charybdis

For the third time in three decades, the appointment of a Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) has presented a scylla and charybdis dilemma to a Democratic President.

PANETTA TO CIA: A "BRILLIANT" CHOICE? 2009

Diary of a Bluestocking: scylla and charybdis- the siren song of cultural confusion skip to main

scylla and charybdis- the siren song of cultural confusion Bluestocking 2007

Those are the scylla and charybdis that threaten us on either hand.

There is Only One Issue--The War on Terror Matt Johnston 2006

(Spoken in faux french accent) And last madames y monsieurs to finish ze meal we have the Robust Banana served in with a soupcon of milky charybdis ...

I KNOW Charybdis...I've studied Charybdis...and you madame... rabid1st 2004

Moreover, her references to “that huge pile of dishes” can leave you between the scylla of guilt and the charybdis of dishpan hands.

Saving Face Andy Robin 2005

Moreover, her references to “that huge pile of dishes” can leave you between the scylla of guilt and the charybdis of dishpan hands.

Saving Face Andy Robin 2005

And for the first time Kate felt she had met the mystery of the natives, the strange and mysterious gentleness between a scylla and a charybdis of violence; the small poised, perfect body of the bird that waves wings of thunder and wings of fire and night in its flight.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

A French gentleman not only washes his filthy hands at table, but, after gulping a mouthful, and using it as a gargle, squirts it into the basin standing before him, and the company, who may see the charybdis or maelstrom he has made in it, and the floating filth he has discharged, and which is now whirling in its vortex.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 Various

The exertions of the men at the oars were of no avail, and irresistibly our small ark was attracted by this charybdis.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle Kuno Francke 1892

We have a third class, who shun the rock upon which these last fall, but wreck upon another; they run upon scylla though they have missed charybdis; they escape the liquid destruction, but split upon the solid.

An History of Birmingham (1783) William Hutton 1769