All 5 Uses of
dilemma
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "It seems dreadfully wrong not to have you when you feel so much!" she said with a little distress, and looking hopelessly around for some means of escape from her moral dilemma.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- His concern at this dilemma (which would have been alarm, had he been a thriving man; but misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror) led him to peer cautiously from the hay, and the first sight he beheld was the stars above him.†
Chpt 4-6
- Yes, she would implore him by word of mouth to assist her in this dilemma.†
Chpt 31-33
- "Now," said Troy, "you see my dilemma.†
Chpt 34-36
- In this dilemma Troy at once went out to reconnoitre.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(dilemma) a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives