Sentences with phrase «language of predicament»

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If David's psalms give individuals language for emotions and obligations and joys and predicaments predicated upon the Fall of Man and the Law, then Homer's poem is of the other eternity.

I still believe, as I put it in chapter two, that «software», not «hardware» — the long, slow waves of cultural change, not the more obvious technological and economic changes that figure so prominently in public debate and academic social science — hold the key to the British predicament; that our ills form an interdependent system or, in medical language, a «syndrome»; and that they reflect the bewilderment and disorientation of a people who have forgotten the history that shaped them, and who therefore no longer know who they are.

The film has a suitable mix of serious predicaments tied into the crude gags, brutal slapstick, the completely unexpected, hilariously coarse language, and (no longer) limits - pushing nudity (unfortunately mostly male).