" "Emily," said Aunt Elizabeth, with the air of one impaling herself on the easiest horn of a dilemma, "your Cousin Jimmy is a man—and men sometimes use expressions, in the heat of anger, that are not proper for little girls.
When he had gone, she perceived clearly the dire dilemma; but cared nothing, in the first bliss of having reassured him.
She realised afresh how frightful was the dilemma from which there was now a hope of escape, and she was grateful accordingly.
I was willing to be his sister, on condition that he did not invite me to fill that relation to some future wife of his; and tacitly vowed as he was to celibacy, of this dilemma there seemed little danger.
One morning, coming on me abruptly, and with the semblance of hurry, she said she found herself placed in a little dilemma.
In this dilemma I went, as a last and sole resource, to see and consult an old servant of our family; once my nurse, now housekeeper at a grand mansion not far from Miss Marchmont's.
Fred felt himself to be in a disgusting dilemma.
" Uncle Wellington was in a horrible dilemma.
I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all .
Now the big dilemma was whether to tell Grandma while she was still in the hospital or wait.
Many of us face a more common ethical dilemma – would you turn down an attractive salary because you couldn't bring yourself to agree with a company's position on, say, the environment, animal testing or simply the way it treated customers?
Workplace inflexibility contributed to their reproductive dilemma.
Thirty years after the first test tube baby was born in China, assisted reproduction centers face a dilemma: How to deal with leftover embryos.
Whenever you are trying your first cigarette, or whenever you are asked to take sides in an argument, you are always in a sense of dilemma.
He thought he was being kind, I knew, but that didn't change the fact that on an otherwise perfect spring evening in Manhattan, I again faced a dilemma I'd been struggling with since turning 40: how to counter other people's disbelief that I, single and child-free, could possibly be enjoying my own life.
The researchers acknowledged this may pose a dilemma to new mothers, given that infants sleep so fitfully.
However, Sa managed to complete them eventually, putting the princess in a great dilemma.
But Jackie Brown, 49, from Surrey, was so fed up of her daily fashion dilemma that she decided to put an end to the problem - by wearing the same outfit every day for a whole month (washed and ironed regularly, of course).
A Beijing cancer specialist who didn't want to be named said on Sunday that although there is no excuse for compromising scientific credibility, the incident reveals a widespread dilemma facing Chinese physicians who struggle to strike a balance between overloaded daily work schedules and academic requirements, primarily publishing papers to secure professional development and promotion.
The researchers acknowledged this may pose a dilemma to new mothers, given that infants sleep so fitfully.
