In their climactic encounter in the Arctic, it becomes clearer here than in Shelley's novel that the Creature understands their mutual predicament better than his creator.
But by seeing the team's explanations as a potential window into the bigger competing commitment, we were able to help the group better understand its predicament.
Cave's music always has a particularly primal, post-human tone; its grungy, sadistic lift suits Orpheus's predicament better than any more conventionally beautiful song could.
His father, a livery-cab driver, hired a lawyer named Candace Kurtz to represent him, and she urged him to start studying in the jail's law library, so that he could better understand his predicament.
The premise is this: a series of slightly famous people, notably the journalist – and sister of the mayor of London – Rachel Johnson, and Cheryl Fergison, a former EastEnders actor, are sent to live with poor people for one week, to better understand their predicament, or to entertain the public, or both.
It is not an ideal situation, and Southgate is not the perfect coach, but it is hard to see anyone handling this particular predicament any better than the incumbent.
For students, there is no better example than the predicament Antioch finds itself in at the moment: barring any last-minute rescue, soon after next Saturday's commencement the 156-year-old campus in Yellow Springs, Ohio, will be emptied of students, faculty and staff, lose its accreditation and cease operations for at least a few years.
Knowledge of that final resting location would enable engineers better to understand its predicament and the prospects for future contact if lighting conditions somehow change on 67P.
A key message of the film relates to working with Muslim communities and fostering better understanding of their predicament and dilemmas.
