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Example sentences for: catch-
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And it's as neat a Catch-22 as you're ever going to see, even through those disposable contact lenses.
This notion was once a staple of big novels (see Catch-22 or One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ), and Exley plays it for all it is worth, ennobling himself through nausea.
Seattleites debated whether the police: 1) were ill-prepared, outnumbered, and too accommodating of demonstrations; 2) overreacted by using riot tactics on peaceful protesters; or 3) were stuck in a "Catch-22."
Although Catch-22 received mixed reviews when first published, it eventually sold more than 10 million copies in the United States and "enriched the American lexicon with its title slogan and its new definition of absurdity" (Elaine Woo, the Los Angeles Times ). Heller's seventh novel, Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man , was completed just before his death and will be published next year.
We have here a delightfully constructed catch-22: if you don't study your grammar you're uneducated; if you do, you've been exposed to a proper education by your kindly school system; but when you use one of your grammar book's dreadfully improper constructions as a model, you place yourself in the class of the obviously simple-minded, whose opinions are irrelevant.