Sentence examples for of the predicaments from inspiring English sources

The sad irony of the predicaments facing newspapers today is that their troubles are not a function of loss of audience.

Robert Mapplethorpe, Diane Arbus, and, above all, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn, who together dominated both fashion and portrait photography for almost half a century and straddled the lines between museum and magazine, high portraiture and low commercials, all came to seem, in their oscillations between glamour and gloom, exemplary of the predicaments facing the American artist.

The New Yorker, November 29 , 1999P. 124 Briefly Noted book review of "The Father of the Predicaments" (Wesleyan; $19.95) by Heather McHugh... "No word can clear itself" in this accomplished volume of poems, which illuminates how the contradictions and dualities concealed in language both betray and redeem us.

But for every lesson painstakingly etched, Director Todd Phillips can't resist tweaking conventional morality with attempts to draw humor out of the predicaments of his movie's larger than life characters and sympathy to their amoral plight.

Some retailers are strategizing on how to make the best of the predicament.

Residents fear their lawns and shrubbery might wind up on the losing side of the predicament.

Finally I executed a backwards roll to get out of the predicament.

Forward Amare Stoudemire said of the predicament: "I think it's a combination of things.

Despite his focus on men, he displayed an understanding of the predicament of women in a patriarchal world.

A pattern of stalemate is so pervasive that our inability to find solutions to our predicament is one of the predicament's characteristics.

**** This new tone also reminds Raphe Sonenshein, a political scientist at California State University, of the predicament of Bush the elder, 16 years ago.