Sentence examples for social predicament from inspiring English sources

They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament.

The finished book ran to over six hundred pages, each of them displaying Post's uncommon appetite for helping readers navigate the shoals of every possible social predicament.

In a frustrating social predicament, we can't help itching to fight, but scratching ourselves, instead of the offender, signals our intention to avoid a fight if others coöperate.

In a recent paper, "In Praise of Blushing," W. Ray Crozier, a professor of psychology at the University of East Anglia in Britain, concludes that it "can serve a useful social function; alternatively it can create a social predicament and be a source of shame or embarrassment for the blusher".

In addition to physiological complications, patients with chronic cough experience psychological imbalance and social predicament.

Doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers, researchers and public health professionals need to respond to this social predicament individually and engage with this problem in their own families, organisations and communities.

However, embarrassment is also used as a more general term [ 4, 7, 16, 26]: an emotional reaction (shame or guilt) to unintended and/or unwanted social predicaments or transgressions [ 26].

"Itching to fight" and being "irritated" by a person who is an "itch" are intuitively recognized expressions of social predicaments.