But much else in the film touches on the real predicament of the Parsis: that this disproportionately successful Indian community is shrinking fast.The Parsis began arriving in Bombay (now Mumbai) from Gujarat in the 1600s, having much earlier fled Persia when the spread of Islam threatened their Zoroastrian religion.
Perhaps, just as the real life of a rock band may still lie in recordings, while its material life takes place in the concert hall and, God help us, in its merchandise, the real predicament of the contemporary writer is that, while the vocation remains on the page, the occupation has shifted to everything around it.
This puts America's technology companies in a real predicament.
Boethius's real predicament sets the scene for the argument of the Consolation.
It's monotonous, and so you just bide your time and slowly but surely people will stop being so defensive about it and realize that they have a real predicament on their hands; not a predicament that we caused, but a predicament caused by the data," Roughgarden says.
But as managers, we're often in a real predicament about this" (M, 49).
Saunders's bitterly funny stories here and in his extraordinary debut, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline (1996), succeed in squeezing meaning and emotional resonance out of absurd, post-real predicaments.
Without knowing the nature of your health problems I can't be specific, but it's almost certain that you encountered real-life predicaments, bureaucratic bottlenecks or insensitive treatment, for example, that will have given you real and helpful insights into a number of different fields of work.
In support of his Republic of Difference approach, Solomon refers to "intersectionality": a theory, originally an outgrowth of second-wave feminism, that most real-life predicaments are inflected not by a single identity but by several overlapping ones that are sometimes in tension.
— and of trying to establish that this Commander-in-Chief is more than simply a "Woman Running for President," as Gail Collins, the Times' editorial-page editor, recently summed up the real-world predicament of women in politics.
Having boxed himself into a corner, Stallone resorted to the same tactic that had saved him when he was a struggling actor: he turned his real-life predicament into a screenplay.
