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Definition of Sophie's choice in English: Sophie's choicenoun Used in reference to a difficult situation in which a person must choose between two equally deserving alternatives. for environmentalists, it's something of a Sophie's choice: do we want clean, smog-free air at the local level or lower greenhouse gas emissions at the global level? fans find themselves having to make a Sophie's Choice between two favourite bands, foregoing one to see the other play Example sentencesExamples - It's not exactly Sophie's Choice, but this year's crowded crop of Emmy nominees presents a conundrum for more than a few series.
- There were several instances where major television shows were scheduled opposite one another, creating the ultimate TV Sophie's Choice.
- It aired on Tuesday nights, which already featured two of my still-favourite shows, and I was already having a hard time making a Sophie's Choice between them.
- You never want to betray your frenemies, but when you have the opportunity to get what you want, it's a Sophie's choice.
- Nobody likes being pushed into a Sophie's choice over which gadget gets to live for the next day and which one doesn't.
- It would be a Sophie's Choice to only pick one of them.
- She plays the lead singer in a cover band who faced a difficult decision 20 years earlier—a kind of Sophie's Choice between her obligations as a married mother of three and rock & roll.
- Expect to see the show embrace the new lack of time constraints that used to force the show to make, as "a Sophie's Choice" to cut scenes down to a standard 21-minute episode.
- It's the Sophie's Choice of sports: bail on your team to try to salvage some money or sacrifice your one big chance at a contract to try to help your teammates.
- Those products force the user to make the PC equivalent of Sophie's Choice: do you sacrifice the keyboard for greater portability, or do you keep it and just accept your laptop will always be bulkier than a tablet?
- The subtitles are confusingly written, but so is the English dub, and neither really correspond to each other, so it's kind of Sophie's Choice on that one.
- Picking between those two on Tuesday nights is the Sophie's Choice of television.
- The phone network is going to present you with the Sophie's Choice of smartphones: unlimited data or a subsidized phone, but you can't have both.
- Sometimes you have to make a Sophie's choice about where to invest your limited resources.
- That would then entail a kind of Sophie's choice situation where you have to decide what bills you can pay.
- Home theater typically offers a Sophie's Choice: discrete looks, or big sound.
- It's a real Sophie's Choice when asked to select a Fleetwood Mac song that holds a special place in my heart, because so many of them do.
- Her mentor was put in a tough spot during the show, having to make a "Sophie's choice" in sending home either Garcia or her teammate Paige.
Origin With allusion to the 1979 novel Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1925–2006), in which a mother arriving at the Auschwitz concentration camp is forced to choose which of her two children is to be killed; failure to make a choice will result in the death of both children. Definition of Sophie's choice in US English: Sophie's choicenoun Used in reference to a difficult situation in which a person must choose between two equally deserving alternatives. for environmentalists, it's something of a Sophie's choice: do we want clean, smog-free air at the local level or lower greenhouse gas emissions at the global level? fans find themselves having to make a Sophie's Choice between two favorite bands, foregoing one to see the other play Example sentencesExamples - It's not exactly Sophie's Choice, but this year's crowded crop of Emmy nominees presents a conundrum for more than a few series.
- Picking between those two on Tuesday nights is the Sophie's Choice of television.
- It's the Sophie's Choice of sports: bail on your team to try to salvage some money or sacrifice your one big chance at a contract to try to help your teammates.
- You never want to betray your frenemies, but when you have the opportunity to get what you want, it's a Sophie's choice.
- Nobody likes being pushed into a Sophie's choice over which gadget gets to live for the next day and which one doesn't.
- The subtitles are confusingly written, but so is the English dub, and neither really correspond to each other, so it's kind of Sophie's Choice on that one.
- It aired on Tuesday nights, which already featured two of my still-favourite shows, and I was already having a hard time making a Sophie's Choice between them.
- That would then entail a kind of Sophie's choice situation where you have to decide what bills you can pay.
- Home theater typically offers a Sophie's Choice: discrete looks, or big sound.
- Those products force the user to make the PC equivalent of Sophie's Choice: do you sacrifice the keyboard for greater portability, or do you keep it and just accept your laptop will always be bulkier than a tablet?
- Expect to see the show embrace the new lack of time constraints that used to force the show to make, as "a Sophie's Choice" to cut scenes down to a standard 21-minute episode.
- It would be a Sophie's Choice to only pick one of them.
- The phone network is going to present you with the Sophie's Choice of smartphones: unlimited data or a subsidized phone, but you can't have both.
- She plays the lead singer in a cover band who faced a difficult decision 20 years earlier—a kind of Sophie's Choice between her obligations as a married mother of three and rock & roll.
- Sometimes you have to make a Sophie's choice about where to invest your limited resources.
- It's a real Sophie's Choice when asked to select a Fleetwood Mac song that holds a special place in my heart, because so many of them do.
- There were several instances where major television shows were scheduled opposite one another, creating the ultimate TV Sophie's Choice.
- Her mentor was put in a tough spot during the show, having to make a "Sophie's choice" in sending home either Garcia or her teammate Paige.
Origin With allusion to the 1979 novel Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1925–2006), in which a mother arriving at the Auschwitz concentration camp is forced to choose which of her two children is to be killed; failure to make a choice will result in the death of both children. |