The director, Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg, pretends to confront the chaos of contemporary urban life: free-floating anger and violence, racial abrasions, the fragility of family bonds.

NEWYORKER: Grand Canyon

This expansion of Medicare is sooner or later going to force us to confront the unpleasant question of whose life is worth saving.

FORBES: A Price on Your Head

Pro-life activists must unhappily confront the probability that many of the leading candidates for the GOP nomination in 2012 - while all professedly pro-life - in reality neither care very much nor think very much about the abortion issue.

CNN: What if abortion became a non-issue?

My wish is that you confront the causes of imbalance in your life and your workplace in 2013 and regain the homeostasis essential for harmony and wellbeing.

FORBES: 3 Wishes, 2 Tips and a Book

About five years in the making, PunchForce required HBO to confront challenges involving battery life and ringside wireless connectivity.

WSJ: Say Goodbye to Boxing Judges

Americans North and South would be compelled to confront and resist the war's assault on their conceptions of how life should end, an assault that challenged their most fundamental assumptions about life's value and meaning.

NPR: 'Republic of Suffering' Author Drew Gilpin Faust