come to terms

• “He supposed the young men (Dudley had never quite come to terms with the idea of women lawyers) held him in all the more contempt for this obsequiousness.”

  Mistress of Justice

• “Much of what we saw on our television screens 15 years ago was Los Angeles expressing a lingering, ongoing, pervasive legacy-a tragic legacy out of the tragic history this country has never fully come to terms with.”

  Remarks of Senator Barack Obama to the Hampton University Annual Ministers' Conference

• “The knight was in no wise abashed, but took him by the cape, and told him: That he would not let him go until he had come to terms with him; and before he could get away, Artauld had made fine with him for five hundred pounds.”

  The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville

• “Dizzily he wavered on feathers to get himself out of the way and come to terms with the fact that he, who had been ironed for thirty-three months, was suddenly stripped of them.”

  Simon & Schuster: Morgan’s Run

• “King Hussein, who had been courageous in trying to persuade his Arab neighbors to come to terms with the reality of Israel, told me that, because of antipathy over his efforts to bring about peace, he felt threatened by Syria and its Soviet-equipped army.”

  Simon & Schuster: An American Life

• “So it is that I sometimes tell my patients that part of their task is to come to terms with their dragonhood, to decide whether they want most to exercise the more slothful or more spiritual aspects of their nature.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE DIFFERENT DRUM

• “Jennifer had not yet come to terms with human detritus and, by the wavering of the lamp,”

  Firestorm

• “The time that had passed since Galvan VI, served to remind the captain that while he had since come to terms with what had happened and was moving on, it would never be far from his thoughts.”

  Simon & Schuster: Creative Couplings

• “But they are pouring in so rapidly, and soon their numbers will be so great, that if the royal army lingers longer at Dunbar, Lord Balfour will be forced to come to terms with them.”

  Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles

• “Sister Ursula the hospitaler was a tall, thin woman perhaps fifty years old, with a lined, experienced face at once serene, resigned, and even mildly amused, as if she had seen and come to terms with all the vagaries of human behaviour, and nothing could now surprise or disconcert her.”

  The Confession of Brother Haluin

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