Detractors employ disquieting language such as "predicament," "sinking ship," and "unsustainable".
The characters, language, puzzles and predicaments of Carroll's 1865 novel and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, became and remain part of the texture of our lives, as embedded as ancient mythology and more endearing.
Then again, I worry that Fukuyama's preferred language may shrink our predicament into something smaller than it ever was.
Steel and Gardiner are wonderful writers, and much of their book speaks directly to my own predicament, in language I can understand: It is the fashion nowadays to undervalue the art of making a home; to deem it simplicity and easiness itself.
No other councils have used such colourful language to describe their predicament.
Yet after being given a diagnosis of Stage 2 ovarian cancer, Ms. Allen learned that there was really no social language for dealing with her predicament.
Mr. Kurtag's music typically veers toward corrosive modernism, but the acidic side of his harmonic language was tempered in "The Little Predicament" (1978).
Throughout his substantial and highly praised body of work, James Kelman has sought to portray the life of Scottish working-class people in fiction that is sympathetic to their predicament and accurately reflects their language.
A superb cast, under Tamara Harvey's beautifully paced, detailed direction, revels in language that sparkles and in audacious comic predicaments that produce guffaws.
As the players stared, the man made it clear — in not-so-subtle language — that despite his own hardships, the Giants' predicament was, without doubt, much worse.
