Sentence examples for as a conundrum from inspiring English sources

He described this as a "conundrum".

All of which was always held in check, or presented as a conundrum, as a singular, inexplicable silent moment.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said on Wednesday that he was studying the issue, which he described as a "conundrum" for the city.

If nothing else, it might persuade you that gentrification should not be reduced to a bunch of easy cliches and instead needs to be approached as a conundrum arising from London's economic successes.

And we're doing a bit too much of this with Syria, when we owe this crossroads something more than standard operating procedure, something better than knee-jerk ruminations on the imminent vote in Congress as a test for Nancy Pelosi, as a referendum on John Boehner, as a conundrum for Mitch McConnell, as a defining moment for Barack Obama.

The adjectives that Kerry used in describing his second wife to me — "grounded, no-nonsense, down to earth, straightforward" — may not jibe with Andre's image of her as a conundrum; or with Chris's volatile, exacting Latin mother; or with the charming and "cozy" woman who, her friend in Washington says, has a tendency toward "narcissism" in times of stress.

They also vented their anger over the Baghdad surge, calling it "unfair", since it targeted the Shia militias, who had been co-operating, while letting Sunni insurgents go on bombing Shia civilians.Mr Sadr's next move is as big a conundrum as his whereabouts.

A piece such as "An Introduction to Incontinental Philosophy" makes our capacity to pee or not to pee as great a conundrum as the more famous line he parodies, and makes a humanist case that the difference between humanity and the great apes is as evident in toilet rolls as in Beethoven quartets.

A conservation team is thus faced with a conundrum: as Lerner writes, "Once you start replicating parts, when is the work no longer the work?" Although this seems like a new concern in modern art, it's a familiar quandary in other artistic disciplines.

They might even gain some insight into a conundrum known as the information paradox.

But a poet who declares falsity his mortal enemy faces something of a conundrum, since, as Plato complained, poetry itself is inherently delusive.