double bind in English

noun
1
a situation in which a person is confronted with two irreconcilable demands or a choice between two undesirable courses of action.
This reversal led her discussion through a tortuous course of double binds and tensions between liveliness and morbidity, mechanism and organicism that issues from the computer animated image.

Use "double bind" in a sentence

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1. 16 A former book dealer, he remains seduced by the double bind of academic arcana and financial chicanery.

2. 15 He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.

3. 14 Women are caught in a double bind, marginalised in the community if they are not wives and mothers, under excessive pressure to be perfect if they are.

4. 20 The company is caught in a double bind. If it doesn't modernize it won't make money, but if it does modernize they'll have to make people redundant because they won't need them any more.