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He was certainly aging: at fifty, he’d begun cognitive-behavioral therapy, hoping to process the unconfronted experiences of his childhood.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019

So, the reference to Kafka’s famous outpouring seemed to suggest Bowman might use the project as a vehicle to confront all that went unconfronted.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2019

In some cases, the training seemed worse than pointless, forcing patients to confront realities that might have been better left unconfronted.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 1, 2018

But Eisenhower — who had seen how the unconfronted disorders of Europe could spill out into world wars that took tens of millions of lives — found Taft’s attitude dangerous.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2018

Men must either hereafter live, or hereafter die; fate may be bravely met, and conduct wisely ordered, on either expectation; but never in hesitation between ungrasped hope, and unconfronted fear.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John