I wouldn't have said that not knowing that "confronting" in this sense was an Australianism was confronting -- I find it interesting, but "confronting" has implications that it's taken you out of your comfort zone somehow, or makes you face truths or ideas or facts you might usually avoid or not consider.
John Howard (horrifically) described seeing women in burqas as 'confronting to Australians'.
From a film review in The Age: "This is a potent and graphic portrait of the lives of seven teenagers struggling with their transition into adulthood. It is a confronting time of life and this is a confronting film, a film that should be seen by the people who inform its powerful narrative of emotional turmoil and sexual awakening - 16 and 17-year-old teenagers."
It's certainly not about confrontation -- though there are definite undertones -- but I'd say that you would almost never find a person confronting. It would be a situation, and idea, something you'd come across or come up against, usually unsuspecting beforehand.
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I wouldn't have said that not knowing that "confronting" in this sense was an Australianism was confronting -- I find it interesting, but "confronting" has implications that it's taken you out of your comfort zone somehow, or makes you face truths or ideas or facts you might usually avoid or not consider.
John Howard (horrifically) described seeing women in burqas as 'confronting to Australians'.
From a film review in The Age: "This is a potent and graphic portrait of the lives of seven teenagers struggling with their transition into adulthood. It is a confronting time of life and this is a confronting film, a film that should be seen by the people who inform its powerful narrative of emotional turmoil and sexual awakening - 16 and 17-year-old teenagers."
It's certainly not about confrontation -- though there are definite undertones -- but I'd say that you would almost never find a person confronting. It would be a situation, and idea, something you'd come across or come up against, usually unsuspecting beforehand.
This is why I do not write the dictionary.