Sentence examples for peculiar predicaments from inspiring English sources

Now Bhatti is back in Birmingham with a piece about the tensions and tenacity of family life that not only got the warmest of receptions but that also says a lot about the peculiar predicaments facing British Asians.

Mexico finds itself in a peculiar predicament.

But he finds himself in a peculiar predicament.

-- mirrors the peculiar predicament of the heroine, a young woman named Mun Sin-Je Leee). Sin-Je Lee

They live as refugees, though theirs is a more peculiar predicament.

He has always wrestled with the peculiar predicament of Africa's white tribe.

With her dark sunglasses and intermittent, suspiciously blissful smile, it was hard to tell just what Ms. Asencio made of her increasingly peculiar predicament.

This may be the peculiar predicament he finds himself in with British audiences as he continues to pursue two overlapping, but conflicting, careers.

Either way, it exposes the peculiar predicament of overwhelmed parents who relinquish their children to an equally overwhelmed government bureaucracy -- one that is hardly equipped to care for, let alone rehabilitate, troubled teenagers.

Yet he continued to develop imaginatively with the result that his peculiar predicament gives his art its preternaturally acute purchase on such visceral subjects as the penalties of willed and unwilled immaturity, the agony of loss, and the painful lure of speculative what-might-have-beens.

This leaves an interpreter in a peculiar epistemic predicament: what started as the enterprise of seeing things from others' points of view can at best provide the best interpretation for us of how things are for them.