Sentences with phrase «shape of our predicament»

To think constructively about the future of Catholicism, we need to understand the shape of our predicament.

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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.

It's a caper, alright, but a caper that refuses to make light of the premise - shaping predicaments that shape its premise, a feat Freeland pulls off with casual brio.