Sentence examples for In predicaments from inspiring English sources

Government officials in predicaments like her husband's have sought advice.

Unlike Pope Joan, he avoided placing himself in predicaments that would inevitably result in the exposure, and thereby the failure and discontinuance, of the imposture on which he had embarked.

Oscar and Lucinda are in predicaments which, in the twentieth century, to a twentieth century sensibility, are absurd - but never, for one moment, seem so to themselves, nor to their creator.

And a generic play about an American soldier held captive and possibly primed for execution can hardly be expected to rivet our attention — or perhaps even escape our dismay — when real soldiers (and real civilians) are mired in predicaments of a similar kind on the other side of the globe, day after brutal, bruising day.

In books like "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" and "An Anthropologist on Mars," the physician Oliver Sacks has given us some compelling and deeply moving portraits of patients in predicaments so odd, so vexing, so metaphysically curious that they read like something out of a tale by Borges or Calvino.

It has spawned similar Facebook pages, such as Junkies in Predicaments and Blackburn Spice Cadets.

My neighbors and I are all in the same snowed-in predicament - dig we must, drive we must.

Injuries and national-team duty put the Galaxy in a predicament in recent weeks.

Most people who become homeless do not get themselves in that predicament in order to receive a rent subsidy.

Many other chief executives find themselves in similar predicaments.

"People in similar predicaments emulate this because of the impact of the mass media these days".