Sentence examples for classic predicament from inspiring English sources

It is the classic predicament of the Russian writer: novels are read as manifestos, prescriptions, and protests.

But Microsoft's challenge is the classic predicament of a dominant incumbent that's making huge amounts of dollars off the old model.

In short, Fernanda finds herself in the classic woman's-picture predicament, torn between domesticity and career.

It's a classic first-world stoner predicament: Your guy rolls up with a veritable tackle box of assorted and sticky product.

The predicament is a classic collective action problem.

The N.H.L. is aware of its predicament with the Winter Classic; it signed a contract with the University of Michigan enabling it to delay as long as possible before canceling the game, right up to Jan . 1

The mystery at the heart of this classy, intense psychological thriller depends on big ideas and a touch of quantum physics, yet Ella's predicament is rooted in classic teenage identity anxiety.

Terrebonne's predicament was an intensified version of a classic American dilemma: the belief that ghettoizing a disadvantaged population is morally wrong, joined to the conviction that the disadvantaged population might be a lot happier in the next county.

Though it tries mightily to live up to its cute title and premise with soft laughs and sticky predicaments, "Confessions of a Shopaholic" largely registers as a classic story of female self-improvement.

The legal predicament surrounding Rashard Casey has dominated discussion about Sunday's Kickoff Classic between Penn State and Southern California at Giants Stadium.

Richard Hofstadter's 1964 classic, Anti-intellectualism in American Life, goes a long way to explain our current predicament.