| 单词 | fractious |
| 例句 | This was politics, yes, but in its most fractious and cynical form, seemingly disconnected from any larger sense of purpose. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Lawrence, for his part, was inclined to call Teller’s bluff, for his putative partner was already proving entirely too fractious for his taste. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z These tiny, fractious domains endured for more than a thousand years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But he had proven himself as a superb academic administrator, earning his spurs honing consensus among the fractious faculty cliques on the MIT campus. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The area's human geography is equally diverse: it is the home of more than a dozen major Indian groups, who have a long and fractious history. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The Greeks were divided into numerous fractious communities, some of which were able to dominate others by threats of force, unequal alliance, or commerce. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The fractious archaeological community embraced his ideas with rare unanimity; they rapidly became the standard model for the peopling of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The more his back ached and his muscle dissolved into fat and the fat melted off his bones, the more fractious he became with Janie. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive: to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z We cite this vignette as an example of possible recidivism; it demonstrates not only the confusion but also the fractious and insubordinate natural inclination of the African subject. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She was still too heavy with sleep to sound really fractious, but it was apparent that she felt there was some kind of injustice in the air. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Five or six more men left the porch and surrounded the fractious beast, goosing him in the sides and making him show his temper. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z It’s full of rage, a fractious child screaming, “I hate you” at a parent. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He was only some kind of folk legend, a warning used by mothers when youngsters were fractious or disobedient. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He prodded the directors, a fractious bunch, to forge what Julian Raby, director of the Freer and Sackler Galleries, called “a common vision.” Wounded in Crossfire of a Capital Culture War 2011-03-30T11:57:54Z This volume is of interest, too, for the light it sheds on the pressures of life at the top of government and the fractious relationship between politicians and a 24-hour media hungry for sensation. The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z Its characters, an extended, fractious family of lower-middle-class Jews, are trapped in an alternative timeline in which the unthinkable has become commonplace. Once Upon a Timeline in America 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z The timing was perfect, a British comedy of fractious people, arriving in the wake of the Brexit referendum. Director Sally Potter: 'I've seen the grief Covid-19 causes' 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Their shared vocation, though — the enterprise that is the basis of their sometimes fractious partnership — is their children. ‘King Richard’ Review: Father Holds Court 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z Now that those fractious times are over, however, we can hear music from the mid-20th century in a fresher context and think less about where a particular composer fits into the progressive matrix. music: Passion, Not Hyperbole, in Frank Martin?s ?Golgotha? 2010-07-16T23:38:00Z Our predispositions, our rituals, our norms – in this case interruption and its frayed and fractious outcomes – are our habituated context. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Bartlett presents scenes of fractious relationships and Faustian bargains-in-the-making in terms so classic as to be clichéd. London Theater Journal: Apocalypse at the National 2010-08-06T16:25:00Z One recurring theme of Lloyd Webber’s memoir is his increasingly fractious relationship with Rice. Andrew Lloyd Webber, Hotheaded Perfectionist 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z As familiars of this long-running series will know, what we're dealing with here is the fractious relationship between policemen and forensic scientists as they work together to solve crime. TV highlights 10/01/2013 2013-01-09T20:00:01Z Taller When Prone by Les Murray But read between the lines of this truncated character sketch and you also get a glimpse of what has been a sometimes fractious career. A life in writing: Les Murray 2010-11-22T00:05:00Z Talking is about all the quartet of fractious, sun-baked men in “Penelope” have to do anymore. Theater Review: In Far Over Their Heads: Life at the Pool?s Bottom 2010-10-27T04:30:00Z Letts, who won a Pulitzer Prize for writing “August: Osage County” and a Tony for performing in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?,” will star as the mayor of the fictional, fractious city of Big Cherry. Tracy Letts Will Star in His Own Play on Broadway 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z But given a more diverse and fractious society and its correspondingly diverse and fractious art, that assumption is no longer viable. Outdoor Sculpture and More in the New York Region 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z But each of these books will transport you to a time and place in this fractious, variegated, infuriating but endlessly lovable country. 10 of the best novels set in Spain – that will take you there 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z It is the story of a Louisiana mother, played by Phylicia Rashad, who wants to bring her fractious brood together at the end of her life. Essential Arts & Culture: Rage and grief at the Taper, art of color and movement, Obama's library 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Nostalgia for 70s era bohemia runs high, particularly in these fractious times. The Eve Babitz Revival 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Kenya’s sitcom writers’ room serves the same function as André’s advertising workplace: a fractious Greek chorus of white, female and other black views. ‘#blackAF’ Review: A Second Portrait of the Artist, With More Scars 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z The boys discover that while a fractious 21st-century America may not offer any easy paths to fulfillment, the deeper problem is that they don’t know how to believe in themselves. | 'American Idiot': A Musical Inspired by a Green Day Album Opens 2010-04-21T03:16:00Z As McAvoy's remarks suggest, First Class is unlikely to be the final big-screen outing for Marvel's band of occasionally fractious "mutants". Sheer magnetism 2011-05-31T01:35:05Z That it doesn’t is a tribute to medicine, a profession that is as fractious as any other in an embattled world. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Troy Kotsur, a deaf actor, plays Teacher, a fractious bully whose semi-coherent verbal harangues are the source of his catastrophic charisma. Don't miss a word of this 'American Buffalo' 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z This year’s 30th edition, starting just days before a fractious general election in the Netherlands, featured 275 dealers specializing in works ranging from distant antiquity to the 21st century. Tefaf Maastricht, While ‘Softer,’ Still Impresses 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z “As leader of a fractious party, a lot of people would like a piece of him,” he said. Paul Ryan’s Beard Triggers a Style Debate 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z One-click banishment is hardly a representation of the real world, and it’s not a solution to our fractious, political Armageddon. A gay man asks: What do I do about my friends who support Trump? 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z You’re meant to wonder whether this spirited but fractious group will ever make it to the national pop-gospel finals in Los Angeles. Joyful Noise: Is it Awfully Nice or Just Plain Awful? 2012-01-12T21:30:09Z “Illuminations,” also prompted by Rimbaud, fused what might have been the fractious gestures of a Pierre Boulez piano sonata with the cyclonic whorls of an avant-garde jazz pianist like Cecil Taylor. Music Review: John Zorn at the Miller Theater - Review 2011-12-11T21:43:46Z But you’ve probably never seen a fractious family stage the uncanny disappearing act that takes place in “The Open House,” Will Eno’s new play, which opened on Monday night at Signature Theater. Theater Review: In Will Eno’s ‘The Open House,’ Dysfunctional Dynamics 2014-03-04T03:00:03Z Beyond that, he unobtrusively conveys the personality of the various characters, including the manipulative Lizzie, irresolute Frank, ponderous Fawn, patient Lucy and, most gloriously, a fractious Scot, speaker of high-Caledonian argot. Review | The words of Martin Luther King Jr. as you’ve never heard them before 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The oysterman’s house still exists — as does, on nearby Money Hill, the one in which Edmund Wilson lived in a fractious marriage with Mary McCarthy. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z If you are going anywhere by car, you need to check out our series on motorway pitstops, covering the best places to eat, drink, stretch your legs and distract fractious children just off Britain’s motorways. School summer holidays: the best days out in the UK 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z They are a fractious lot even before Leonard arrives, swapping barbs about one another’s pretensions. Theater Review: ?Seminar,? by Theresa Rebeck, With Alan Rickman - Review 2011-11-21T03:01:23Z There's a superbly revealing scene in which a failing couple recapture a moment of intimacy, only for it to break down in a fractious argument about the supermarket shop. Hidden – review 2013-01-17T15:17:15Z In the early hours of the festival the weather proved fractious, soaking newcomers as they arrived on Thursday. Rolling Stones show Glastonbury, sometimes you get what you need 2013-06-28T17:39:00Z The way they connect around food–joking about coming from “shtetl people,” passing samples of deli coleslaw from a serving spoon–suggests a lifetime of fractious closeness. Season Review: Transparent Is a Change for the Better 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z “If you fully believe that the world around you is that fractious and that fragile and that tenuous and that frightening, then your body feels that, too,” she said. Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector: Together, Onstage and Off 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Monday’s vote underscored the clout wielded by the alliance on this issue between the airlines and their employees’ unions, which often have a fractious relationship. House bill lets airlines advertise pre-tax fares 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The play gathers a contentious, politically fractious family to Brooklyn, where Gus, the 70-year-old socialist patriarch, has decided to end his life. Tony Kushner’s civil war Why then, under today's fractious social and economic conditions, do we seem to be fascinated by stories about leaders under pressure? Shooting the Iron Lady 2011-07-10T21:50:01Z Its themes could not be more topical in today’s fractured, and fractious, America. Review: In ‘Seedfolks,’ Harvesting Hope and Humanity in a Community Garden 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z In a video interview on Monday from his home in Los Angeles, Stamos reminisced about how what began as a sometimes fractious working relationship developed into a love for the ages. John Stamos on Bob Saget and the Many Stages of Their Friendship 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z He was born in Canada into an immigrant Russian Jewish family — “crowded, tense, loving, fractious” — and worked dozens of hardscrabble jobs as a teenager in Chicago. A comprehensive study of a Nobel laureate 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Jarcho is intent on mapping the mysteries and difficulties of partnerships, and every section of “Grimly Handsome” deals with fractious twosomes and uneasy threesomes; three, here, represents something more unsettling than a crowd. Theater Review: ‘Grimly Handsome,’ at Incubator Arts Project 2013-01-09T03:00:00Z Their fractious reunion -- they’re the sort of lovers who express their passion by continuously squabbling -- is interwoven with flashbacks to their disastrous final performance. Starry support for 'Ay, Carmela!' at Hudson Mainstage Theatre 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z The play provides a historical touch point for our fractious political present. Onstage This Fall, the Enduring Friendship of Baldwin and Hansberry 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z As is often the case with Mr. Gurney, the work is centered on a fractious, convention-conscious family from Buffalo. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z Why not encourage a similar mind-set in these fractious times? The Caldecott Medal Needs an International Makeover 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z There, the inter-Allied feuding that marred the war with Germany was replaced by a fractious competition between the United States Navy and the Army over resources, strategy and public acclaim. How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z In what is otherwise a rather fractious Lyon clan, Cookie and Jamal have always been there for each other, and that keeps the show somewhat together. Best TV of 2015: The relationships, big and little, that made TV worth watching 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z The film's fractious British-American master-slave dynamic is ultimately resolved through a shared sense of martial honour and brotherly loyalty – a "special relationship", if you like. Kevin Macdonald: "I didn't understand Hollywood" 2011-03-17T21:30:00Z In an increasingly fractious and multicultural nation, the questions have no simple answers. Abroad: In Planning a History Museum, Sarkozy Opens a Can of Worms Instead 2011-03-08T10:23:38Z “The fractious bond between the brothers and their aching anger at the loss of a parent are evoked with exquisite sorrow and clarity,” wrote the Observer’s Wendy Ide. Sex, porn and toxic masculinity: the struggle to bring up better boys 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z And she says virtually nothing about the lively, fractious feminist debate thriving online, instead offering a defense of old-fashioned face-to-face conversation. Review: ‘My Life on the Road,’ Gloria Steinem’s Journey as a Traveling Feminist 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z I doubt that will happen, but “Come From Away” administers a healing dose of musical theater uplift that in these politically fractious times has found a grateful audience. And the winner is ... a tie? Why this year's Tony Awards are so impossible to predict 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The pulsing moment is one of communal exultation at odds with the film’s forthcoming depiction of a fractious multiethnic society. These Soccer and World Cup Movies Have Big Goals 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z British X Factor is no slouch when it comes to exploiting the fractious relationships of its judges, either. Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey bust-up: just what American Idol needed 2012-10-03T17:30:00Z Or the guy who smoked his way silently through the press conference for The Master at the Venice film festival, followed by fractious chats and a no-show at the awards ceremony? Joaquin Phoenix: 'I feel like Santa Claus' 2012-12-13T22:00:33Z Venice, for its part, belonged to a loose and fractious Christian alliance that included the papacy, whereas the Ottomans roamed the sea under the banner of Islam. Coasts and coalitions 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z A fractious process reached rock bottom when Atlantic's chairman, Craig Kallman, told him his verses and performance on a new song the label wanted him to record, called Nothing On You, were "wack". Lupe Fiasco: 'I have the right to speak out' 2011-03-03T21:59:00Z The incident quickly mushroomed into a televised spectacle and became a turning point in hostage negotiating; more than anything, it exhumes an instructive, bleakly relevant chapter in the city’s long racially fractious history. An Eerie, Thrilling Trip to the Toronto International Film Festival 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z A big-screen provocation that was made relatively quietly, the film had its world premiere at Toronto and very rapidly became yet another flash point in the larger fractious discussion about men and women. Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Gwinn, who previewed Oakley’s research last month, called it “very compelling” but stopped short of endorsing it, saying he would wait for the sometimes fractious Civil War community to weigh in. A Lingering Gettysburg Battle: Where Did Lincoln Stand? 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z Their money-nourished romance is tender at first then fractious and unhappy. Cannes 2013 round-up, week 2: Gosling for breakfast, skinflicks for lunch 2013-05-25T10:59:01Z What is fashion’s responsibility to, and in, a fractious world? London Fashion Week Draws the Queen and the Rabble 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z France has historically had a less fractious relationship with Iran than either Britain or the United States. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Hanks most recently graced the big screen in the biographical drama "Saving Mr. Banks," about the fractious working relationship between "Mary Poppins" author P.L. Tom Hanks, Lily Tomlin to get Kennedy Center Honors 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z McCrory is playing Celia, a fractious 1950s housewife who spent the second world war driving ambulances and now fritters away her days playing tennis and seeking real eggs for an omelette. Helen McCrory: 'Attack yourself ? don't get lazy' 2010-06-01T21:00:00Z Many of their stories begin in times of social upheaval—the clamor of the sixties, Hollywood of the seventies—and today’s fractious political climate might seem to belong to the same trend. “Bikram” and the Fraught, Telling Tale of a Yoga Phenomenon 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Political life in the US, meanwhile, is increasingly fractious. John Waters: why the auteur of outrage won't joke about the Manson murders 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Zand -- a chainsmoking former television presenter with a mustache, a lot of furious enemies and two fractious boys -- cuts a harried figure as he steers his charges from one anonymous provincial hotel to another. Bond baddie brings burlesque film to Cannes 2010-05-13T13:53:00Z A star of note in South Florida’s fractious, feverish SoundCloud rap scene, Lil Pump celebrated twin milestones this year, scoring a Top Five Billboard hit just months after his 17th birthday. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Hay Fever Theatre Palisades presents Nöel Coward's classic farce about a fractious theatrical family. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 10-17: '1984' and more 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Heady stuff, and Reygadas expresses some of this spiritual crisis through class conflict: the family in the farmhouse have decidedly fractious relations with the villagers in their shacks below. Carlos Reygadas: in defence of Post Tenebras Lux 2013-03-14T18:00:09Z His story is usually offered as illustrative of the fractious nature of the motley Dutch colony, long seen as “a collection of losers and scalawags,” as the historian Russell Shorto once put it. Brooklyn’s Muslim Presence Goes Back Centuries. Here’s Proof From 1643. 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z That this protest came at a moment in which a bipartisan coalition of United States senators had recently proposed legislation threatening fines for participating in a boycott of Israel suggests how fractious these issues remain. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z This was a recipe for chaos, and such was the fractious, fractured nature of the conflict that over time even the hardened, disciplined fighters linked to Al Qaeda fought among themselves. War Without End 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z With wit and deceptively spare prose, Warner immerses the reader in the ebb and flow of a small, fractious community. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Perdita’s internet stardom looks set to continue, with an Instagram account set up to chronicle the next chapter in the life of the fractious feline. 'World's worst cat' Perdita finds new home after purrfect publicity campaign 2020-02-01T05:00:00Z There has also been debate about the debate, with some seeing an example of fractious freedom of expression in action while others see a spectacle that has generated more heat than light. Charlie Hebdo Award at PEN Gala Sparks More Debate 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z His victory in the chaotic, fractious election of 1860 precipitated the secession of the slave states. Abraham Lincoln’s assassination: Great joy, then a gunshot 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Gibran had bequeathed the rights to his village in Lebanon, and producers had to negotiate with a fractious city council of several dozen before work could begin. Cannes 2014: With 'Prophet,' Salma Hayek seeks to realize a vision 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z In this fractious female household, kindness is in short supply. The Oscars: Movies Worth Another Look 2011-01-01T01:32:00Z So says Elizabeth Taylor, summing up the fractious encounter between the revered Shakespearian actor John Gielgud, and her new husband, the actor Richard Burton. What Makes a Great Performance? Backstage Drama, That’s What. 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z The drummer has had a fractious relationship with his bandmates in the past and walked off during one of their reunion gigs in Amsterdam last year. Reni misses Stone Roses premiere 2013-05-31T09:28:04Z The judge harbored a lifelong abhorrence of national divisions — it’s just that his understanding of who was responsible for the most fractious of those divisions would change according to his experiences. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z But his Substack is a place where a fractious world is rendered logical, where self-proclaimed moderates and rationalists find refuge from so-called purists and radicals. The boring journey of Matt Yglesias 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Though not all of the British support the monarchy, the queen offered her fractious country a sense of constancy. Her Majesty’s Last Broadcast 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z We have watched a restless day of rest in the park of the title, where an assortment of flâneurs and poseurs have become steadily more fractious and discordant. Review: ‘Sunday in the Park With George,’ a Living Painting to Make You See 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z During this fractious, politically polarizing time, many young women may be feeling confused, angry and unsafe as hard-won rights — especially regarding reproduction and their own bodies — suddenly come under fire. What does feminism mean now? Wise words from Mindy Kaling, Roxane Gay and others. 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z His perfectionist personality and fractious relationship with his new partner create the sort of confrontational drama you don't find on Strictly. This week's new films 2013-01-19T06:00:09Z But readers looking for new revelations about Babitz’s famously fractious life will have to wait. Review | A new look at Eve Babitz: Artist, provocateur and unlikely feminist icon 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z The link between the careers of Jay Leno and David Letterman is long and deep, and their personal relationship has often been fractious, sometimes warm, certainly competitive. The Ballad of Leno and Letterman, Told by Seinfeld 2014-02-04T23:19:36Z After a few years in the Stones’ employ, McGrath found himself caught in the middle of the increasingly fractious relationship between Jagger and Keith Richards. Earl McGrath Was a Character. His Closet Was Filled With Rare Recordings. 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The Center for Figurative Painting itself might be worth studying for what it reveals about the American art world’s fractious sociology over the past 50 years. Art Review: ‘See It Loud,’ at the National Academy Museum 2013-12-26T22:02:57Z The question of how to dress the body for the occasion is a different matter, as we’ve seen in this summer’s fractious debate over France’s “burkini” ban. A Separate Beach 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z The show noticed a group of architects with a structurally ambitious and geometrically fractious tendency that harkened back to the revolutionary Russian Constructivists of the nineteen-twenties. Zaha Hadid Was Just Getting Started 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z A good number form a fractious conversation about painting. A Gallery Resurgence in Chelsea 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Thorny modern times saturated with entrenched dilemmas, fractious politics and endless global uprisings make the idea of a little magic quite appealing. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing, as well as the rest of the fractious clan, "Dallas" was revived earlier this month after decades off the air. TNT's 'Dallas' revival wins a second-season pickup 2012-06-29T19:55:07Z But Alexander Heffner is, in a modest way, trying to do battle with our fractious world, as seen on TV. Civility? Depth? One host’s radical approach to TV talk in a troubled time 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z For American audiences, conditioned to view Iraq through the lens of contemporary wartime journalism as a primitive fractious land of Shiites, Sunnis and other sects in continual conflict, the documentary will be a revelation. Review: ‘Iraqi Odyssey’ Shows the Arc of a Family and a Country 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z By 1975, India’s fractious politics had started filtering into Hindi cinema. From vibrators to gay kisses, how Bollywood embraced the taboo 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The times were fractious and volatile; his beginnings were rough. Art Review: At China Institute, Envisioning Confucius, an Abstraction 2010-03-25T22:43:00Z The central conceit of “Third Person,” a study of three fractious relationships and set in Rome, Paris and New York, is that any romance between two people involves a third — or more. Paul Haggis Prepares His Film ‘Third Person’ for Release 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z It lends her pieces, delicately embroidered or printed, in loose, boxy shapes a vintage tinge, a sense of place and time remote from the fractious present. New York Men’s Fashion Week: The Mixtape 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Yauch’s enthusiasm about film along with all those titles were part of why so many in independent cinema, even nominal rivals, embraced his entrance into this difficult, sometimes fractious world. ArtsBeat: An Indie Impresario, Who Made His Mark Fast and Memorably 2012-05-04T23:45:47Z As a result, productions of that play seem ultra timely in our fractious present in the United States. 15 Summer Theater Festivals, From Stratford to Williamstown 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z He and Robin, in particular, had always had a fractious relationship. Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees: 'I want to keep the music alive' 2013-07-18T18:30:00Z As a starting point, we had a list of words: "implode", "fractious", "staccato", "frenetic", "fluidity" – that sort of thing. Jacob Sutton's best photograph: a dancer's release 2012-09-26T16:05:36Z When he took its helm, the orchestra was roundly considered to be a world-class ensemble in name only, its playing grown slipshod, its players fractious and discontented, its recording contracts unrenewed. Kurt Masur Dies at 88; Conductor Transformed New York Philharmonic 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Yet the movie doesn't play like the minutes of a fractious board meeting. Moneyball at Toronto: Brad Pitt Hits a Solid Triple 2011-09-10T14:05:00Z We are in Argeles-sur-Mer, a sun-saturated town on the French Mediterranean coast just north of Spain, at the end of a long, fractious summer in Britain. On the Mediterranean coast, Argeles-sur-Mer is France’s ‘capital of camping’ 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z But jungle was about more than reflecting this increasingly fractious environment – it was a hybrid music that pointed towards racial and social harmony. Congo Natty and the jungle revolution 2013-07-04T16:00:01Z Rarely rising above a murmur, the work sustained a fractious edge with microtonal disharmony and steadily increasing complexity. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z The fun part was, again, a fractious interview. Fade Out 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Growing up, he describes his relationship with his brother, who is three years older, as "fractious". Rufus Sewell: almost famous 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z The film, conceived during a fractious era of the Vietnam war and Watergate hearings, became an escapist fable for a generation of frustrated Americans, he said. In a warehouse far, far away, the galaxy's top Star Wars collector holds court 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The length also keeps Gaines from fully explaining the fractious, changing nature of the American Communist Party, which served as a rallying point for the likes of Hay and Lerner. Heroic Outcasts Who Reshaped America 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z What's most striking after all these fractious years is their apparent warmth. Rolling Stones steal Glastonbury from other debutantes – review 2013-06-29T23:56:12Z PBS and its noncommercial colleagues are not the only places on TV to find tough-minded, honest accounts of the fractious American situation, and political content, in particular, has exploded in recent years and even months. PBS Is Still TV’s Best Path to Better Citizenship 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z In the paradoxically plaintive and joyous sound of a castrato’s voice channeling Handel’s music, the King has glimpsed a paradise beyond his fractious court and his burdened royal self. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z As headline-like supertitles describe the events that secure Hitler’s power, these fractious friends spend several years drinking a lot and contemplating engagement and escape. ‘A Bright Room Called Day’ Review: The Playwright Enters the Play 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z These voices are fractious, cacophonous and rarely in sync. Review: ‘The Force’ Follows the Oakland Police From Crisis to Crisis 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The novel, about a hard-up educational administrator who lands a position at Cow Eye Community College and faces the task of uniting its fractious faculty members, seemed zany, intelligent and carefully constructed. Pynchon Intrigue Abounds Over ‘Cow Country’ 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z Joel Grey was born Joel Katz, part of a fractious clan of Cleveland Jews. Joel Grey takes center stage in ‘Master of Ceremonies’ 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z Fincher's thriller is already exciting rave reviews and looks set to spark flurried debate over its fractious take on modern-day marriage. Gone Girl unleashes battle of the sexes at New York film festival 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Branning also had a fractious relationship with his screen son Max, who he buried alive in a coffin during his childhood. EastEnders actor John Bardon dies 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z The real arc of “Pitch Perfect” is Becca’s growth as a singer and a functional member of a fractious all-girl a cappella group. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z It is also about community organizing, as Fury mobilizes a fractious group of individuals whom he must persuade to pursue a set of common interests. ‘Lincoln,’ ‘Django Unchained’ and an Obama-Inflected Cinema 2013-01-16T16:28:50Z It seems that nothing involving Michael Jackson or his fractious family is ever free of controversy, even two years after his death. Michael Jackson Tribute Angers Fans and Divides His Family 2011-08-30T22:41:32Z Ms. Macdonald never before dared to attempt to work with a goshawk, a bird that is famously, she writes, “difficult to tame, sulky, fractious and foreign.” Review: Helen Macdonald’s ‘H Is for Hawk,’ a Memoir on Grief and Falconry 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z Yet traders doubted that a fractious parliament would back a second referendum. Dollar treads water near three-and-a-half week high, backed by... 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z A complex work, “Broken Embraces” records Almodóvar’s leap into his late style, that fractious realm of irresolution, contradiction and uneasy accommodation. The 5 essential Pedro Almodóvar movies to watch on your way to ‘Pain and Glory’ 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In these fractious times, nothing has a 91 percent approval rating. Trump, beware: Americans have a deep, enduring love for the Postal Service 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z This remarkable new box set spans four concerts from the Davis quintet’s fractious tour, which have been passed around for years in semiofficial packages but have never before received the proper Columbia remaster-and-release treatment. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z As the spettacolo takes shape with fractious dialogue and insistent politics, it becomes evident that the filmmakers are less interested in the final play than in its production, in its process and multiple meanings. Review: In ‘Spettacolo,’ a Tuscan Town Where All the World’s a Stage 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Insecure, untested and emotionally warped by a fractious childhood, Rose, like Eleanor in “The Haunting of Hill House,” just wants to fit in. Book review: ‘Shirley,’ by Susan Scarf Merrell Initially, Wehrey notes, Western analysts did not believe Libya — almost entirely Sunni Muslim — to be as fractious as the multiethnic communities of Syria or Iraq. Why Libya Continues to Burn 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Lange endured a fractious relationship with Stryker, who seemed deeply discomfited by a strong-minded woman. Empathy and Artistry: Rediscovering Dorothea Lange 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z I appreciate her attitude is unhelpful and her responses speak loud about fractious relations between you. Should I stop my unhelfpul sister being my bridesmaid? 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z Signifiers and symbols that have long shouted “Forever England” are the subject of bewildered and fractious debate this cold and sunless November. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Matthew Dennison, who wrote a biography of Dahl, said by email on Monday that the author was known to have fractious relationships with his editors and disliked anyone tampering with his work. Roald Dahl’s Books Are Rewritten to Cut Potentially Offensive Language 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The central event in “Cleopatra” is the death of Tess, the largely unseen matriarch to a fractious clan. ‘The Last Days of Cleopatra,’ a Dark Comedy by Laoisa Sexton 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z But Love attempts to live his truth and “Good Vibrations” is an intermittently fascinating read for those interested in both the minutiae surrounding the birth of “California Girls” and the details of fractious family lawsuits. Mike Love's memoir 'Good Vibrations' recalls the Beach Boys harmonies and strife 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z This being an Ayckbourn play, the relationships among the troops portraying these ordinary people are fractious. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z “Maybe in fractious times people need reassurance that when things go really, really badly, something kicks in — that post-9/11 spirit, the unity after Pearl Harbor,” he said. Television: Kindly Keep Your Mitts Off My Planet 2011-06-03T20:59:53Z He has more luck with Barrett's fellow white supremacists, because they are fractious, talkative and weird. 'God'll Cut You Down' misses the mark in Southern murder case 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z That’s the bleak scenario at the Metropolitan Opera, where fractious labor negotiations threaten to disrupt the new season for the first time in more than 30 years. Lockout looms as Met contracts set to expire 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z But when season four broadcast, the show seemed to capture an essence of a fractious political climate where black people were reawakening to the crimes committed against them. Orange Is the New Black stars: 'I couldn't watch. I had to turn away' 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z But for the most part, the Biden inaugurals were soothingly wholesome, unhip and affirmative — family entertainment hoping to reunite a fractious American family. At Biden’s Inaugural Events, the Music Was Earnestly Reassuring 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z The show is tailored to D.C. — one of the best running gags involves “Shear Madness” — and it seems like the cast might be responsive as July inevitably delivers fractious new headlines. Second City puts sting in ‘Almost Accurate Guide to America’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Maybe you’re traveling in a large, fractious party and need your hands free in the airport. The Best Ways to Travel With (or Without) Your Skis 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z To judge from some of the hottest, most talked-up titles this year, it seems clear that heterosexual relationships — or at least movies about them — have entered a new and particularly fractious phase. At Last Back at Sundance, Filled With Rocky Relationships and Glorious Writers 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z For, as it turns out, the two Gabor sisters are even more interesting for the clan that enfolded them — a fractious, tightknit brood of Hungarian Jewish women who imagined themselves somewhere else. Review | Were Zsa Zsa and Eva Gabor the proto-Kardashians? 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Now Shirley wants to assemble her brood to break the news, but they’re such a fractious bunch, the task proves elusive. | 'Madea?s Big Happy Family': A Fractious Family With Cancer on the Agenda 2011-04-24T21:46:55Z But they also reverberate now in a time when the idea of America is subject to debates as fractious and far-reaching as at any time since the Civil War. Art Review: Walker Evans’s ‘American Photographs,’ at MoMA 2013-07-18T20:50:03Z A large black gelding seemed fractious but whickered hopefully when he saw Eddy, eyes softening. Fan Flaherty Trade 2011-07-22T22:01:10Z Pointed discussions of race and class erupt as often as testy personality clashes in Ms. Diamond’s play, set in an imposing manse on Martha’s Vineyard over a few fractious summer days. | 'Stick Fly': ?Stick Fly? at the Cort Theater - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:07Z Tom Finkelpearl, the city’s cultural affairs commissioner, finally ended the fractious meeting by reassuring the crowd that the 4-3 vote by a panel of judges was only advisory. New York’s Race to Build Monuments Runs Into Friction on the Ground 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Who knew that sleep researchers were such a fractious bunch? The History of Dreams, From Greek Mythology to Last Night’s Sleep 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z Others see the unusual agreement as a sign of how women are finding new ways to wrest back control of their own narratives, especially after fractious divorces. If It’s Fiction, Can It Be an Invasion of Privacy? 2020-12-05T05:00:00Z The refugee caravan is resource-starved, frightened, fractious and in dire need of the right leadership. Battlestar Galactica: all hail a cult classic of 21st-century TV 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Denied playdates and the regimen of school, even normally well-behaved kids soon grow fractious, then belligerent and, before you know it, as frenzied as the feral, rampaging castaways in “Lord of the Flies.” Review | To get us through, finding the wisdom of books written in isolation 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z But their long fight for the vote, Taub said, can stand in for any of the great social movements in American history, all of which were also messy, fractious, imperfect — and unfinished. Friendship, Betrayal and the Fight: ‘Suffs’ Tells the Suffragist Tale in Song 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z That means he is examining life at its most ordinary with this fractious yet permanently bonded family. Ripe for the political season, the Apple Family Cycle returns to Studio 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z Family reunions can be touching or tense, joyous or fractious. A Family Reunion, Centuries Later 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z Sam Elliott is Bobby, Jackson’s brother and fractious manager; they share the subterranean register of their voices and the anguish of their childhood. ‘A Star Is Born’ Review: A Brilliant Reincarnation 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He will need to summon both in the days ahead, navigating the fractious end to the Trump presidency and imploring the nation to turn the page. The power of words in crisis: Who hits mark, and who misses? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z He not only expertly managed the behind-the-scenes negotiations with Johnson, he also held together his own fractious coalition of civil-rights organizations. The Crucial Lessons of Democracy in “Selma” 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Born in 1964, Juan Thompson was the product of Hunter’s first marriage, which was undergoing a fractious dissolution throughout Thompson’s childhood. ‘Stories I Tell Myself: Growing Up With Hunter S. Thompson’ review 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z To that could, and perhaps should, be added fractured and fractious, disruptive. What Is ‘American Fashion’ Now? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z If ever an era was in dire need of pointed commentary and point-blank humor, it is our fractious present. ‘Series of Star-Spangled Satires’ at IFC, Amid a Nascent Presidency 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Provocative, fractious and conceptually sophisticated, it was the cool downtown chick of magazines. Book review: ‘Bomb: The Author Interviews’ doesn’t capture magazine’s signature voice 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z It courses with the often fractious history of the island. A San Francisco Restaurant Serving Hawaiian Cuisine (Hold the Pineapple) 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z More important, they use the splintered music to convey a fractious but blessed interconnectedness that makes their retrospective coming apart all the more poignant. The Pain of Fame, With Sondheim, Warhol and Capote as Guides 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z That was more than five years ago, and our relationship remains fractious. A letter to… my mother who blamed me when I was raped 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Maybe “Community” — a product of the fractious network-TV compromise between art and business — needed limits in order to transcend them. Forget Too Much TV. It’s Too Big TV We Should Worry About 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z This raw, engrossing work looks back at the deadly 1985 incident when Philadelphia police, following several fractious standoffs, dropped bombs on a rowhouse that housed Move, a group of black separatists. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z But the shift has not kept artists and visually minded activists from trying to say something meaningful during a fractious campaign season. Political Art in a Fractious Election Year 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z Through some rare alchemy of the moment, they managed, as writers, to conjure the Bolivarian ideal of a unified Latin America that the fractious reality of politics could never achieve. In Politics if Not Art, Realism Trumps Magic for Mario Vargas Llosa 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z And he lets us, quietly, become part of this fractious but ultimately irresistible house party. 'Mid-August Lunch': Take time out for this Italian repast on film 2010-04-29T20:11:00Z The world of contemporary art may be a fractious place, but there’s one thing that almost everyone involved agrees about: Orthodoxy is bad. ‘Unorthodox’ Faces Paradox at the Jewish Museum 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z Castor’s career since he left the Montgomery County, Pa., district attorney’s office has been something else entirely: fractious, circuitous, novel-worthy — and rarely boring. Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he’s Trump’s impeachment attorney. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z The fifth hour opens with striking shots of majestic, empty streets after four hours that were so bustling with fractious life. ‘City So Real’ Is an Election Story Pulsing With Life 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z How to persuade a fractious people to improve their behavior, however, poses as much of a challenge to us as it did to the founders. What America Owes to the Greeks and Romans 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z He downshifts and pulls onto the shoulder, letting the story take care of itself while the audience enjoys the sometimes funny, sometimes fractious, sometimes wistful pleasure of the characters’ company. Review: ‘Logan Lucky’: Steven Soderbergh and His Motley Band of Thieves 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z McAvoy says that if First Class is a success it is unlikely to be the final big-screen outing for Marvel's band of occasionally fractious mutants. VIDEO: James McAvoy's political superpower 2011-06-01T10:09:45Z From that unpromising beginning grew a complex, occasionally fractious friendship between the men who would create two of the 20th century’s most famous pieces of imaginary real estate, Narnia and Middle-earth. Dreamer Team 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Reality TV, like Mr. Trump’s campaign, is a product of a fractious time of niche audiences. What ‘The Apprentice’ Taught Donald Trump About Campaigning 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet the film doesn't play like the minutes of a fractious board meeting; it turns out to be smart, funny and seemingly seamless. Moneyball: Brad Pitt Legs Out a Triple 2011-10-06T18:50:00Z Now she is back at the helm of the downtown theater where she and Mr. Hoffman met years ago — directing a play, raising money, overseeing a fractious company of actors and writers. Mimi O’Donnell Seeks Solace in Theater After Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Family life in the early 1930s is “crowded, tense, loving, fractious”. Early days yet 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z And, more pointedly for viewers in the fractious summer of 2020: a portrait of the many ways self-improvement turns self-serving, apologies mask as empty pleas for absolution, and enlightenment serves as exploitation of another. Ramy: the smartest, darkest TV comedy that you're not watching 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z In this fractious, fragile era — during the last years of the Revolution, just before the installation of the Republic — interior decoration reflected both the near past and the imminent future. In His Paris Apartment, Alexis Mabille Creates a Singular Universe 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z It opens with a protest that soon turns violent, an overture that sets the tense, fractious mood and telegraphs the story’s trajectory. At New Directors/New Films, See the World Through Perceptive Filmmakers’ Eyes 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z While Turner, from child prodigy until his death, was an academician through and through, both Gainsborough and Constable had fractious relationships with the institution. Constable, Turner, Gainsborough and the Making of Landscape 2012-11-23T22:55:21Z Blunt seems to read this painting as a reassuring sign that American electoral politics have always been messy and fractious. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Q. Spain remains a politically fractious country comprised of different cultural groups, some of which are advocating for their independence. The Spanish media impresario Jaume Roures branches out 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z McKean, who plays Chuck, stopped by Salon to discuss the nuances of his character, particularly his fractious relationship with younger brother Jimmy. WATCH: Michael McKean on his “Better Call Saul” brotherly conflict: “He’s his own worst enemy” 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z The engine that drove the franchise as it expanded was the sometimes fractious web of collegial relationships between the various heroes. A Summer Without Superheroes 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z His apparently frail charges soon become slightly fractious and remarkably independent, and he literally spends day and night tending to their need for baked pasta, television, a sympathetic ear and a touch of affection. How a modest Italian film trumped the extravagance of Donizetti 2010-06-18T09:00:00Z Now 93 and on the throne longer than any other British monarch, Elizabeth has been the glue that has helped to hold her fractious country together. The British royal family is struggling through scandals. Can ‘The Crown’ help? 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z Trauma is not a bad way of describing the past few years at the fractious Paris Opera. With a Rare ‘Oedipe,’ the Paris Opera Pulls Together 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z OJAI, Calif. — “We are multiple, fractious and free,” a trio of voices sang with mock formality here on Saturday evening. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z This fractious dynamic isn’t limited to classic-rock bands: The punk groups Dead Kennedys and the Undertones have long toured without their original singers. Reunion Tour! The Band Is Back! Wait, Who Are These Guys? 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z Like every movie, this one is defined by its moment in time, which means that its premiere took place amid the continuing, fractious uproar over Hollywood and its lack of real diversity. Sundance Fights Tide With Films Like ‘The Birth of a Nation’ 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z To attempt to write the Great American Novel is to surmise that you can speak on behalf of an entire, fractious nation. Rachel Kushner’s ambitious new novel scares male critics 2013-06-05T23:00:00Z It is due, in part, to the famously fractious relationship between the film's two leading ladies, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. Battling broads 2011-05-13T09:00:34Z Though originating 21 years ago with “The Thief,” winner of a Newbery Honor, this stylishly written series, with its fractious leaders and fraught politics, remains as fresh as the latest headline. A new book by Lemony Snicket and other best books for young readers this month 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z And then there's a fractious relationship with his son to rebuild. The Equalizer: box set review 2013-06-20T14:40:00Z The fractious get-togethers in south Brooklyn, by contrast, are a blunt instrument. ‘A Replacement Life,’ by Boris Fishman 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z It was a fractious period, too, as artists and critics espoused or decried neo-Marxist theories as the art market boomed. Review: Tseng Kwong Chi’s Darkly Comic Images at Grey Art Gallery 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z A crisis that might have unified a fractious nation was instead weaponized in ways that exacerbated existing divisions. Reliving a Year of Death, as Havoc Reigned in the White House 2021-06-27T04:00:00Z Now Elizabeth's fractious circle of advisers gives her self-serving and conflicting advice on her next move. At ACT, a tale of 2 queens, 1 throne 2011-09-16T19:59:04Z In nature, mushrooms happily appear under the grossest and most fractious circumstances, when little else will. Mushrooms Aren’t Here to Destroy Us — Or to Save Us 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z In 1999 a denunciation of Salman Rushdie’s novel “The Ground Beneath Her Feet” as “an alarming new kind of anti-literature” helped establish him as a force to be reckoned with in India’s fractious literary scene. Pankaj Mishra’s New Book, ‘Ruins of Empire’ 2012-08-27T22:17:42Z Along the way, the women’s liberation movement endures fractious arguments over race and sexual orientation, thoughtfully recounted here and still very much germane. Review | ‘Mrs. America’ tells the story of the women’s movement from the dark side of the Force 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z In his review of “Detroit” in Chicago, Charles Isherwood wrote: “This scary-funny comedy speaks to the fractious, frightened American moment more perceptively than any play I’ve ever seen on a New York stage.” ArtsBeat: Amy Ryan and David Schwimmer Head to 'Detroit' 2012-05-21T18:58:05Z Labyrinth Theater Company, a fractious West Village nonprofit that has been an important contributor to the downtown theater scene, is looking for new leadership with the announcement that Mimi O’Donnell is stepping down. Mimi O’Donnell Leaves Post at Labyrinth Theater Company 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z This same concept applies to any fractious group organized around mutual distrust, whether that’s the cowboy heirs shooting from the hip in America’s police force or the divided country harboring them. The Wild Bunch at 50: the enduring nihilism of Sam Peckinpah's western 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z It is within this ugly and fractious landscape that Bryan Stevenson’s Equal Justice Initiative is attempting to create a new language and strategy for recalling the past and its traumas. Perspective | Competing monuments in the cradle of the Confederacy and the Civil Rights movement 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z Free from the burden of his fractious cabinet, and his emotionally unstable wife, he rides through the night with a sense of happy freedom on his shoulders. Theater Review: ‘A Civil War Christmas,’ by Paula Vogel, Set at White House 2012-12-05T04:49:02Z Mr. Colbert began his show with a segment playing on the fractious town halls. Jimmy Fallon Offers His Own ‘Alternative Facts’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z It’s vaudeville on Broadway — or, rather, a block and a half away on 55th Street — and a mid-20th-century call to get happy, which gives a vivaciously communal uplift to this fractious election year. Megan Does Marilyn: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Is Her Smash 2012-05-13T17:01:06Z But Tsiolkas makes sure to add that while there were many fractious, difficult years with his family, the lines of communication were never shut down. Christos Tsiolkas: 'There's love in this book' 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z "Back to Blood" is set in Miami, a broiling, fractious city where "everybody hates everybody." 'Back to Blood': Tom Wolfe's Miami novel falls victim to stylistic excess 2012-10-17T18:38:09Z I probably should have; the themes in these works, which chart a personal mythology within a host of swirling traditions and archetypes, are big and fractious ones. The Week Ahead: Oct. 7 — 13 2012-10-07T07:30:05Z He draws some sketchy but alarming parallels between Europe’s descent into disaster 100 years ago, and East Asia’s fractious security today, which is beset by a familiar cocktail of strident nationalism and brinkmanship. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Hay Fever Noel Coward's classic farce about a fractious theatrical family. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 1-8: 'Prairie-Oke!' and more 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z His most recent film, Adrift , was a beautifully shot low-budget Brazilian production, which had at its core a fractious yet deeply loving relationship between a father and his daughter. Vincent Cassel: 'You don't have to be your character in real life' 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z But all did what Mr. Ayer may do with “Fury”: jolt viewers into a fresh, and fractious, conversation about the movies and ground truth. ‘Fury,’ Starring Brad Pitt, a Raw Look at Warfare 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z France has historically had a less fractious relationship with Iran than either Britain or the United States. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Yet, for all this, what emerges powerfully is a vision of a kingdom that reaches for peace, mercy and justice but ends in fractious bloodshed. Morte d'Arthur 2010-06-18T20:29:00Z Her account is particularly strong on Hemingway’s tortured relationship with his mother, his fractious marriages and what could be seen as his fluid understanding of gender. New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z With the passage of time, relationships with artists can turn fractious; claqueurs often prefer to deal with their mothers. Designated Cheering Spectators Thrive at the Bolshoi Theater 2013-08-14T21:19:18Z President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U.S. actor Steven Seagal in 2016, saying he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how fractious ties between Moscow and Washington were starting to improve. Russia tasks Hollywood actor Seagal with improving U.S. ties 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Maya is a goofy class clown, Anna is a keen singer with a fractious home life; both have very prominent braces. The stars of Pen15 on playing their teenage selves: ‘It seems like torture’ 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z But I was struck all year by how many performances — challenging new works as well as repertory pieces we may take for granted — spoke to our fractious times. The Best Classical Music Performances of 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z The drama follows the often fractious relationship between Wilder and Chandler as they set about adapting James M. Cain's novel for the big screen. Garry Marshall to direct 'Billy & Ray' in New York 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The fractious, squabbling groups they were canvassing had an array of motivations—resentments, fear, self-interest, hang-ups, old grudges, not giving a hoot. “Game of Thrones”: Start Choppin’ 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z Medieval Twitter can be a noisy and fractious place, where scholars post articles, memes and, not infrequently, fierce blasts at each other. Medieval Scholars Spar on a Modern Battlefield: Twitter 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Their fractious friendship, however, bears little resemblance to the one conceived in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, who three years earlier had created the popular radio show “The Lone Ranger.” Float Like a Franchise, Sting Like a ... 2011-01-09T02:13:01Z The sometimes fractious relationship can be seen as the first in a series he has had with men who became surrogates for the father he'd never really had. Seal: The reluctant pop star 2010-09-16T22:00:00Z The punk icons’ fractious relationship is at the heart of a legal dispute over the use of the band’s songs in the Danny Boyle-directed series “Pistol.” Not rotten: Ex-Sex Pistol defends TV show in row with singer 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z The cottage Ada shares in Kent, England, with her younger brother and their guardian grows cramped and occasionally fractious when the landlord, Lady Thorton, moves in. For young readers: Books on gratitude, trust and tolerance 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z It speaks in anger — wind, snow and dust in cold gusts cutting against this ambitious yet fractious adaptation of Glendon Swarthout's novel. Harsh land and raw, maddening emotion test 'The Homesman' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z We have come to expect the House to be more than a little bit fractious lately and there have been whispers about physical threats being bandied about ever since the GOP speaker battle began. Republicans in Congress are throwing an institutional tantrum 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the appropriations committee, wondered aloud on the House floor how the fractious Republican majority would provide a path forward on spending. New speaker two-steps his way out of a government shutdown 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Johnson’s retreat followed days of huddling behind closed doors with his fractious colleagues. Column: The shutdown looms, and Speaker Mike Johnson has nothing 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Disputes within the fractious House of Representatives Republican majority have prevented that chamber from voting on a stopgap funding measure known as a continuing resolution, or CR. US Senate Democrats tee up bill to avert government shutdown 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Censure has been a rare punishment but has been wielded more frequently in the increasingly fractious and partisan House. House poised to censure Rep. Tlaib over anti-Israel comments 2023-11-07T05:00:00Z Democrats launched an ad last week highlighting the fractious fight over picking the new speaker of the U.S. Gov. Youngkin aims for a GOP sweep in Virginia’s legislative elections. Democrats have other ideas 2023-11-04T04:00:00Z But perhaps he's a natural and will be able to bring this fractious caucus together in ways that former GOP speakers John Boehner, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy were unable to do. Mike Johnson's MAGA honeymoon: How long can the new House speaker hold the GOP intact? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z No country has absorbed more Venezuelan migrants than Colombia, which has a long, complex and often fractious relationship with its next-door frenemy. Venezuelan immigrants are ostracized in Colombia amid xenophobia and shifting politics 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Their efforts have been fractious and disorganized, and they have little agreement on how much blame to lay at Mr. Biden’s feet or whether to punish him next November if he ignores their pleas. Democrats Splinter Over Israel as the Young, Diverse Left Rages at Biden 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The feuds within the fractious 221-212 Republican majority have eroded trust within the party, making it all the harder to unify around a successor to ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, lawmakers said. US House Republicans hope Johnson will fill long leadership vacancy 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson placed second to Mr. Emmer in the last round of votes and could be the candidate who can unite the fractious conference. House Republicans weighing new round of candidates in chaotic speaker’s race 2023-10-24T04:00:00Z Hezbollah’s political movement is part of Lebanon’s fractious government, but its fighters operate outside the state’s control. Israel strikes across Gaza after allowing another small aid convoy into the besieged enclave 2023-10-22T04:00:00Z The narrow and fractious Republican majority has failed to unite behind Jordan or any other candidate to replace Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who was ousted by a handful of party members on Oct. Jim Jordan to make third try at top job in paralyzed US House 2023-10-20T04:00:00Z Officials held public meetings on the Big Island in the summer of 2022, some marked by fractious debates. A giant European telescope rises as U.S. rivals await rescue 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z But it was unclear whether Jordan could secure the 217 votes needed from the narrow and fractious 221-212 Republican majority in a vote of the full House. US House leaderless for a 10th day amid Republican infighting 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z The fractious discourse offers a disconcerting glimpse of what’s ahead for a variety of cultural groups as school districts across California move to develop ethnic studies courses in response to new state requirements. Whose stories do we tell? Israeli-Palestinian tensions polarize an Orange County school district 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z But opponents within the narrow and fractious 221-212 majority indicated they would never support the lawmaker who had served as No. 2 to Kevin McCarthy, who on Oct. Republican Steve Scalise's quest to be US House speaker ends before liftoff 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z House of Representatives will try to unite around a new speaker to lead their fractious and narrow majority on Wednesday, a week after a small group of dissidents ousted Kevin McCarthy. US House Republicans seek to unite around a new speaker 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z House of Representatives on Wednesday could begin voting on a new speaker to lead their narrow and fractious majority, which just last week ousted Kevin McCarthy from the job in a historic first. US House Republicans eye Scalise, Jordan for possible next speaker 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Historically, military service was considered a vital part of nation-building, uniting a country that can be fractious. Inside Kfar Aza where Hamas militants killed families in their homes 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z This would be the latest challenge for Kaczynski in a career that has seen him hold together many of the often fractious elements of Poland's religious conservative right. Final showdown: Polish leaders in one last election battle 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z German politics looks set to get more fragmented - and even more fractious. Bavaria election: Toxic campaign heralds big vote for Germany's populists 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, the former president said on Friday, as the chamber's fractious Republicans try to unify in the aftermath of McCarthy's historic fall. Trump endorses Jim Jordan to be House speaker 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Fox News reported on Thursday, as the chamber's fractious Republicans try to unify in the aftermath of McCarthy's historic fall. Trump close to endorsing Jim Jordan to be House speaker -Fox News 2023-10-06T04:00:00Z Though he has been floated as a potential permanent successor, it remains unclear when one will be appointed and who can lead a fractious and slim House Republican majority. Interim House Speaker 'evicts' two senior Democrats from Capitol 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z Pelosi, who will be remembered as one of the most powerful and influential speakers in history, also worked with narrow margins and faced her own challenge corralling fractious members. Column: McCarthy's fall was sudden, but a long time coming 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z But it was the independence referendum in Scotland in 2014 that was probably the most fractious moment in the story of the union in recent years, he says. David Olusoga: ‘The UK is less equal than when I was young’ 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Catherine had to deal with fractious nobles and rebellious serfs; I have to deal with a mutinous tree — it’s basically the same thing. What I’m Reading: Apples, Private Actors and Marina Abramovic 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z That hasn’t been easy in a fractious party with a razor-thin majority. These are the 7 lawmakers to watch in government shutdown talks 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Feijoo had told lawmakers in a fractious debate that he knew he would lose the second vote. Spain's conservatives fail to form government, clearing way for socialists 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z October’s books will take you far: From 19th century North Carolina to the modern Middle East, from a fractious Rastafari family in Jamaica to a family-run Chinese restaurant in Detroit. 10 books to add to your reading list in October 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z The issue is set to become a point of contention for Scholz's fractious three-way coalition, with leading politicians from junior coalition partners the Greens and liberals on Tuesday expressing their scepticism with Faeser's border plan. Germany to boost border controls with Poland, Czech Republic, minister says 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z But as he leaves office at the end of the month, his work to support Ukraine will be just one part of a complicated and fractious legacy. As Gen. Milley steps down as chairman, his work on Ukraine is just one part of a complicated legacy 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z The practice has been at the centre of a fractious political debate. ‘The state says our kids don’t exist’ - how LGBT life is changing in Italy 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z He must try to hold his fractious coalition of discontented moderates and fire-breathing conservatives together somehow! Childhood's end: Sweet, innocent Kevin McCarthy faces the flames 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z It represented a setback for McCarthy the morning after his fractious 221-212 majority met for 2-1/2 hours seeking common ground on legislation to avert the fourth government shutdown in a decade beginning Oct. Shutdown looms as US House Republicans again block own spending bill 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z In this fractious political moment, it was nice to see the right and left agreeing for once: Boebert’s behavior in that theater last week was nothing short of trashy. Column: Will Lauren Boebert and other female politicians pay the price for behaving badly? 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a larger division within House Speaker Kevin McCarthy's fractious Republican majority prevented lawmakers from agreeing on a short-term measure to keep federal agencies afloat after funding expires on Sept. 30. Republican infighting stalls spending bills in US House as shutdown looms 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z His fresh mandate has seen signs of an improvement in Ankara’s often fractious relationship with the West. Turkey’s Erdogan says he trusts Russia as much as he trusts the West 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The document is a result of a consultation which culminated in an at times fractious meeting of the National Policy Forum in Nottingham in July. Labour blueprint says tough spending rules 'non-negotiable' 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z It includes audio she recorded at fractious meetings where administrators berated her in front of the team. Oberlin women’s lacrosse coach reassigned after criticizing transgender athletes 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z India also wants global regulation on cryptocurrencies and an overhaul of institutions like the World Bank and the IMF - these issues are likely to be less fractious. G20 India: Can a divided group deliver results? 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z Keeping all wings of her fractious party on side will test more than just Ms Coutinho's loyalty. Claire Coutinho: Who is the new energy secretary? 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Though they spurred widespread derision, the minister’s comments added to a rare, ecumenical consensus among Lebanon’s famously fractious political class. 'Barbie' is being censored. The film's rollout in the Arab world hits a snag 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z It comes as Spain faces either a repeat election or months of wrangling between its fractured and fractious political actors over the formation of a fresh government following an inconclusive general election. Spanish PM's Moroccan holiday amid election impasse draws flak from allies and foes 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z The crisis has even sown divisions within the military, long viewed as an apolitical melting pot for a fractious society, with concerns about war-readiness voiced on both sides of the debate. Thousands march as vote on curtailing Israel court's powers nears 2023-07-22T04:00:00Z The seeping of the constitutional crisis into the military has jarred Israelis who long saw the armed forces as an apolitical melting pot for a fractious society. Israeli air force reservists threaten to stop volunteering over judicial overhaul 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z McCarthy can ill afford to lose even one vote as he struggles to keep his fractious caucus in line with a slim majority. Rep. George Santos compares himself to civil rights hero Rosa Parks because he refused to sit in the back of Congress 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z The House has always been the more fractious of the two chambers of Congress. Not just the House of Representatives: Senate GOP gone wild 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z During what is sure to be a fractious year of tough choices, Carlsen’s emphasis on connection will be much needed to bring families back into the fold. The Seattle Times editorial board recommends: Debbie Carlsen for Seattle Public Schools District 1 | Editorial 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z For Sunak, standing alongside the American president provides a brief respite from his mounting domestic troubles over a stuttering economy and a fractious party. Ukraine and the environment will top the agenda when Biden meets UK politicians and royalty 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z The Commerce Department and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, with their greater emphasis on fostering employment and industrial self-reliance, have tended to have more fractious relationships with their Chinese counterparts. China and the U.S., Still Adversaries, Are Talking. That’s a Start. 2023-07-09T04:00:00Z Republicans hold a tiny majority of about 10 seats in the House and cannot afford to lose any votes in his fractious GOP caucus. Rep. George Santos insists he’s running for reelection after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says ‘he shouldn’t run’ 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z All of this is to say that consciousness research, far from converging toward a unifying paradigm, has become more fractious and chaotic than ever. A 25-Year-Old Bet about Consciousness Has Finally Been Settled 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z Solheim said she is starting a new chapter that puts the fractious history in the past. Tri-Cities flower shop that wouldn’t serve same-sex wedding has new LGBTQ+ friendly owner 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z But Mr. McCarthy on Wednesday sought to impose a sense of strategy upon his fractious conference. House Censures Adam Schiff Over His Role Investigating Trump 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z However, there was no sign that any of the most fractious issues between them were closer to resolution. Blinken opens second day of talks in Beijing on mission to ease soaring US-China tensions 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z In an interview with The Times editorial board, Harrell said he had believed the public drug use ordinance debated at a fractious City Council meeting on June 6 would pass. A desperate Seattle needs Mayor Harrell to bring his A-game to public drug use law | Editorial 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z For the Fed, “skipping” a rate hike at this week’s meeting may be the most effective way for Powell to unite a fractious policymaking committee. Federal Reserve is likely to skip a rate hike at pivotal meeting Wednesday yet signal more to come 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z The police investigation deepened in the weeks after Ms. Sturgeon’s surprise resignation and the fractious competition to succeed her that was won, narrowly, by Mr. Yousaf. Scotland’s Independence Movement Is Down, but Not Out, Analysts Say 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z But realistically, success or failure could have an impact on support inside a fractious U.S. As Ukraine Launches Counteroffensive, Definitions of ‘Success’ Vary 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Trottenberg has been the Transportation Department’s No. 2 official for most of the Biden administration — a fractious time for the relationship between U.S. airlines and the federal government. No. 2 Official at Transportation Department Is Named F.A.A.’s Interim Leader 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Calling next week’s decision a “skip” is also a way for Chair Jerome Powell to forge a consensus among an increasingly fractious committee of Fed policymakers. Is it a ‘skip’ or a ‘pause’? Federal Reserve won’t likely raise rates next week but maybe next month 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z It underscored Mr. McCarthy’s lack of control over his fractious conference. Hard Right Grinds House to a Halt, Rebuking McCarthy for the Debt Deal 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z Further downgrades of U.S. debt could be coming if U.S. politics become increasingly fractious and dysfunctional, and skepticism about the solidity of Treasuries could still dim their luster. The Treasury Paradox 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z Getting the votes on his side to cement the deal would also reinforce his standing with Biden as a credible negotiator who can deliver, despite the fractious nature of his party. Why McCarthy and Biden both stand to gain from the debt deal — if they can get it passed 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Turkey’s historically fractious opposition set aside its differences to come together behind Mr. Kilicdaroglu and argued that change was needed to stop the country’s slide toward one-man rule. Five Takeaways From Turkey’s Presidential Election 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z While the stakes would seem relatively minor, the level of vitriol has been anything but, reflecting a new era in which Germany’s once-staid politics have turned more fractious. Ugly Fight Over Climate Bill Exposes Cracks in German Coalition 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Commentators have said that the row reflects a fractious milieu where India's ruling party and the opposition are unable to reach an agreement on most issues. New parliament: PM Modi to inaugurate building amid opposition boycott 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z The two have a fractious relationship following the central bank's move to redesign the local currency - leading to huge cash shortages - just before the election. Bola Tinubu inauguration: The five tests awaiting Nigeria's new president 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z The Smiths were a famously fractious group, but each member paid tribute to their late bassist. Unexpectedly, two nights of classic goth and post-punk at Cruel World festival 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z The U.K. and the EU hailed their deal as a decisive breakthrough in their often fractious relationship. Sinn Fein wins in Northern Ireland local elections, urges return of government 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z In a fractious national climate where churches were split by party politics, particularly during the 2016 presidential campaign, Mr. Keller was nonpartisan. ‘Reason for God’ author Timothy Keller dies after years of cancer battle 2023-05-19T04:00:00Z The appeal to a mystical, millenarian identity helped unite the fractious Turkic tribes and Ismail was able to bring all of Persia under his rule in a short amount of time. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z And they see a fractious politics in Washington that values confrontation over compromise, even at the risk of something that would have once been unimaginable, like a default. For Biden, Crisis at Home Complicates Diplomacy Abroad 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z When their sister, Mary, tried to break it up, she “nearly had her coronet knocked flying by the fractious pair.” Essay: Which king hired bouncers to block the queen from his coronation? Astonishing moments in British crowning 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The feud has resonated within Israel's armed forces, which draw heavily on conscripts and have long sought to serve as a melting pot for a fractious society. Israeli major disciplined for wearing uniform to political protest 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z But he's managed to do a pretty good job under difficult circumstances while keeping his usually fractious coalition together. Ignore complaints of Joe Biden's old age, he can beat Donald Trump — again 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z It was yet another blow to Guaidó, who for a time managed to unite Venezuela’s historically fractious opposition into a single movement against Maduro and the socialist state founded by Hugo Chávez. Guaidó, former Venezuelan opposition leader, lands in U.S. for ‘refuge’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Still, he has presided over a sometimes fractious party. Analysis | Biden’s balance sheet: Weak numbers, but in Donald Trump, a valuable foil 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Harry's memoir Spare was a raw and often angry account of his fractious relationship with his brother - and this could almost be another chapter, appearing to set them apart. Prince Harry relentless in personal press battle 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Israel is marking its 75th anniversary in a fractious and uncertain mood, with some of the deepest social divisions since the foundation of the country in 1948. Israel begins Independence Day celebrations marred by protests 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z This month, Republicans who control the state’s fractious legislature came together with Democrats in a moment of unusual bipartisan accord to try to change all that. The Hot Issue Bedeviling Arizona’s New Governor: Tamales 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Allowing the fractious politics of an unstable House GOP caucus to tank it would be unconscionable. Opinion | McCarthy’s debt ceiling plan is theater unworthy of a high school gym 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z McCarthy has found himself presiding over a fractious caucus with disparate views on everything from fiscal issues to border security. The turbulence, triumph of Kevin McCarthy’s first 100 days, in photos But the channel, by chasing profits, had become too much of an engine reflecting fractious mass politics instead of elite opinion. Commentary: Fox News and the prison of profit 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Boss Tuchel was also sent to the stands for two yellow cards in what was a very fractious and fiery encounter at times. Man City see off Bayern to set up Real Madrid semi 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The package was swiftly embraced by leading Republicans as McCarthy has worked intently to unite his often fractious majority. Speaker McCarthy unveils $1.5T debt bill, challenging Biden 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z But early, internal schisms still emerged around the unresolved, finer details of McCarthy’s plan, complicating its path to swift passage in a chamber where his fractious party has only four votes to spare. Republicans ready debt ceiling bill amid new fears of June deadline 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z McCarthy leads a fractious caucus that holds a narrow 222-213 majority, including a sizeable contingent of hardline members who want sharp spending cuts and dismiss the risks of failure to act on the debt ceiling. Republican U.S. House Speaker McCarthy to pitch spending cuts on Wall St 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z He wanted to discuss how a razor-thin Republican majority would operate — and whether he still had a pathway to lead the fractious Republican conference and become speaker of the House. Meet ‘the five families’ that wield power in McCarthy’s House majority The uneasiness reflects persistent divisions in a fractious conference with 222 votes, a four-vote advantage, which struggled only three months ago to elect a House speaker. With as little as seven weeks left, GOP races to ready debt ceiling bill 2023-04-15T04:00:00Z It would also need to find its way through parliament, where Macron has lost his working majority and debate has become increasingly fractious. After pension reform battle, Macron weakened but unbowed 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z The Ravens had reached an increasingly fractious stalemate with the most popular figure in franchise history, who also happens to be the player upon whom all their realistic Super Bowl hopes are built. Signing Odell Beckham won’t bring Lamar Jackson back — but it can’t hurt 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Instead, the fractured and fractious streaming landscape is pulling HBO into the mire. HBO is the jewel in Warner Bros. Discovery's crown. And apparently they hate it 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Thursday's vote followed a fractious day in the House. Tennessee statehouse expels Democrat for gun control protest 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z It led to fractious encounters along Pennsylvania Avenue because of parking and traffic disruptions. First 'Northern Exposure' changed tiny Roslyn. Now it's wealthy newcomers. 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z McCarthy’s ultimatum — delivered with a jab at Biden’s age — appeared to unite his usually fractious conference and heightened the odds of a political showdown that could damage the fragile U.S. economy. House GOP eyes bill to cut spending, raise debt ceiling amid stalemate 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But Republicans may not have their own blueprint ready until later this spring, further cutting into the time available to hammer out details that can win support among a narrow, fractious majority. Biden administration warns of ‘damaging’ effects from GOP budget plans 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Asked about that footage, Mr López Obrador - who has a very fractious relationship with the media - accused journalists of being more interested in sensationalism than the pain of the trapped migrants. Mexico opens homicide investigation into deadly fire at migrant centre 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The SNP faced a fractious lead-up to Mr Yousaf's successful election, with the party's record in government facing criticism as well as a row over membership figures. Scottish Parliament to vote for next first minister 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z His supporters say he is a polished communicator who is best placed to unite the party and maintain the power-sharing agreement with the Scottish Greens after what has been a deeply fractious leadership contest. Who is Humza Yousaf, the new SNP leader? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Speaking after the result was announced at Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh, Ms Yousaf called on the party to unite behind him after what has often been a fractious leadership contest. Humza Yousaf to succeed Sturgeon as SNP leader 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Sharp wage increases would squeeze the fiscal room for manoeuvre for Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government, making already fractious negotiations over the federal budget more difficult in his three-way coalition. Largest strike in decades brings Germany to a standstill 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Ms Owen's friends, who were being spoken to as witnesses, had "fractious" interactions with the same detective and he was "confrontational with them also, as if they had done something wrong". Casey report: Rape victim says no chance of reforming 'vile' Met Police 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z “What sort of fool decides to end a fractious month at the National Trust by posting a picture of a cream tea?” Jam or Cream First? Notes From One Woman’s Decade of Eating Scones. 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The Credit Suisse board, interested in preserving some unity in an increasingly fractious setting, stood behind them, and argued for a payout to shareholders, said the person. Switzerland's secretive Credit Suisse rescue rocks global finance 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The two generals have led a fractious conservative coalition since then. Thailand: Parliament dissolved ahead of May election 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z The wait for U.S. approvals is the latest challenge for the fractious opposition, whose new leadership is struggling to gain traction against Maduro amid a loosening of U.S. sanctions and renewed relations with some neighbors. Venezuelan opposition impatient over U.S. process to move frozen funds - sources 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z However, fractious geopolitics may not give confidence that supply chain normalisation will endure for long. Morning Bid: Powell's plan, China challenge 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z Worthy aspirations for anyone seeking to takeover the leadership of an increasingly fractious party. Can the next SNP leader unite the party? 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z You might try to hear the noises made by fractious babies as being part of the larger human symphony. Advice | Ask Amy: What do I say to the parents whose kids spoiled a concert? 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z Unlike at recent party elections in Arizona and the Republican National Committee, no consensus candidate emerged who could unite the party’s fractious coalition. Far-right election denier beats Trump’s pick for Michigan GOP 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Some squarely blame him for the precarious state of the country — a nuclear-armed nation of 220 million with tottering institutions, fractious politics, a crumbling economy and empowered religious extremism. Musharraf’s Legacy: A Conflicted Pakistan and a Bristling Military 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z McCarthy, 58, leads a fractious House Republican caucus with a narrow 222-212 majority that has given a small group of hardline conservatives outsized influence. Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling talks to set tone for divided Washington rule 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z But other observers urged caution, noting that the two fractious democracies haven’t always worked in lockstep. U.S. and India launch high-level defense and tech initiative 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z But the House has struggled to vote on even some of their highest-priority bills — including a border proposal — in the past few weeks, given the chamber’s narrow and fractious Republican majority. Police reform talks are back in Congress, but little hope for a deal 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z And in November, his colleagues elected him House majority whip, where he will play a pivotal role in counting votes for McCarthy and trying to hold together the chamber’s fractious GOP majority. These 6 GOP leaders will shift Congress on climate His past, recent and otherwise, is not that of a judicious legislator who might be depended on to hold a fractious and wafer-thin Republican majority together. Matt Gaetz, Political Arsonist, Has New Powers. What Will He Do With Them? 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Professor Curtice added, “Leaving aside the very fractious debate between the activists on both sides, amongst the general public, it’s not a subject on which people care a great deal.” Will U.K. Rejection of Scottish Gender Bill Bolster Independence Movement? 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z It is the latest act in golf's increasingly fractious civil war between the new LIV Golf series and the DP World Tour and PGA Tour. Reed is 'not living in reality' - McIlroy on snub 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z "Given an extremely fractious political environment, we anticipate an agreement will likely only be reached very late or in an incremental fashion, potentially contributing to flare-ups in financial market volatility," Moody's said in a note. U.S. debt limit negotiations to take time, but agreement expected -Moody's 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Newly installed as speaker by a slim and fractious majority, McCarthy has one clear priority: Maintaining his hold on power, which means placating his right flank. These 6 GOP leaders will shift Congress on climate But as the fractious and farcical saga of electing a new U.S. Column: U.S. debt ceiling saga softens Fed's QT: McGeever 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z But fights over the ceiling have become increasingly fractious, as political polarisation increases and US debt has skyrocketed, roughly doubling in a decade. What happens if the US hits the debt ceiling? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z House Republicans got off to a slow start with a first week dominated by fractious debate over who would become speaker. Busy House GOP fires fusillade of bills to challenge Biden on COVID, immigration 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z If McCarthy can’t get his fractious caucus to agree on the easy stuff, what happens when he has to avoid defaulting on the federal debt in a few months? Opinion | Can you govern on a lie? House Republicans give it a try. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Its proponents call the court a means of bringing equilibrium to a fractious society. Thousands of Israelis protest against Netanyahu's legal reforms 2023-01-14T05:00:00Z But Mr Sunak has spoken of wanting to "reset" the often fractious relationship between the two governments. Rishi Sunak and Nicola Sturgeon to hold talks in Scotland 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Bolsonaro had a fractious relationship with Biden, and was already on weaker ground back home in Brazil after losing broad protections from prosecution when he stepped down as president. Bolsonaro's Florida stay puts ball in Biden's court after Brasilia riots 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The reason: Any guarantees Republicans offer may not stick, given the GOP's inability to govern with a fractious caucus. “This is a Republican mess”: Progressives warn Democrats not to cut a speaker deal with GOP 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z The split between the agitators and the peacemakers belied a longtime alliance that had united the fractious wings of the G.O.P. Republicans’ Internecine Conflict Is Mirrored in Conservative Media 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Sunak also needs to manage divisions within his fractious Conservative Party, while knowing that Mr. Johnson harbors ambitions to return to Downing Street, if given the opportunity. Sunak Makes Sweeping Pledges to Britons, Promising Path to Prosperity 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Referee Andy Madley handed out nine yellow cards in a fractious match and the Emirates crowd booed the officials' performance at half-time. Arsenal denied two 'scandalous' penalties, says Arteta 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z No viable candidate has yet emerged to challenge Mr. McCarthy, and it was not clear who would be able to unite the fractious Republican Conference if he proved unable to do so. McCarthy’s Bid for Speaker Remains in Peril Even After Key Concessions 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z They were also reflecting on the accomplishments of their tenure and hopes that their legislation would last long after their departure, even in a fractious Congress. Retiring Congress Members See Rough Roads Ahead. They Won’t Miss the Gridlock. 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z A rare unifying figure among the historically fractious opposition, Guaidó said he would serve as the country’s “interim president” until Maduro stepped down — or, at least, agreed to hold free and fair elections. End of an era as Venezuela’s opposition moves to end Guaidó experiment 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z Outside of the frequently fractious public #MeToo debates, “Women Talking” found a sustained conversation forged on togetherness, mutual respect and the possibility of creating a new path forward. Radical dialogue and open roads in ‘Women Talking’ 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z Megan Squire, deputy director of data analytics at the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project, says that fractious relations are common among extremist groups. Far-right groups had racism rift before Capitol riot 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z It was all pretty fractious, a little ugly. 'Abada on song as Celtic waltz to familiar tune' 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The conservative Yoon, who took office early this year, has repeatedly said his government would strictly apply the law to labour relations in a country with a long record of fractious industrial relations. South Korea's president stresses need for labour reforms 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The nation is entering a period that some political scientists say is certain to be fractious and gridlocked on the federal level. Can politics kill you? Research says the answer increasingly is yes. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Union and university officials expressed optimism about the deal, although it still must be ratified by the rank-and-file of two fractious bargaining units of the United Auto Workers, the union that represents the academic employees. University of California Academic Workers Reach Deal to End Strike 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr Kennedy's appointment comes during a fractious political era in Northern Ireland. Joe Kennedy III set to be named as US special envoy to Northern Ireland 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Mr Streeting's reformist agenda has thrust him into the centre of a fractious debate about the future of the NHS at the time when nurses are locked in a dispute over pay with the government. Wes Streeting: I won't pretend NHS is envy of world 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z A: Oh boy, this is a question that leads to many strong and fractious opinions, but one thing is true: Every generation has its sleep guru or trend. Advice | Should I advise my grown children to use the Ferber sleep method? 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z It is all the more surprising because European leaders welcomed Biden’s arrival two years ago as a return to warm relations and mutual commitments after four years of fractious ties under Donald Trump. EU to US: We already have war, don’t give us trade war, too 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Libya has for years been a fractious country with competing governments in the eastern and western parts and a host of regional militias also exercising local control. In Libya, Mystery Shrouds Handover of Lockerbie Suspect to U.S. 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z GOP leaders this year tried to unite the fractious conference before the election by releasing a statement of principles they dubbed the “Commitment to America,” to get buy-in from all corners on policy objectives. A narrow GOP majority is forcing moderates to find their voice 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z A focus of the proposed overhaul is the Israeli Supreme Court, whose independence from the fractious Knesset parliament and occasional interventions in legislation Harvard University professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz has cited in his pro-Israel advocacy. U.S. jurist Alan Dershowitz troubled by proposed Israel court reforms 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Yet whether Boluarte, also from Castillo’s Marxist-Leninist Free Peru party, is given that breathing space by a fractious and deeply conservative congress remains far from clear. Peru has had five presidents in 25 months. Can Dina Boluarte stick? 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Bringing forward elections slated for 2026 could revamp a fractious Congress, which faces extremely low approval ratings. Analysis: Peru's presidential curse will prove hard to lift despite Castillo ouster 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z While the island nation of Bahrain is just 20 miles from Qatar, few fans will be staying there because the relationship between the two countries remains so fractious that there are no direct flights. Qatar’s World Cup Showcases New Ties With Saudi Arabia, but Scars Remain 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The 21-gun salute and elaborate reception that will be accorded to Mr. Macron, starting Wednesday, reflect the resilience of the very old but sometimes fractious relationship between France and the United States. As Macron Pays State Visit to U.S., Ukraine Tests an Old Alliance 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z Iran’s internal politics are often as fractious as its international dealings, and sports — especially soccer — was never immune. Iran World Cup showdown with U.S. overshadowed by protests against Islamic regime 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z The inquiry also showed how relations between governments became fractious as frustration grew among politicians who, under the Canadian system, are not allowed to direct the police. Trudeau to Testify About Invoking Emergencies Act During Trucker Protest 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z He is facing a slowing economy, a cost-of-living crisis — and a governing Conservative Party that is fractious and increasingly unpopular after 12 years in power. UK voters warm to new leader Sunak, but not to his party 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Democrats are primed to do as much as they can to disrupt the delicate balance that Mr. McCarthy will have to strike, should he win the speakership, to keep a handle on his fractious ranks. Progressive Activists Ready Campaign to Counter New House G.O.P. Majority 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Without a red wave, the Bakersfield Republican now faces a narrow, fractious majority and a rocky road to the speakership. Both parties had high hopes for California in the midterms. Neither saw their dreams fully come true 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z In halls of power long dominated by men, the new Madam Mayor will share significant power with the fractious City Council, as well as the L.A. For Black Angelenos, election of Karen Bass brings joy in a divisive time. But they want results 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z House of Representatives speaker, showed an ability to pass major legislation, united fractious fellow Democrats and challenged some of the world's most powerful men. U.S. House Speaker Pelosi wraps up long and historic leadership career 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But her ability to keep her fractious and often slim majority in the chamber together on key votes had few rivals. Nancy Pelosi stands down as leader of US House Democrats 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Now, amid fractious battles and frequent protests in council chambers, she will return to City Hall as the ultimate insider — the leader of the nation’s second-largest city. Karen Bass elected, becoming L.A.'s first woman mayor 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z She is a polite yet steely grandmother who has managed to command the respect of Trump’s fractious orbit and speaks frequently with Trump, having led his PAC for the past year. Trump campaign operation takes shape ahead of expected 2024 announcement 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z In talks, the pair agreed that neither wanted competition between the two superpowers to erupt in conflict, and they promised more efforts to repair a fractious relationship. Your Tuesday Briefing 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Mr Hunt and Mr Sunak will encounter problems from both sides of their fractious party. Autumn Statement: Hunt plans billions in spending cuts to repair UK finances 2022-11-12T05:00:00Z Republicans remain likely to pick up the handful of seats to claim the majority, but in a very narrow fashion that will leave their fractious caucus in a state of peril over how to govern. Analysis | Sean Patrick Maloney is a tale of two nights: The best of times, the worst of times 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z But some are frantic over what appears to be a razor-thin victory as they stare down what many privately say is the impossible task of governing an ideologically fractious conference with slim margins. Kevin McCarthy almost has the reins of a House majority. Can he hold on? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z If McCarthy is the next House speaker, he may find it challenging to hold together his fractious caucus, with a hard-right wing that has little interest in compromise. Republicans close in on U.S. House majority, Senate still up for grabs 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Many members of an increasingly fractious American public have latched onto unproven conspiracies about voter fraud. No cyberattacks affected US vote counting, officials say 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The nation’s fractious political divides remained on vivid display. Analysis: A stunning draw as Democrats hold their own 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z From The Times: Iran’s national soccer team was long seen as a unifying force in a fractious nation. Your Wednesday Briefing 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The 2022 midterms, which decide the balance of power in Congress, have been bitter, fractious and expensive in the billions. Early election takeaways: It’s called history for a reason 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z For years, the team has brought unity and joy to a fractious nation. A Soccer Team Once United Iran. Now It Reflects Its Divisions. 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Having covered Lesotho's fractious and sometimes tense politics over the years, the mood seems more light-hearted than on my previous visits. Sam Matekane - can a diamond magnate help Lesotho to sparkle? 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z And Mr. Laxalt’s bid to follow his forebears into the Senate has been fractious. Nevada’s Costly, Photo-Finish Senate Race Pits Abortion vs. Economy 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The job is not just about holding your fractious party together, but your country. Ambition keeps him loyal to Donald Trump. But what does Kevin McCarthy stand for? 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z A proximate problem at present is weak Western governments in Britain and United States, coupled with a new and unknown vision in Italy and an always fractious France. Opinion | Xi Jinping is consolidating power in China 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Menendez had risen from the fractious world of local politics in Union City into state government, was elected to the U.S. New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez faces a new federal investigation 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z As a result, the country has been run by coalitions that have proved fractious, and no prime minister has served a full five-year term. Sam Matekane - can a diamond magnate help Lesotho to sparkle? 2022-11-05T04:00:00Z On one side is an unruly and fractious Conservative Party and on the other side financial markets that expect strict discipline on public finances. Rishi Sunak, Now the Front-Runner for U.K. Prime Minister, Could Say, ‘I Told You So’ 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z On the other hand, a politically fractious debate could put better regulations even further out of reach, some said. Lab Manipulations of Covid Virus Fall Under Murky Government Rules 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z They will inherit a fractious party 12 years into office, with turmoil at home and abroad. Liz Truss resigns: Race kicks off to find her successor within a week 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Companies have struggled to navigate a fractious political landscape ever since Britain voted to leave the European Union without a plan. Analysis: UK crisis forces 'off kilter' businesses to halt investment 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z But in a fractious party, none is universally popular. Liz Truss: How might Tory MPs get rid of the prime minister? 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z He began “bringing in a camp of people who were Nunes loyalists,” Wilkerson said, “to the point where it became very fractious and hampered our ability to be productive.” Co-founder of Trump’s media company details Truth Social’s bitter infighting 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z His supporters welcomed his actions, saying the country needed a strong leader to tackle what they see as a fractious and corrupt system. Tunisia: Thousands from rival political parties protest against President Kais Saied 2022-10-15T04:00:00Z It is possible the appointment of her new chancellor has bought some time but a leader with diminishing authority will struggle to bring this fractious party together. Tory MPs turn on Liz Truss after turbulent day 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z The deaths came amid a sharp deterioration in relations between the two fractious neighbors, with Greece accusing Turkey of exploiting migrants for political ends. Two Migrant Boats Sink Off Greece; More Than 20 Believed Drowned 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Truss and her ministers say they want to solve a fractious dispute with the European Union over post-Brexit trade rules. With division at home, UK’s Truss seeks to thaw EU relations 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Shouldn’t the adults in this fractious world be watching, too? New this week: Lena Dunham, Mila Kunis and Charlie Puth 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Ms. Dixon managed to rally her fractious party behind her in the race’s final weeks. A G.O.P. Test in Michigan: Is Trump a Help or a Hindrance? 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z While Iran’s system is notoriously fractious, its multiple power centers and factions all stand unified in defense of the country’s autocratic system, a legacy of that government’s emergence in violent revolution. Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The move buoyed sterling and offered some salve to a fractious mood in markets, but by mid-morning in Tokyo the pound was already struggling for support and down 0.6% to $1.0818. Stocks bounce but sterling slippery after BoE buys bonds 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But fractious coalition-building is expected to drag out after the Oct. Weary Bulgarians fear more political turmoil after latest election 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The contrast with previous Labour party conferences — usually fractious affairs with internal divisions fully on display — was striking. Opposition Leader Tries to Seize the Moment as Britain’s Financial Woes Mount 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z She also seems well on her way to becoming Italy’s next prime minister, favored by many voters weary of the country’s fractious politics and resigned to trying someone new. She could become Italy’s first female leader — and its first far-right one since Mussolini 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Britain is a vibrant, fractious and multicultural society, and the British Empire is gone. Opinion | Can Charles III modernize the monarchy and still keep the magic? 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Many of the forces besetting Europe are compounding one another: an energy crisis, inflation, economic inequality, a slow-moving demographic imbalance, fractious politics. Op-Ed: Europeans are headed for a painful chapter, but they always prove resilient 2022-09-18T04:00:00Z Reinvigorated as an effective governing council for the world's major democracies at a time of fractious geopolitics, the G7 may have other more urgent battles to fight right now. Column: G7 could give FX more attention: Mike Dolan 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z With Shanghai stocks underperforming on a more mixed day for other Asia bourses, the fractious geopolitical backdrop doesn't help. Big Divides 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z Charles is also remembered for his fractious divorce during the 1990s from his first wife, Diana, in which the news media often presented him as cold and distant. Anti-Monarchists Tread Lightly After Queen’s Death, but Their Goal Persists 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z She provided a link to a simpler time in a Britain that seemed increasingly fractured, fractious and uncertain of itself or its role in the world. Queen Elizabeth II: The One Constant in an Inconstant World 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Any attempt by the prime minister at a deeper purge would risk upsetting a delicate political balance within the fractious LDP, political analysts say. Unification Church ex-members in Japan rail at politicians who embraced it 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z In a pointed plea to his Conservative colleagues following a fractious party leadership race, Mr Johnson said "it's time for politics to be over, folks". Boris Johnson urges Tories to get behind Liz Truss in farewell speech 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z And while I savor those, I’ll just enjoy pumpkin spice as a bit of popular monoculture in these fractious times. Perspective | Pumpkin spice won. It’s time to accept it and move on. 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The maneuverings of these two camps led to a fractious summer that culminated in the explosion of open conflict this week. Analysis | Iraq’s violence reflects an enduring dysfunction 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z That’s why New York’s Democratic primaries Tuesday were so fractious and chaotic. Primary takeaways: DeSantis’ rival, redistricting’s impact 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z The states missed that 60-day deadline and remain in fractious negotiations. Drastic Cuts to Colorado River Water Use Show Depth of West’s Drought 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z It is dragging in Scholz at a time when his fractious governing coalition struggles with growing public discontent over rocketing energy costs in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Analysis: 100 banks, 1,000 suspects: German fraud probe puts Scholz on the spot 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z In a city where politics is often personal and fractious, Mr. Wiener has accumulated critics, too. After Nancy Pelosi: A San Francisco Race ‘That Shall Not be Named’ 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z The trio have dominated Ivory Coast's fractious political scene since the 1990s. Ivory Coast president pardons predecessor Gbagbo to boost "social cohesion" 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Derli ran away from home because of a fractious relationship with her mother. Colombia peace deal failing as violent gangs recruit vulnerable children 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Their good-humored tenacity is a natural response to years of heartache and hardship, which they’ve spent serving as the emotional glue to their large, fractious extended families. Review: 'Ali & Ava' is a winning, beautifully acted interracial love story 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z Viewed in the wake of Zawahiri’s death, it is a window into the fractious network of extremist groups that are the modern-day legacy of the terrorist movement Zawahiri helped establish four decades ago. Zawahiri’s legacy: Querulous bands of militants and a chance for rebirth 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z He has governed erratically, pulled between his far-left party and the far-right opposition, reflecting the fractious politics that helped him win the presidency. As Latin America Shifts Left, Leaders Face a Short Honeymoon 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z As the discussion moved onto tax and the economy - the main battleground in this increasingly fractious leadership contest - the tone became even more combative. Tory leadership debate: Five key moments from Truss-Sunak clash 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Holidaymaker Anna Parkinson took seven hours to travel two miles to the Eurotunnel terminal - with three "fractious" children sat in the back. Dover and Eurotunnel queues: Travellers warned of third day of delays 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z This is why a critical mass of Italy’s fractious political parties united behind him in a national unity government in the first place. Opinion | Italy’s latest government crisis is no laughing matter 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Prime Minister Mario Draghi of Italy tendered his resignation, a day after a last-ditch effort to persuade the country’s fractious parties to stick together failed. Your Friday Briefing: Ukraine Launches a Southern Counteroffensive 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z But his cabinet became increasingly fractious, with all parties having an eye on elections looming in May 2023. What next for Italy after fall of Draghi? 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Italy's government crumbled on Wednesday when three of Draghi's main partners snubbed a confidence vote he had called to try to end divisions and renew their fractious alliance. Italian PM Draghi meets president, expected to resign 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z To a market-sensitive publisher that frets over any reader disaffection, they are a lightning rod for a fractious audience constantly spoiling for a scrap. Opinion journalism matters now more than ever 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z As the incumbent president, Biden would have to worry far less this time about logistics — campaign hires, early-state visits, fundraising — but would still need to consider whether he could unite his fractious party. As Biden eyes 2024, one person weighs heavily: Trump 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, he lost a Trump-backed primary challenge to Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, who has had a fractious relationship with the former president. Georgia Congressman Subpoenaed in Trump Inquiry 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z It took weeks of fractious debate for the E.U. to agree to phase out imports of Russian oil. Economic worry keeps E.U. from imposing tougher sanctions on Russia 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Bearing political scars from a year of fractious talks, few Democrats on Friday seemed willing to gamble that Mr. Manchin would be willing to return to negotiations and take up the climate and energy provisions. Manchin Defends Retreat on Climate and Tax Plans, Calling for More Time 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z The three men have dominated Ivory Coast's fractious political scene since the 1990s. Ivory Coast President Ouattara to meet predecessors in reconciliation drive 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z The internal party battle has already turned fractious, with rivals criticizing Sunak’s record as finance minister, and Zahawi, the current Treasury chief, having to fend off claims he was being investigated over his tax affairs. UK Conservatives jostle in crowded, testy leadership race 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Since the departure a year ago of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli former prime minister who had a fractious relationship with the Democratic Party, ties between Israel and the United States have improved. Biden Will Find a Changed Middle East on His Coming Visit 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z People here have just experienced a fractious come-to-Jefferson moment that has left many with a renewed appreciation for something they had taken for granted: democracy. One Small Step for Democracy in a ‘Live Free or Die’ Town 2022-07-10T04:00:00Z Yet after three years in Downing Street, Mr. Johnson leaves an ideologically confused legacy, presenting successors with a challenge to unite their fractious party. To Pick Johnson’s Successor, Britain’s Conservatives Confront the Void He Leaves Behind 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian’s comments underscore the increasingly fractious relationship, along with China’s increasingly confrontational approach to foreign relations that heatedly rejects criticism. Ahead of G-20 ministers’ meeting, China slams US, NATO 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Some analysts now believe that the hikers’ detention was initiated by hard-liners within Iran’s fractious government who wished to block rapprochement with the West. Brittney Griner’s Detention in Moscow Is Latest in Hostage Diplomacy 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z The upcoming election, on Aug. 9, promises to be as fractious as ever. As election season nears, Kenyans brace for unrest and hope for peace 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z These funding negotiations are always quite fractious but the language in the letter is particularly forthright. TfL: Sadiq Khan warns Tube and bus cuts are imminent 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z As a TV star, Yair Lapid's weekly commentary was entitled "Being Israeli" - a rhapsody about the middle-class, politically centrist ranks that he saw holding together a fractious country, with him as their tribune. Elon Musk's child seeks name change to sever ties with father 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z As a TV star, Yair Lapid's weekly commentary was entitled "Being Israeli" - a rhapsody about the middle-class, politically centrist ranks that he saw holding together a fractious country, with him as their tribune. Russian Nobel Peace laureate Muratov sells medal for $104 mln to aid Ukraine children 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z For Southern Baptists, at stake is not just internal policy and leadership, but the fractious group’s long-term priorities and its approach to an array of increasingly contentious social issues. Southern Baptists, Battling Divisions, Gather for ‘Historic’ Convention 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z The meeting has the chance to be fractious. Elon Musk to answer Twitter employee questions at company meeting on Thursday 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z In fact, some in Brussels view this bill, that's further exposed splits in a fractious Tory party, as a clumsy UK negotiating tactic. Northern Ireland Protocol: Legislation to scrap parts to be published 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Bingham's last match as Northern Ireland boss was a fractious 1-1 draw in a World Cup qualifier against the Republic of Ireland, the point earning the visitors a place in USA '94. Former Northern Ireland manager Bingham dies 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Its work was abruptly halted by the coup, which ended a fractious power-sharing arrangement between civilians and the military. Sudanese farmers warn of failing harvests as hunger rises 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z The visit was only Albanese’s second overseas trip since his inauguration two weeks ago and underscores the importance that Australia places on its sometimes fractious relationship with Indonesia, its closest major neighbor. Australian leader’s visit affirms deeper ties to Indonesia 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z |
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