Sentence examples for a predicament and from inspiring English sources

That's both a predicament and a promise.

She is a highborn lady in a predicament, and the point is that Miss Caballe seems to feel the urgency of that predicament.

The odds seemed as long as those which would reasonably have been placed against Woods landing in such a predicament and, anyway, there was another question that was almost as baffling as the sudden failure of a game that we believed could be re-gathered often by the simple device of an act of will.

Underlying such moments of comic plain speech is the charity of a skeptic who in a certain way loves his neighbor — and not under pressure of divine reward or punishment but from something more neighborly, a conviction that we disappointing children of Adam and Eve share a predicament and, along with our awful ways, a few decent, generous moments.

While it's easy to look to your strikers in such a predicament, and a fair portion of the blame has fallen at the decreasingly capable feet of Christian Benteke (and bounced off again), Villa, for years, have lacked a creative spark.

No hero has as yet been more than slightly wounded when placed in such a predicament, and one suspects that in this instance the gallant young man is going to be saved by what happened at 11 o'clock in the morning of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.The Chic Sale movietone "Marching On," dealing with a Civil War veteran who was a friend of Lincoln, is also on the Roxy program.

The Reacher novels tend not to flow from one to the next but to be self-contained and discrete, with a new predicament and a new location every time.

It puts the A's in an increasing predicament, and as year-to-year leases of the Coliseum are not ideal, the team is continuing to explore other options and potential cities.

In a recent paper, "In Praise of Blushing," W. Ray Crozier, a professor of psychology at the University of East Anglia in Britain, concludes that it "can serve a useful social function; alternatively it can create a social predicament and be a source of shame or embarrassment for the blusher".

The adrenaline thrill of danger, the rueful satisfaction of coming through it, the confidence that comes of enough training to improvise one's way out of a hellish predicament and overcome a similarly skilled enemy aren't illustrated or described or evoked; they're synesthetically shared by Soderbergh's way with a camera.

"We really are in a predicament here, and it's getting worse every year".