Sentence examples for novel predicaments from inspiring English sources

But if we didn't let imagination fill in the blanks, we'd be unable to survive all the novel predicaments and landscapes we encounter.

The recent California Supreme Court decision granting gays the right to marry creates a novel predicament.

In his finest novels, this predicament becomes a universal one: psychological as well as social; existential as well as political.

Published by Doubleday in 1967, Mr. Serling's novel concerns the predicament in which the vice president finds himself after Air Force One disappears.

The central figure in Archer's imagined reality is the Countess Olenska, with whom a future is impossible; but, as R. W. B. Lewis points out in an essay on the novel, Archer's predicament echoes passages in Wharton's autobiography, in which she notes the divergence between the social life she was obliged by her upbringing to conduct, and her secret, passionate creative life.

To get rid of these predicaments, a novel highly conductive dual pore carbon aerogel based air cathode is fabricated to construct a lithium-air battery, which exhibits 18 to 525 cycles in the LiTFSI/sulfolane electrolyte at a current density varying from 1.00 mA cm−2 to 0.05 mA cm−2, accompanied by a high energy efficiency of 78.32%.

Timothy Mo's novels report on colonial predicaments in East Asia with a political acumen reminiscent of Joseph Conrad.

Beard opens her début novel with a babysitting predicament: "We can't believe the house is on fire.

She fishes on it, swims with her cousins in… Beard opens her début novel with a babysitting predicament: "We can't believe the house is on fire.

This extraterrestrial predicament provides the novel's guiding metaphor: in Prague, characters move in precarious orbit around a stolen icon.

His extraterrestrial predicament provides the novel's guiding metaphor: below, in Prague, characters move in precarious orbit around a stolen icon.