Sentences with phrase «confronted with shocking»

After all, it is reasonable to expect that someone who has been confronted with shocking evidence (particularly false evidence) will need to speak to an experienced and objective legal adviser.

Spirited away from the scene by an enigmatic mercenary with an agenda of his own, Evan is confronted with a shocking fact: his entire life has been little more than a carefully constructed lie.

It's easy, after all, to imagine the horror of a child visiting an e-book store and innocently typing in «daddy» only to be confronted with shocking results.

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Interestingly, it is not unusual for bosses to be shocked when confronted with poor job satisfaction data, since few employers actually intend to mistreat anyone.

While most porn actresses would jump at the chance to get naked on the Howard Stern Show, Sasha wants to appear on the shock jock's program with a Palestinian flag wrapped around her breasts to confront the man she believes is a closet racist.

The results show that pension schemes across these countries could face a combined funding shortfall of $ 773bn if confronted with a significant financial shock that triggered a further fall in interest rates and a rise in inflation.

A week after that harrowing experience, rats confronted with a milder shock remained jumpy.

And Manganiello manfully gapes in shock and awe at the (digitally painted in) monster he is confronted with.

The Look of Silence acts in many ways as a concerted complement to its mind - bending predecessor but with its own meaningful shock treatment: our guide this time is an Indonesian, Adi, whose older brother was murdered during the Sixties genocide; and the documentary structure is somewhat more serial and more static in its interviews, as Adi confronts killers in often dangerous visits.

But a startling encounter with a new patient forces David to confront the shocking possibility that the voices he hears and the visions he sees may actually be real.

When he's approached by a pregnant woman struggling with an unstable radical activist husband, he gets embroiled in a treacherous scenario that forces him to confront his troubled past and drives him to increasingly dangerous and shocking behavior.

«The first thing has to be to assure them of their safety, that such eruptions of senseless violence are in fact more rare than our attention and shock lead us to believe when confronted with days of disturbing headlines — some of them irresponsibly sensational, as the New York Daily News's headline,... «Born to Kill,» was.

In her first year as principal at Harvard Elementary in 2012 - 13, Aisha McCarthy was confronted with a school failing to meet No Child Left Behind standards, more than 96 percent of the student body coming from low - income households and a shocking 11 percent of students currently homeless.

It is a search that confronts Ben with one heart - rending shock after another; with the best and worst of human nature; with the resilience and fragility of love; and with truths that will haunt him through eternity.

Now in their 50s, they've settled in Brooklyn with families and real jobs, but it's not until their own children leave for school (and start sleeping together) that the trio is forced to confront the «shock of middle age» — and the truth about what happened to the fourth member of their group.

Through her images, Lichtenstein provokes the viewer to confront their own reactions to these hypersexualized images - whether it be feelings of shock, disgust, power, vulnerability, shame or lust - asking the viewer to decide what they are comfortable with, and why?

I suspect he intends the ambiguity, in what could represent either controlled substances or ordinary medical practices, to evoke the shock of transgression and the dread viewers may feel confronted with their likely future.

Capitalism and its promise of a better life is explored through paintings on luxury fabrics whose patterns acquire a neo-classical painterly quality; Orientialism and a subtle critique of European values are explored in the films of his roadtrip to Pakistan and Afghanistan with shocking neutrality; and conceptual art is mocked in Potato House (1967) and paintings of absurd mathematical equations, while the series of self - portraits — Polke as astronaut, Polke as drug — confront the contemporary individual in the mire of history.

Her willingness to confront shocking personal issues, such as her abuse as a child, and the difficult experiences of being a woman, give her work a confessional aspect which only enhances her intimacy with the viewer.

Likewise, families confronted with the unexpected death of a loved one who dies in such an accident could find themselves making final arrangements even as they cope with the immediate emotional and mental shock of their loss.

People are often shocked and in disbelief when confronted with a story such as this.

Few of us are prepared for the «emotional shock wave» that reverberates throughout the extended family system when confronted with the inescapability of the loss of our loved one's physical presence.