It will be a predictor of their bonhomie in handling a delicate predicament, or proof that such camaraderie once existed.
The former N.F.L. quarterback Kurt Warner said the burden falls on the Jets' coaching staff, particularly Ryan, to finesse a delicate predicament.
As the movie gathers momentum, we see that Enid faces a delicate predicament, a crisis much more real and familiar than the usual senior-prom agonies.
The dispute has highlighted Abkhazia's delicate predicament: shunned by most of the world, it is so heavily reliant on Russia that gratitude for Moscow's support is tempered by concern Russia's embrace could tighten to a chokehold.
Facing an equally delicate predicament, another hospital found itself discreetly renovating a pink and mauve colored suite after a live goat was smuggled in and sacrificed en chambre to ensure the good health of a royal patient.
Brigadier General Huger and his men had also found themselves in a delicate predicament.
Obama's predicament was particularly delicate: he had the choice of protecting thousands of Yazidis and Kurds at the risk of a few American lives.
Our lenders are trying to strike a delicate balance: they'd like the dollar's predicament to seem dire enough to make us change, but not so dire as to spark panic.
In Tessa Hadley's third novel, "The Master Bedroom," that's the predicament faced by Kate Flynn, a brainy and forbidding beauty with delicate bones, "Nefertiti eyes" and a mean tongue, who has quit her professor's job in London and returned to her grand but crumbling childhood home in Wales to care for her 83-year-old, increasingly forgetful mother.
In typically quirky and delicate style, Burton is probing away at such matters as cultural snobbery, sexism, the predicament of married women in late 1950s America, and artistic jealousy.
From here, Halley's predicament worsens, and the movie, which initially seemed like a sheaf of delicate details — more of a sketchbook than a project, despite the title — acquires both shape and momentum, in its second half, and concludes on a heartbreaking high.
