Zipping north on Route 21, Snyder expected to encounter a bit of traffic, but nothing like what he confronted after exiting onto eastbound Route 3.
Now we can see why Jantjie's gesticulations generated such an uncanny effect once it became clear that they were meaningless: what he confronted us with was the truth about sign language translations for the deaf – it doesn't really matter if there are any deaf people among the public who need the translation; the translator is there to make us, who do not understand sign language, feel good.
As the lights fade on his forlorn, Buster Keaton-like face, we can see what he will confront in the next moment, and the next: walking into his father's home and into his future, that ruined kingdom of adulthood, with its judgments, its emotional parsimony, its occasional moments of honesty, attention, and hope.
He had no interest in creating documentaries until he confronted what he calls the "ethical dilemma" of the people of Futaba.
Seated at a table with a few basic materials — paper, pencils, paints and a lump of clay, he confronted what he called "the essential condition of every human," and gave himself permission to make whatever he wanted.
That is the problem facing Lee Scott, the giant retailer's chief executive, as he confronts what he has called "one of the most organised, most sophisticated, most expensive corporate campaigns ever launched against a single company".
As much as Proposition 13 signaled a national revolt against taxes that reverberates to this day, its actual legacy in California — not just the proposition itself, but the way Mr. Brown and the Legislature responded to it — has emerged as a major obstacle to the new governor as he confronts what is probably the worst fiscal crisis in this state's history.
In so doing, he confronts what are now labeled as proximate versus ultimate causes (and, in a long-outdated dichotomy, "nature vs. nurture").
His ability to harness and reveal vulnerability, tension, anxiety and heaviness is unbounded as he confronts both what we repress and what we reveal.
And I was in the cobbled yard of an Irish village next to Frank as he finally confronts what he knows to be his end.
