Sentence examples for painful conundrum from inspiring English sources

For the narrators of Ferrante's earlier novels, life appears to be a painful conundrum of attachment and detachment.

How pressing an issue this actually is to most of the drinkers in Frank's Bar at Bold Tendencies is perhaps a moot point, but there are plenty of artists for whom this a painful conundrum.

The lack of will can be an attractive option in a world of hard choices and painful conundrums.

The Salafis represent a painful long-term conundrum for the West.

Looping, or endless circularity, is an artistic strategy whose built-in themes include time, space, reality, philosophical and perceptual conundrum, human obsession, social stagnation and all kinds of painful or amusing futilities.

So … conundrum!

Another conundrum.

I am the conundrum.

That's the conundrum".

"Quite the conundrum".

That is the conundrum".