The phrase "apparent predicament" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation that seems to be a difficult or challenging one, though it may not be as serious as it appears.
Example: "Despite the apparent predicament of the company, the CEO remained optimistic about future growth."
Alternatives: "seeming dilemma" or "obvious difficulty".
Count Saint-Genois d'Anneaucourt -- sandwiched between a transvestite and a mannish woman, both in transparent dresses, glaring at each other, as if fiercely competing for him -- gazes forlornly in his impeccable tuxedo, oblivious to them and to his own apparent sexual predicament.
The magnitude of my predicament seemed apparent to everyone around me.
As the blackly comic size of the drug haul and the gravity of her predicament become apparent, she can be heard telling the officers: "I didn't know.
Esther has worked hard on her English, hoping it will provide a ticket out of provincial Wales, but as the gravity of her predicament becomes apparent, the language itself seems to turn on her, mocking her with the double meanings and secret knowledge contained in words like "confinement".
A careful reading reveals that Tolkien's tone deepens as the seriousness of Frodo's predicament becomes apparent: the Shire folk still sound like those in "The Hobbit"; the elves and men of later chapters present a more adult (I reject "leaden") tone to reflect their more fraught existence.
Many Latin Americans, though, are concerned because certain characteristics of Argentina's predicament are readily apparent in their own countries.
After covering the Kafkaesque nightmare of the Pirate Bay's current legal predicament and the apparent infowar against pirates in Sweden, it appears that Gottfrid Svartholm one of the Pirate Bay's founders has now been sent to solitary confinement in Sweden.
The Republicans' predicament was plain.
If the terminology changed to reflect this issue – so that we no longer talk about a "pay gap" but rather an "income gap" – then this predicament facing mothers would be more apparent.
It may also explain the profoundly moral, indeed religious, exploration of the human predicament and the relationship between body and soul apparent in her writing.
