Both Uses of
dilemma
in
Catch-22
- He stepped into the briefing room with mixed emotions, uncertain how he was supposed to feel about Kraft and the others, for they had all died in the distance of a mute and secluded agony at a moment when he was up to his own ass in the same vile, excruciating dilemma of duty and damnation.†
Chpt 13
- He was pinched perspinngly in the epistemological dilemma of the skeptic, unable to accept solutions to problems he was unwilling to dismiss as unsolvable.†
Chpt 25 *
Definition:
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(dilemma) a situation in which a difficult choice must be made between imperfect alternatives