Confrontal

Traces of Caledonian intrenchments and hill-forts occur so numerously for miles in the neighbourhood, and in such positions of confrontal to Ardoch, as to indicate that the Roman forces made a stiff and prolonged lodgment here, and met a vigorous resistance.

The overpowering sense of the sublime, of awful desolation, of transcending marvelousness and unexpectedness, that swept over us, as we reined our horses sharply out of green forests, and stood upon high jutting rock that overlooked this rolling, upheaving sea of granite mountains, holding far down its rough lap this vale of beauty of meadow and grove and river,—such tide of feeling, such stoppage of ordinary emotions comes at rare intervals in any life. It was the confrontal of God face to face, as in great danger, in solemn, sudden death.

Then the door of the elevator opened and a woman got out whom Marcy immediately recognised. In that moment of confrontal Marcy felt a strange sensation of guilt, as if she had stolen something and was being caught.

By the constant encounters and confrontals of these Tests of the Golden Keys he is continuously “tried in the Fire” of the Ek-Klesia, which “proves every man’s Action, of what sort it is”; […]

All social defenses are stripped away and the veritable soul of man stands forth, unashamed of its nakedness and unembarrassed for its deformities. Elemental forces are everywhere released. Everywhere they hint at poignant confrontals, so the night wind in the forest becomes an illuminating test of character and conduct.

The Americans had proved themselves so eminently battleworthy in their first confrontals with the hard-pressing Germans that [Ferdinand] Foch wanted an American regiment attached to each French division as a stiffening element.

The large stone symbolizes the act of confrontal, and the small stones the act of being pursued.

Much of the chaos and indecision which marked the policies and activities of Sun Hill were, I think, due to an instinctive caution (of the members) in avoiding open confrontals with each other on key issues for fear that such confrontations would erupt into unbridgeable schisms and leave the mutual good-will of the Commune in shreds. And so, although on the surface Sun Hill’s members were pledged to constant and deep confrontals with each other, some more subconscious instinct for group survival bade us tread more softly in our dealings with each other, for it was not long, in Sun Hill’s history, before it became evident that the word “Community” is an enormously wide one, and that our various opinions on what is should mean needed every bit of that width to accommodate them.

We moved from Hesston College where Christian youth came charging in from all over the world and all kinds of Christian programs and confrontals were daily menu, out to a setting where the Christian church and Christian fellowship are a little hard to come by.

The memory of Meung, intimately associated with suffering and humiliation, leads through penitence to the confrontal of a wasted youth, eventually to a contemplation of the brevity of life, and finally to an awareness of the omnipotent destructive force of death.

So no gun. I wanted clear confrontals, encounters of the closest kind, me and whoever, no bystanders or witnesses—just me and him, no boom. / Confrontals. I meant confrontations. But confrontals, I like it. Shorter and suddener.

She acts as a Druidess throughout this scene of confrontal with the narrator, with the same magisterial authority and special powers that the Druid held in the Celtic society.

I have been in many of these overly structured and disciplined schools. I have noticed that in these schools of confrontal teaching, teachers and children seemed to be caught in a common grimness.

“When can I have an answer—I have other offers” (c) is better, if you feel confrontal on a given day; it lets the person know you’re valued. […] This is a question that you must answer in terms of your immediate reaction: what is your initial response when faced with a confrontal person? When dealing with confrontal people, taking the offensive in some way is the best strategy (b and d).

The sense of abandonment to paint, or of wild painterliness, and of an imagery more fantastic than descriptive – freely transformative of a subject matter rather than transcriptive of its common appearance – and of a certain sense of confrontal alienation: all these are the signs of Expressionism, or rather, in the 80s, of Neo-Expressionism.

Supportive and cognitive psychotherapies are often useful in guiding the elderly alcoholic toward a life without alcohol and as many other drugs as possible. The elderly will respond to confrontal and directive forms of psychotherapy for alcoholism and drug dependence as they do for other psychiatric illnesses.

It is most important to note here that Dr. [M. Scott] Peck’s two cases of demonic possession grew directly out of a charismatic Christian religious practice called “deliverance”—a form of confrontal prayer challenge in which the participants (usually a minister and a prayer group), exhort a possibly possessed person to bring forth his demons.

Several designs from the fund of Ukrainian folk art occur sporadically, such as Ukrainian confrontal birds, or, for those familiar with twentieth century Pennsylvania German art, Ukrainian distlefinks.

“Sweetness and Light” is so imaginatively evasive because it is so tactical: it simultaneously causes the enemies of culture to disintegrate without a confrontal attack and builds its complex constructive apprehensions without conventional definitions and professional formulae.