It does so by preparing him to confront life in the "sincere" mode so highly respected in America.

It is harder to sit in one place and confront life.

When you confront life that is not true life, you will know him.

He describes Life Starts Now as a record about "confronting life and how fragile it can be".

Now, after all these movements, women confront life to a far greater degree than they did.

You have to confront life.

No matter how tempting avoidance may be, you have to confront life.

Rhys alone confronted life as it really was.

That tradition may well have led to the birth of the blues when West African slaves (and their descendants) confronted life in America.

"We are confronting intelligent alien life," he said concisely.