I had overcome a major incident, so felt certain I could handle less serious predicaments that might come my way.
A superb cast, under Tamara Harvey's beautifully paced, detailed direction, revels in language that sparkles and in audacious comic predicaments that produce guffaws.
Unlike Pope Joan, he avoided placing himself in predicaments that would inevitably result in the exposure, and thereby the failure and discontinuance, of the imposture on which he had embarked.
Nonetheless, the melodramatic predicaments that Campbell contrives are full of well-wrought suffering, shame, and haplessness, which the actors turn into a kind of master class in emotional eloquence.
Senator Obama, for his part, seems to have lost sight of the unifying message that proved so compelling early in his campaign and has stumbled into weird cultural predicaments that have caused some people to rethink his candidacy.
The two, John Humphreys and Hal Langford, write in Sloan Management Review that "out of inertia, some managers maintain the status quo" until noticeable problems "escalate into predicaments" that require radical change.
