Word: confrontive
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...they can be, and have been in the past, kept in a state of overall equilibrium. But it is an equilibrium with an underlying paradox: by their very nature, nuclear weapons are military instruments too powerful and destructive to "solve," in any meaningful and positive sense, political problems that confront the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Yet they are also too pow erful...
Unable to keep pace with the speedy Green at midfield, the Crimson defense gave Worsley little support. Hooper, the game's high scorer, deftly dodged Harvard defenders all afternoon to confront Worsley...
...fondest childhood memories is of playing catch with my dad. Your cover story neglected to confront the problems that a child has in dealing with parents who are 30, 40 or even 50 years older than he. Had I been a "baby bloom baby," my memories would probably be of checkers rather than baseball...
...values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate the ultimate showdown-and thus lead to a gradual erosion, risking world peace as surely as a failure to face an overall challenge...
These are the three brothers of Francesco Rosi's fine, gently stated but ultimately very moving film. Summoned home for the funeral of their mother, they must confront one another, the past from which they were once so eager to escape and, above all, the example of their father (played by the great French octogenarian, Charles Vanel). The old man exemplifies not just a different "life-style" but an entirely different, and doubtless doomed, way of being. Slowed, but not bowed, by age and grief, he is a farmer whose rhythms have been set by the wheel...