Word: confronter
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...startling to confront this fierce, crotchety man when you're expecting the human version of Totoro, the fat furry sprite from one of Miyazaki's best-loved movies. Miyazaki is known for his oeuvre of wildly popular, feature-length animation films that showcase a childlike vision and an imagination from which spring fantastic kingdoms, strange creatures, flying contraptions and plucky-kid heroes. But he also possesses an intellectual intensity that drives his projects and a disdain of publicity that makes him about as easy to interview as J.D. Salinger. Yes, he's weaving stories for children. But he commands...
...this, also, we must understand as we confront our enemies—that however much these Islamo-fascists hate America, they hate the Jews more. For years, this has been portrayed as a matter of mere anti-Zionism, of political opposition to Israel. Such a view is dangerously naive. The Arab press, whose excesses have long been ignored by the Western chattering classes, can be compared in its poisonous rantings only to the anti-Semitic propaganda organs of Nazi Germany. And in the fevered minds of Islamic leaders, from clerics to politicians, every hoary anti-Semitic legend seems...
...second problem the government needs to confront is that the worst failure was in counterintelligence. The ideal philosophy in counterintelligence is, "We presume there are bad guys who are out to get us and we need to figure out how to stop them." Unfortunately, that?s not evident anywhere in the intelligence community right now, except perhaps in the cyber-terrorism subsections...
...attention to the rest of the world because danger—at least until a few weeks ago—seems far away. His conclusion—always implicit—is that the United States should be more involved in foreign affairs, because world crises will confront the president whether he wants them...
...their pain: No one can live off of chickpeas forever. Elizabeth, with her cheesy music and relatively conventional wisdom, has forced her new friends to think not about what should make them happy, but what does make them happy. Perhaps her greatest influence is in forcing her brother to confront his rapidly degenerating relationship with Lena, a confrontation that climaxes with a rapid, noisy, raucous scene that is one of the film’s highlights...