Sentence examples for natural predicament from inspiring English sources

As Alain de Botton wrote in the Architecture of Happiness: "For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament".

The homelessness and immiseration of the poor, on this account, is not a result of private property; it is simply the natural predicament of mankind from which a few energetic appropriators have managed to extricate themselves.

For Dahl, now 46 and a natural pessimist, this was a predicament he did not think he could overcome.

But I can also make the argument for the improbability of any god, on the basis of the evolution of religious belief, explained by our natural, psychological need to make sense of our predicament.

Jonny Weldon's Jim Hawkins is wonderfully natural – looking ever more stressed and queasy at the escalating predicament in which he finds himself.

We talked to a number of experts about hypothetical events that could send the U.S. real estate market into a skid, from highly unlikely scenarios such as a military confrontation with China, to the types of predicaments we have faced in recent years, like natural disasters and terrorist attacks.

Carlisle thinks Christian theology is amply supplied, and is one of our best resources, offering as it does a taxonomy of evils: moral evil (human wrongdoing), natural evil (calamitous earthly events, like earthquakes and tsunamis), and "metaphysical evil" (our predicament as human beings, to be mortal and to have limited powers of knowledge), among others.

It is only natural that we are having trouble navigating this overflow of information, but it would be wrong to regard this predicament, or the tools associated with it, as the exclusive problem.

That's the predicament for Honda as it tries to recover from its troubles in the past year, when a series of natural disasters in Asia caused sales to plunge, and an important model, the revamped Civic, got such a poor reception that the company rushed to make changes.

It's her predicament.

This was her predicament.