having no alternative

Opening with a brilliantly alienated first line – “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new” – Murphy puzzled a lot of reviewers, was praised by Dylan Thomas, and sold badly.

Di Napoli said children like the one he portrayed were driven by a sense of having no alternative.

Having no alternative, Fiver accompanied Hazel and Bigwig to the burrow where Hazel had spent the previous night.

When the president addressed us, he shared his belief that even if the deal has some imperfections, pushing it forward is preferable to having no alternative deal right now.

However, having no alternative, we feasted them plentifully all the day till the evening; when the governor, getting quite drunk, grew very unruly, and struck one of our most friendly chiefs, who was our nearest neighbour, and also took his gold-laced hat from him.