That entry into other worlds and minds does give us a larger context for thinking about how to live and how to confront and understand present personal and historic issues, even while also giving us pleasure for its own sake.
While Governor Scott has shrugged off climate change, South Florida's leaders understand that confronting climate change is not about politics.
However, it's easy to understand that, confronting such a complex immunosuppressive microenvironment, strategies targeting one or two inhibitory signals have only limited effects on therapeutic efficacy.
This is the impetus behind all great works of art: to understand, to confront, to overcome and to transcend.
We have to understand and confront it, or we will abandon this terrain to the forces of the right.
Amid the horror and adrenaline of the next hours, I felt grateful that he was too small to understand or confront what was happening in real time.
The novel gestures at political and historical concerns, but the bulk of the narrative is focussed on the protagonist's attempts to understand and confront the figures who have apparently funded her peripatetic life.
If "Justice" breaks no new philosophical ground, it succeeds at something perhaps no less important: in terms we can all understand, it confronts us with the concepts that lurk, so often unacknowledged, beneath our conflicts.
This was based, I assume, on our common intellectual interest and our talks over the years about the need to understand and confront some of the evil ideologies – such as antisemitism and Islamism – that have become so modish this century.
It's important to say which areas of law you're interested in, though it's fine for students to be undecided "as long as they understand what confronts them".
Miliband will claim mental health is not just an issue for the health service, saying it means bringing together everyone in Britain to acknowledge, understand and confront this national challenge.
