Surely it is at least an allegory of fallen man's predicament, of his state of enduring and irredeemable guilt in a world from which all hope has been expunged.
Mr. Abbas called Washington to describe his predicament, which produced a phone call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to Mr. Netanyahu, demanding steps to keep the indirect talks alive.
Rob Nixon's review of Nega Mezlekia's "Notes From the Hyena's Belly" (Jan . 21 is in part a bold attempt to enlighten your readers about the predicament of African writers and the sorry state of African literature.
Two of the cases involve couples who hope to be able to adopt the children they have raised, and a third case centers on the predicament of two women who want the state to recognize their Iowa marriage so they can get divorced.
"How could I get myself into this predicament?" The short answer was that he had been busy with a succession of state offices, being secretary of state and lieutenant governor before winning the top job in 1982.
"It is a mess, and that's the predicament that the judge ultimately put the election system in," said Desiree Taliaferro, spokeswoman for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who oversees elections.
The comic strip having taken over the comic presentation of events almost completely, especially since the rise of the one-line joke or picture caption, the modern cartoon became one largely of situation or of predicament that was stated without a solution's being worked out or suggested.
Everything else may change on the great state but but never the predicament of these two miserable boats.
Religious plurality is seen here as an enduring predicament of finite and historically situated human beings, not as a state to be overcome by the victory of the one and only true faith.
But the state's Republicans, who have taken delight in the Democratic squirming, are facing a monumental predicament of their own.
