Sentence examples for ways of facing from inspiring English sources

The identification of beauty as the ideal condition of a woman is, if anything, more powerful than ever, although today's hugely complex fashion-and- photography system sponsors norms of beauty that are far less provincial, more diverse, and favour brazen rather than demure ways of facing the camera.

Each culture has its own repertoire of acceptable ways of facing death, and in our culture, it seems more acceptable to "rage against the dying of the light" and fight to the bitter end than to take stock of what your life has been about and to be at peace with your coming death.

The analysis performed at baseline, prior to the intervention, showed a high frequency of immature defenses in all three groups: this implies less functional and adaptive ways of facing everyday situations and a low acceptance of reality.

In contrast, the new approach adopted in this explorative study arose from the belief that a reintegration of personal satisfaction cannot be obtained only from reducing symptoms or improving quality of life, but requires the development of more functional and mature ways of facing reality and its stressful situations, such as severe illness.

But the talking quickly became my way of facing my own choice.

It was a way of facing down trouble, not being taken by surprise.

But it's one way of facing the encroaching years and making the most of what's left.

Eno's joking seems to me a great act of courage: a way of facing lostness and learning to live with it.

That doesn't mean that the song is not a way of facing into death, but it also doesn't mean that it is.

Oswald, whose work has often been striking but verbose, has found a quiet way of facing death, a way as moving as the bulletin boards of the missing after 9/11.

A watch abstracted to an object with no dial or hands or inner complications is Husam El Odeh's way of facing the reality of the modern world, where a new generation uses mobile devices to tell the time.