Sentences with phrase «painful dilemma»

Again, in Greene's «Catholic» novels, it is always a theological definition that generates the most painful dilemmas.

This biological contradiction creates painful dilemmas for all couples.

Modern art, reflecting modern culture, finds itself in a painful dilemma.

Gibson, at the time a successful Omaha banker and restaurateur, delineates the painful dilemma of the star who has outgrown his youthful skills.

Oyintiloye said, «The development is upsetting, not only because it affects a government farm settlement but because it reflects the painful dilemma of farmers in Nigeria.»

It's not unusual for both halves of a two - scientist couple to work in the same field, and it can be a painful dilemma to forge parallel but separate careers.

This poignant film about the painful dilemma that confronts an elderly Parisian couple, as one of them gradually succumbs to illness, is brilliantly directed and beautifully portrayed by two titan actors of the Nouvelle Vague.

Schools now face a painful dilemma, I fear that as the grade weighting has changed so will the bias towards the more academic pupils, bringing us back to a similar situation to which the new «fairer» progress 8 measure was to negate against.

If one believes that global warming is a question of the survival of planet earth, as I do, this is a painful dilemma; should we put more resources into saving the planet or into feeding the hungry in Africa and elsewhere?

It is a painful dilemma trying to keep your head above water when everything around you is so overwhelming.