Sentences with phrase «in a quandary between»

Alighieri's «seers» crying into their arse cracks as illustrated by Botticelli, became a catalyst for Browne: «The sinners are caught in a quandary between seeing forwards and walking backwards or walking forwards but always having to look at where they have just been.

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Create quandaries for yourself, in which there are tradeoffs between profits, customer experience, and ethically questionable practices.

The ineluctable connections between Christian violence, its global magnification through the West's colonial reach, and the hard quandaries of religious conviction thereby slowly unleashed were in fact sustaining forces within the evolution of modernity.

He was in a predicament, a quandary, he was on the horns of a dilemma, between the devil and the deep blue sea.

In his fourth novel, Hari Kunzru confronts head - on the quandaries of modern life while walking a fine line between irony and authentic emotion, between seriousness and lightheartedness, without missing a step.

Today, Trieste is a charming Italian city bordering Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia) on the Adriatic Sea, home to a wide mix of cultures (map of Trieste), but in 1954 it was at the center of a Cold War quandary - what to do with this little city - state caught in the power struggle between East and West?

In comparing Jean Dubuffet's early paintings from the 1950s with recently resurrected works by American color - field painter Larry Poons from the late»80s and»90s, there is a quandary that appears somewhat daunting, especially given the relative, though pronounced, cultural differences between them.

The resulting divide between a human rights tribunal and two courts is a theoretically interesting legal debate — but leaves employers in a practical quandary: what's the test?

The child doesn't know how to respond to the conflict between the words and the body language and, because the child is dependent on the mother for basic needs, he or she is in a quandary.