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Example sentences for: predicaments

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Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."
In Iraq, Saddam Hussein turned his hand to journalism for the first time with a bylined article in Iraq's Al-Jumhuriya blaming Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for all the predicaments of the Arab world.
What comes through repeatedly is not just grievance but also the pride, vulnerability, and sometimes desperation of people who see their lives and daily predicaments as having been shaped by a cataclysm that occurred more than 130 years ago.