He confronts God not with the customary humility, but as one power confronts the other.
Still another trouble confronts the playwright as he comes at grapples with the final act.
But his method in conceiving this material and of handling it is of great importance and we may now examine this a little in detail, to realize the peculiar problem that confronts him.
But let the highway split into two roads at a fork, only one of which leads to the desired destination, and now a problem confronts him; he must take one road or the other, but which?
The function of perception: Need of knowing the material world--The problem which confronts the child.
For that is the question that confronts the machinery of mercy to-day.
It is a United Britain that confronts the enemy in France.
The most affluent man is he that confronts all the shows he sees by equivalents out of the stronger wealth of himself.
That paltry tattered volume, when it confronts me from its safe nook in a bureau drawer, makes my heart beat faster and sets me dreaming!
The child problem is merely one phase of the universal problem that confronts society.
I will take the great social spectre that confronts social science the world over--prostitution, the social ulcer that eats into the nineteenth century.
Elinor’s face flushes and her brow contracts--a little indignant flash is in her brown eyes as he confronts her.
XLIV How oft does the faint waverer let slip the lucky hour, While friend by friend firm standing confronts the deadliest store.
The problem is to some extent the same as confronts the student of the ideas and principles of primitive races.
At the present place the simple concept of cognition is what confronts the quite general assumption taken up by the question, viz.
But the question that confronts us at every turn is, What is the disciplinary value of nature study?
The problem that confronts us at the outset, when preparing a plan of concentration, is how to select the best historical (moral educative) materials, which are to serve as the central series of the course.
His authorship of the book is unquestioned, and I assure you it is a comfort to handle a text which you know left its author's mind exactly as it now confronts you in the page.
But the cheating clock confronts him in moments of unsuspecting security, and throws him into a condition of the wildest alarm.
And the next question which confronts mother love is the question of schools and school education--one of the most perplexing and troubling of all, and yet unavoidable.
For the moment, let us be content to defer consideration of the possible solutions and turn our attention to the predicament which, in the meantime, confronts the average individual.
This same principle confronts the individual in later years,--all through life.
That, in brief, is the situation which confronts us all collectively, and upon the solution of which the future of our civilization, to a large extent, undoubtedly depends.
Is not this point of view, however briefly and crudely expressed, the first principle of existence as it confronts each individual to-day, as it has confronted them in the past, and as it will continue to confront them always?
Much difference in age defeats equality and forbids frankness on many a fundamental subject; it confronts two minds of unlike focus: one near-sighted and without perspective, the other seeing only the background of present things.
Whichever explanation be correct, the fact confronts us that these clay effigies have no place in the cult of the modern Ainu.
Since, however, the scene of nature which directly confronts us is in change, nature as directly and practically experienced does not satisfy the conditions of knowledge.
Emily Dickinson confronts you at once with an instinct for poetry, to be envied by the more ordinary and perhaps more finished poets.
The true artist, if he is intelligent, is witness of this most stimulating truth that confronts us.
It is not technical audacity alone, of course, that confronts us in these brilliantly achieved performances, so rich in form as well as radiant with light.
In his own soul it struggles against him; and in the universe which confronts him it struggles against him.
It must, in other words, have the actual outflowing of the soul as the instrument of its expression and as the psycho-material medium with which it inscribes its vision upon the objective mystery that confronts it.
The "body" of such an elemental personality would have to be regarded as the actual objective mystery which confronts both men and gods.
And it assumes the form of the objective mystery which confronts the vision of all souls.
The savants assembled by the call of this Exposition have pursued their respective lines of thought and research, prompted by no desire other than one to find a solution of the problem which confronts humanity.
In dealing with the relation of metaphysics to the formal sciences generally, the great difficulty which confronts us is that of determining exactly the boundaries which separate one from another.
The situation as it confronts one in the discussion of the relations of logic to allied subjects may be analyzed as follows: 1.
And right here a difficulty confronts us which we must try to settle.
But here a difficulty confrontsus at the very start.
He doesn't appreciate the real calamity that confronts us.
Susanna confronts the pair with grave unconsciousness upon her features.
The maid is drawn to the window, and Don Giovanni is in full expectation of another triumph, when Masetto confronts him with a rabble of peasants, all armed.
The latter confronts death calmly, but as Pizarro is about to plunge the dagger into his breast, Leonore (who had concealed herself in the darkness) throws herself as a protecting shield before him.
Valentin confronts Faust and Méphistophélès while the latter is singing a ribald serenade at Marguerite's door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "confronts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
