally sucker-punching as Before I Die.

He was confronted by something fleshy, repulsive, and pixelated.

Despite an improving global economy, Joe Hockey is spending money in a manner that suggests the Australian economy is being confronted by something as severe as the 2008-2010 global financial crisis.

At Metro the visitor is confronted by something completely different: an example of an artist making much out of very little, committing acts of ingenious recycling in which existing materials and artistic thought are brought into an unusual kind of mutually enhancing alignment.

Up ahead they anticipated a target-rich cavalry environment, in which Wellington's retreating army would be dealt the coup de grâce, but as they breasted the ridge and entered the reverse slope plateau, they were confronted by something totally unexpected: a chequerboard configuration of infantry squares".

"Once people are confronted by something they don't understand, the first instinct is fear and an obvious backlash," he says.