stare down

Yet, even as he stares down the barrel of a gun, he harbors the delusional hope that he can puppeteer this relationship back to life.

Her Coachella set stared down repugnance and pushed against it, radiating so brightly it consumed the darkness, if only for a night.

It sent allies and adversaries scrambling, as they stared down the prospect of a debilitating blow to their economies.

Yaroslavsky agreed, saying that charging less than the true cost of trash collection is “bad budgeting, especially as we stare down a billion-dollar deficit.”

They blocked off central Budapest's Margaret Bridge while staring down a police cordon.