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But it never feels unfair, and any predicaments you end up in are usually your own fault.
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You never know quite how he will respond to any predicament, nor, you sometimes feel, does he.
It could have been grim reading, but Emma Healey has a gift for the kind of dark comedy that can shine through any predicament.
I don't want to put myself in any predicament of messing up the name that I've got for myself.
But whatever the wearisome aspects of walking and mass transit, of being viewed by skeptical friends as an eccentric Mary Poppins wafted by air, I had an easy answer to any predicament in my car-free life.
Whether she's admitting mistakes (in "Splitting Atoms") or finally getting fed up with an evasive partner (in "Judas Kiss"), her singing bounces back from any predicament, chipper and ready for anything.
That is a testament to the strength of Mohammed's bizarre characterisation: the colossally self-absorbed Swallow can be transposed to any predicament, and he'll still be wittering on, getting excitable and imposing himself where he's not wanted.
("'That's some catch, that Catch-22'," observes Yossarian. 'It's the best there is,' Doc Daneeka agrees.'") During the decades since its literary birth, catch-22, generally lower-cased, has come to mean any predicament in which we are caught coming and going, and in which the very nature of the problem denies and defies its solution.
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