0 a difficult situation in which, whatever action you decide to take, you cannot escape unpleasant results: --
1 a difficult situation in which, whatever action you take, you cannot escape unpleasant results: --
It takes a long time for an ambulance to get to a hospital, so there is a double bind for the patient.
I do not believe that it would be reasonable to create a double bind for employers.
This demonstrates a double bind with flexi-time hours; not only do they have to be paid back, but they involve time and effort in managing them.
This double charge involves a double bind.
Wherever we attend to, or love, what the dominant culture encourages us to devalue, neglect or disrespect, camp rises as a way out of this double bind.
Her narratives consequently revolve in a kind of dark circle, where the allure of emancipation remains ironically incarcerated within a structural double bind of blasphemy and apostasy.
Women are thus caught in a discursive double bind.
So we find ourselves in a double bind.
