Unlike the porous body figured in 'Sacree nourriture' and Rue Ordener, rue Labat, the body in this text is closed in on itself; where in the former texts the child narrator remains suspended in a
double bind, in the latter text the adult narrator seems to be moving towards self-destruction.
"What that translates into is that children of impoverished families may be thrown into a
double bind. They have more responsibility, and their parents' time is more consumed with the tasks of providing basic needs like food and shelter.
All of you are in a
double bind that makes keeping your previous shape extra hard.
The Pleasant Hill School District is in a
double bind: Budget cuts threaten layoffs and fewer school days next year, while at the same time the high school needs a new heating and ventilation system.
In chapters 4 and 5, McManus makes her best contribution in a series of fine readings of passages in books 2, 4, and 6, in which Spenser engages the complexities of the cultural situation of the court ladies, who found themselves in a
double bind between the twin cultural imperatives to be irreproachably chaste, and yet put themselves forward to make marriages advantageous to their aristocratic families.
producers in a
double bind: higher tariffs on several commodities that only apply to U.S.
The same principal can be used to
double bind a defensive end who is playing a 5 technique.
The American Farm Bureau Federation says that escalating sanctions on raw agricultural products and processed foodstuffs put US producers in a
double bind: higher tariffs on several commodities that only apply to US products and competition from products exported by other countries with lower tariffs.
At least the Romantics had a nature to reflect upon, and to partially reflect themselves within, but modernist solitude becomes, increasingly, an inescapable confrontation with the naked self, a confrontation which is structurally incapable of escaping solitude's
double bind. The modernist subject is compelled to seek itself out as a form of company; but the only condition in which the subject can discover itself is in perfect solitude.
In fact, all of us are caught in the
double bind of a wave of retirements (an estimated 30,000 over the next three years) and booming enrollments (an estimated increase of about a million students by 2010).
They remain in a
double bind between their painful attachment to the Light and the fatal pain of separation from it.
'But equality hasn't worked in the other direction, and women are finding themselves in a
double bind that often traps them into remaining in lower paid jobs, and putting their careers second.
