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Confrontation

noun

A bold challenge.

Discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions.

A hostile disagreement face-to-face. Synonyms: encounter, face-off, showdown.

The act of hostile groups opposing each other. Synonym: opposition. "The invaders encountered stiff opposition"

A focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison.

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"Confrontation" Quotes from Famous Books

... arm? How terrible! But then he will never be able to work again!" she exclaimed, in all the horror of a first confrontation with the inexorable ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... confrontation with Bertrande took a wholly different character. The poor woman, pale, cast down, worn by sorrow, came staggering before the tribunal, in an almost fainting condition. She endeavoured to collect herself, but as soon as she saw the prisoner she hung her ...

— CELEBRATED CRIMES, COMPLETE - MARTIN GUERRE • ALEXANDRE DUMAS, PERE

... to provide some structure to help the experience develop, and then let people sort it out for themselves. Both of us felt it was most important to ride with the tone of the developing situation, and avoid any use of the more aggressive techniques of confrontation. Stan was worried on Saturday that the talk was too general. Then one of the wives broke through by asking if we could discuss something "... down here, where I am ... like SEX?" So we ...

— Marriage Enrichment Retreats - Story of a Quaker Project • David Mace

... the greatest moment. Indeed I believed that the conversation then taking place would reach the climax of the whole episode, and I bitterly regretted that I had apparently no possible chance of ever learning the detail of that confrontation of owner and servant. Worse still, I realised that I might have some difficulty in gathering the upshot. Whether Banks were accepted or rejected the Jervaises would not confide the ...

— The Jervaise Comedy • J. D. Beresford

... It is only common sense which tells me that I shall always be admitted to be justified by facts, and that I could not be condemned upon a simple accusation, without witnesses, evidence, and confrontation with my ...

— Monsieur de Pourceaugnac • Moliere

... importance the work of a man of science, and they believed it ought to be based on documentary evidence, as a scientific work would be. Above all it ought not to allow itself to be coloured by the least gloss of imagination or idealism; it ought never to shrink from a confrontation of the naked fact. On the contrary it was its business to carry it to the dissecting table and there minutely examine everything that lay ...

— English Literature: Modern - Home University Library Of Modern Knowledge • G. H. Mair

... era of negotiation, to work for the limitation of nuclear arms, and to reduce the danger of confrontation ...

— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... destination rendered concealment unnecessary. As we did not put in at Mazatlan, nobody suspected my discovery in the hold to be anything but the accident that I gave it out to be. I felt myself saved the confrontation of the woman at Mazatlan; but I knew she would pursue me ...

— The Crusade of the Excelsior • Bret Harte

Words linked to "Confrontation" : disagreement, showdown, strikebreaking, opposition, challenge, encounter, comparison, confront, comparing, dissension, discord, resistance