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单词 predicament
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There truly seemed to be no way out of their predicament. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
Either the future would resemble the present, in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z
The majority opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, spoke specifically to the would-be mother’s predicament: The detriment that the State would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z
Rhiannon flags the waiter down, explains the predicament, and gets a nod. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z
But the pilot, to his credit, appreciated the gravity of my predicament and didn’t give up. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
Harry did not dare open his eyes, but allowed his other senses to explore his predicament. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z
During that summer, as the temperature climbed, Milton tried to come to grips with the predicament he found himself in. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
It was the first thing suggesting a potential solution to their predicament. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
The vast beach, the thousands waiting on it, and the sea empty of boats returned the Tommies to their predicament. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z
His mind functioned without flaw, trying to calculate his surroundings and predicament. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
Besides, I was ashamed for anyone to know of my predicament, it was too stupid to be believed. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z
It wasn’t fair, him putting me in this predicament. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
She helps us talk about the predicament we're in: robbed of family, marrying strangers, bringing babies into a world that tears them from their mothers' arms. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z
I could see Terry becoming more fatalistic about our predicament. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
I reached over and picked the bigger pieces of debris out of them as I mulled over our predicament. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
Recognizing the gravity of his predicament, he had abandoned the cocky moniker he’d been using for years, Alexander Supertramp, in favor of the name given to him at birth by his parents. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
They both knew their predicament had just taken a far more serious turn. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
He was gregarious, full of energy, and made jokes about his predicament. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z
“Well, in this adventure book I read once, the hero was in a very similar predicament. So he removed the curled handset wires from several telephones, bundled them together, and made a safety rope.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z
They had no idea that a problem had arisen since their departure or that Smith was in a terrible predicament. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z
It was Captain Black who came with advice to Captain Piltchard and Captain Wren as they pitched about in their bewildering predicament. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
When I discussed Minnijean’s predicament with Elizabeth, she appeared alarmed and agreed that we ought not attract unnecessary attention to ourselves. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
In fact, the desire to become a Runner was the only thing driving him on, helping him accept his predicament. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
When he became a father, he no longer even thought much about his predicament as a gay man living a life that was in part a pretense. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z
He scratched his head, straining for a solution to this predicament. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
Despite Haupt's own predicament, at this particular moment, he was just happy to be back in Chicago after a long train ride. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z
Mary Lou was jolted back to her predicament — the plane crash, the survivors, the need for rescue. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
It was only a receiver, so they could not send news of their predicament, and even under the best conditions the radio was barely capable of picking up the monthly signal from the Falkland Islands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z
So herein lies the paradox and predicament of young black men labeled criminals. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
Sing of its two cartridges, one for typing and one for correcting, that so eloquently represented her predicament, poised between the print of genetics and the Wite-Out of surgery. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
All in the same boat Means "all in the same predicament." The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
I suspect the latter is what got me into this predicament in the first place. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z
The white man in the book, Gulliver, roved from peril to peril, each new island a new predicament to solve before he could return home. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z
Witnessing my predicament, Faith said it would be okay if I crashed with her, provided I kept my clothes on. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z
The predicament African Americans find themselves in today is not altogether different from the situation they faced during Jim Crow. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
The officer stared back at them blankly as they explained their predicament, and then he cut them off. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
“Your grandfather left us in quite a predicament.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z
An event at my part-time job seemed to emphasize my predicament. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
She sighed, glanced at the vaulting sky, and was painfully aware of her predicament. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
I just had to be a little more careful where I positioned my head so that I wouldn’t find myself in the humiliating predicament of getting stuck a second time. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z
His seamed face showed the concern and sympathy of one human for another in a predicament every man understands. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z
At least the heat had less bite and the humidity had dropped to tolerable levels, so I was able to hang out on the sidewalk and think about all my predicaments. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z
With her heart hammering at the surprise attack and her predicament, Warbeak realized that she was completely at the mercy of her captor. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
There are lots of nights out in Berlin when, emboldened by a good-value Rioja, I forget my physical predicament and allow myself to hope. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z
He exaggerates the difficulty of being a student, but his exaggeration reveals a general predicament. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
Which I’d argue is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the human predicament, but okay. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z
I approached Owen Williams, and he told me that my predicament would have to wait until the end of the tournament. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tiara sank down on the sand as if the full weight of their predicament had finally hit her. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z
He had no reason to doubt our story and not only escorted us to the magistrate, but vouched for us and explained our predicament. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
At break, as the only mixed kid out of a thousand, I faced the same predicament I had on the playground at H. A. Jack: Where was I supposed to go? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z
“We’ll just wait for nature. She put us in this predicament and will help get us out. No use shouting at the rain. No one was hurt.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z
This was understandable, she thought, given their predicament. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z
“You never got clap in Marrakech and you’re in the same predicament.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z
She could have called out and protested but she was too ashamed to call public attention to her predicament. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z
The people surrounding us shouted, stomped, and whistled as though her awful predicament were a triumph for them. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
She had climbed to the summit of Everest with Hall in 1993, and she entertained no illusions about the gravity of her husband’s predicament. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z
“I can’t. I’m not playing, I never do,” said Frank, dismayed at the sentimental predicament out of which he was to rescue the absurd couple. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z
I lick my lips, already thirsty, and hunch beneath the paltry shade of the Jack tree to consider my predicament. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z
Their point is particularly relevant to the predicament of minority police officers charged with waging the drug war. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
As long as she kept busy, she could thrust away thoughts of her real predicament. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
If he hoped to get the car back to a paved road, McCandless had no choice but to walk out and notify the authorities of his predicament. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z
My mom’s solution to my predicament was to make me drink gallons of water—one painful glass at a time. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z
Despite her stiff body, her embarrassment at her predicament, Roza laughed. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z
I sat on our sleeping rock, watching the bonobos forage while I puzzled how to get out of my predicament. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z
That people were walking around as if there were no such thing in the world as poor souls in my predicament. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
From all over the world come reports that make it clear we are in a serious predicament. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z
“I told her about your—predicament. I felt I needed to explain why I brought you here. I hope that’s all right.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z
His rambling remarks described the predicament of slave owners as truly tragic and not of their own making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z
As a New York Times editorial soberly observed, “People caught in this impossible predicament are less likely to seek regular employment, making them even more susceptible to criminal relapse.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z
This predicament was made worse for Hoover when Maytag abruptly abandoned ship and seized Penelope as his partner. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z
I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z
About the other Witch, who found the children in the forest and brought them to safety, not knowing what horrors had delivered them into this predicament in the first place. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z
I would miss my parents, but then again, they were the ones to blame for my predicament. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
In his usual straightforward way he told about the predicament of his warren in having no does and how he had come to look for some. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
To those who should ever find themselves in a predicament such as I was in, I would recommend the following program: Choose a day when the waves are small but regular. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z
In spite of his dangerous predicament Matthias was inwardly amused at the King’s use of his name. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z
But by immersing themselves in their favorite reading topics, they felt far away from their predicament, as if they had escaped. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
Looking around, I saw that all of us were in the same predicament. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z
“Leo, listen to the girl. War is coming. Gaea has seen to it, with your help. And can you guess whom the gods blame for their predicament?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z
What we never discussed was how desperately I wanted to hide my feelings from him, or how ashamed I was of my predicament. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z
Her hands trembled and her heartbeat quickened, for she was frightened, not so much of the wolves, who were shy and many harpoon-shots away, but because of her desperate predicament. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z
Nan and I had a Relocation Rule for this kind of predicament: When something is totally new, pretend it isn’t. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z
Confident that he was clever, resourceful, and bold enough to escape any predicament, he was almost incapable of discouragement. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z
“She’s insecure about her predicament and picks on me to make herself feel better.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z
Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
“But in the meantime,” Violet said, “we have to do something about our predicament.” The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z
The dog came bounding back, and seeing his master in a predicament, and hearing the horse groan, barked till the evening hills echoed the sound, which was deep in proportion to his magnitude. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z
“I know you like to gamble,” Mama squabbles, diverting attention by pretending our real predicament is her naughty husband. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z
It’s quite the predicament: wanting to touch and hug and kiss a white girl after a white man shot him and killed his best friend? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z
As the door thumped closed behind me Fela looked up, met my eyes, then looked down and away, ashamed by her predicament. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z
They explained their predicament to the man and his son, who agreed to serve as witnesses to their divorce. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
The seething impossibility of their predicament was like a heavy deluge of black water flooding around him, dragging him toward surrender. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z
A breeze picked up; burdened leaves poured their watery hearts out to him as he tried to xiang banfa — to think of a way out of his predicament. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Peeta turns to see my predicament and is sliding off his sheath when it happens. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z
The accomplishment of this movie is that it allows you to sympathize with them, to acknowledge the reality of their predicament, without letting them off the hook or forgetting the damage they did. | 'Margin Call': ?Margin Call,? With Zachary Quinto - Review 2011-10-20T16:15:02Z
Which is understandable given the character’s predicament, but the movie itself exists in a similar state. ‘Miss Bala’ Review: Gina Rodriguez Finds the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
Having convincingly explained his father’s medical predicament as a result of anti-proletarian politics — “humiliation by the ruling class,” he calls it — Louis tries to connect his father’s homophobia to the same source. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z
There’s a harder edge to his predicament than in much of “Cinnamon” — Ash especially is one cool customer — and a daisy-chain of double-crosses leaves viewers guessing at Neil’s chances till the final shootouts. Tubi Is Rewriting the Rules of Black Indie Movies (for Free) 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z
And though its story is a century old, this time it speaks more directly to America’s current predicament. Review | ‘Deep River’ bucks every literary trend, and that’s what makes it so charming 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z
The characters face moral issues but fail to express the difficulty of their predicaments. "Crisis" boasts big names – Gary Oldman, Evangeline Lilly, even Armie Hammer! – and fails them all 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z
In “Elevation,” the predicament is similar but less macabre: Scott Carey is losing weight but not mass. Review | Stephen King’s Halloween book is shockingly . . . heartwarming? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z
Still, Anna’s character and predicament are compelling enough that the reader feels tremendous sympathy for her and for her creator. Sofiya Tolstoy’s Defense 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z
A spokesman for Mantel told the Telegraph the speech was not a criticism but "remarkably sympathetic", with the author speaking about royal women as victims of their predicament. Kate, the 'plastic princess': Hilary Mantel's damning take on duchess 2013-02-19T08:48:03Z
He paints the residents' predicaments as desperate and dangerous and sad and scary. Addicts' hostel inspires debut play 2013-09-19T11:33:10Z
Shot with a hand-held camera in airy, diaphanous light, the film dwells as much in Jo and her family’s everyday moments together as it probes the suspense and sorrows of her predicament. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z
It must give hope to those in a similar predicament that they too can be discovered. Viral video news memes bring fame – but still feel almost racist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z
In fact, GM is in the rare predicament of not being able to produce enough cars to keep up with demand. Is Detroit Turning The Corner? 2010-04-21T21:08:00Z
There are nearly 100 characters, each with a self-titled children’s book in which his or her defining feature causes a bit of a predicament. These Books Stand the (Silly, Messy, Topsy-Turvy) Test of Time 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z
And, as happens routinely in any polarized media environment, real people enduring real predicaments were reduced to pawns in a propaganda war. Perspective | Gordon Parks went back to Rio to save a boy’s life. What happened next was a lot more complicated. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z
But making a film about the retiring Dalton posed a larger predicament, too: Mystery and a sense of elusiveness are inherent parts of her music’s appeal. Karen Dalton, a Musical Mystery That Doesn’t Need to Be Solved 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z
So how could he find himself in a similar predicament years later? Rapper Mystikal breaks silence on dropped rape charge 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z
In 2014 he chronicled his predicament, precisely and eloquently, in The Hedgehog Review. William McPherson, Book Critic and Novelist, Dies at 84 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z
Each is tightly wound around a character’s peculiar psychological and moral predicament, and in turn further nested in even creepier ways. Kurosawa’s ‘Penance,’ About the Legacy of a Girl’s Murder 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
The former surgeon general’s predicament underscores one of the givens of today’s political environment: Association with Trump becomes a permanent tarnish, a kind of reverse Midas touch. Former surgeon general faces his wife’s cancer — and the ‘Trump Effect’ 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z
If the club stayed up he would be a hero and collect a £1m bonus; if not, almost all the blame for its predicament would be attached to the former manager, Mark Hughes. The real Harry Redknapp 2013-04-30T14:49:41Z
As White’s predicament with Carl makes clear, public hospitals like Highland serve not just as the last, frayed strands of the healthcare safety net but also as social-service agencies of last resort. “The Waiting Room”: Welcome to Romneycare 2.0 2012-09-26T22:34:00Z
It isn’t an existential predicament that traps these men, but systemic social problems and a culture that sees young black men as disposable. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z
I think it’s fair to ask questions about gender and parenting that Sherman’s predicament might raise, since it’s fair to ask these questions of everything. Richard Sherman can miss his kid’s birth for the Super Bowl and still be a really good dad 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z
Hazel's situational predicament reflects the devil's bargain offered by technological innovation and optimization: in exchange for an easy life Hazel loses her freedom, privacy or even her space for independent thought. Dark comedy "Made for Love" is HBO Max's "Black Mirror"-lite tale of bad romance turned sociopathic 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z
Greif’s book is a prehistory of our predicament, of our own “crisis of man.” Among the Disrupted 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z
Malamud was a year older than Bellow and like him had spent the bulk of his career fictionalising the predicament of the Jew in America. Literary giants at play 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z
In the Buffy comic, one of the characters is in a dire predicament, which is silently observed by Angel. Angel, Buffy’s Favorite Brooder, Is Back in a New Comic Series 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z
He captured the predicament of turbaned and bearded Americans like myself. My life in a turban 2012-09-11T00:00:00Z
Mr. Stewart, who was also contemplating whether to stay on with “The Daily Show,” said he and Mr. Colbert often discussed their similar predicaments. Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z
No matter your particular predicament, you've come to the right place. How to clean wood floors without damaging them 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z
“I really regret that the Ukrainians were placed in that predicament,” Sondland testified in 2019, “but I do not regret doing what I could to try to break the logjam and to solve the problem.” The quid pro quos of Gordon D. Sondland 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z
Stuart’s genius at evoking place, predicament and intense emotional states, is wonderfully served by the narrator, Angus King, a Scotsman himself. Review | Ken Follett’s latest epic is among the best audiobooks this month 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z
For the engaging Mr. Keegan-Dolan, the predicament made him reflect on a word that performers used in the creation of “Rian”: confidence. Dance Review: ‘Rian,’ From Fabulous Beast Dance Theater, at Gerald W. Lynch 2012-11-10T00:56:45Z
The counterweight to that grim predicament is the narrator’s irrepressible wit. Review | ‘Milkman’ — one of the most challenging books of the year — is also one of the most rewarding 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z
However, if reports are to be believed, then No Time to Die is going to push 007 into his most terrifying predicament yet: parenthood. How will a five-year-old daughter change James Bond's life? 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z
If a gift is more a reflection of the buyer than the recipient, a Sharper Image present announces “Look! I threw a lot of money at the predicament of what to buy you.” The absurd allure of the Sharper Image, the uncle-gift emporium for uncles you barely know 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z
Eilis’s romantic predicament is agonizing, for her and also for the viewer. Review: Resettling the Meaning of Home in ‘Brooklyn,’ With Saoirse Ronan 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z
More than simply art works intended for aesthetic appreciation, Whitten’s sculptures are freighted with evidence of their maker’s eager engagement with a wider responsibility — to life, to love, to a shared predicament. Review | After death, major works by artist Jack Whitten discovered 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z
There is hardly a puzzle or a predicament that has fascinated intellectually minded people that is not captured and held, with wild gaiety and complicated understanding, in the books. Who Can Be Finished With Alice? 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z
The mendicant world they wander through — stalked by starvation, illness, prejudice and evil — is all too real to anyone attuned to the predicament of displaced children. A Trove of Continental Fiction Explores Loss 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z
The agencies find themselves in a predicament not unlike the various unions that took a tough stand against the studios to maximize the revenue their content derived from still-untested digital platforms. People magazine iPad app delayed by paparazzi 2010-08-18T07:53:00Z
Single and with her biological clock ticking away, Marianne notes the irony of her romantic predicament. Review | Michel Bussi’s thriller ‘The Double Mother’ twists, then twists again 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z
It’s a predicament that strikes me as an exaggerated version of Oates’s own.” ArtsBeat: Joyce Carol Oates Wants To Clear Things Up About 'Mudwoman' 2012-06-08T19:57:02Z
“But a nearby passenger saw my predicament and offered to switch seats.” Do airlines treat pets on planes better than human passengers?
Whether Leonard is the kindly schoolteacher and reluctant prophet he claims to be or the leader of a small and lethal doomsday cult, he tries to be sensitive to the predicament of his captives. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z
Olsson noted that Gurnah’s tone is “disillusioned and often austere,” but “he is a compassionate observer of the human predicament,” particularly in his portraits of young orphaned people and Black women. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z
“I’m the Girl” begins with Georgia lost in thought as she’s caught in a vile predicament. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z
The show, first produced in 1970, previously centered on a man contemplating his single life as he turns 35; this version, directed by Marianne Elliott, puts a woman in the same predicament. A ‘Strange’ Wind Blowing: Tony Voters Like ‘Loop’ and ‘Lehman’ 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z
The play is partly about the predicament of Molly. Molly Sweeney – review 2013-04-03T17:44:56Z
Exploring the pathos of Charlie’s predicament would give the story emotional integrity, but that would mean taking Charlie more seriously — and make for a less funny novel. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z
In case you ever find yourself in a similar predicament, we've rounded up 19 of our best Prosecco cocktails below for the chillier weather — and spring and summer, too. 19 Prosecco cocktails for when you need a lil’ bubbly 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z
He respects their individuality and the specific life-or-death predicament each must face. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z
The idea, she said, using a phrase that has become something of a mantra for the show, “is to hold history as a predicament, rather than an affirming myth.” ‘1776’ in 2022: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of a Dual Reality 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z
Jack later sees similarities in their predicament to that of Shakespeare’s Gertrude and Claudius. A Minister’s Troubled Son Takes Center Stage in Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Jack’ 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z
Erin Raines, a designer in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, said that living-room seating arrangement is a predicament for the majority of her clients at Space 3 Interiors. Small-space living: The best accent chairs for small spaces
Korzhavin’s was a brutal predicament, of which he was mercilessly aware. “Every Day I Wake Up in a Strange Land”: Remembering the Russian Poet Naum Korzhavin 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z
Sometimes the predicament is weather-related: The opening episode covered people who were exploring a cave in Australia when a freakish storm caused flash flooding. Critic’s Notebook: Nature Is a Threat in ‘Tornado Alley’ and ‘Will to Live’ 2014-04-25T19:03:32Z
Despite this lack, "The Internet's Own Boy" paints a convincing picture of how its subject got into a predicament that one person aptly characterizes as something that would be "absurd if it wasn't tragic." Tragic story of a true believer in 'The Internet's Own Boy' 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z
Biracial teens Grant Lee and Chanti Reif show the predicament of wrestling with identities in a time of life defined by expectation. Smart Watch: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” Ava DuVernay’s “August 28″ and more top TV thi... 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z
"Who wants miserable, miserable, more miserable? Even if that's all you can see or the predicament of the life you're living in, I think that's what people out here do. You know, misery loves comedy." 'Misery loves comedy' in 'Tangerine,' a seriocomic film about trans sex workers 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z
This is lean, mean storytelling, focused on the characters, their setting and their predicament. Pick of the week: Matthew McConaughey's terrific legal thriller 2011-03-18T01:01:00Z
By means of that unhinged premise, “Braindead” evoked the true scale of our national predicament. Fighting “The Good Fight” 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z
Rio's story is based on the predicament of one of these, Spix's Macaw. Rio's extinction fears are for the birds 2011-04-11T09:48:52Z
The work, all on an urban theme and in a variety of media, adds up to a contemporary take on the privileges enjoyed and predicaments suffered by 21st-century city dwellers. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z
I didn’t catch what it was advertising when I passed it the other day, but I did wonder if Miles Daly, when he sees it, recognizes its relevance to his predicament. Review: For ‘Get Shorty,’ an Amusing Epix Makeover 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z
Based on Suzanne Collins’s books, her bleak predicament chimed with young audiences and spawned three sequels. ‘I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe’: what Blade Runner 2049’s dystopia tells us about 2017 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z
We are in our current predicament, with worse to come, because too few people have taken it seriously. Review: In ‘Dimanche,’ a Climate Emergency Comes to Stay 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z
Deborah Frank, executive vice president of Frank Theaters, understands the predicament. Resort Towns Face a Last Picture Show 2012-08-24T22:27:29Z
Others are skewered and, well, blithely oblivious to their predicament. What a pretty picture ... OMG, what's happening in it, you'll ask, at 2 Seattle shows 2010-09-16T22:24:00Z
These plot points allow the conversation to drift occasionally toward topics like Hegel’s and Kierkegaard’s theories of tragedy, which touch on the predicament of choice. Review | Knockout acting in Studio’s play of a marriage on the rocks 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z
But Mr. Walker was glad she did, and his method may work for those who find themselves in a similar predicament in the days between now and Election Day. The Uninvited Guest: The 2016 Campaign Crashes the Dinner Party 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z
In keeping with Eddie’s predicament — and the drug has its downsides, of course — “Limitless” has a little too much on its mind. | 'Limitless': A Simple Prescription for Superior Powers 2011-03-17T21:59:56Z
In the Observer, Benjamin Markovits found it "puzzling" and "odd" but praised it wanly as "a somewhat magical escape act ... he invents new predicaments, chapter by chapter, and resolves them". Book reviews roundup: The Childhood of Jesus, Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters and Who Owns the Future? 2013-03-08T16:00:02Z
Mr. Baker imbues the character with a tormented single-mindedness that neatly defines his predicament. Review: In ‘God of Vengeance,’ a Nice Jewish Family Lives Above a Brothel 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z
Which gives rise to another story flaw that the script turns into a running gag: How does Roy get out of this predicament? Cruise crashes in nonsensical "Knight and Day" 2010-06-20T19:34:00Z
But when he gets involved with the wife of a thief who needs to do that fabled "one last job," Gosling finds himself in the classic lone wolf’s predicament. Eastwood, Wayne, Gosling -- Hollywood's lone wolves 2011-09-17T00:01:00Z
Given that predicament, humanity has just one hope to avoid what the military calls “the ‘gray goo’ scenario” that would kill everyone on Earth: Project Wildfire. Review | Michael Crichton’s classic thriller ‘The Andromeda Strain’ gets a deadly sequel 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z
Human Identity Actor and mime Christopher Vened explores the human predicament in this solo show. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 15-22: 'End of the Rainbow' and more 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z
The animals’ faces are highly expressive: The two in the center almost appear to be chatting about their predicament. ‘Mutiny: Works by Géricault’ Review: Equine Passions and Anxieties 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z
First, such a list is far too long, and a primary purpose of PST: Solo LA would be to diminish the number of overlooked artists, not repeat the predicament. What's next for the Getty's Pacific Standard Time? This critic has an idea 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z
A character who is black, mentally ill and hasn’t been swallowed up by their predicament is a rarity on TV. Orange Is the New Black stars: 'I couldn't watch. I had to turn away' 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z
It isn't a predicament I feel much sympathy for but I believe it exists and should be allowed to be expressed. The Killer Inside Me: can the violence be justified? 2010-06-12T23:06:00Z
The two friends grow up and experience the classic predicaments and struggles of girlhood: They fight with their parents, fall in love — sometimes with the wrong people — and agonize over the trajectory of their futures. Review | Naomi Krupitsky’s ‘The Family’ is a Mafia tale with a unique perspective 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z
The cases are riveting, yet the biggest mystery of “Rogue Lawyer” is how Grisham can still devise all these distinctive characters, tricky legal predicaments and roguishly cheating ways to worm out of them. Best mystery books and thrillers of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z
At least her response to her predicament provides one of the film's few satisfying moments. "Those Who Wish Me Dead" wastes Angelina Jolie's action chops in a film that's more smoke than fire 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z
Once the guests awaken to the horror of their predicament, their chatter subsides into grim introspection. Movie Review: ‘First Winter,’ a Benjamin Dickinson Film 2012-11-16T00:09:10Z
Their focuses often converge upon predicaments of preternaturally smart, Jewish women. Review | Reading Nicole Krauss’s ‘To Be a Man’ feels like talking all night with a brilliant friend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z
I’d be imprisoned that way for the rest of my pointless life, conscious of my predicament and helpless to change it. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z
In one sequence during “All Play and No Work,” a woman at a business meeting is faced with a similar predicament, except that “she handles the situation in the worst possible way.” Worcester playwright hopes for success in debut 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z
The film moves briskly though the phases of his predicament. ‘Mogul Mowgli’ Review: Rapping for Dear Life 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z
The magnitude of my predicament seemed apparent to everyone around me. So ?Lost? Is Over: Now What?s to Be Found? 2011-01-28T14:32:47Z
For many in that circle, Birdsong’s predicament echoed that of Ballard, who had ended up on welfare after being fired from the Supremes. The Family of a Former Supreme Battles for Control of Her Life 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z
The comic scenarios, usually starring a neatly dressed Mr. Étaix, are fanciful yet grounded in emotional predicaments. Pierre Étaix Is Honored at Film Forum 2012-10-14T02:03:03Z
One artist who squarely addresses the political predicament is Stephanie Syjuco, 43, a Bay Area resident who was born in the Philippines and immigrated to this country when she was 3. What’s New in Photography? Humanism, MoMA Says 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z
Henry’s wife, Aminta, under the guise of “Timidia,” will mimic a quiet young thing, then, once “married,” turn into a termagant, thereby enabling Henry to extricate his uncle from the predicament, and gaining his favor. Review: 'A Silent Woman' With a Big Voice 2010-07-27T11:30:00Z
W. Kamau Bell opens "We Need to Talk About Cosby," his tour de force documentary series by identifying with a predicament shared by millions. The excellent "We Need to Talk About Cosby" skilfully opens a necessary, uncomfortable conversation 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z
Monroe had always been fond of dogs and recognised their tragic predicament, by turns fawned on and kicked, just like her. The Life and Opinions of Maf the?Dog and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe by Andrew O'Hagan 2010-05-07T23:11:00Z
Human Identity Actor and mime Christopher Vened explores the human predicament in this solo show. L.A. theater openings, Feb. 8-15: 'The Temptation of St. Antony' and more 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z
Snow" or "Advice for Travellers", that hover between pessimism and hope, and the potential of language to articulate this predicament: "All founded on / nothing, like you / said. Poetry in brief - reviews 2011-08-12T21:55:08Z
However, many guests did not wear masks, a troubling predicament. What’s it like to go on vacation during a pandemic? I went to a newly reopened resort to find out. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z
It is a predicament that mayors of many cities would welcome. All that jazz 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z
“What was his conception of his condition, and his predicament as a slave?” He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z
"It just quickly switched to the worst predicament." A$AP Rocky: 'We're grungy but we live like rock stars' 2012-06-01T23:04:00Z
In several scenes, the cartoon cows comment on their predicaments and on the humans around them. Review: In ‘The Wanted 18,’ Palestinians Hide Cows From Israeli Forces 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z
Because I loved that scene so much — not because of the necrophilia — but watching the character discover a solution to his predicament. James Franco: “If people have Franco fatigue, they should stop paying attention” 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z
Tokyo's predicament is only the latest and most extreme example of the way host cities tend to lose interest by the time these events happen. Anger in Tokyo over the Summer Olympics is the latest example of how unpopular hosting has become 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z
Collectively sharing stories is how these characters cope with their predicament. At La Jolla Playhouse, 'Last Tiger in Haiti' still finding its footing 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z
As the actor poses questions, smiling wryly, the camera appears to be paying Cyclopean attention to its hot-seat predicament. ‘Prism’ Review: Taking a Clear View of Bias in Moviemaking 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z
Cynthia Hawkins, in fact, is such a redolently African American name that it seems especially odd that she isn’t more upset about her predicament. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z
The 16th president’s holiday predicament is just one of many plotlines in “A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration,” the overstuffed and sentimental entertainment now at 1st Stage. Review | ‘A Civil War Christmas’ at 1st Stage is overstuffed, feel-good holiday fare 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z
David explains his predicament, and Betsey marches him indoors, unlocks a press, uncorks some bottles, and pours some of the contents of each into his mouth – as restoratives. Literary aunts: the good, the bad and the ugly 2011-03-25T13:43:17Z
As usual, a predicament of choice is likely to strike New Yorkers in search of Halloween entertainment. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z
His spectral faces, fused with the shuddering cosmos, suggest the human predicament in these stormy times. Martin Creed's stairway to?heaven 2011-08-01T20:31:00Z
The doctor grunted, as if he couldn’t imagine how I’d gotten myself into this predicament. The Loneliness of the Locked-Down Single Mother 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z
Both novels are inspiring, not in spite of Tambu’s hopeless situation but because through it all she never loses sight of herself while, at the same time, never underestimating the brutal reality of her predicament. 30 Years After Her Acclaimed Debut, a Zimbabwean Novelist Returns to Her Heroine in a Sequel 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
No offense to Scooby and his snacks, but Courage doesn’t need to be bribed or coerced to act, and he doesn’t resolve his frightening predicaments because of selfishness or a hero complex. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Courage the Cowardly Dog’ 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z
Her bitter excoriations of their predicament are often howlingly funny, and Ms. Graynor can snarl out a crude insult with delicious stylishness. ‘American Hero’ Finds Comedy in a Fast-Food Franchise 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z
For example, if a black person is in jail only because a white supremacist drug policy was put in place the solution to his predicament is very simple. “Republicans are not in any way serious about criminal justice reform or ending police brutality”: Michael Fortner on race, the Clintons and the crime bill 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z
Pruitt, 44, wanted to help people who might be in such a predicament. His bike was stolen in Virginia. His response was to collect bikes to fix and give away to people in need. 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z
No matter how tragic their predicament, she exhorts them to be their “best, most gigantic self,” that “every last one of us can do better than give up.” Cheryl Strayed: “Tackle love” 2012-07-08T01:00:00Z
Rather than speak to or deal with their significant other, people post their predicaments online and let strangers tell them how to repair or escape their relationships. From "Love Is Blind" to "The Circle," the new breed of reality TV reformulates how we connect 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z
The Long Wharf Theater is presenting Samuel Beckett’s “Endgame,” one of his seminal, bleakly comic but highly stylized dramatic emblems of the human predicament. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z
That’s Samuel’s essential quandary, and it’s the predicament of all Foreman characters. Theater Review: Richard Foreman’s ‘Old-Fashioned Prostitutes’ 2013-05-08T02:00:01Z
Faithful to formula, his stock characters face unlikely predicaments that are resolved through familiar plot devices. From Drug Cartels to the Mafia, Crime Runs in the Family 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z
Winnie's predicament may be preposterous, but there's nothing contrived about Adams' flesh and blood portrayal. Beckett classic 'Happy Days' on superb ground at Boston Court 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z
After returning home with a stuffed suitcase, Ms. Novick was faced with the predicament that confronts every U.A.L. shopper: tell her friends or keep it a secret? Is This the Best-Kept Secret in Fashion? 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z
Compassionate officials addressed the predicament by lowering the income cutoff to qualify for public housing. A New Look at the New Deal’s Legacy of Public Housing 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z
So I offer my two solutions to those with the same predicament and hope Miss Manners approves. Perspective | Miss Manners: Responses to ‘How are you?’ when you’re anything but fine 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z
And did not address head-on the Black predicament. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z
The climax is the stage at which the protagonist finds release from their seemingly inescapable predicament. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z
But once the surgeon wriggled out of that predicament, the story lost its dramatic tension and fizzled, a victim of preposterous characters with ludicrous motives. Television Review: In ‘Crisis,’ on NBC, Children of Rich and Powerful Are Taken 2014-03-14T22:12:34Z
After the wreck, she never ages — a predicament that has kept her from maintaining long-term romantic relationships. Blake Lively balances baby, Preserve lifestyle site and 'Age of Adaline' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z
Global Citizen’s productions — it has presented annual all-star concerts in Central Park since 2012 — hammer home messages about worldwide predicaments and relief efforts between acts. Pop Music Faces the Coronavirus in Prime Time 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z
Elmaleh searched for the words to describe the predicament he had willingly put himself in. Gad Elmaleh’s Translated Comedy 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z
A common pitfall is the white love interest appearing as a savior, swooping down to free the protagonist from her predicament. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z
After Lindsay challenges Wesley’s ability to understand her predicament, he steps in to help her and her young daughter. What’s on TV Monday: A Penn and Teller Special and ‘Good Deeds’ 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z
At first they respond to their predicament as miners might. Review: In ‘Butcher Holler Here We Come,’ Tensions Down in the Hole 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z
The disgraced American swimmer and the disgraced American candidate found themselves in similar predicaments this week. Ryan Lochte, Donald Trump and the steep decline of American democracy 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z
"None of it really brought closure to this predicament that led to this most recent event." Lawyer says Lohan committed to turning life around 2013-02-27T20:13:11Z
And consider working in future with headhunters, who Leonard says are better “attuned to the employee’s predicament” and need for discretion when conducting their due diligence. @Work Advice: Keeping confidences, or not 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z
“S.N.L.” also used its Weekend Update news segment to lampoon Trump’s legal predicament, as well as the reactions of his political supporters and rivals. ‘Saturday Night Live’ Tackles the Trump Indictment 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z
Literature provides an oblique line of approach to the awful complexities of his predicament, to Nasreen's apparently motiveless malice. Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked by James Lasdun – review 2013-02-16T14:00:01Z
He had especially kind words for Adams, tasked with conveying Margaret's predicament with little dialogue. 'Big Eyes' the latest in Tim Burton's gallery of pop-art portraits 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z
The predicament of the pickers — who the author Eric Schlosser suggests in the film may constitute one facet of “a new peasantry” — is more than enough to move and shame us. ‘Food Chains,’ on Tomato Pickers’ Efforts to Break Free 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z
One observer in this novel refers to its predicament as “Lucy and Ethel Do Euthanasia.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z
A medieval yet timeless mood prevails; the fragile predicament of Israel is enacted in terms that Bosch or Bruegel would recognize. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z
Professional pianists across the city faced the same predicament. Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z
To write his own predicament into the story. Philip Roth Versus the Movies 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z
In the “Twilight” world his predicament —animal hunger in perpetual conflict with human feeling — might have made a little more sense. 2010-02-11T22:49:00Z
The juxtaposition of the father’s predicament with the son’s makes for some powerful scenes, but it also exposes Ms. Bier’s programmatic intentions and schematic methods. | 'In a Better World': A Do-Gooder Vision Clouded by Blind Spots 2011-03-31T22:22:34Z
That was the final turning point of me taking full responsibility for myself, letting go of blaming other individuals for my own predicament. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z
Burbs: You present a few clues to your predicament, but don’t provide details. Perspective | Ask Amy: Man finds that living with his folks isn’t a turn-on 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z
“Love detains me, my honor summons me,” Rinaldo sings in Haydn’s version, neatly describing his predicament. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z
Klay succeeds brilliantly, capturing on an intimate scale the ways in which the war in Iraq evoked a unique array of emotion, predicament and heartbreak. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: ‘Redeployment’ 2014-03-07T17:00:06Z
His lens is steadily trained on Corey’s predicament, Gloria’s failing body or the peculiar friendship that develops between Leonard and Adrian. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z
The West Wing’s creator, Aaron Sorkin, was recently asked about the US’s predicament. How Donald Trump has blown the White House drama out of the water 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z
The president’s cavalier obfuscation of the pandemic was always going to put us in this exact predicament: Legions of Americans are dead and the White House itself is a hot spot. The president is sick but his followers feel great 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z
But for your girlfriend, her anxiety about her predicament may loom larger than cash. Should I Bankroll My New, Socially Distant Girlfriend? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z
Mark Warren, managing editor of the student travel guides Let’s Go and a Harvard senior, is all too familiar with this predicament. Q&A: Travel Tips for Students, From a Student 2012-11-22T21:43:04Z
Miller, of course, is an ordinary fighter rather than an amnesiac superassassin, but his predicament is not so different from Jason Bourne’s. Movie Review | 'Green Zone': Matt Damon Searches for That Casualty of War, Truth 2010-03-11T23:32:00Z
In an author’s note, Hammond writes that she saw in the story of the real Sealand “a metaphor for the human predicament.” Review: In ‘Terra Firma,’ a Wee Wet Country on the Brink 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z
“It’s a predicament in the art world right now,” Mr. Eccles, who is also on the board of the Keith Haring Foundation, said. Whaam! Pow! Lichtenstein Foundation Starts to Wind Down With Big Gifts 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z
But the show is fast-moving enough to keep young viewers interested — two adventures are crammed into each half-hour — and it’s not shy about putting Miles and Loretta in gently life-threatening predicaments. ‘Miles From Tomorrowland’ on Disney Junior 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z
And so, whether I like it or not — and to be honest, I don’t really mind — I find myself ensnared in a low-key version of one of his favorite predicaments. ‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin? 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z
Near the very end of “The Last Cruise,” Christine laughs “with a jaunty hilarity that was completely at odds with their predicament.” Review | A famous ship gets a stormy send-off in ‘The Last Cruise’ 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z
Trapped in that predicament, he becomes a slick expert at procuring incidents and details by other means: He steals them. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z
“No Ordinary Family” tries to insert comic-book characters and predicaments into everyday Los Angeles. | 'No Ordinary Family': Using Paranormal Skills to Battle on the Home Front 2010-09-27T15:41:00Z
He does well to disentangle which aspects of China’s predicament are distinct. Chronicle of a death foretold 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z
"It was set up by the predicament that Stannis was in. It will be awful to see, but it's supposed to be awful." 'Game of Thrones'' latest death-by-burning sequence heats up fans 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z
Mr. Redstone’s hostile manner of conducting business and his tendency to go it alone may have also contributed to his late-life predicament. In the New Hollywood, Sumner Redstone Is a Man Out of Time 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z
A few years ago Larry Beinhart, author of the novel “Wag the Dog,” came out with a little book called “Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin,” which talked about this predicament. 'The Newsroom' Recap: Enter the Love Police 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z
Diegel, chairman of the Silver Spring Arts and Entertainment District Advisory Committee, sat on a task force last year that addressed Montgomery County’s big First World predicament: It’s not cool. Could a new wave of boutique coffee, beer and bao buns remake ‘Silver Sprung’? 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z
It’s a predicament that gives a whole new meaning to Heather Has Two Mommies. Review | Hervé Le Tellier’s ‘The Anomaly’ has already sold a million copies in France. It should take off here, too. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z
In Tom’s case, the expansion is subtle, largely a matter of giving him the dignity of voicing his own predicament. Review: A Broadway ‘Mockingbird,’ Elegiac and Effective 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z
This is an intimate, improvised, almost totally plotless and resolutely non-commercial exploration of middle-class English life, which in a strange way symbolizes the predicament facing auteur-oriented cinema in general and this festival in particular. Best of Cannes: "Another Year" with Mike Leigh 2010-05-17T16:15:00Z
To understand the predicament that Plaquemines is in, you have to go back to prehistory, during which, for thousands of years, the river flooded regularly. At the Mouth of the Mississippi, a Weird and Fragile Beauty 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z
Addressing high stakes — the degree to which agribusiness controls our food supply — in an extremely low key, Johnson uses one family’s plight to illustrate the predicament of an entire industry. ‘Percy vs Goliath’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z
But Will’s deeper predicament is that he truly understands the unearthly pleasure of discipleship. Review | ‘The Incendiaries’ is the most buzzed-about debut of the summer, as it should be 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z
Mr. Perry’s latest film touches upon some recognizable and realistic challenges with efficient compassion, but there’s probably more dramatic tension in a car pool than in this film’s collection of predicaments. Movie Review: Motley Group Vents in ‘Tyler Perry’s The Single Moms Club’ 2014-03-14T22:19:49Z
Thanks to Dan Jones's savvy sound design we can hear the distant bangs of desperation from the Kursk crew, without actually having to invest in sharing their deadly predicament. Immersive theatre: take us to the edge, but don't throw us in 2010-04-07T15:28:00Z
There are convoluted schemes, terrible predicaments, unlikely redemptions and piles of dirty laundry. What Happened When Kelly Yang Moved ‘Back Where She Came From’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z
“Tightrope” begins two years after the end of its predecessor, “Trapeze,” which left Marian in a terrifying Nancy Drew-style predicament on the last page. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z
With songs like "Stuck With You," "Who Will Love Me As I Am" and "All in the Mind," they draw the audience into their predicament. Step right up for a revival of bizarre world of 'Side Show' on Broadway 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z
They all agree that it’s a tricky predicament. A friend told me that my husband was having an affair. I didn’t want to know 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z
Charles, who unfortunately has a longtime girlfriend, Camilla Parker Bowles, who even more unfortunately has a husband, takes up the refrain, musing on his predicament: He is about to propose to someone he barely knows. Another Go for Charles and Di, This Time With Music 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
It’s a predicament Field knows all too well. With ‘Tár,’ Todd Field Returns to Directing. Where Has He Been? 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z
In college I took a women’s studies class and intellectualized my mother’s predicament. Modern Love: Did Mother, Maybe, Not Know Best? 2014-02-06T23:27:15Z
But friends said that he is in an impossible predicament, conflicted over his sense of duty about being a loyal father and his concern as a citizen that President Trump is bad for America. Robert Mnuchin Would Rather Not Discuss His Client (or His Son) 2019-05-19T04:00:00Z
The plot twists are easily guessed, and the film goes on for one predicament too long, but there are some good laughs. Movie Review: Cruising and Cracking Up in ‘Ride Along’ 2014-01-17T00:09:16Z
“The Crown” makes an effort to dramatize the Prince of Wales’s defining predicament—as O’Connor put it, “the idea that he’s waiting for his mother to die so that his life can really begin.” Can “The Crown” Make Us Crush on Prince Charles? 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z
A second goal for Liverpool rendered Roma’s predicament completely hopeless. Perspective | The World Cup will show us soccer is more than just thrilling. It’s art. 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z
But “Fly Me to the Moon” is maddeningly overwritten, to the point that your sympathy and amusement at the women’s predicament gradually shades into irritation and exasperation. Theater Review: ‘Fly Me to the Moon,’ With the 1st Irish Festival 2012-09-13T02:00:00Z
She chooses to write about her best friend Maddie, a RAF pilot who flew the mission with her, pouring out her heart by flashing back to their joint history and detailing her current predicament. Lenore Appelhans's top 10 books featuring flashbacks 2013-01-17T12:35:11Z
The play, Woollcott continued, “unfolds the really frightfully annoying predicament in which a decorative little mollusk of an Englishwoman finds herself.” Weekend Entertainments From the Archives of The New York Times 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z
It’s a terrible predicament to be in, but is he hiding something? 12 New Books We’re Reading This Summer (and 6 Not So New) 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z
But, she added, Welles sympathized with gay people and understood their predicament in the pre-liberation days. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z
The juxtaposition of hard, geometric shapes and this more indeterminate imagery is an analog, not only for Antigone’s predicament, but for the way text works. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z
Drawing from history, politics and literature, the author looks at the predicament Jewish people face from contemporary anti-Semitism and hostility toward Israel. NW Books: A look at contemporary anti-Semitism 2012-12-10T22:16:00Z
His predicament has nearly become amusing to him; he has been bested, but still regards his attacker with woeful, wanting eyes. Harry Belafonte and the Social Power of Song 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z
They worried about the country’s predicament: assassinated leaders, civil rights showdowns, police crackdowns, Vietnam. Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z
But it was about people in an unusual spiritual predicament, summed up by the passage from Job that Matt asks Kevin to read when he buries Patti. Review: The Leftovers Season Finale: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z
I’m sure we’ll be seeing mind-boggling leaps with great moral predicaments in this area very soon. Christoph Niemann’s “Evolution” 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z
The generosity was amazing, except for the predicament it’s put me in. Carolyn Hax: This diamond ring doesn’t mean what it did before 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z
But teens are nonetheless stuck in a shared predicament, and they have put the rest of the world on notice that they have no intention of going down easy. New York’s Climate Strike and the Things That Make Teen-Agers March 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z
“It was set-up by the predicament that Stannis was in. It will be awful to see, but it’s supposed to be awful.” 'Game of Thrones' Showrunner on the Horrifying Death Scene: 'It's Supposed to Be Awful' 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z
He went on to quote Green's observation that "there is the thing itself, and then there is the predicament of its cavity". David Foster Wallace memoir gathers acclaim 2013-06-05T14:28:41Z
Or is her predicament like the game code she writes at work, simply a matter of some bug in the universe’s program? Review | There’s a twist in ‘Russian Doll’ that keeps it from becoming ‘Groundhog Day’ for hipsters 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z
Religion he sees, rightly, as a poetic response to the world and our predicament in it. The Silence of Animals by John Gray – review 2013-02-15T10:20:01Z
Swanson’s a lost soul, but it’s impossible to care about his predicament. Be warned: ‘The Comedy’ stinks | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:04:42Z
Here in 2020, as the spring of our anxiety gives way to the summer of our discontent, we face a similar predicament. Let Books Create Your Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z
In spite of our predicament, we felt uniquely privileged – this was a view that belonged to us alone, a place where no tourist had ever set foot. 'My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z
Footage filmed by one of Cole’s friends, however, seems to indicate that, while they were certainly concerned, they were also extremely amused by her predicament. College student gets stuck in clothes dryer after having a few drinks: 'I will never stop making fun of her' 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z
At age 58, Ann Patty found herself in an unexpected predicament. Finding meaning late in life without ‘Eat Pray Love’ 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z
And by his predicament I mean, here is a guy who wants what we all want: He wants to love and be loved. James Franco: “If people have Franco fatigue, they should stop paying attention” 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z
He then called police to report that he was trapped in the luggage compartment of the moving bus, and even shared his predicament on an Instagram story, Ynet reported. American traveler in Tel Aviv gets stuck in cargo hold of moving bus, shares plight in Instagram story 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z
Casting no judgment, he simply presents us with a single portrait of one young woman, in a predicament of her own choosing, and his style, like the demeanor of his star, remains masterfully calm. Movies 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z
Mr. Gilfix drew on his own experience to cosset Ms. Golosker, transforming her predicament into something very romantic, she said, as both were attuned to the fragility of life. For a Romance in Revival, Dual Diagnoses Were a Common Bond 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z
“Trust me,” she said, “I’m in a major predicament.” Generation B: Time, It Turns Out, Isn?t on Their Side 2010-03-12T02:14:00Z
The stresses and peculiarities of his predicament leave Nothomb “disgusted, amazed, and dazzled.” ‘Life Form’: a fan’s notes to a novelist 2013-02-06T23:32:45Z
By spending time alongside her, in her shoes, discovering Frank, and you can't help but empathize with her predicament one way or another, whether she's making choices you want her to make or not. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z
Loeffler’s predicament was exacerbated by the appearance that she was part of a pattern. The young and eventful Senate career of wealthy Georgia businesswoman Kelly Loeffler 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z
And among the many contributions to the dissection of our current predicament, this is surely one of the most thought-provoking. Merchant, Soldier, Sage: A New History of Power by David Priestland – review 2012-08-23T09:40:01Z
Plus, Alasdair Gray considers his own predicament in verse, and muses about the vote for Scottish independence. Guardian Books podcast: Ned Beauman and Alasdair Gray at Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012-08-15T07:35:10Z
Many post-industrial villages across Europe find themselves in a similar predicament, after all. 'We're surrounded by people making things': Finland's artists-only village 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z
Before this can happen, though, Thomas uses his wits to find out just a tiny bit about his past and why they heck he and his mates are in this predicament in the first place. The Maze Runner review – the acting's great. Shame about the rest of it 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z
Here we are, years later, in a different predicament, but obviously America and the world in general are facing many challenges. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z
Among them is the predicament of being “constantly available for being ‘hit on.’ ” Field Notes: The Facebook Ring: Why Wear It, and When? 2011-02-04T16:40:03Z
As she writes: Nikki and Frank’s predicament is not an isolated incident. Motherlode: When a Sex Offender Isn't 2011-07-13T19:31:18Z
Whether from affluent or poor homes, whether hideously mistreated or just averagely neglected, this is the human predicament. Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011-03-27T00:05:57Z
Youssef's predicament will raise new questions about freedom of expression in Egypt, the most populous Arab state. Top Egyptian TV comic says show pulled off air 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z
Nor does he compare Muslims’ fates with the predicament of other migrants — Polish workers in England were, after all, a major target of Brexiteers — or the situation of Christians in the Middle East. Can Islamic and European Civilizations Coexist? 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z
“You see my predicament?” he asks at one point. John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z
In many ways, Vince Gilligan and his creative team share a predicament with their fictional construct, and both run the risk of believing in their own press. “Breaking Bad,” Season five, episode one: The end begins 2012-07-16T11:15:00Z
Gault, still as slim as when he played wide receiver for the Bears, faced a bit of a predicament. Chicagoans in Hollywood celebrate far from home 2012-03-06T09:31:07Z
Her shows also have a signature image: Ms. Sasamoto inside or under or atop one of the many sculptural objects that litter the stage, talking away as if there were nothing unusual about her predicament. Dance Review: Aki Sasamoto’s ‘Sunny in the Furnace,’ at the Kitchen 2014-03-07T23:16:54Z
Then, as he grew older, depictions of small-town life and the predicament of ordinary Americans finding themselves in a world they no longer understood, became a subject he kept returning to. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z
Like other Americans, Czolgosz sought reasons for and answers to his and the country's economic predicament. 'The President and the Assassin': when ruthless capitalism and radical anarchy collided 2011-06-09T20:09:05Z
The metaphor ignores the real predicament in segregated neighborhoods and dismisses residents as mere anonymous war casualties. We are not Chiraq: Yes, Chicago has too many murders, but labeling us with terms like “war zone,” “Chiraq” and “urban terrorism” doesn’t help 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z
Richards sensed that the reason for their flight from Britain was not just to do with their dire financial predicament. Exile on Main St 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z
The decision was wrenching, Tokuda-Hall said, but she turned Scholastic down and went public, describing her predicament in a blog post and a Twitter post that drew more than five million views. Asked to Delete References to Racism From Her Book, an Author Refused 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z
Ms. Burshtein emphasizes both the loneliness of her heroine’s predicament and its implications for those closest to her. Movie Review: ‘Fill the Void,’ Directed by Rama Burshtein 2013-05-23T21:43:35Z
That said, it isn’t fair to single out Anselmo here, as many other celebrities have handled this type of predicament in a similar fashion. Not another weak celebrity apology: This hollow public ritual desperately needs an overhaul 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z
The parental partnership, an intellectual romance and a romance between intellectuals, is conveyed with graceful efficiency in the first part of the movie, which also sketches Meg’s predicament. Review: ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Gives a Child of the Universe Powerful Friends 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z
“But not until now have we had all four at the same time,” says Lieberman, who calls the Jan. 6 hearings a “mesmerizing” indication of our predicament. The Jan. 6th hearings: Was the finale just the beginning? 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z
Like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle whose picture has long been lost, each scene promises a solution to the children’s predicament if we can only find its place within the whole. ‘Skinamarink’ Review: Night Terrors 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z
Isabel knows something she doesn’t know she knows, which makes her predicament all the more nerve-racking when her foiled kidnappers are found shot to death, execution style. Damsels in Distress — or Causing It 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z
There are dire predicaments that she has to come to terms with and predicaments that she can't even envision beyond the scholarship even as it relates to friends and friendship. "Sex Lives" star Pauline Chalamet on civic duty: "We have to pay attention to our democracy" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z
Nadia, who sleeps on a couch in the living room, describes their predicament as “difficult”, but she’s trying to put a positive spin on quarantine. 'I’m so starved for human touch': a hell of its own for single people living with couples 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z
It goes barreling through assorted predicaments — romantic, footloose, violent, absurd — with amusement buttressed by grit. Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper’s Wholesome Team-Up, and 10 More New Songs 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z
It is impossible to read anything in 2017, or write anything, without thinking of America’s political and moral predicament. Soft Children Confront a Hard World in Maile Meloy’s New Novel 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z
I’m not unsympathetic to your predicament – much of what you describe will chime with others in long-term relationships – but there are some bigger issues here that’s it’s hard to ignore. Should I stay with my partner in our safe but loveless relationship? | Dear Mariella 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z
An illustrated tongue-in-cheek guide to navigating various predicaments. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z
Learn to observe people closely and analyse them accurately – their psychologies, predicaments and family lives; their fears, failings and aspirations. Want to be a theatre director? Here are my 10 top survival tips | John Caird 2010-03-23T12:12:00Z
No. So what if the Dark Skies characters call in an expert to help them understand their predicament, just like the Paranormal Activity characters did? Dark Skies trailer: pretty normal activity for Jason Blum 2012-11-28T12:59:59Z
That “Southland” has struggled speaks to a broader predicament in television. ?Southland? With Michael Cudlitz and Regina King on TNT 2012-03-16T16:10:35Z
The striking similarities between the Fab Four’s predicament and today’s devastating health crisis remain indubitably clear. In 1969 the fifth Beatle was heroin: John Lennon's addiction took its toll on the band 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z
If Victor were less of a cliché to begin with — if anyone in the movie, for that matter, were a credible character with an interesting inner life — his predicament might have some weight. Review: In ‘The Film Critic,’ a Snob Is Tripped Up by His Heartstrings 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z
He feels Salvados both reflects his predicament and opens his eyes on important issues. A hit TV show rises from the ashes of Spain's crisis 2013-04-11T11:39:34Z
These predicaments are as exaggerated as the bumbling homicidal response they inspire, but then again, in times like these, what are abused and humiliated workers going to do? | 'Horrible Bosses': A Treatise on Issues of the Workplace. Not. 2011-07-07T16:06:51Z
The predicament of the overburdened single parent sets in well before Ritchie disappears: ‘The Stranger on the Train,’ by Abbie Taylor
He’s thinking about becoming a pediatric oncologist to help kids in the same predicament he was – though sports management and theater also are appealing. Resilience Story: Forget about the leg, just watch him dance 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z
It doesn't rise above the sadness of its predicament, however. TV highlights 18/02/2013 2013-02-18T07:00:02Z
And their predicaments don’t so much deepen as thicken, with repetition substituting for exploration. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z
Wunmi Mosaku is excellent as the indentured servant seeking escape from her predicament, but the film is hobbled somewhat by confusing flashbacks and a narrative that burns slightly too slowly. I Am Slave 2010-08-30T05:45:00Z
I've always seen Williams in rather a different light: as a robust social commentator and a comic writer acutely aware of the absurdity of the human predicament. Tennessee Williams at 100: funnier than ever 2011-03-28T14:22:40Z
There's plenty in the predicament of vicars without having to lampoon faith or what the church aspires to. 'Vicars' lives are extraordinary' 2010-12-19T00:05:14Z
The film isn't really interested in exploring humanity's predicament; it wants to get on with singing that hymn to life. The Tree of Life is a colossal commercial 2011-07-11T10:18:14Z
Lyssa’s predicament, when she finds herself under fire over the jury summons, recalls the 1993 “Nannygate” brouhaha surrounding Bill Clinton’s first two nominees for attorney general. Review: Women’s Hard Choices, Cutting Deep at Williamstown Festival 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z
A tragic figure whose stoic demeanor masks a writhing pain within, Konieczny’s Dutchman rises above earthly concerns but rages with focused fury against the ever-fresh torments of his Sisyphean predicament. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z
It’s a predicament worthy of Dostoyevsky, and it’s an especially gruesome fate given that she was the one who conceived and pushed for the scheme against Howard. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 6, Episode 12 Recap: Hit the Road 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z
In some ways, the ethnic aisle sums up the predicament of its suppliers, many of whom approach store buyers without the money often needed to get their products on the shelf. Why Do American Grocery Stores Still Have an Ethnic Aisle? 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z
Meanwhile, a smaller car enters the drive-thru, seemingly unaware of the truck’s predicament. Truck driver in McDonald's drive-thru gets stuck, almost flattens car on his way out 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z
They focus on the characters and their predicaments, and on themes that are likely to be familiar and accessible to a broad range of viewers. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z
The challenge faced by transgender people — one of whom happens to be her child — vividly dramatized that universal predicament. Influenced by Her Children, Laurie Simmons Exits Her Comfort Zone 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z
Bloom takes this story seriously, but as the business hurtles toward disaster he also writes with a winking awareness of the absurdity of Iridium’s predicament. 'Eccentric Orbits' chronicles the stunning failure (and improbable revival) of the Iridium satellite phone 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z
But this, we learn in his memoir “Hollywood Park,” was far from the full story of his predicament. Review | From cult to Stanford to stardom: ‘Hollywood Park’ traces an indie rocker’s tumultuous path 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z
“Watching MacGyver try to gadget his way out of a predicament just makes you think, ‘Isn’t there an app for that?’” What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Exorcist’ Series and ‘Transparent’ 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z
Perhaps this is because the predicaments that define Trevor’s characters are never large enough to sustain novels, even when his relatively “small” characters are interesting enough to deserve them.  William Trevor explored the fictional possibilities of every type of person but himself 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
Meek Mill sees echoes of his experiences in Mr. Kraft’s current predicament. Robert Kraft Awaits Your Judgment: ‘I Am Truly Sorry’ 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z
They binge-eat, hate their children, burn down their houses, and exact revenge against their faithless husbands; often, they are to blame for their own predicaments. Habits of the House by Fay Weldon – review 2012-08-03T21:55:02Z
DeJoy endured the verbal beatings with a soft scowl, which often pinched into a light grimace, which sometimes flicked into an attempted eye roll — as if he couldn’t quite believe or stomach his predicament. Louis DeJoy was always his own boss. Whom does he serve now? 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z
This troubled me greatly, but Bill just laughed at my predicament, cracking wise. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: For a week I recorded my dreams. Here are my political prophecies. 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
But Barry's predicament is the scariest because he's a predator in survival mode with no clear mission, giving Hader new colors to paint with. "Barry" returns three years later and is funnier and darker than ever 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z
Her predicament parallels Attila’s growing sense that much of his own work is pusillanimous and dangerously indulgent. When a Young Immigrant Vanishes in London, Can a Wildlife Biologist Help? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z
But these men, in this predicament, are hardly up to the job. Review | Atticus Lish’s new novel is about manhood, but don’t expect to find any social commentary 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z
“It’s just ridiculous that this was an unspeakable concept for so long – that is why we are in the predicament we are in.” ‘People are finally talking about class’: Astra Taylor on US democracy, socialism and revolution 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z
The cheerful, ruddy hue of the laces adds pizazz to the absurdity of the predicament portrayed. Review: Seattle sculptor Humaira Abid blends dazzling craft, potent content in 'Red' 2011-04-07T19:31:11Z
Nude men and gods, twisting and writhing, were Bertoldo’s predicament and prize. In the Swim of Digital Images, There’s Nothing Boring About Sculpture 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z
Our culture, ever on the lookout for easy, unambiguous answers to the predicament of being flawed and often unhappy humans, is a sucker for all-encompassing, reductive paradigms like “addiction” and, more recently, “trauma.” Will We Ever Understand Addiction? 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z
Or, to extend the feeling into our current predicament, how long will this pandemic go on? Review: Reveling in Live Dance at Japan Society 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z
The sisters arrive one at a time and unpack their resentments, issues and predicaments. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z
The cliche outline of her predicament is something of an embarrassment to Hazel. The world has a really bad hair day in ‘The Blondes’ 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z
But for Haze, the surgery is the only way out of an unbearable predicament. ‘I just want to cut it off’: the weight-loss patients who no longer fit their skin 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z
Really, though, her predicament is simple: She wants to live on her own terms in a society where a woman’s freedom is tightly circumscribed by custom and expectation. Review: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ the Rom-Com 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z
Our predicaments are complex, so her works aim for some of the same intricacy, in both what they show us and how they do the showing. Rachel Rose, Driven by Distraction, Heads to the Whitney 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z
Another explores the predicament of Native Americans, whose nations forged whatever alliances might best preserve their sovereignty. The Battle for 1776 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z
But Finley’s financial predicament is relative in terms of actual hardship and access to power, and she wastes no time moving into Shane’s new mansion in the hills. ‘The L Word: Generation Q’ Review: New Vision, Old Blind Spots 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z
The subjects perform to camera at times, as if with an eye on future series of Celebrity Big Brother, but their candour and predicaments shine through eventually. TV highlights 08/03/2013 2013-03-08T07:00:05Z
Her predicament is both the stuff of high, swooning melodrama — the preferred “Twilight” mode — and traditional romantic comedy. | 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse': Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Smoldering 2010-06-29T19:23:00Z
Like her fellow progressive Mark Lilla, Ms. Gautney blames conservatism for this unhappy predicament rather than the left’s obsession with self-expression, but the practical relevance is the same. Blue States, Red Diapers, White Hair 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z
There is a certain, and I suppose endearing, Potter formula at work here: The protagonist misbehaves, is exposed to mortal danger, escapes the predicament and is chastened by it. Beatrix Potter died 73 years ago. Now she has a new book. What to make of it? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z
And the tragic poignancy of Violetta’s sacrifice when she agrees to give up Alfredo comes from her imagining that young woman’s predicament. Review: ‘La Traviata’ Opens a New Era at the Met Opera 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z
“Marie-Hélène and I had it potentially inside us until the moment came when we suddenly felt that there was something in it that was so close to our predicament today.” Portrait of the artist as an ageless man: At 92, Peter Brook treads a different path through 'The Mahabharata' 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z
But the narrative leavens their actions and predicaments with humanity — which is also the basis of comedy. 'Orange Is the New Black' Emmy nods a win for women 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z
By the time the closing credits roll, there is a lot we still don’t know about the predicament in which Joel and Ellie find themselves. ‘The Last of Us’ Season 1, Episode 4 Recap: Truck Stop 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z
For reasons that will soon become apparent, Benny might be the only person who can understand Kevin’s predicament. ‘Jethica’ Review: Slow Stalker 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z
Each year, there’s a new set of parents and grandparents in the same predicament, which explains why Teigen’s “Laugh-Out-Loud Jokes for Kids” hit No. 1 on Amazon last holiday season, too. Knock knock. Who's there? Amazon's best-selling holiday author 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z
With his older sister Elisabeth and his brother James at odds, and his father making gaffes that deepened the predicament, Lachlan was the peacemaker. Lachlan Murdoch takes control of Fox Corp. But how will he deal with President Trump? 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z
It’s the only time all three women are together, and we know each predicament and the way the harassment is experienced. “Bombshell” takes down Roger Ailes, but some audiences don’t want to see Fox News women humanized 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z
On the show, the winning baker faces this exact predicament when offered the opportunity to win bonus prize money: Guess which of two containers overflowing with cash is actual money, and which is cake. "Is It Cake?" feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z
The great thing about this episode was that the fans were in the same predicament as the characters: waiting to see if Glenn was dead or not. The Walking Dead: season six, episode five – Now 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z
“Even if it’s in the sense of a formal predicament, that a shape is at the edge of another or teetering into a different color.” At Bard, Amy Sillman’s Work Comments on the Art World 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z
After Mr. O’Brien’s open letter to the “people of earth” about his "very public predicament" was published via the PRNewswire on Tuesday afternoon, thousands of comments swamped entertainment and media Web sites. 2010-01-14T00:39:00Z
This soulful book honestly explores the predicament of a sensitive, inquisitive boy — the son of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings — who spent his life “owned” by his father, a founder of our democracy. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z
This weekend, on the 45th anniversary of its release, “The Godfather: Part II” will be screened in theaters across the country and Frankie Pentangeli’s predicament will be presented to a new generation of moviegoers. The Lore of ‘The Godfather’ Resurfaces at Roger Stone’s Trial 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z
So, what do you say to the baby people who regard your predicament as life’s pinnacle? Carolyn Hax: A parent who’s told the worst is yet to come 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z
But as their relationship blossomed, a predicament loomed: When her one-year clerkship in Manhattan ended in 2018, Ms. Weiner was planning to move to Washington to clerk for Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Following Their Hearts All the Way to the Supreme Court 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z
But the song that best captures Minaj’s predicament comes first: “All Things Go,” a somber confession that alludes to a rocky marriage, a teenage abortion and a string of strained relationships with her immediate family. What we talk about when we talk about Nicki Minaj, ‘The Pinkprint’ and pop music as conversation fuel 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z
For campuses that originally planned to open but then shut down, housing predicaments can accelerate relationships. College students are still finding romance in a pandemic, through Zoom crushes and actual dates 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z
If apocalypse was only near, then a space, a gap, a final chance for grasping at salvation might open up between our ordinary if crushing daily predicaments and impending but certain doom. 'Jim Shaw: The End Is Here' taps public's id in a weird, humorous way 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z
There’s a slightly more visible formula to the other storyline, although its protagonist remains as delicately drawn and the details of her predicament are lightly scattered, to put it mildly. The Girlfriend Experience: a welcome return for TV's most audacious drama 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z
That’s the paradox and the predicament of Star Wars: those who live inside the fantasy, whether they’re actors or fans, prefer their shared hallucination to the unelastic, downtrodden world of fact. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z
The city and its Jewish quarter, Bom Fim, provided him with inexhaustible source material, as did his own preoccupation with the predicament of Jews in Brazil. Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 73 2011-03-06T02:03:37Z
There is obvious comic potential in his predicament, but Strickland doesn’t exploit it in the obvious ways. ‘Flux Gourmet’ Review: Mastering the Art of Fringe Cooking 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z
She encountered no personal obstacle that wasn’t magnified in some way by being a single parent, no problem of parenthood that wasn’t intensified by her financial predicament. The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z
“The hero accepts society and his predicament seems ‘right’ but as he moves through his experiences they become progressively more, for the want of a better word, ‘surrealistic.’ Surreal Encounters in Ralph Ellison’s ‘Invisible Man’ 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z
Since the ban, as his work has reflected his own predicament, he has found new ways to combine social criticism with self-criticism. ‘No Bears’ Review: A Film That Critiques Itself 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z
Burk trailed in after me, and redeemed himself by using primitive, high school Spanish to communicate our predicament: “Mi carro son malo.” A Road Trip in Mexico Gone Wrong 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z
He got quite short with me and explained his predicament. 'Tony Blair called back to see if I had blown myself up' 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z
Nobody really believes her, and it seems like Rachel is put in a similar predicament. Paula Hawkins on Why Her Book The Girl on the Train Is Being Called 'The Next Gone Girl' 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z
Global warming is a predicament, not a story. Global warning: the rise of 'cli-fi' 2013-05-31T07:00:04Z
Tom and Violet grapple with their own version of a predicament faced by many young lovebirds, including Drew Barrymore and Justin Long in “Going the Distance.” Movie Review: ?The Five-Year Engagement,? With Jason Segel and Emily Blunt 2012-04-26T22:20:54Z
The origins of Rachel’s predicament date back to the days of the Roman occupation of Jerusalem, a world Horn recreates with a deft and convincing touch. The Downside of Immortality 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z
Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud fearsomely depicted real life as they found it – real human life, with the figure at the heart of the matter, the lonely human predicament their weighty concern. Are we a nation of abstract art snobs? 2011-07-07T16:37:59Z
She may have imagined that her escape into the arms of a safe daddy figure might've been more comforting, but she still can't resist handling her predicament by playing the rebellious child. "Mad Men" recap: Who is Don Draper? 2010-07-26T06:02:00Z
On Tuesday, actor Alec Baldwin who played Roberts' boyfriend in the film added his voice to the campaign by tweeting about the store's predicament. Notting Hill bookshop fights closure with poets and writers 2011-08-23T18:36:29Z
Her character, Eva Khatchadourian, is too complicated for pity, projecting a mixture of cold poise and extreme vulnerability that makes her predicament especially awful. | 'We Need to Talk About Kevin': ?We Need to Talk About Kevin,? With Tilda Swinton - Review 2011-12-08T23:38:55Z
It’s a grown-up predicament, and Pink makes it absolutely clear, but not simple. New Music: Albums From Pink, Dwight Yoakam and Aimee Mann 2012-09-17T22:14:32Z
The movie hovers on the edge of going deeper into his psychological predicament but holds itself back. Review: ‘Lion’ Brings Tears for a Lost Boy, Wiped Dry by Google 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z
Yet you come to believe him, to be slightly scared of him, even to sympathise with his predicament. isn't a book that you'd press into someone's hands, like Money or The Rachel Papers. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z
By most measures, the predicament for the National WWI Museum is extremely challenging. There’s a new top mission at this WWI museum: Preserving soldiers’ personal stories 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z
Naz’s predicament is positively Kafkaesque; and his attorney, Jack Stone, whose cunning is obscured by his raw, eczema-scarred feet, feels like a figure in one of Flannery O’Connor’s allegorical grotesqueries. “The Night Of” recap: The new, terrifying reality sets in 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z
Other, less nimble movies might simplify Noni’s predicament, forcing her to decide between happiness and fame, which is to say between Kaz and her career. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z
This put his many devoted fans in a strange predicament. That Time My Band Opened for Blur 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z
But as off-kilter as this predicament is, and as icky as the filmmakers sometimes dare to be, the resolution is curiously sweet and affirmative. Film: They Grow Up So Quickly, Don?t They? 2010-07-09T04:31:00Z
Hannaford is hardly a self-portrait, but his predicament is not unlike Welles’s own: he is a legend whose past overshadows his present. How Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind” Was Rescued from Oblivion 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z
Stuart’s genius at evoking place, predicament and intense emotional states, is wonderfully served by narrator Angus King, a Scotsman himself whose moderate but intelligible Glaswegian accent brings further authenticity. Best audiobooks of 2020 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z
Stevens, about whose upbringing we learn little beyond its ordinary Englishness, is deftly comic about her predicament, while also being deeply earnest about her aspirations. Failing to Write a Novel in the Most Distraction-Free Place on Earth 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z
Ms. Garner, with her nimbus of curls and her delicate features, looks far too childlike for the predicament she finds herself in. Review: In ‘Grandma,’ Lily Tomlin Energizes an Intergenerational Road Trip 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z
This is the predicament that the dairy farmers Inga and Reynir find themselves in when the film opens. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z
The current museum storage predicament has its roots in gifts like Adelaide Milton de Groot’s to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z
The underlying entitlement should haunt us, yet we tend to deny its predicament: take what you can get, but don’t get taken; you are chosen, you are special, and don’t settle for less. It could happen anywhere 2012-08-07T22:24:00Z
He could even smile at his predicament, showing his strong teeth. The eye surgery I never should have seen 2014-01-28T00:00:00Z
Yes, I know my predicament doesn’t register high on the urgency scale. DealBook: Living Like a Billionaire, if Only for a Day 2012-04-04T22:26:55Z
Ms. Davidsen said she had empathy for Elisabeth’s predicament of being torn between the prince she loves and the king she must marry. The Women of ‘Don Carlo’ Portray a Moment in History 2023-07-01T04:00:00Z
There is speculation about the woman’s predicament: She’s “biting her nails a bit.” Art Review: Rineke Dijkstra Videos at Marian Goodman Gallery 2010-08-12T21:53:00Z
Even worse, I was facing an alarming predicament. This Life: Snooping in the Age of E-book - This Life 2011-09-23T21:38:47Z
Near the start of the latest 10-day cycle, she creeps into one of the men's bedrooms, where she discovers a diary that records a predicament similar to the one she left behind. The Server by Tim Parks ? review 2012-05-18T21:51:01Z
It is a predicament and not one all creative types have to endure. Jude Law on phone hacking, being 40 and his new film Side Effects 2013-03-03T19:00:01Z
The family experiences some mild anti-Semitism, but the film carries no genuine sense of looming threat or the perils of their predicament. ‘When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit’ Review: Growing Up, Far From Home 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z
There are thousands of objects in this kind of predicament, items that changed hands under unclear circumstances in Nazi-occupied Europe. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
When we meet the character in this “Butterfly,” she seems a contemporary woman, wearing a loose skirt, learning how the world works and feeling a sense of crisis over her predicament. ‘Butterfly’ and ‘Carmen,’ in Bold and Vivid Cuts 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z
Their eyes bulge and stare in a manner that is perhaps meant to suggest the strangeness of their predicament but really just appear hugely inane; these are sentient beings, I suppose, but not very. Dance Review: Tumbles and Twitches in an Alien World Undersea or in Outer Space 2011-07-12T21:00:01Z
Adjmi also criticized Wright, who was the president of the Dramatists Guild, for “an unfortunate moral decision” in moving forward with writing the “Good Night, Oscar” script after learning of Adjmi’s predicament. That Oscar Levant Play Had an Earlier Version. Its Writer Is Unhappy. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z
Three books published this year shine a light on different aspects of our current predicament. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z
As a predicament, yes, but Queenie and the novel itself are bolstered throughout by true friends whose group messaging is a bracing festival of amity. Review | For your playlist, three great new audiobooks 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z
“But it’s also about the incredible invention, resourcefulness and creativity they bring to their predicament. They have an optimism I find striking — they just keep at it.” For This Show, the Artist Went Overboard 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z
Since the Presidential election last November, many people have drawn on dystopian fiction—“The Hunger Games,” in particular—to explain our predicament. An Early Dystopian Trilogy About Resistance—and What Comes After 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z
Instead she lands as a caricature of one, as the film never really metabolizes or unpacks its conceit: the bonkers time-traveling predicament of its protagonist. ‘Alice’ Review: American Slavery and Black Power Collide 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z
The aim was to describe the Kofu hip-hop scene and the increasingly difficult predicament of working people. Saudade – by Katsuya Tomita 2012-11-20T16:57:36Z
This undercurrent of pathos not only fortifies the essential connection between the two leads, but also presents their predicament as something more than farcical. ‘Butt Boy’ Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z
And in drama, in art and in life, surely it is a predicament we are interested in. David Thomson: the importance of supporting actors 2010-07-01T21:45:00Z
Our economic predicament may have caused George Osborne to think he was guaranteed the lead role, but the bum-nosed harbinger of hardship was never going to compete with Elizabeth Taylor. Close up: The other Queen Elizabeth 2011-03-24T16:47:46Z
The artist traces our current national predicament, with ever-present anti-Blackness and eroding democracy foremost among many woes, while reminding us that what we’re seeing in our political landscape is nothing new. Carrie Mae Weems Sets the Stage and Urges Action 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z
I tried to make light of my predicament and put it in perspective. My accidental, alcohol-drinking pregnancy adventure 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z
It’s simply too scary, not only because of Sylvester’s terrible predicament but because of his parents’ grief over their missing son. William Steig’s Books Explored the Reality That Adults Don’t Want Children to Know About 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z
When they got to Washington, they hoped to persuade President Obama to address their predicament, one shared by hundreds of thousands of young people. Meet the Dreamers Who Walked 1,500 Miles to Stay in America 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z
The “festive” predicament is familiar even to those in the fashion business, where outré clothing is celebrated more on mannequins than on management. For Men, a Holiday Look That Goes Directly From the Office 2012-12-05T21:25:34Z
The authors of these two fine books help us understand the socially transformative power of a defiant dedication to something greater than our mundane human predicament. Ladies Who Launch: Women Who Opened the Door to Space Exploration 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z
"I got into predicaments as a kid," says Saber, a long-time graffiti artist who goes exclusively by his street name. Object Lesson: Graffiti artist Saber on why his new Long Beach mural takes on police shootings 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z
This is something of a departure for the filmmakers, less because Ahmed is Muslim than because of the explicitly spiritual nature of his predicament. ‘Young Ahmed’ Review: Fighting for the Soul of a Teenage Militant 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z
In this case, though, the Santa Monica Symphony has been put in a terrible predicament. When Dennis Prager conducts Santa Monica Symphony, there's no avoiding politics 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z
But his analysis of the predicaments that face the Middle East is not raw or original or sophisticated. Colum McCann’s New Novel Makes a Good-Intentioned Collage Out of Real Tragedy 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z
I felt like I was watching real people in predicaments that were going to cause them a lifetime of dysfunction, over and above whatever they would have experienced if they hadn't been on TV. "Jersey Shore" recap: 4x1 2011-08-05T12:30:00Z
She is in a predicament: Despite her impressive education, she is unemployed. Review | One determined woman’s fight to succeed in Zimbabwe — no matter what 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z
But that harsh judgment notwithstanding, there are books, like this one, that while they may not resolve the mysteries of the human heart, go a long way toward shedding light on our predicaments. A New Novel by Louise Erdrich Haunted by Covid and George Floyd’s Death 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z
Laughter can be subversive, of course, and one of the great satisfactions of these films is watching so many women laugh — often guffawing, not tittering — through one predicament after another. Rewriting Women Back Into Film History 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z
Anyone who has been an intelligent, responsible, diligently overachieving older sibling will sympathize with what I see as Mr. Domingo’s predicament here. Pavarotti Captured the Sublime and Vulgar Sides of Opera 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z
I thought about this predicament while my therapist flexed her feet in leopard-print skimmers; they showed egregious toe cleavage. Body of work: Women writers on disordered eating, writing the body and the book launch diet 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z
This chimes with what Lucy says, when I ask her what she thinks lies behind my predicament. Is it just me... or does everyone lose friends in their 30s? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z
In the end, this exhibition is not just about difficult predicaments and dashed hopes. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z
As the teenager, realizing that the Canadians are not there to help him but to extract evidence for his American prosecutors, arcs from elation through crushing disappointment, a gallery of observers comments on his predicament. | 'You Don?t Like the Truth': ?You Don?t Like the Truth,? a Guant?namo Documentary - Review 2011-09-27T21:34:49Z
The owner approached the car window, and I explained my predicament. In Tennessee, the Old Friends Senior Dog Sanctuary welcomes two-legged visitors 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z
DeCarava’s work is itself the best of both worlds: visually rigorous yet incalculably sensitive to the human predicament and the psychology of everyday life, especially concerning but not limited to African-Americans. The Photographer Who Found His Power in Shades of Gray 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z
To make matters worse, Grace blames Will for the predicament and invites his meddlesome mom, played by Blythe Danner, to complicate things further; 9 p.m. Thursday’s TV Picks: ‘Will & Grace’ season finale focuses on family confusion 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z
Find some parents who are in a similar predicament. Don’t bet on your child’s safety with hot-tempered partner 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z
But even as Paul Graff is an unmistakable alter ego, his situation is a version of the predicament faced by the young men played by Joaquin Phoenix in “We Own the Night” and “Two Lovers.” ‘Armageddon Time’ Review: Hard Lessons About Life in America 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z
“It seems to be catching,” says Ross of Mark’s infatuation-bred predicament. 'Poldark' Episode 5 Recap: Heady vs. Grim 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z
Well, let me tell you how some of those on my Facebook page responded to your predicament. Church ladies tough it out poolside when talk turns to same-sex marriage
I just thought from the point of view of the women caught up in it, it’s an incredible predicament. “Bombshell” takes down Roger Ailes, but some audiences don’t want to see Fox News women humanized 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z
Bird, Blood and Slim never reference their deaths; they seem only vaguely aware of their predicament. Review: In ‘Hang Time,’ Lynched Men Tell Finely Tuned Tales 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z
That last predicament was the case with Simon Burke, a shy and homely British bachelor who couldn’t believe his luck when a vivacious blonde invited him on a 10-day holiday to Machu Picchu. Television: ?Locked Up Abroad? and Other Scary Travel Shows 2010-05-08T03:06:00Z
The actor makes great hay of Padraic’s predicament: He’s funny and finally moving as this sweet soul is pushed to the breaking point by his friend’s detachment. Venice: Could ‘Banshees’ Be Colin Farrell’s Oscar Breakthrough? 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z
But perhaps, given America’s current – and worsening – predicament, audiences are now starting to crave films that strive to make sense of the here and now, rather than distract from it. Sleazy bosses, exploited barmaids: US cinema finally discovers the left behinds 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z
That’s a common predicament in the film’s rural milieu, which treats its varieties of independent-minded characters — including the confused, overwhelmed but resilient Atticus — with understanding. Movie Review: ‘The Cold Lands,’ Directed by Tom Gilroy 2014-03-14T02:12:02Z
I've never been involved in anything remotely as spectacular as the action in this series, yet I can see my life in its storylines, and my dilemmas in some of the characters' predicaments. How "Game of Thrones" slew all comers 2011-06-17T18:01:00Z
We wanted to make music like Ornette Coleman's Friends and Neighbours, a joyous difficult noise that acknowledged the current predicament but dismissed it at the same time. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: 'You make music for the king and his court, or for the serfs outside the walls' 2012-10-11T09:18:00Z
The best take on the Punisher’s predicament so far is a hundred or so issues by writer Garth Ennis, who makes the convincing case for Frank’s mission as a sort of tragic punishment. The Punisher: was there ever a right time for Netflix's gun-toting vigilante show? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z
That Petri’s metaphor requires no further explication is as meaningful a statement as any about our national predicament, and the funniest one in “Homebound,” a wholesome slice-of-life Web series created by Bethesda’s Round House Theatre. Review | Round House Theatre’s sweet and funny new Web series serves up covid-19-era life in 10-minute slices 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z
The satire may be a little too gentle, but there is something disarmingly tender about the way Mr. Lee dramatizes young Billy’s predicament. Review: Oscar-Winner Ang Lee’s Super-High-Definition Take on the Iraq War 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z
In retrospect, pretty much every important facet of the story -- and the hero's psychological predicament -- is foreshadowed in these few eerie minutes. 7. "Shutter Island" 2010-12-30T17:01:00Z
If “Alcarràs” feels as delicate as a summer afternoon, it can also feel as slight: Simón only occasionally zooms out of the Solés’ tight-knit world to show us the political stakes of their predicament. ‘Alcarràs’ Review: Labor of Love 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z
Bewildered and isolated, the young trio fear for their sanity before grasping the supernatural truth of their predicament — and mounting a go-for-broke escape. William Eubank used ingenuity — and begging — to get 'The Signal' made 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z
I finally gained some clarity a few years ago, when I spoke to my friend about my predicament. How I learned to make peace with supporting my parents financially 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z
He does so “in the service of making two main points about our current predicament,” Jason Zengerle writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z
She was so plainly aware of both the humor and the absurdity of her predicament. Mariah Carey’s Rather Perfect Farewell to 2016 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z
His rage, both at his own predicament and that of other victims, is palpable. On the cocaine trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z
The forms — not just the “I Want” song but the charm song, the predicament song, the title song and others — deliver emotional information that rings true even if the situations do not. ‘A Killer Party’ Review: The Case of the Online Musical 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z
I find myself screaming at my computer, only too late realizing the irony of my predicament. The Charlie Sheen and Snoop Dogg rap 2011-05-10T19:39:00Z
Kimberly was left at the end of Season 1 with a huge predicament, a predicament that is so expensive, for lack of a better word. "Sex Lives" star Pauline Chalamet on civic duty: "We have to pay attention to our democracy" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z
The resulting image haunts, its ghostliness keyed to the ambivalent predicament of young black lives even under a banner of patriotism. Review | How the Vietnam War changed art forever 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z
Perhaps the programme's predicament comes from never quite replacing those firebrand early critics. The Review Show's move to BBC4 isn't a death sentence 2013-03-15T16:00:02Z
But “Living in Emergency” stands apart from standard medical fare by focusing on the organization and its mission rather than on individual predicaments. Mark Hopkins?s Film Explores Doctors Without Borders 2010-05-29T02:32:00Z
So it’s something as simple as making sure you get a card from your hotel in the local language with the name and address because I was really in a predicament. Why NBC’s Lester Holt Loves Covering the Olympics 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z
Conveying the full tragedy of that predicament in a story that’s often blisteringly funny is the real triumph of this book. Review | ‘Fleishman Is in Trouble’ — and so is modern marriage 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z
This leaves "Marry Me" in something of the same predicament as its leads, which means it may have to spend the next few weeks running around trying to "fix" things. NBC's 'Marry Me' may have a delayed honeymoon 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z
They depicted their characters’ predicaments with frankness and honesty. A New Day for Gay Plays? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z
No less concerned with Travis’s spiritual predicament, Scorsese’s approach could not be more contrary: ecstatic and immersive, he utilises all the medium has to offer to heighten the subjective perception of his protagonist. Taxi Driver: the awkward teen of US cinema 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z
As Goodman squirmed, Bowie asked: “Do you not find that it’s a frightening predicament to be in?” How David Bowie Went Mainstream 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z
Fast forward 150 years and we find ourselves in a similar predicament with regard to reproductive rights. A leap for women’s rights: The Texas abortion case and the end of reproductive Jim Crow laws 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z
He’s an agitator who remains deeply concerned with audience perception — a predicament that can make his every move feel like an act of subversion or a compromise. The sound and the fury of Kendrick Lamar at the Kennedy Center 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z
It was almost midnight when we began to make plans for the inevitable and we realized we faced a 21st-century predicament. The crime we committed for her 2014-03-10T00:00:00Z
I kept up with our weekly childbirth education classes, gawking at Spring, who, as she entered the class each evening, seemed propelled by nothing more than rage over her increasingly dire predicament. My awesome C-section 2012-11-06T01:00:00Z
In “Flights,” she added, Ms. Tokarczuk “flies us through a galaxy of departures and arrivals, stories and digressions, all the while exploring matters close to the contemporary and human predicament — where only plastic escapes mortality.” Olga Tokarczuk of Poland Wins Man Booker International Prize 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z
Our global predicament is sufficiently dire and urgent that we need to face it honestly. Perspective | Can artists right the ills of an unjust world by staging museum protests? 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z
And there is no better depiction of paranoia than Carrie’s predicament: She is right, everyone tells her she’s crazy, and, actually, she is. The Tv Watch: Showtime?s ?Homeland? Finale With Claire Danes 2011-12-19T04:47:18Z
Cue even more slapstick as Ash struggles to loosen himself from this bizarre predicament. Has TV reached peak gore? The Walking Dead and Ash vs Evil Dead push limit 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z
No leaden diagnoses of the human predicament belch on the smoky skyline. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z
Scott followed up the small but crucial “Stepbrothers” role with Starz’s cult hit “Party Down,” playing a failed actor with such hilarious conviction you feel the sting of his predicament. “As long as humans are around, there will be d*ck jokes”: Adam Scott on the enduring appeal of “Hot Tub Time Machine 2″ 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z
The cellphone store employees, she said, didn’t seem to find her predicament unusual. Noticed: Dumbed-Down Dialing 2010-08-27T16:29:00Z
Our current predicament is the consequence not only of environmental exploitation — though there’s plenty of that. Electrified Rivers and Other Attempts to Save the Environment 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z
His predicament — and his quest — were eerily familiar. Don Juan in a wheelchair 2013-02-02T01:00:00Z
“But there are worse places I could be, and worse predicaments,” he said. With His New Mystery Novel, John Banville Kills Off a Pen Name 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z
The play acknowledges this predicament when one of the Christs remarks, “Why pay to see a comedy, when we have a comedy right here?” ‘3 Christs,’ About Milton Rokeach’s 1959 Study 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z
At the same time, it’s a genuine expression of his all-too-human predicament—his compulsion to do good as a way of distancing himself from his loved ones, and hurting them in the process. Writing middle-aged men in crisis: Novelists Lindsay Stern and Andrew Ridker in conversation 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z
Yet Mr. Hennessy’s physical predicament put some spin on the blunt message. Dance Review: Keith Hennessey?s ?Almost? at Abrons Arts Center - Review 2012-01-14T01:00:28Z
The company’s financial predicament was later outlined by Ms. Matisse in Instagram posts that advertised new discounts as an attempt to increase sales and meet monthly revenue goals. Shaping the Future of a New American Pottery Company 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z
Many e-mails from O’Reilly fans, whether I agreed with their conclusions or not, offered thoughtful, useful insights into this country’s predicaments. What It Was Like Being a Left-Wing Pundit on “The O’Reilly Factor” 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z
Caught between a mother’s demands and the ideology of a republic that resists viewing citizens as members of separate communities, Delcour is the embodiment of a predicament that shows no signs of resolution. Review: ‘24 Days,’ About a Crime That Fed a Debate About Anti-Semitism 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z
“This Is Not a Film” finds him at home in his apartment in Tehran, musing on his predicament, strategizing on the phone with his lawyer and feeding his daughter’s pet iguana. Critic?s Notebook: New York Film Festival Includes a Sneak Preview 2011-10-09T22:05:10Z
The predicament of Caitríona’s book is that she and Sarah are like magnets turned the wrong way. Why I conducted a 16-year ‘affair’ with my mother 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z
And the biggest risk would be a movie that dared to be interesting or original in its exploration of archetypal characters and their allegorical predicaments. | 'Thor': Have Golden Locks, Seeking Hammer 2011-05-05T15:52:08Z
As with her other recent novels, See keeps her eyes focused on the women — their standing, their predicaments, their resourcefulness. 'Dreams of Joy': Lisa See's novel of two women adrift in Mao's China 2011-06-01T21:53:04Z
Winter told Deadline the scene’s power lay not in leaving Tony’s fate ambiguous but in serving as a microcosm of Tony’s entire predicament as a gangster. David Chase always planned to end "The Sopranos" with Tony’s death, then changed his mind 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z
I don’t forgive my memory for failing to anticipate this predicament. Becoming a Woman Without Her 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z
Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called it “an unusually insightful and funny mainstream American movie about the predicaments of modern marriage.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Goliath’ and ‘Haters Back Off!’ 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z
He continually juggled the two, never failing to remind his readers that life is full of absurd predicaments. Review | Charles Simic reflects on what set James Tate’s late poetry apart 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z
Haim-Aharon’s predicament threatens to become preposterous rather than haunting, but there is no denying the film’s uncanny power or its visual discipline. Review: In ‘Tikkun,’ a Hasidic Student’s Visions Merge With Metaphor 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z
According to Laing, however, the passengers were so moved by the crew’s predicament that they decided to do something to help. Thomas Cook crew members find out they've been laid off midflight, passengers claim: 'They were all in tears!' 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z
At bottom, restaurateurs are grappling with the same predicament confronting nearly every business in America: the difficulty of finding workers. Back to Normal? It’s a Tall Order as New York City Restaurants Struggle. 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z
Even though the video left viewers questioning how the water slide rider got out of her predicament, YMG Travels told Fox News Digital that Norwegian’s staff got her out swiftly. Norwegian Cruise Line waterslide rider gets stuck in over-ocean loop: 'It was so quick' 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z
How to stay a child when the world expects otherwise — and how to make the world love you anyway — has usually been, in these movies, a male predicament. Movie Review: Adulthood vs. Arrested Development in ‘Neighbors’ 2014-05-08T12:00:03Z
For Mr. Del Toro, that has sometimes pit his desire to excel as an actor against a competing impulse to challenge negative stereotypes, a predicament faced by many actors of color. Benicio Del Toro, Hollywood’s Instant Antihero, Goes the Distance 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z
You can’t help feeling that the story never needed the scaffolding of crime or gore, that Moïse’s predicament spoke volumes anyway. Four Social Novels in Translation Consider the World’s Ills 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z
Still, they don't reject the label, despite some of the early predicaments it caused. After UK diss, The Wanted fires back with success 2012-05-02T11:47:12Z
Instead it cleaved, like all great art, to specific human predicaments. Perspective | In a year of upheaval, the best art was also the bravest 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z
In “Gravity” we see her hope diminish as she tries to explain her predicament, to no avail. The Carpetbagger: A ‘Gravity’ Short for a Winter’s Day 2013-12-10T21:54:38Z
This predicament is not mine alone, to be sure. The other “Girls”: Gritty indie “Heaven Knows What” shows the flip side of Lena Dunham’s New York 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z
Seated in a semicircle in a position of communal concentration, the musicians resembled a support group for sufferers of an unspecified predicament. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z
Wanda’s particular predicament, hiding her magical powers from her ordinary neighbors, seems more the stuff of a 1960s fabulist comedy, à la “Bewitched.” ‘WandaVision’ Lives Inside TV. Just Like We Do. 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z
He invents new predicaments, chapter by chapter, and resolves them. The Childhood of Jesus by JM Coetzee – review 2013-03-02T11:01:01Z
Twelve stories by a former Marine who served in Iraq capture on an intimate scale the ways in which the war there evoked a unique array of emotion, predicament and heartbreak. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z
This is partly because of the nature of her character's predicament and the way it is written, and due partly, perhaps, to her own more reticent style. Blue Valentine ? review 2011-01-13T15:00:00Z
His characters often reside somewhere in the gray center of the moral spectrum, and their predicaments tend to elicit complex responses from audiences. Review: ‘Ripcord,’ a Comic Tale of Adversaries 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z
Zipperstein pinpoints the moment at the start of the 20th century when the Jewish predicament in Europe turned deadly in a way that foretold the end of everything. No Longer Writing, Philip Roth Still Has Plenty to Say 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z
But there is no turning back, even after she injures her hand so severely that she can’t tie her own shoelaces, a predicament that her cousin doesn’t seem to notice. The Man Who Tried to Catch the 100-Pound Salmon 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z
Photograph: Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh This shadowy vision of the human predicament is one of the most haunting paintings in Edinburgh's greatest art collection.• Susan Philipsz guns for glory at Edinburgh festival – the week in art 2012-07-27T11:55:18Z
But just before we immersed ourselves in the corn, one of my companions sardonically critiqued the reality of our predicament. My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead 2010-12-03T15:18:00Z
“I used to think I was the only one in this predicament,” Mai said. Pakistani rape survivor Mukhtar Mai comes to L.A. to see justice, if only onstage 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z
The author is Ayad Akhtar, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning “Disgraced” recounted the predicament of a high-powered Muslim American lawyer forced to confront the guilt and compromises of assimilating into a culture that never totally accepts him. On Broadway, dramatic riches await, in both words and music 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z
The premise is simple and suspenseful, but as the women debate their options, the complexity of their predicament becomes apparent. At the Telluride Film Festival, ‘Women Talking’ and Other Topics of Conversation 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z
It’s a relatable predicament, and his response is instructive: He learns to cope. These Kids Never, Never, Never Give Up 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z
Laughon calls his current predicament “a no man’s land between not being guilty or innocent.” Why Etan Patz still haunts us 2012-05-25T18:00:00Z
What’s really poppin’ is her M&Ms branded jacket, which looks like something a Nascar driver would wear, which would make sense for her predicament, since I believe their uniforms are flame-retardant. Viral video news memes bring fame – but still feel almost racist 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z
Shakespeare’s question poses something of a predicament for daters and an existential quandary for Date Lab. Date Lab: He knew how he felt almost immediately 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z
On the occasion of its premiere, in October 1926, members of the audience groaned and even fainted when they saw their own predicament faithfully recounted, without the Whites being portrayed as vile oppressors. Hung up 2010-03-20T00:05:00Z
Izgil said he saw the importance of providing testimony about the predicament of Uyghurs, especially when their lives are so heavily policed and their culture and stories systematically erased. A Poet Captures the Terror of Life in an Authoritarian State 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z
You definitely see that I’m in a predicament. John Jasperse Prepares His New Work, ?Canyon? 2011-11-13T05:00:10Z
She wrote to me that she was sick to her stomach about it, and I empathise with her predicament. No sex please, we're American – Banned Books Week turns 30 2012-09-28T15:36:14Z
But we don’t necessarily want her enemies to lose–Diane’s predicament, having tried to escape the crossfire and failed, is especially sad. The Good Wife Watch: This Means War 2013-10-28T09:30:50Z
But despite that accolade, she was cast overwhelmingly in light fare, a predicament that sometimes rankled. Doris Roberts, Mother on ‘Everybody Loves Raymond,’ Dies at 90 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z
This predicament feels quite a bit darker than it did when Bill Murray endured it back in 1993. ‘Palm Springs’ Review: Déjà Vu All Over Again 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z
Edgerton and his family form a nervy alliance with another in a similar predicament, and with shotguns to hand and trust in short supply, the threat of violence is never far away. How post-horror movies are taking over cinema 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z
Their predicament is almost enough to justify the 90-minute running time. ‘Ain’t Them Bodies Saints’: Outlaws fire up moody Western 2013-08-23T14:37:11Z
And to examine an Arthur who might be thrown into this predicament when he was 20 years old was interesting to me. Television/The Web: An Arthur Worthy of the Modern Ages 2011-02-20T02:00:56Z
In a more ingenious film Robert would use them to solve his predicament. Movie Review: ‘Collaborator,’ Martin Donovan’s Directing Debut 2012-07-05T21:40:31Z
In others, he sent words of subtle encouragement to those who shared his predicament. The Magnificent Poem Jars of David Drake, Center Stage at the Met 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z
The first predicament facing the family is whether the dying patriarch should be hooked up to a ventilator to prolong his life or not. Larry David's 'Fish in the Dark': Curb Your Enthusiasm 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z
This pooch found itself in quite a predicament last week. Firefighters use Jaws of Life to free Rottweiler puppy's head from cinder block 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z
The link feels real, and yet as delicate as a spider-web strand, suggesting the unity that can be found in the shared predicament of lives lived on the same earth but not together. In Barbara Kingsolver’s New Book, a Family Teeters on the Brink 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z
Brilliantly narrated, this is a powerful depiction of the character, predicament and decisions of a powerless man. Review | For your quarantine stroll, three great new audiobooks 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z
The rush of language, and the difficulty of establishing its source and legitimacy, captured for me so much about our contemporary predicament. 12 Surprising Reasons to Be Grateful for the Arts in 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z
Marsden, eyes popping as if he's attempting to turn himself inside out, mines the fiance's predicament for all it's worth. Weak story lines cast a pall over 'Death at a Funeral' 2010-04-15T20:44:00Z
When he arrived, he said he found himself in a predicament. NYC restaurant gave $2K bottle of wine to couple who ordered an $18 bottle 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z
And though the dramatic crux of the film is Ron’s predicament, his is hardly the only racial identity crisis under scrutiny here. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z
And not unlike their predicament – walking a thin line between life and death. ‘Home is a state of mind. You don’t need walls’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z
“To introduce something that deals with the social and political world that we live in — that was alien,” Mr. Haacke recalled, expressing something like understanding for the predicament he’d created for the Guggenheim. Hans Haacke, Firebrand, Gets His First U.S. Survey in 33 Years 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z
"This is meant to be Sophocles, reaching into our viscera with his awful predicaments," said his two star review. Kristin Scott Thomas electrifies critics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z
And the series refuses to offer its characters ways out of their predicaments. The Cruel Irony of “The Americans” 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z
Examine your predicament, then remove one of the constraints – money, time, family disapproval – and ask what you’d do. Why thinking like a computer scientist can help with big decisions | Oliver Burkeman 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z
“How many have fathers who are dead? You gotta be strong. You gotta think, ‘I’m gonna do something that gets me past this and doesn’t get me back in this predicament.’ In this class, prisoners and Georgetown students grapple with difficult lessons 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z
For Bajpayee, though, it’s the uniqueness of Srikant, and the relatable quality of his predicaments, that drew him to the project, he told The Times. In 2019, Netflix and Amazon Set Their Sights on India 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z
With unflagging honesty and nuance, Johnston evokes the essence of her characters without showing judgment for how they navigate the predicament of being alive. Review | In ‘Rites,’ Savannah Johnston portrays the aching, farcical nature of existence with stunning clarity 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z
Is Karen’s predicament simply a historical one, or is there something specific to life as a woman now that you were trying to explore? “My narrator is starving, both literally and metaphorically”: Teddy Wayne and Alexandra Kleeman on anxiety and alienation in their new books 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z
In the film “Documented,” which is part get-out-the-message tour, part personal reckoning, Mr. Vargas argues on behalf of liberalizing immigration policy and confronts others — and himself — about his predicament. Movie Review: ‘Documented,’ a Journalist’s Look at Immigration 2014-05-01T23:06:52Z
His living room wall is mostly windows, so he has a panoramic view of the predicament. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z
Like many people, they wrestled with commitment, principles and fame, but often exhibited keen, comic insights about their predicaments. 'Sleepless in Seattle' writer Nora Ephron dies at 71 2012-06-27T01:41:54Z
Dubus doesn’t care whether Anna and Wayne get caught; not getting caught actually deepens their predicament. Learning to Love the Stories of Andre Dubus 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z
To make an already tense predicament unbearable, the sisters hadn't spoken in years. Sarah Michelle Gellar flounders in a bland new drama 2011-09-13T15:03:00Z
Mauney says one way to approach the predicament may be to get involved in the cooking process. 5 ways to fight the winter holiday bulge 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z
But Psihoyos — who gave up a lucrative gig taking photographs for National Geographic to make environmental films — is sympathetic to her predicament. ‘Blackfish’s’ director finds it hard to move on 2014-03-20T17:38:26Z
When he finally came up with a way to extricate himself from his predicament, the scheme was equally laughable and cringe inducing. Review: In ‘Everything’s Fine,’ the Discomfort of Adolescence 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z
Only one person could extricate him from his predicaments. Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen in TV’s ‘Superman’ series, dies at 87 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z
When we can’t gather in Lower Manhattan, messages from those in similar predicaments far away grow more precious. Forced Online, Battery Dance Festival Brings the World to You 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z
Fortunately, the writers’ predicament is much brighter and busier than this metaphor implies. The sparks fly when Tolstoy, Jefferson and Dickens meet in the afterlife 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z
“Hey, this is kind of a crazy big ask, and please feel free to say no, but there’s this dance at the end of January,” Soape wrote to the NFL player, explaining her daughter’s predicament. Her dad died. So her favorite NFL star took her to the father-daughter dance. 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z
Maybe there’s a solution to his predicament after all. ‘Number 37’ Review: A Grungy South African Thriller 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z
At one point, his character’s predicament is symbolized by a claw machine clenching a teddy bear. ‘South of Heaven’ Review: Anything for Love 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z
“Three Daughters of Eve” illustrates Peri’s predicament in dramatic episodes that eventually bring her to study at Oxford. Review | Elif Shafak’s new novel is so timely that it seems almost clairvoyant 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z
Photography, which taps into a similar predicament, demonstrates that this was no contradiction. Review | It’s time we looked at Iran through the same lens as its best photographers 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z
The Directors’ Take: Bentley Dean and Martin Butler made the film with a minimal crew and drew on local lore, including a song about a tragic suicide by a couple in a similar predicament. A Quick Guide to the Foreign-Language Oscar Nominees 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z
Everything in "Spencer" is repeated to ensure Diana's predicament is felt deeply. Kristen Stewart stuns in the moody "Spencer," a gorgeous yet superficial biopic of Princess Di 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z
Sorry, but Lee can go stand in line with the millions of other Americans in the same predicament. "American Idol" recap: Sympathy for Mick Jagger 2010-03-17T14:49:00Z
Who’s going to stop you?’ ” she recalls, after she bemoaned her predicament to the comedian backstage. The congressional kid: How a millennial plans to make it to the Capitol 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z
I joked about it, feeling like Lucille Ball in some stupid predicament in “I Love Lucy.” Modern Love: A Gold Band Carries Baggage 2012-02-09T21:16:16Z
I found it especially poignant to watch while living through our present-day predicament, a society that continues to carve us up based on identity, age, race, preference. Readers React to ‘The Inheritance’: ‘We Are All Just Humans Looking for a Purpose’ 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z
Ali’s focus and presence makes us believe that both of these men are equally alive and feeling the brunt of this deeply uncanny predicament. ‘Swan Song’ Review: Second Life 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z
He was literally walking in other people’s shoes, experiencing their predicaments, privileges and indignities. Is it better to leave our favorite childhood shows and movies in the past? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z
Are my favorite fictional ladies suffering from the same predicament? I’m sorry, but women on TV apologize too much 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z
Instead, playing Lily at various ages and in various predicaments, he offers something of a group portrait of these divas, always hovering at the midpoint between spoof and homage. Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z
He added, “I like characters who have a moral predicament with themselves that they refuse to . . . what’s the word?” Walking Through the Whitney Museum with Rami Malek 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z
As these artists realize, their predicaments were hardly worth cuing the violins at a time of rampant death and unemployment. For Kenny Chesney and Others, Promotion in a Pandemic Is a Quandary 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z
Nor is it concerned, like Walker Percy’s novels — which it sometimes seems to be trying to mimic — with the existential predicament of man in a modern, technological world. ‘The Dog,’ the Latest by Joseph O’Neill, of ‘Netherland’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z
It was almost like here in Prattsville was the American predicament on a small scale, that red vs. blue, right versus left, where abstractions and ideology and sweeping statements keep us divided. Hurricane Irene, one year later 2012-08-27T16:42:00Z
Dhillon’s performance doesn’t shrink from Amir’s dark side, but it never lets us lose sight of the character’s impossible cultural predicament. 'Disgraced' at the Taper: Islam, America and the cloudy prism of perception 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z
He characterizes Cosby’s predicament as “one of the biggest falls from grace in the history of entertainment.” She’s a minister, motivational speaker, debate coach … and Bill Cosby’s lawyer 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z
People without sympathy for asylum seekers tend to ignore the historical roles of their own countries in creating the refugees’ predicaments. Review | This D.C. exhibition should be seen by everyone concerned about the migrant crisis 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z
While they understood our predicament, the common refrain was that the child would “lose the connection to its family history”. If not my surname or my husband’s, could we call our child after a New Zealand volcano? 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z
Procida views his predicament as a classic role reversal, which makes sense — but it’s also an odd benefit of feminism that allows men like him, who are in touch with their feelings, to express themselves. “You don’t really hear about the guy who is lovesick, but is still going to sex parties”: Salon talks with the host of “The Manwhore Podcast” 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z
He regarded the response of left-wing intellectuals to Mr. Rushdie’s predicament as feeble, and he soon began to question many of his cherished political assumptions. Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011: Christopher Hitchens Is Dead at 62 ? Obituary 2011-12-16T06:27:29Z
The play adds greatly to our understanding of Latvia's predicament even if its plea to put up with the Waffen SS parade strikes me as stretching forgiveness too far. Remembrance Day - review 2011-03-24T00:40:24Z
Her disabilities, and the predicaments they spawned, struck her as amusing as often as not. Nancy Mairs, Who Wrote About Her Mental Illness and Multiple Sclerosis, Dies at 73 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z
The faces in “Winter’s Bone” are certainly mirthless — not only Ree’s, but also those of the relatives she turns to for advice and protection when her predicament becomes desperate. | 'Winter?s Bone': Jennifer Lawrence in Debra Granik?s Bleak Ozarks Film 2010-06-10T21:59:00Z
If necessary, call health services in advance to explain your predicament. My Mom Doesn’t Want Me to Get the Covid-19 Vaccine. But I Already Did. 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z
This arrangement is unappealing to Harry, the pouty, Richie Rich son of the school principal, who knows more about their predicament than he lets on. “The Society,” Reviewed: A Teen Dystopia, but with, Like, Socialism 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z
This soon puts Jane in a moral predicament when she realizes that the job isn’t to help but rather to write the entire essay. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Season 2, Episode 19: Money Issues 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z
Advancing technologies aren’t the only cause of this predicament, but notwithstanding Trump’s claim to the contrary, technology is a bigger culprit than trade. What if the Government Gave Everyone a Paycheck? 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z
I found myself, not for the first time in 18 years of smoking, questioning my predicament. Breaking bad: how to give up drinking, smoking, nail-biting and other unwanted habits 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z
And then you begin to understand what the show’s about, and then you can steer the researchers and sort of say find the incidents in which this sort of predicament might be available. See the Trailer for the New Netflix Series About Queen Elizabeth 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z
Cruise's predicament in the film, which hits theaters June 6, provides a nifty parallel for the career of Doug Liman, "Edge of Tomorrow's" trailblazing yet bedeviling director. Doug Liman hopes his wild loop means a hit with 'Edge of Tomorrow' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z
The 1998 renovation did, however, preserve the ceiling and water feature even as it set the stage for the current predicament. Isamu Noguchi Artwork in Midtown Building Is in Peril 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z
The characters’ predicaments register with increasing poignancy as the play proceeds. Review | ‘Sooner/Later’ weaves rom-com premise into bittersweet family portrait 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z
I sympathize with your nieces’ predicament with their mother, but wise people are making decisions about parties based on data points now: vaccination status, the size of indoor gatherings and mask use. Do I Really Need to State My Pronouns? 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z
For a writer, who may have fought every social compulsion to "grow up", whose inner world has been constellated around avoiding that surrender, this is an interesting predicament. In praise of the creative writing course 2013-01-18T07:01:01Z
Or, as Mary puts it, "you understand my predicament far better than you let on." 'Downton Abbey': The delights of Liverpool 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z
Perhaps that’s why the bystander’s predicament has lent itself so handily to comedy, particularly the kind of dark prestige dramedies that make moral and sexual ambiguity their playgrounds. Hollywood Harassment Was an Open Secret. But TV Comedies Took It On. 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z
A sentimental attachment to the "mystery" of Shakespeare goes hand in hand with the idea that he and his works are a sublime mirror to our contemporary predicament. Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor – review 2012-09-29T23:05:08Z
His essays, above all those on Dante, dwelt, among other themes, on the political predicament of the intellectual. Edoardo Sanguineti obituary 2010-05-26T17:23:00Z
The studio, and NBC, have long wanted Harmon to make a broader, more traditional comedy about a group of community college friends getting into predicaments, believing that would get bigger ratings. Community Without Dan Harmon? Suits Axe Auteur, and Fans Lose 2012-05-19T21:30:18Z
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