In Yeames's work this technique evolved into the genre known as the Problem Picture, in which the narrative of the image creates an unresolved dilemma or paradox for the viewer.

Hannes Alfvén, Nobel laureate in physics, described the as yet unresolved dilemma of permanent radioactive waste disposal:

Such a physician may face continuing unresolved dilemmas.

Due to a lack of political viability on the issue, government mandated fuel prices hikes are unlikely and the unresolved dilemma of fossil fuel dependence is becoming a wicked problem.

Sanyal diagnoses the hero, Basanta Choudhury, as having an unresolved Oedipal dilemma - the inevitable consequence for men denied a nurturing woman.

There are no overhanging questions, no unresolved dilemmas.

Most black Americans, athletes included, pay a price for our nation's unresolved racial dilemma each and every day.

Scratch beneath the slick surface of our most popular, carefree culture, and you find some of our most primal and unresolved domestic dilemmas playing themselves out, in unsubtle code.

Not while I have an unresolved dilemma.

Which put Todd right back on the hot seat of that unresolved dilemma of an adequate space port now there would be three species using it.