Sentence examples for shared predicament from inspiring English sources

Of course, people are individuals, and circumstances other than their shared predicament can intercede.

Pfleger and Wright, who are close friends, commiserated about a shared predicament.

Modernity is the shared predicament of all who discover or are discovered by new values and technologies – and a description of the pleasure and pain that follows.

You've got to hang on somehow, haven't you?" Sam and his dad, by contrast, crave stability and certainty, and in this shared predicament lies a simple insight.

Hany Abu-Assad's "Omar," a swift thriller, with exciting foot chases and tense gunplay, illuminates the unevenly shared predicament of Palestinians on the West Bank and the Israelis who police them.

Williams is at his best when he taps into a struggle that might have otherwise gone unspoken — in "Cold, Cold Heart" it's the challenge of fighting off some unseen and inscrutable enemy, of vanquishing whatever spooked and damaged his lover — and then makes it seem common, a shared predicament.

That we are unable to turn to the last page of the book of our lives then read the fate inscribed there does nothing to counter our suspicion it has already been written - after all, the same is the case for Ethel Nairn and millions of other fictional characters, and as I believe I've already demonstrated, it's precisely this shared predicament which makes them so very worthy of our compassion.

This shared predicament has more to do with globalization and its discontents than our shared language and love of the Beatles.