impasse

The gaps hint that a critical flash point of America’s political impasse may be misunderstood.

Settlement talks hit an impasse.

What makes the impasse especially affecting is how Jelks and Holland subtly evoke how alike yet different two closely connected men with brutal pasts can be.

And so there is deadlock, an impasse.

But a ubiquitous concern is that the American public's alarming refusal to find compromise with people who hold opposing political viewpoints has brought us to a dangerous impasse.