0 causing strong or difficult feelings, especially in a way that creates thought or discussion:
I can understand why people found parts of the film confronting.
Without these women even opening their mouths they've already been labelled as "absurd", "confronting", "frightening", just because of how they dress.
He states that many Aussies tend to find differences in other cultures "confronting" and can't be bothered to see things from any other perspective.
He likes the word "confronting", as in, "intimacy can be really confronting for people".
Her art is utterly contemporary, sometimes confronting.
To grab hold of the certainty of experience, knowledge, or sensation is often difficult when confronting both sound and memory.
All these cases, however, were resolved by eliciting confessions from the suspects after confronting them with the evidence.
This represented a dramatic moment of instantiation of both continuity and change of tradition for a community in the process of confronting change.
