Sentence examples for modern predicaments from inspiring English sources

As 2007 began, Amy Winehouse's second album announced the international arrival of a sly, tart-voiced, jazz-and-soul-loving songwriter from London who twisted vintage sounds for modern predicaments.

Once we recognize how supernormal stimuli operate, we can craft new approaches to modern predicaments.

CONTEMPLATING his career path a couple of years ago, a young computer programmer named Brad Neuberg faced a modern predicament.

Marsh's mistreatment of its clients, extraordinary though it may seem, is symptomatic of a pervasive modern predicament — what economists like to call the principal-agent problem.

In non-fiction, I greatly enjoyed a new collection of essays by the critic and essayist George Scialabba, entitled "The Modern Predicament" (Pressed Wafer).

Carolyn Layne, a vice president at Informix, a database software company based in Menlo Park, Calif., travels frequently, and a recent trip to Brazil made her modern predicament painfully clear.

One of the ironies of college is that the impossibility of reading your way out of the modern predicament is something you learn about, as a student, by reading.

With its well-explored tangents, supported by footnotes, and a bit of pretzel logic, the latest version of Wikipedia's Paul Revere article can be seen as a useful example of the modern predicament of the Internet user — too much information, not enough judgment.

A solution to the modern predicament of estrangement, loneliness and helplessness came to be found, for Watsuji, in our social interconnections.

Or do I want to win another season of fantasy sports?" Peruse the waiver wire or pursue a career — the new predicament of the modern female sports fan.

As Zhang sees it, that's the modern Chinese predicament.