Like Joan Didion in "The Year of Magical Thinking," Gilbert rejects self-pity, plumbing her own grief for what links it to the larger human predicament of death and mourning.

To figure a way out of not just here, but his larger predicament.

IT is a large predicament for such a small boy.

Talking About Abstinence Michael Lomax, the chairman of Atlanta's Fulton County Commission, said that the black establishment's difficulty in dealing with AIDS was part of a larger predicament.

Two or three lucky shells could decimate his command, but at least the howitzer's arrival had taken his men's minds off their larger predicament and they watched as the gunners made ready.

His regard for the fragility of our grasp on this fragile planet and its "melting poles" will allow him to help us make sense of our larger predicaments.

Lacking larger predicaments to rebel against, rock songwriters nursed petty slights and childhood traumas.

Cadderly moved his hands away from Danica's belly- her stiffened position supported her fully-and forced himself to turn his attention away from the amazing Danica and consider the larger predicament.

Jeff knew it wouldn't especially help his larger predicament to get involved with Laura, to tell her what he was about.

Males describes the attack on youth as a "national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments."