Sentence examples for was confronted with something from inspiring English sources

There the three-year-old was, confronted with something strange on his plate — tuna fish, perhaps, or Brussels sprouts — and he wanted to alter his food in some way that made the unfamiliar familiar.

He often cried; his stomach seized whenever he was confronted with something he was afraid of, and he was afraid of many things loud noises and crowds and dogs and busy streets and elevators and balconies and the dark and his nightmares and chaos in general and change of even the smallest sort and, most of all, his father, who, during his rare appearances at home, was a drunken and brutal man.

I still chuckled at many of the things my middle-school-self found delightful ― Elle's suggestion to Selma Blair's character to "try not to look so constipated" ― but underneath the cotton-candy-colored aesthetic, I was confronted with something more sinister.

Instead, they're confronted with something even more unfamiliar and much uglier: winning without pride.

With the Auschwitz Lego, he added, "we are confronted with something we have great affection for: Lego".

Nonetheless, a rich national tradition of libertinage has lately been confronted with something of a dilemma.

And some audiences simply don't like to be confronted with something challenging on the opera stage.

You are confronted with something physical and hopefully the art statement is a bit more nuanced and even profound.

"When you're confronted with something like this, you can't just ignore it," the official said.

On entering the museum you are confronted with something totally unexpected -- a fully functioning, remodeled vintage 1965 Chrysler New Yorker automobile.

Because we all remember the wonderment of the first time we stepped into that hall and were confronted with something that massive and alien and awe-inspiring.