Word: confronter
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...sole justification for our existence as artists," he once wrote, "superfluous and egotistic as we are, is to confront people with the image of their destiny." But first, where to find a visual language commensurate with the horrors seen and the ones to come? Even before the war, the Cubism of Picasso and Braque had been of little interest to him. But by 1914 Beckmann was a medical orderly in the trenches of Flanders. The Belgian front, where he suffered a severe nervous breakdown, would show him fractured form with a vengeance. Especially after the raw meat and blasted earth...
...early-morning cool gave way to temperatures that would rise above 100º, Saddam Hussein's half brother sat calmly in a pale blue safari suit and sandals waiting to confront his American cross-examiner. Since his capture on April 17, Barzan Tikriti had been through weeks of questioning on military and security issues at an interrogation center near Baghdad airport. Now it was time to talk money. A special interrogator had been flown in from the U.S. to take up the matter of Saddam's hidden wealth with the man long regarded as the dictator's financial mastermind. What...
...concept of tolerance--which was based on an aversion to tyranny, a fealty to free expression, a willingness to compromise, the morality of respecting other individuals and even a bit of humor and humility--is what most distinguishes America and its like-minded allies in the messy struggles that confront a new century...
...core, the elevator is one of few social spaces where workers must confront one another—no matter how much they try to avoid it. Most would prefer a world where interaction is conducted exclusively over AOL Instant Messenger, an addiction easily concealed by computer screens and cubicles. Face-to-face meetings have become conference calls; voice-to-voice phone calls are all too often abandoned for impersonal e-mails. And before you know it, for many workers, the hours from nine to five are most often spent practically alone. The take-out services from gourmet cafes have literally...
...power plant), it was the first to see its underground reserves begin depleting, after registering a significant drop in steam pressure output. A closer study revealed that underground liquid reserves had fallen by 30% from the maximum levels of the 1950s. "We began reaching the boundaries and had to confront the problem of sustainability for the first time," Cappetti explains...