reconcile

Watching him being jailed on Thursday it was hard to reconcile the reflective man I had interviewed in my capacity as a journalist, with the often graphic details heard in court.

The music press, an industry overwhelmingly drawn from the upper middle class, struggled to reconcile it.

The larger picture is about how far big powers can really reconcile.

"I don't know how much longer my father has. He won't speak to me because of this security stuff... but it would be nice to reconcile."

But writing it, reconciling with his past, would prove pretty agonizing in its own right.