Instead, it began to seem a place where one’s views on the fraught politics of national security and weapons development loomed over one’s career prospects. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The day would lie before us both, long no doubt and uneventful, but fraught with a certain stillness, a dear tranquility we had not known before. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

But looking back on the next day, I can tell you that happy endings are possible, even in situations as fraught with complications as this one was. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

What had begun as a joke between them had become a resolute ceremony fraught with competition and even with something deeper, something almost mythological that separated them. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Dad’s driving was fraught with peril, there was a strange fascination in its brushes with death and its dramatic, traffic-stopping scenes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled up at him, but it was not her usual saucy smile, fraught with flirtatiousness, the smile that drove Matty nearly mad. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But sibling relationships are often fraught with petty tortures. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

A scream pierces the air, so loud and fraught with fear that it gives me a chill despite the heat of the day. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Okay, so I guess you’re right. But this time things feel even more...fraught than usual. It’s just so important to me, you know? Jenny Lindt. Changing people’s lives. All of it.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

She was asleep—oh blessed rest—and instead of her own unconscious fraught with prowling terrors, she was safe in Lazlo’s. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We traded information on Mommy the way people trade baseball cards at trade shows, offering bits and pieces fraught with gossip, nonsense, wisdom, and sometimes just plain foolishness. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Speaking words I couldn’t understand, Russian or the like, incoherent and fraught with panic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In most places on earth, this encounter would have been fraught with tension. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It had seemed so simple then, but now every option was fraught with painful uncertainty. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s mother was cross with her for the rest of the day, making the silence on the trolley ride home more fraught than usual. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Requiring that its human competitors straddle erratic animals moving in dense groups at extremely high speed, race riding in the 1930s, as today, was fraught with extreme danger. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katz was liberally covered in blood from his fraught stumble through the woods, and there was tiredness all over us, even in our eyes. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

That was a fraught night for me, you see.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Seems we had a fraught parting last time," he says. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Certainly after 9/11 it was more fraught than before, and then it had calmed for a few years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

It presides over so many vital activities that even the slightest damage to it is fraught with serious consequences. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

There was this tunnel that these two kids kept crawling through over and over and they never seemed to get tired, which made me think of Augustus Waters and the existentially fraught free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The seconds between them were fraught with challenge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The problem of where to concentrate Dr. Urey’s energy is still unsolved,” Colonel Nichols scribbled in his notes after a fraught meeting over K-25. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As we’ll see, that reality was as fraught with consequences for African history as was the absence of native domestic plants in subequatorial Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her journey to the Valentine farm had been fraught—a troupe of hard characters took her on a zigzag route away from her master. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

They lamented and tore their hair, the priests, as fraught and rhetorical as they were when they prayed, and after a few days their outcries made people uneasy. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

As much as we tried to create a buffer between them and the more fraught aspects of Barack’s job, I knew that Sasha and Malia still had a lot to take in. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

But near her in rehearsals for a school play, with all the waiting around that implied, all the backstage intimacy, all the intense, fraught, giddy, emotional abandon brought on by assuming identities not your own. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In retirement, William had completed secret missions for the NSA, but even so, his ties with the agency had become fraught. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“We cannot take the same attitude now because the success which we have achieved in the development of nuclear power is fraught with infinitely greater dangers than were all the inventions of the past.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It seems strange that in these very fraught times folks would be more concerned about hardworking people trying to find a better life than the monsters that actually want to eat them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

When none came, she sighed a sigh so fraught with disappointment that it sounded as if her heart were breaking. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Relationships between young men and women of his unpropertied class were fraught with restriction and inhibition. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Hate crimes against Muslims in America have more than quadrupled since 2001, and everyday activities like traveling through airports are fraught with tension. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a challenging engagement—wet, hot, buggy, and fraught with fear for what might lie under each bush or beside each rock. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

When they’d first arrived at Aunt Rose’s house after the fraught train ride up from Atlanta, Ophie had been excited at the idea of more family to spend time with. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

We always tend to think of the past as “the good old days,” while the future seems fraught with danger. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The high-cheating holidays are fraught with miscellaneous anxieties and the high expectations of loved ones. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The closer we get to the edge of the woods, the more each step feels fraught. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Edwin Stanton did not live long after the death of Abraham Lincoln, and those years he did live were fraught with controversy. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

But it is said, too, that her passion brings her only a burden of pain, fraught with many sighs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

This vote, for me, was more fraught than any other we’d gone through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If Rindlisbacher was free to testify then Bunderson would face a tough call as to whether to put Reggie on the stand, a proposition the defense attorney thought was fraught with peril. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I liked that he took existentially fraught free throws. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I also attended another school, this one fraught with the horrible risk of being burned as a witch – Larwood House, the hideous institution where Diana Wynne Jones's Witch Week takes place. Children's literature's best imaginary friends 2013-02-12T10:45:50Z

Before 2011, it seemed inconceivable that the British could be gripped in their living rooms by subtitled TV drama, night after fraught night. Fjord focus: Nordic noir lets the light in at last 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The politics behind Shakespeare and stage illusion are more fraught than usual these days. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

And yet liberals and progressives have a complicated and increasingly fraught relationship with the First Amendment these days. Bill Maher speaks his truth: “I have never, in my entire 23 years on television, tried to offend people” 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z

What are your thoughts on mentoring women in science; some of that is fraught with harassment? "Picture a Scientist" examines the hostile, sexist STEM environments that drive women to leave 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

The first season of “13 Reasons Why” did spark its share of fraught discussions, much to the surprise of the producers and Netflix. Netflix Counts the Reasons Teens Should Watch ‘13 Reasons Why’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

And “War Horse” turns out to have a central Spielbergian theme — perhaps the dominant idea in this director’s body of work — namely the fraught and fascinating relationship between the human and the nonhuman. | 'War Horse': ?War Horse,? Directed by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-22T13:00:00Z

As for Fox News, it’s hard to know what network standards have been breached, whether written rules exist, or who — if anyone — is in charge of that fraught subject. Perspective | When Fox News staffers break ethics rules, discipline follows — or does it? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

A long history of genocide, forced migration, assimilation and erasure has magnified these tensions, Gilio-Whitaker added: “There’s no identity more fraught than American Indian identity in the U.S., none.” Sacheen Littlefeather may have lied about her identity. Does that matter? 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z

But even in less emotionally fraught times, the online culture of snark is merciless as a rule, even to the conventionally attractive. Kellyanne Conway’s “triple standard”: A game of two half-truths and a lie 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Two garments that have been alternately fraught and celebrated symbols of women’s rights for decades, but which over the last four years have taken on even more potency and power. Kamala Harris in a White Suit, Dressing for History 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z

Single mothering may be less fraught in Iceland, but the women she photographed are not what we Americans would see as comfortably well off. The Independent Mothers of Iceland 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

She makes every situation so fraught — even the way she wields a wine glass is like it’s a loaded gun. Sigourney Weaver Has Us All Fooled: She’s Really Quite Silly 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

But Caro adds to our knowledge and understanding, showing how, in those fraught minutes, both LBJ's decisiveness and his insecurity were revealed. Robert Caro's 'The Passage of Power': the death of a president, the birth of a new vision 2012-05-09T21:15:04Z

In Kurie’s telling, what makes the Hershey empire both so durable and so fraught are the unusual terms of Hershey’s trust, which is “an outlier among charities.” Review | ‘In Chocolate We Trust’: The bittersweet tale of Hershey’s philanthropy 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

Amid swirling media attention, “Changing the Game” humanizes a sometimes fraught issue by staying close to the kids — a wrestler in Texas, a skier in New Hampshire and a Connecticut track star. New this week: ‘We Are Lady Parts’ & a third ‘The Conjuring’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the process of discovering new formats for them is fraught and can smack of a bait-and-switch when people who thought they were buying tickets for a straight-up concert get something new instead. In Pedja Muzijevic’s recital, talk gets in the way of ‘Haydn Dialogues’ 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z

Our time together was usually fraught with disagreement and bickering. Coming out to my wife 2013-02-19T01:00:00Z

I loved going to the office every morning, though it often became rather fraught. Once upon a life 2010-05-01T23:35:00Z

The choice of what to do, shadowed by the national choice unfolding in poll booths, is fraught with moral complications. Ripe for the political season, the Apple Family Cycle returns to Studio 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

There is no sugar coating in these fraught relationships. Haitian Diaspora in ‘Stones in the Sun’ 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

Kafka learned that social relations were fraught and unstable—with great consequence for literature. A closer look at the young Kafka 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Similarly, Chinatown was conceived, written, produced and released in the troubled period that included the last years of the Vietnam war, Watergate and Nixon's fraught second term in the White House. Chinatown: No 1 2010-10-17T10:55:00Z

For the family gathering for dinner in Stephen Karam’s play “The Humans,” Thanksgiving is fraught with secrets, sadness and tension. 'The Humans' Sets Broadway Opening Date 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

In one of the play’s most fraught scenes, a cross-section of the black community — a doctor, an editor, a reverend and a dockworker — debate how to prevent this looming violence. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

It’s one of the most fraught decisions travelers face, as ticket prices often fluctuate right up to departure time. Practical Traveler: Book Well Ahead to Save Money on Airfare 2012-04-11T14:47:32Z

Aging can be a humbling process, but it’s especially fraught in hip-hop. One Surreal Night With the Rap Veterans of Mount Westmore 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z

The photo provided by Merkel perfectly captured the fraught rapport between Trump and the leaders of Japan, France, Germany and the U.K. Photo from G7 Summit resembles widely-mocked pro-Donald Trump portraits 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Amsterdam takes a chance by treating such a fraught subject in a peculiar manner, and most of her bets pay off. | 'Carnival Round the Central Figure': Death Be Not Predictable 2011-01-20T21:28:30Z

Too, structuring the piece as an opera, with a musical shape, offers the hopeful illusion of a neat ending, imposing order on a fraught and messy topic. Review | Tackling race in opera — at center stage 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

The grim reality is that for women, especially for women who consider themselves feminists, the world of cooking is still fraught with a lot of anxiety, confusion, and shame. Chrissy Teigen and Alison Roman's fight reveals a deep well of women's insecurity about cooking 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

However fraught the relationship, however competitive or controlling or cold, sometimes even an imperfect father gives his son wings and teaches him to fly. Colm Toibin on the Fathers of Geniuses 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

At the paper he discovered people who were “less complicated, less fraught.” Carl Bernstein, Looking Back at His Start, Conjures the Newsrooms of the Early 1960s 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z

“The dreams are fraught and weird. Half the time I’m trying to sing through a mask, or I’m in trouble for not wearing a mask.” Itchy to Perform Again, Musicians Eye Return to Touring 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

From the beginning, his act presented him as a nervous bundle of anxieties trying to get by in a world fraught with social and emotional pitfalls. No Flipping: Remembering Garry Shandling 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

“I am hard-pressed to find a dress code that isn’t fraught, but I don’t want to also say that a restaurant shouldn’t inspire community of a certain kind,” he said. Leave the Sweatshirt at Home. Dining Dress Codes Are Back. 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z

It's a very interesting, fraught process and kind of confounding to me how it even gets done to work so beautifully. The making of Eagly, the "Peacemaker" scene-stealing, butt-kicking eagle whose hugs are miracles 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z

And it begins with its complicated, fraught relationship with the French state. Into Corsica, From Rustic Villages to Stony Cliffs 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

So it takes a certain chutzpah to wade back into the fray, given both how fraught the topic is and how far down the list of Washington’s priorities Israel has seemingly fallen. A Nuanced History of the Forces Shaping U.S.-Israel Relations 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

Even the political transition to Lyndon B. Johnson’s administration, while certainly fraught, proceeds apace with admirable decorum and gravitas. ‘Jackie,’ art and accuracy in a post-fact world 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

And it’s a fraught task, carrying the real possibility of actually making the financial situations of those who had their debt cancelled worse. What John Oliver missed about debt-forgiveness: Debtors helped could still get socked with tax bill — another sign of a broken system 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

“Will readers want a pandemic novel at this fraught moment in American life?” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

Whether they encounter her on the screen or on the page, they’ll find that Graham has plenty to say to them, especially at this fraught moment in the history of women in America. Perspective | What Meryl Streep and ‘The Post’ can teach us about the power of being a female boss 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z

That means the morning after — known as National Football Hangover Day for a reason — can be fraught with headaches, nausea and irritability. Super Bowl 2022 hangover: How to manage it on Monday 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

“I’m filled with a sense of foreboding,” the fraught heroine says, “a wash of nameless dread.” Pushed From the Clock Tower, Buried in the Yard 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z

“Everything is fraught with life-and-death consequences, and it’s just hard to grapple with that at any one moment,” said Leventhal, the runner. Should runners wear coronavirus face masks outside? 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

As fraught as these encounters were, they are far better than being directed to a reporter’s PR shop. Why journalists need to practice what they preach 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

For one, she shifted the fraught dynamic between rap’s stars and the people toiling in their shadow. Pardison Fontaine and the Plight of the Ghostwriter 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z

Director Cyrus Nowrasteh, who wrote the screen adaptation of The Young Messiah with his wife, Betsy, agrees that wading into the holy waters of the Jesus story was “fraught with peril.” Here's Why Making The Young Messiah Was 'Fraught With Peril' 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

Relations between Iran and France have grown fraught of late, rattled by the uncertain future of the Iran nuclear accord and French concerns over Tehran’s ballistic missile tests and military activities in the Middle East. In Iran, France blends hard talks with soft power at Louvre exhibit 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

For such writers, the inevitable engagement with the English language was fraught with difficulty. Chinua Achebe: leader of a generation 2013-03-26T13:44:53Z

It’s not that what we’re looking at appears in itself to be fraught with significance. | 'The Mountaintop': ?The Mountaintop,? With Samuel L. Jackson, Angela Bassett 2011-10-14T02:01:03Z

Jeffrey Gibson will christen the new ICA San Francisco with a site-specific installation probing our fraught relationship with nature itself; he even removes flooring from the gallery to expose the ground beneath. At Museums and Auctions, Private Treasures Are Unveiled 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

In a less fraught season, my tomato plants are beaten down by disease at this stage, but this year they are thriving. D.C. summers can be a slog. The gardener’s antidote? A little fall planning. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

The language around these issues is also fraught. Actors With Disabilities Are Ready, Willing and Able to Take More Roles 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Loving classic films can be a fraught pastime. In a new series, TCM takes a look at ‘problematic’ classics 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Olivia’s fraught, brutal relationship with Fitz, the arguable love of her life, is the show’s canvas for trying to portray the intimate horror of race relations in America. “How To Get Away With Murder” and “Scandal” end with a bang: The most riveting power struggles on TV 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

THE prospect of adapting for the screen a memoir about writing, addiction and homelessness is fraught with challenges. Paul Weitz Directs ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert DeNiro 2012-02-24T19:34:17Z

Even setting aside the obvious parallels with Trump, the matter of Macy’s long association with the parade is fraught with Trump-related problems. How to avoid a fight about Trump during Thanksgiving dinner 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z

But the fraught questions around how much writers, or their estates, want others to see, are as old as biography itself. What Happens to Philip Roth’s Legacy Now? 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z

What we read over the summer — our personal beach reading — remains fraught with anxiety about what those choices might suggest about ourselves. Perspective | Summer reading has a fraught history. But if there was ever a time to delight in escapism, it’s now. 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

Mingus tirelessly fought the white-run entertainment business of his day, but his attempts to survive outside it were fraught with financial problems. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z

And the two years between the making of "Stay Positive" and when Nicolay decides to leave the band were "two extremely fraught and busy years," the keyboardist says. Their last “easy” record: The Hold Steady’s “Stay Positive” and what came after 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

Getting rid of art or old pieces of furniture is a process fraught with guilt for many people. An expert answers five of the most common organizing questions 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

There she is, looking fraught but drawing her gun for battle. Clive James: ‘Even the most trite Netflix drama is too slick to be ignored’ 2016-12-31T05:00:00Z

Clashes between herdsmen whose cattle destroy farmlands and farmers who expand their fields into traditional herding corridors have become a fraught political issue. Wole Soyinka Is Not Going Anywhere 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z

Yes, “The Bigger Picture” is the more conventionally political song, a sharp toe-dip into fraught social currents. Best Songs of 2020 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z

Flip-flopping around on the choice is a way to hurt your relationship with your child as you bring about more power struggles in an already fraught time. Perspective | She hates distance learning. Is home schooling an option? 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

At times, this felt like an uncomfortably apt reflection of a year in which communication itself turned fraught and unsteady. The Ten Best Albums of 2018 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

There is the well-meaning West Wing tribute, featuring smart people trying to do the right thing in fraught circumstances. Hail to the Kief! Sutherland is still TV's best action hero – even as President Dadbod 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z

Though a world apart from her delightfully escapist meta-musical limited series “Schmigadoon,” the magazine essay and the book are also attempts to release something positive into the world during a fraught time. Cecily Strong has a raw new memoir about grief. That surprises her too. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

He was full of questions about Donald J. Trump, the electoral system and America’s fraught relationship to gun ownership. Ben Whishaw Makes Himself at Home in New York 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Gripping, innovative account of a maritime hijack, and the fraught ransom negotiations that ensue between the Somali pirates and the ship's distant Danish owners. Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, A Hijacking: this week's new films 2013-05-11T05:00:12Z

"Well, Donelle Woolford wouldn't be in the Whitney Biennial if Scanlan wasn't white. The whole thing, to some degree — it's a successful exposure of that fraught historical relationship, of that exploitation." Art and race at the Whitney: Rethinking the Donelle Woolford piece 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

At one point there is a fraught cadenza, joined by a solo viola and, eventually, a harp. Christopher Rouse and EarShot Premieres From Philharmonic 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

This involves potentially fraught negotiations with labor unions. The Taming of Italy’s Most Popular Museum 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

It's a rather more ambitious task, and a more fraught one. 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' ups the ante on super-sequels 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

The resulting plot winds through these uneven and fraught relationships. Theater Review: ‘Adoration of the Old Woman’ at Intar 2014-03-24T23:20:45Z

Jenkins is well aware that “The Underground Railroad” arrives at a time when the ethics of representing Black trauma on screen are especially fraught. Perspective | With ‘The Underground Railroad,’ Barry Jenkins looks squarely at Black trauma. And doesn’t blink. 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z

By the time the sport made it to the Olympics, after nearly two fraught decades of competitive evolution, it had already begun to decline: 1992 was its final Olympic showing. When Ski Ballet Pushed at the Porous Boundary Between Art and Sport 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

The problem is that, as first lady, in an environment as fraught as the current one, there is no such thing as offstage. Melania Trump’s Quick Trip Around the Internet in High Heels 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z

That choice renders fraught moments melodramatic, and melodramatic moments comic. In a New Documentary, Janet Jackson Is Hiding in Plain Sight 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z

It was in this instance of intense vulnerability, he writes, that he personally intuited why debates over healthcare are so fraught. Steven Brill's 'America's Bitter Pill' tackles healthcare mess 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

I’m particularly interested in just how complicated female friendships can be, how fraught, and I think that side of friendship is worth exploring. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

The book’s shape is to some extent dictated by the chronology of the shows it discusses, with descriptions of the fraught in-the-making back stories and Mr. Sondheim’s gimlet-eyed annotations of his own lyrics. Books of The Times: Sondheim?s Rhymes and Reasons 2010-10-21T17:45:00Z

Air Crash Investigation 9pm, National Geographic In the movies, air travel is fraught with such dangers as terrorists, snakes and even Mega Sharks. Winter Paralympics: Highlights | Women | FlashForward and more | Watch this 2010-03-22T06:45:00Z

So 4-year-old Radar, who sounds like a happy kid before his mother starts making a mess of him, is hauled off on the first of many fraught expeditions. Review: In Reif Larsen’s ‘I Am Radar,’ an Odyssey of Exploding Particles 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Representation and identity are fraught topics now in France, a country that prides itself on a universalist tradition that unites all citizens under a single French identity — regardless of their ethnicity or faith. People Like Her Didn’t Exist in French Novels. Until She Wrote One. 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z

Miniature painting, which has roots in Persian culture, too, is more fraught because it includes representational imagery and the human figure. Perspective | Artists and cultural workers face life under Taliban 2.0 2021-08-29T04:00:00Z

In “Memento Park,” the quest to reclaim a stolen painting is fraught with the weight of family secrets and history. Mark Sarvas' new 'Memento Park,' about looted art, was 'the book I was waiting to write' 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

We are all happy for her, but her fraught relationship with food is ruining the holidays and birthdays my family and I spend with her. Perspective | Miss Manners: If she won’t back up, just let her go first 2021-04-10T04:00:00Z

But for the political biopic, this question is fraught with complications. The kids are all wrong 2012-05-29T15:20:00Z

A fraught loop in the mother-daughter knot: the daughter who must be her mother’s mother. An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

It’s fascinating to me how emotional, how fraught the topic is.  “One and Only” author: “It’s like I’m suggesting that people should have aborted their own children” 2013-06-11T13:57:00Z

Finding a suitable restroom as a budget traveler is even more fraught during a pandemic. Camping or hosteling during the pandemic? Here’s how to scout out your best bathroom options. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z

Milligan: Coming face-to-face with the embodiment of your longtime dream lover is fraught with the dangers of whether that romantic fantasy can live up to brutal reality. Vertigo announces new 'Lucifer,' more at Comic-Con: Read Q&As with four creators 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

But often the act of selecting that bottle is fraught with the fear of making a mistake, of wasting money and of appearing foolish in front of other people. How to Buy Wine: Five Questions to Ask 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The viral meme infiltrating our fraught politics began obscurely on a New Zealand radio show on which the hosts help rationalize absurd, illogical purchases their listeners share with them. Girl math vs. Boy math: an insight into the internet's tit-for-tat battle of the sexes 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z

Jessie fights her way from her fraught childhood home to Paris, where she becomes a teacher. Review | Karin Tanabe’s ‘A Hundred Suns’ is a cinematic historical novel set in French Indochina 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z

Submerged within is commentary on the fraught social history between two antagonistic nations. Getty's Josef Koudelka retrospective is grim yet riveting 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z

Interviewing celebrities caught up in criminal cases is more fraught because of the fandom factor. Brace yourself for the Bill Cosby media redemption tour 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

And there was no right way to respond, because the situation is so fraught. Woody Allen is just the beginning: Why we can’t hide from the truth anymore 2014-02-11T00:00:00Z

This move is, the New York Times reports with some understatement, "fraught with political repercussions for Obama". 'Why are people so reluctant to say they're feminists?' 2013-07-03T18:00:00Z

Beneath it all lie tragedy and myriad loves that are tender and rich and fraught. Two Families Are Brought Together by a Busing Initiative 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

But studies linking psychological state to prognosis are fraught with methodological issues, false-positive results, reporting of associations rather than causality, and manipulation of statistics. Why doctors get it wrong about when you will die 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

The danger here is that the training police officers commonly receive on detecting deception is fraught with error. Feeling sleepy? You might be at risk of falsely confessing to a crime you did not commit 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

We just happen to be watching a very fraught history unfold – there’s no predictability now. Samantha Bee, the new heroine of American political satire 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z

The Good Wife”’s finest season, its fifth, revolved around emotionally fraught corporate shuffling, as a few lawyers left one firm to start another. White guilt and “The Good Wife”: When good intentions about corporate diversity fall painfully short 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Of all the days in 2018 for a man and a woman to meet on a blind date, few have been as fertile or even as potentially fraught as Sept. 27. He believes talking about politics on a first date is impolite. She’s a communist. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

The injury becomes the justification for one of those fraught family reunions filled with awkward silences, furious eruptions and hushed huddles. Review: Kidman and Bateman Face Childhood Scars in ‘The Family Fang’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z

Other moments are jarring, with the clumsy insertion of black humor into fraught dialogue, or plot contrivances that are too neat to be believed. Theater Review: All Words, Yet at an Impasse of Sorts 2011-07-15T21:43:23Z

Coming home is fraught with complications and disturbing childhood memories. Review | If only all psychological crime dramas were as easy to watch as ‘The Sinner’ 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Indeed, the real history is as fraught and dramatic as anything in Westeros. The fantasy world of real-life Dubrovnik, Croatia

She referenced police violence and redlining and other racially fraught ills. Lonnae O’Neal: Death of a Nation — white supremacy is slowly killing us 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

What troubles us is how the male consumer’s simplest decision somehow became the most difficult and fraught. 2010-01-21T16:43:00Z

Her story is fraught with traumatic episodes, extreme suffering, and survival. 'My dog is family': domestic abuse victims and the pets they can't leave 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z

“But we are living in a really fraught moment, and that demands some examination and discussion.” ‘The Boys’ Is Back, More Relevant Than Ever 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The band’s main songwriter early on, Mr. Allman contributed expansive, emotionally fraught compositions like “Dreams” and “Whipping Post” to the Allman Brothers repertoire. Gregg Allman, Influential Force Behind the Allman Brothers Band, Dies at 69 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z

He undergoes a period of fraught self-discovery before his intelligence ebbs, leaving him unable to comprehend the books he relished. Daniel Keyes, a Novelist of the Mind, Dies at 86 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

Often the subject he chooses to focus on is fraught with difficulties: the place is dangerous or hard to get to; the people are puzzling or unsettling. Art Review: David Goldblatt?s South Africa Photos at Jewish Museum 2010-07-01T21:52:00Z

The scene began with an odd, fraught moment: when Don turned up at her dorm room, notebook in hand, he hesitates to close the door, clearly worried that she might make a false accusation. “The Newsroom” ’s Crazy-Making Campus-Rape Episode 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z

Or perhaps our current economically fraught years foretell the future. Is the gender revolution over? 2013-04-02T18:07:00Z

Statistical analysis of murder in 19th-century Britain is fraught with difficulties, owing to missing data and vague definitions, and the problems increase in the pre-Victorian era. The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders ? review 2011-01-30T00:15:52Z

Mr. Lee’s boycott is especially fraught for the Academy because, though he received an honorary Oscar in November; his latest film, “Chi-Raq,” earned no nominations. Amid Oscar Boycott Plans by Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith, Stars Gather for King Day 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The money is ostensibly for legitimate assistance, but it also seems to paper over all that’s potentially fraught about race. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

“The social justice movement spawned from Mike Brown’s blood would force city after city to grapple with its own fraught histories of race and policing.” Critic at Large Rebecca Carroll on Wesley Lowery's 'They Can't Kill Us All' 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

The process made my mind clearer, and the time I spent with my boys less fraught. A ruthless approach to decluttering completely transformed my life 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Given the fraught nature of the enterprise, I was curious why companies were interested in the contract and what a new wall might look like. Trump's border wall may be controversial, but some Southern California firms want to build it 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

If you’re the one with that agency, there are ways to make meetings less fraught and more efficient. Most workers hate meetings. Here’s how to make sure yours are productive. 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z

The secret of Whicker's ability to appear unthreatening in the most fraught and unpromising interviews was long debated in media watering holes. Alan Whicker, globetrotting TV presenter, dies aged 87 2013-07-12T14:56:37Z

Some of the shows capitalize on relationships that are inherently fraught. "This Old House" is built to last: Smart, steady and soundly educational for 40 years 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z

Mengiste spoke about the book, the difficulties of researching such a fraught period and the photography she found that helped inform her writing. The ‘Detective Work’ Behind a War Novel 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Female friendships are so interesting and complicated, and she really seemed to get all the complexities of relationships with girls that are fraught and deep and toxic and nourishing. Edie Falco Can’t Quit CNN, but Jazz and a Dog Park Keep Her Sane 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

The business of making a living from pop in this economic climate is fraught, especially given that the industry languishes in the doldrums more than most. Gruff Rhys: 'I've been trying to build a hotel out of shampoo bottles' 2011-02-06T00:06:04Z

This is a fraught question, obviously, because the kid question breaks people up all the time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: You gotta live in the moment, baby! 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z

We believe what we believe and it isn’t the place of public intellectuals to adjudicate such a fraught matter, to boldly declare who is right and wrong. Compartmentalizing Woody Allen: What America chooses not to see 2014-02-02T17:46:00Z

Even something as straightforward as getting drinks is fraught with the pettiness of figuring out whether the bill is split properly. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

Another wrote, "In this fraught time, you're actively taking the side of a serial abuser by giving him a platform. History will judge your actions." Book festival cancels Garrison Keillor fundraiser after backlash 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Given our morally fraught times, strong ethics are even more longed for, which may color readers’ expectations of Det. Michael Connelly starts a new thread with 'The Late Show' 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

As if being a KGB spy wasn't fraught enough, Elizabeth has had some other matters to tend to this season. 'The Americans': Keri Russell talks toothaches, bone breaks, motherhood 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Arguments are frequent, and fraught: France lost more than simply a generation of men; in some areas, every last village was destroyed. 100 Years of Gratitude 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z

That effort raised questions about the boundaries between dramatic license and documented fact, a particularly fraught issue given enduring sensitivities about the Kennedy legacy. Dramatizing Camelot 2011-01-17T22:32:30Z

“Love is a dangerous commodity — fraught with peril,” he said. Robert Indiana’s Best: A Mini Retrospective 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z

And yet, it is this fraught combination of personality, psychology and physicality that remains “Away’s” strongest thematic anchor, echoing the 2014 Esquire article that inspired the series. Perspective | Is TV getting us emotionally prepared to leave the planet? ‘Away’ and ‘Raised by Wolves’ sure make it seem so. 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

As a key element in the toff’s social armor, they have become an easy target in a country fraught with class tensions, particularly as slaves of urban style have co-opted the look. Men In Red Pants: Stuck in Old Cultural Baggage 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z

The battle over who speaks for women and why has always been fraught. In the Woman?s Movement, Who Will Replace Gloria Steinem? 2012-03-17T00:33:53Z

This also is a story about fraught journey any well-intentioned person faces when attempting to change a corrupt system from within. "Education" culminates Amazon's "Small Axe" film series, finding beauty in the necessary struggle 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z

They are intensely wrought and fraught, and their full brunt can be grasped only by examining the pieces from every angle and peering inside. Art Trek: Roberta Smith’s Tour of the Sizzlers on the Upper East Side 2014-04-03T22:52:07Z

Story’s film finds its New Yorkers coping and trying to divert themselves in an environment that’s fraught in every sense of the word. ‘The Hottest August’ Review: Ordinary New Yorkers Facing Extreme Heat 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

His self-portrait in the National Gallery is fraught with this direst of questions. Off the scale: why Gerhard Richter towers above the artists of today 2010-11-22T14:51:00Z

“There’s been a fraught relationship from the perspective of most theater companies,” said Meghan Pressman, the managing director and chief executive at Center Theatre Group, which is the biggest of the Los Angeles nonprofits. LA Stage Alliance Disbands After Awards Ceremony Blunder 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z

There's the heightened environment of performing, made more fraught by the prevalence of free-flowing alcohol and drugs. "Daisy Jones & The Six" and the appeal of the band that breaks their own hearts 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

And as history shows, even that project was fraught with derision. "Let It Be" shows the dark side of the Beatles. It doesn't need an upbeat revision 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z

This is an opening dance that has rules of etiquette fraught with all sorts of pitfalls. With hosting at a standstill, we revisit the highs and lows of having — and being — houseguests 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Other contemporary photographers have tried to bring Adams’s distilled vision into line with our more fraught and complicated times. Review | I used to think Ansel Adams’s photographs were boring. This exhibition changed that. 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

And maybe the things that are fraught are things that matter? This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on the Elegant Comedy of Hypocrisy 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

“It’s a tough road for a movie to get a 100% with critics, fraught with peril,” a page on the site devoted to the paragons of perfect percentage says. ‘Citizen Kane’ Is No ‘Paddington 2,’ Says Rotten Tomatoes 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

But he suggested that life for handsome young male actors was more fraught with difficulty than the public might expect. Kit Harington: film industry guilty of 'sexism towards men' 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

He also traces the harrowing effects of George A.’s bipolar disorder and the brothers’ complicated, fraught relationship. Novels by Kathleen Alcott, Vu Tran and Alaa Al Aswany; a Memoir by David Payne 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

And Mr. Berry had a particularly fraught push-and-pull friction with the white artists who benefited the most from the style he innovated. Chuck Berry, Fiery and Flinty Rock ’n’ Roll Innovator 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

“Turtles All the Way Down” is an emotionally fraught project for Mr. Green, whose young adult novels are beloved for their quirky humor and sharp, sensitive teenage protagonists. John Green Opens Up About His Own Struggles 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

What follows is definitely fraught, with the sort of acting that triggers seismometers. Review: ‘Blackbird’: The Past Returns, Taunting 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Family and friendship are the central mysteries of Silver’s latest novel, which is set against the tumult of the early 1970s and features a fraught bond between young girls. New & Noteworthy, From Elizabeth Warren to Life as a Black Millennial 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Instead we get mischievous and sinister images, perhaps befitting an age in which the interface between animal nature and human nature is more fraught with tension than graced with back-to-nature harmony. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

But because the stranger belonged to the group that shot Theeb’s brother, the connection is fraught with peril and suspicion. Review: In ‘Theeb,’ a Bedouin Boy’s Brutal Coming-of-Age 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

Last year’s “A Season With Notre Dame Football” was an absorbing look at the endlessly fraught world of college football. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Queen Sugar’ and ‘Atlanta’ 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

Describing what he called the “infrareality” of life was often fraught with complications. Book review: ‘A Little Lumpen Novelita,’ by Roberto Bolaño

We’re also traveling in an uncertain world, fraught with unpredictable events. Perspective | Don’t panic — here’s how to handle your pre-trip anxiety 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z

Interspersed are flashbacks of fraught Killebrew family dynamics, which, given the life-and-death circumstances of the others, seem minor in comparison and a bit indulgent, if heartfelt. Theater Review: A Hard Rain Begins to Fall on Lives in Gulfport, Miss. 2011-06-24T21:35:35Z

“Better Call Saul”’s focus on the fraught relationship between Chuck and Jimmy made the first season a bit difficult to settle into. The heartbreak of “Better Call Saul”: Season finale hints the series will be even more devastating than “Breaking Bad” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

But its history fraught with drama gave it a special significance. Auctions: Uptown From Wall Street, a Bull Market 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z

Diffident and prickly, Kele personified Bloc Party's fraught music, which dealt chiefly with yearning and unease. Kele Okereke 2010-06-26T23:05:00Z

With its mix of down-home coziness and violent desperation, “Girl” brings to mind a fraught collaboration by Thornton Wilder and Eugene O’Neill, with a dash of William Saroyan’s whimsy. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

There are thrilling accounts of sentiment-rousing, politically fraught Depression-era productions in New York like “Waiting for Lefty” and “The Cradle Will Rock.” ArtsBeat: Theater Talkback: When Political Theater Feels Truly Dangerous 2011-01-12T23:37:21Z

I admired, more than I enjoyed, this folk-horror fable set in the lush rural landscapes of 19th-century Macedonia, where the supernatural and the ordinary share a fraught coexistence. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z

For her, these were fraught documents of her suffering and unwelcome reminders of the helplessness she felt at the time. Jennette McCurdy Is Ready to Move Forward, and to Look Back 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z

Part constitutional law seminar, part rollicking comedy, Heidi Schreck’s show about her fraught romance with the Constitution finds a more perfect home: Broadway. 15 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

But in recent years ballet has felt fraught, and finding a place for myself in the works I dance, more difficult. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z

Celebration comes with a sting in “Andares,” an affecting exploration of the mythic past and fraught present of Indigenous peoples in Mexico, which runs through Jan. 19. Drawing on the Past, Living in the Present, Dreaming of the Future 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z

Ruth is an assistant to a divorce lawyer who regularly witnesses marriages fraught with abuse, abandonment and betrayal. These Talkies Star Complicated Women You Might Well Recognize 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

“What she hid from the outside world, though, was the way her new role initially chafed, how fraught with uncertainty it felt.” Perspective | Even in a good marriage, being first lady is the worst 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Ayers and Burke also recognize the power that survivors hold — especially in this moment as the nation is just weeks away from selecting its next president after a campaign fraught with divisiveness. On #MeToo anniversary, leaders say focus is on inequality 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z

Robert Icke’s fraught and gripping “Oresteia,” an emotionally harrowing retelling of Aeschylus’ trilogy at the Park Avenue Armory, doesn’t get bogged down in such background details of ancient mythology. ‘Oresteia’ Review: A Mother’s Grief, Underestimated 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The story lines of our main characters touch on the fraught ways women’s personal and professional lives can become indistinguishable. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 5 Recap: Office Warfare 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

The nerve is still there, although a less fraught word for it is confidence. Hunger and Desire, Stripped of Window Dressing, at Prune 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z

I liked the opera most when, during fraught episodes, the music turns jagged and dangerous. Review: ‘Eurydice,’ a New Opera, Looks Back All Too Tamely 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Its much darker and much more fraught with tension and I like that. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

Mike’s journey is fraught with peril, from wandering alone in the desert to an encounter with the Taliban. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z

Interactions between the French, the English, Hudson's Bay Company agents, the Wendat and the Mohawk drive the story, creating a world fraught with hardship, mistrust and reluctant alliances. "The Native characters aren't afterthoughts": "Barkskins" writer on reclaiming Native narratives 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Like Las Vegas,” James writes, “Capri got a reputation as a place where easy sex of every variety was available in abundance and not unduly fraught with consequences.” Review | How Capri became a hotbed of hedonism 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z

To achieve that balance this time around, his nearly 80 designs are fraught with layers of contrast. | A Wardrobe Fitting for Joseph Altuzarra’s Fictional Leading Lady 2013-12-05T22:33:09Z

Out the many sports superstars whose lives epitomize America's fraught relationship with race and racism, Kaepernick's is extraordinary. Netflix's new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

The band’s down-home roots provide thematic as well as sonic inspiration: Their most recent album, “Young Sick Camelia,” from 2018, confronts the fraught politics of their home state. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

The film’s most powerful scene is the quietly fraught reunion of these once secret lovers, whose wary body language conveys volumes of grief, resentment and lingering desire. Movie Review: ‘Fairhaven,’ With Tom O’Brien, Chris Messina, Sarah Paulson 2013-01-10T22:41:32Z

In her arias Miranda sorts out her fraught relationships with them all. Music Review: ?Miranda,? an Opera by Kamala Sankaram - Review 2012-01-17T23:09:17Z

Writing the songs is a slow process, fraught with compromises and band politics. The National: gloomy ? with a hint of sunshine 2010-04-22T20:30:00Z

They also “frame” a painting hanging on a third wall deeper in the show: a fraught canvas titled “The Gulf Stream” that many consider Homer’s greatest work. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Don’t miss “Blue Heron Bridge,” in which the obligatory affair is fraught with very funny snobbery on the part of Nina, a married woman involved with a younger man. Review: ‘Single, Carefree, Mellow,’ Except for That Illicit Affair 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z

It feels like an especially fraught moment to contemplate the career of US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, whose forthright liberal judgments have made her a pop culture legend. Royals, rogues and Rudolf Nureyev: the best films of 2019 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Though made in 2018, it’s a perfect piece to provide solace, perspective and inspiration amid the fraught situation of America today. The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

The other concerns his fraught history with his father. Theater Review: David Henry Hwang’s ‘Kung Fu’ Opens at Signature Theater 2014-02-25T03:00:01Z

But as it turned out, the mood couldn’t have been less like its subject: Ms. Young’s fraught and much-discussed appearance at P.S. Provocateur Returns to P.S. 1, but Not to Provoke 2010-09-06T21:56:00Z

With wit and freewheeling energy, Meirelles shows the fraught lives of these five characters who periodically address the camera with wan prose-poems about themselves. London scores as Brazil's Fernando Meirelles heads for the capital 2010-06-25T10:21:00Z

The making of its follow-up proved even more fraught. My Bloody Valentine release new album 2013-02-02T22:32:16Z

While Pearson has become proficient at the technical aspects of genetic genealogy, search angel work remains emotionally fraught. DNA search angels: the Facebook 'detectives' who help reunite families 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

It was for her mother that Hakki found herself making the complicated and fraught journey back to Damascus earlier this winter. What happens when the country you called home is suddenly off-limits 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Who has the right to study, the right to teach, to broach fraught subjects at a time when the temptation to police culture has never been higher? Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

Nonetheless, the term "regional theatre" remains fraught, although it probably depends very much on who is using it. In theatre, is 'regional' a dirty word? 2012-12-31T12:12:43Z

Their previous work – The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty – was headline-grabbing and award-winning, so hopes are high for this restaging of a dark moment in the US’s fraught history of ethnic relations. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Here the great contrast is between the pulsating public activity of the outer movements and the two private but fraught male-female duets that are its centerpiece. Dance Review: Stripped Down to Black and White, Revealing Balanchine at His Core 2011-05-04T22:08:37Z

The comment suggests a degree of sexual freedom unusual for that era, but it also gets at the fraught relationship between artists and their support systems. Review | The tortured love life of Tennessee Williams, as seen through a novelist’s eye 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

He initially wanted to be a painter, and after many fraught afternoons at a local gallery, produced, as he thought painters must, a series of religious tableaux. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z

It’s a simple question on the surface, but one fraught with complexities. World’s best places to get high 2012-08-13T03:00:00Z

The idea of women on their own is so fraught. “No One Tells You This”: That single women aren’t a problem for marriage and kids to fix 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

A similar sort of fraught emotional chemistry infused Ms. Winterson’s version of “The Winter’s Tale.” Novelists Reimagine and Update Shakespeare’s Plays 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Boyce said the prize was a confirmation of his youthful dream to become an artist, a career decision fraught with uncertainty for the future. Favorite Martin Boyce scoops UK's Turner Prize 2011-12-06T00:05:37Z

A dense, extended doodle, it embeds a lexicon of Kahlo motifs — a hand, veins, some eyes, several breasts — in a geodesic constellation fraught with stars and spirals that seem straight out of late Kandinsky. Art Review: Drawing an Escape From the Chill of Winter 2011-01-27T00:35:08Z

But not out of character, because making the 1951 romantic adventure was fraught with peril in the East African jungle where its location scenes were shot. Classic "Africa Queen" finally sails onto DVD 2010-03-23T22:53:00Z

Madden’s story was equally fraught, though she had no notes on the script, which depicts her deciding to go on the record just as she is dealing with a breast cancer diagnosis. ‘She Said’ Filmmakers and Weinstein Victims: An Emotional Collaboration 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

And then last year brought another return to my parents’ Queens home for my brother, and another fraught living-room conversation. Modern Love: Tethered by a Pregnancy, But Choosing to Stay 2010-07-01T23:21:00Z

Slowly but surely the family hostilities and fraught back stories point Strafford in a particular direction. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

Lily’s interactions with these women — with all women — are fraught with merciless self-assessment. Multiple Women, Three Centuries, One Far-Reaching New Novel 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

The Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco frequently devises narrative puzzles that hinge on unusual and emotionally fraught moral and ethical dilemmas. ‘New Order’ Review: A Revolutionary Nightmare or a Recurring Dream? 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

"The love he sings of is fraught and intense" – according to his distributoion company. New band of the day: Dan Bodan (No 1,322) 2012-08-02T16:37:59Z

Facebook Twitter Pinterest I was beautiful … my friend and I conceived of the most beautiful dress we could imagine Photograph: Jenny Jimenez But “beauty” is a fraught concept. My wedding was perfect – and I was fat as hell the whole time 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

The movie, buoyed in part by Reynolds' name, was a breakthrough for Anderson and earned Reynolds his only Oscar nomination, but their relationship was fraught.  Burt Reynolds will publish a memoir in 2015 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

At a time of pandemic-related physical restrictions, when good health is fickle and travel is fraught, we might find ourselves especially aching for blue. Now supply-chain woes have come for the color blue 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z

Her entry into this fraught subject is characteristically disarming. Review: ‘Heart of a Dog,’ Laurie Anderson’s Meditation on Loss 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

But taking a break from the film industry in your 20s is a fraught move for any actor, and particularly a woman. ‘It was too much loss. I fell apart’: Samantha Mathis on River Phoenix and her career revival 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z

King, in particular, has been a part of the fraught discussion of sexual misconduct. Gayle King’s response to Kobe Bryant backlash captures the unique pressures she faces as one of the most visible black women in media 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

“Kyoto,” about a fraught, fraying relationship — “I’m going to kill you if you don’t beat me to it” — trades its retro rock band and horns for an arrangement that leaves her voice far more exposed. Miley Cyrus and Dua Lipa’s Retro Rock, and 8 More New Songs 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Among the many interplanetary travels that eventually landed the Little Prince on Earth, the most emotional involves his fraught romance with a vain, high-strung rose, which drove him to leave the asteroid. Review: Fanciful Classic ‘The Little Prince’ Is Turned Into Modernist Fable 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

A former boyfriend, Karl, reappears in her life, claiming to have been in love with her for 65 years, and things become fraught with her appalled children, who feel betrayed by their mother’s new relationship. Newly Released Books Include ‘Chronicle of a Last Summer’ 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

His plight is merely to spend a few fraught days looking after his 4-year-old grandchild in Naples while the boy’s parents are away at an academic conference. There’s More to Italian Fiction Than Elena Ferrante 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

“The life of a writer is more fraught here than it might be in other places,” he said. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z

But the situation is still fraught, especially for a place like Cornell. When #MeToo Infamy Taints Your Famous Benefactor 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z

Likewise, his relationship with women, Yinka, Tope and Mary, are often fraught. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

He said he is looking forward to finding the comic side of an increasingly fraught era: “The humor is very dark, but it’s there. If we lose that, we’ve lost everything.” Bob Mankoff to Step Down as Cartoon Editor of The New Yorker 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

You also want a bit of background on how fraught life was for artists in Germany, where he was born in Augsburg in 1497, as the Reformation took hold. Review | The first major Hans Holbein exhibition in the U.S. shows us the sobering reality of raw power 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

That sentiment turned somewhat more fraught as it entwined with worries about her husband’s health. Gisele Fetterman, forging on through her husband’s heated Senate race 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

The story, fraught with the dawning perception of his mother's unhappiness, is Byron's. Perfect by Rachel Joyce – review 2013-07-03T10:59:08Z

The Dec. 9 march was particularly fraught, with some protesters even attacking the luxury car carrying Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla. UK police charge son of Pink Floyd guitarist 2011-01-28T12:03:10Z

The whole business of inviting one partner and not the other is fraught with social difficulty at the best of times. I’m angry that my partner is not invited to my cousin’s wedding 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Perhaps because of their country’s fraught 20th-century history, the Germans are more apprehensive, and more provocative. Galleries: Big Brother is watching 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

I do not ever want to lie to my children, but I can see the truth is so fraught with dangers that the temptation to edit or withhold may become irresistible. How do I tell our sons about their father’s criminal past? 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

And Ms. Burstyn gets a crack at two fraught emotional monologues, although neither is particularly moving in the arid context of the play. | 'The Atmosphere of Memory': ?The Atmosphere of Memory? at Bank Street Theater - Review 2011-10-31T02:02:00Z

In the meantime, please consider that this isn’t nearly as complicated or fraught as you fear. Carolyn Hax: Friction persists between mom and son. Maybe he needs space. 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Since the Judds disbanded three decades ago, her relationship with her mother had been fraught at best, an exercise in boundaries. Wynonna Judd, on Her Own 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z

It probes some of the things she writes about best: fraught friendships, covert backbiting, stale marriages. Review: In Liane Moriarty’s ‘Truly Madly Guilty,’ a Very Unfortunate Barbecue Indeed 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

Just as in 2013, the cast is working rigorously with the play’s director, Stephen Brown-Fried, who is himself Jewish, on mastering the Yiddish inflections and the family’s fraught dynamics. An Asian-American Theater Company Cuts a Fresh Casting Trail 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The most fraught of all familial relations: mother and daughter. An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

It is an aria from Bellini’s opera “La Sonnambula” — the sleepwalker — and the words to that aria are fraught with nostalgia: “Oh remembrance of scenes long vanished . . . where my childhood serenely glided.” Perspective | On a last walk through the National Gallery, I’m reassured by images of an uncertain future 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z

‘Duncan was visiting North Dallas, a part of the city fraught with resettled immigrants and low-income minorities,” wrote Lorraine Sherman Mason in Time. The Zika scare: Donald Trump’s wall is no match for a mosquito 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

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

Atlanta also tackles a variety of subjects almost effortlessly, whether it’s homophobia and transphobia, the cycle of poverty, or the fraught relationship between law enforcement and the black community. Better Things and Atlanta: FX delivers fresh new comedy voices 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

The dress is not a solo event; it’s a shared experience, both fraught and celebratory. Analysis | This company wants to move custom wedding-dress shopping online. Is the bridal-shop trip with besties in trouble? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

She was, after all, wading into a fraught debate about racism and identity politics at a moment when those issues were supercharged by George Floyd’s murder and the protests that followed. A Crop of New Novels About Race and Racism Finds Freedom in Satire 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z

These works seemed to amount to encyclopedias of black cultural touchstones, resources of strength in racially fraught times. For Future Generations, It’s Time to Reflect on Black Art 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Traylor’s images depict mostly black people but also some whites, capturing a world that seems eternally fraught: the animals alert, the people wary. Art Review: Bill Traylor Finally Gets a Spotlight in New York 2013-07-04T23:46:01Z

It is an exercise fraught with unexpected consequences, as the Hong Kong film industry – until recently one of the most productive and vibrant in the world – knows only too well. 'No ghosts. No gay love stories. No nudity': tales of film-making in China 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Most major global sports events, of course, are fraught with criticism and handwringing ahead of showtime. Days before World Cup, much of Brazil just not in the mood 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

Those of us who worry about the old media have had a fraught week – and we're used to stress. Clark Kent's got a new job. But where next for Morse, Jeeves and Mr Chips? 2012-10-27T23:18:27Z

Reminiscent of both Colm Toibin’s “Brooklyn” and Matthew Thomas’s “We Are Not Ourselves,” this enveloping novel follows a fraught Irish family through unimaginable trials. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2017 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

All museums, he said, should be places for conversation and discussion in fraught times. Museums Chart a Response to Political Upheaval 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But the way ahead is fraught with shadows, secrets and shifting sands. Cannes 2013: Les Salauds – first look review 2013-05-21T17:05:19Z

Their world is constrained, their relationships seldom anything but fraught. All Made Up by Janice Galloway ? review 2011-08-12T09:00:01Z

“All the good and the bad of this project is a microcosm of what the show is about. Democracy is fraught and being able to make sure everyone is heard is difficult.” What Would Ben Franklin Say? Artists Weigh the Dream of Democracy 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

A truer comparison would be to the Showtime potboiler “The Affair”: the reliance on fraught flashbacks and the feeling of being underwater, in a constant state of unease. Review: Jessica Biel in ‘The Sinner,’ a Whydunit 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

Needless to say I didn’t swim at my local pool for several months and even bath nights were fraught in case that shark got me! 'I was terrified!': you share stories of watching classic films on first release 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Her film trajectory proved far more fraught than his, and was filled with stops and starts. The Marvelous Ms. Elaine May 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z

Water in California has long been a fraught topic, one that grows more contentious with rising temperatures and worsening droughts. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

What is dismayingly absent from Mr. Gold’s torpid production, unfortunately, is any palpable sense of the fraught emotional connections among these characters. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z

Physical contact is an area fraught with potential danger. What the therapist heard: ‘What would you do if your client behaved like a dog?’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z

She lived with the fear of death through a fraught but formative decade that included a lifesaving heart transplant in 2012. Perspective | Painting Michelle Obama brought Amy Sherald fame. Now, the artist wants to make works ‘to rest your eyes.’ 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z

According to her, the foods served at a milk bar are a less fraught way for diners to celebrate Polish identity and history, without being accused of nationalism. In Poland, Communist-Era Restaurants Are Perfect for the Moment 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

The bond between James and Sargent seems to have been less fraught. Henry James, a Poohbah Who Painted With Words 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

The tendency for women artists to be overshadowed by their male partners is, sadly, a recurring one, and for women involved in the Surrealist circle, the situation was even more fraught. Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z

I may be guilty of laziness by not explaining more clearly what I meant by “identity,” a word even more fraught than rustic. Finding the Right Words for the Red Wines of Languedoc 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z

Presumably the distributor will try to do the same with the formally precise, psychologically fraught drama “Anatomy of a Fall,” the latest from the French filmmaker Justine Triet. At a Particularly Strong Cannes Film Festival, Women’s Desires Pull Focus 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

The result is an “oftentimes broken account of important events that stitches together historical interpretation, context and causes, while patching in intuitive descriptions of people moving through a fraught place.” Detroit’s Untold Stories of Slavery 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z

The issue of India’s Muslim minority is so fraught that until recently soap operas ignored it. Indian Soap Operas, Ruled by Mothers-in-Law 2012-12-25T22:38:41Z

They were not neurotic or conflicted or fraught with existential angst. What Kate Spade Stood For 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z

Tur says her unflappable demeanor may be a byproduct of growing up in a household that was “a bit chaotic,” fraught with constant improvisation. Taunted by Trump, ‘Little Katy’ stood her ground. And became a star because of it. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

"The legal business is fraught with tension and conflict, and this is not," he said after performing nearly a dozen songs in Bakersfield. 'Go-to' L.A. lawyer says Hollywood studios are shortchanging his clients 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Such judgments are always fraught when it comes to artistic creations, even more so where the primary purpose of the works was not artistic but religious. What Does It Mean to Play the ‘Best’ of Bach? 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Park’s own work reflects the various structures born of Korea’s fraught history. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Through a Filmmaker's Lens, a View of Korea 2011-06-13T12:00:06Z

When Mitko disappoints him, with a charming smile, it’s not the end of their commerce — or their increasingly fraught friendship. ‘What Belongs to You’ review: An eloquent tale of desire and remorse 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Another concert series, less politically fraught, is the Unsound Festival, April 6 to 10. Spring Performance: Music: Festivals of Cuba?s Finest And of the Avant-Garde 2011-02-20T02:01:32Z

In more than 4,000 pages, he wove intricate analyses alongside rich contextualization, revealing musical history as a fraught terrain of argumentation, politics, and power. Richard Taruskin, Vigorously Polemical Musicologist, Dies at 77 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

But it’s another to be able to look at that artist looking at his paintings, as Mr. Molina’s Rothko does, with a fraught, fatherly anxiety and wonder. Theater Review | 'Red': Alfred Molina as Mark Rothko in John Logan?s Drama 2010-04-02T10:10:00Z

It's always more fraught reading a friend's book since there's always the risk that it's dull. Salon's favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

Unsurprisingly, psychologists have long been interested in the lure of the dangerous and the fraught. Murder weapons and morbid curiosity: Why fraught objects sell 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

The sounds of nature, combined with a spare and vaguely ominous electronic soundtrack, add enough atmosphere to augment an acute awareness of the great outdoors as a wild kingdom fraught with peril. Movie Review: ‘Hide Your Smiling Faces’ Explores a Grim Childhood 2014-03-27T22:42:29Z

It was a fraught time to film, Aniston said, compounded by the weightiness of the material. ‘The Morning Show’ Remakes Itself. Again. 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z

Marriage was now anathema, but the lure of attractive and loyal young women never cooled, however fraught circumstances otherwise were. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

Rarely has something that sounds so relaxed been so fraught. 'Bro Country' Is Still Thriving, Even If Everyone Hates It 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

No, but I am strongly suggesting that the “sometimes napping” and “sometimes not” may be contributing to the 4-year-old’s already fraught mood. Perspective | Is it time to help this cranky 4-year-old give up his naps? 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z

But he’s had a fraught relationship with film’s major honorary body from almost the beginning of his career. Spike Lee Reacts to His First Best-Director Nomination 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z

It's very underplayed and dark, and I'm enjoying how contained all the fraught emotion is. Watch television with Jeany Spark 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

The government is hoping to plug funding cuts by encouraging more private philanthropy but it is a route fraught with problems, not least the danger of safer, more conservative programming. Culture department braces itself for redundancies of up to 50% 2010-07-20T21:25:00Z

He is without peer among screenwriters as a composer of incisive, non-punchline-driven comic dialogue, and unrivaled among directors as a choreographer of fraught social encounters. Review: In ‘While We’re Young,’ a Coupling of Gen X and Y 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

This is a complicated subject at the best of times, and these are the most fraught of times. What Freedom Looks Like 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

Just as the words in the title bleed together purposefully, this look at America isn’t always beautiful; rather, it’s all very fraught. Dance Review: The Darker Colors of Patriotism 2011-04-15T22:36:54Z

In “Homie,” that awareness of the audience tips into fraught, interesting terrain. ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

The pursuit is fraught with plot details that play an outsize role in the outcome of events. The Suffocating Solemnity of “The Revenant” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The achingly sad “Complainers” concerns the fraught relationship between an 88-year-old woman with dementia and her younger friend, as both slip out of their lives’ moorings. The anxious, disappointing world of Jeffrey Eugenides 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

Scott Weiland, who died in his sleep Thursday night on tour in Minnesota, was a rock singer precisely of his time, the early 1990s: a vulnerable peacock with a fraught, hyper-masculine baritone, self-destructive but confident. Scott Weiland, a Symbolic Voice of the Shifting ’90s Rock Scene 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

Attempts to assign credible value to the works in a museum’s permanent collection are notoriously fraught. Perspective | This is how bad things are for museums: They now have a green light to sell off their art 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

But recording that album, she recalls in the memoir, was lengthy and fraught. From Lucinda Williams, a Memoir as Flinty as Her Songs 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zambello said the opera had grown in depth as they tried to fairly represent different points of view of a fraught subject. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Few family expeditions are more fraught than long-distance road trips. ‘Jam Van’ Dares to Ask: What if Family Road Trips Were Actually Fun? 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

The conversation with our editors was not especially lengthy or fraught with disagreement: we all agreed that turning over the tape to authorities was the ethical thing to do. R. Kelly and the Damage Done 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z

Luther speaks to us from prison, Jenna from deep inside her fraught role as wife of a fallen hero. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

It's not an obvious subject for a six-part television series, but it's fabulous: emotional, thought-provoking, fraught. TV review: Can't Take It With You (BBC2) 2011-01-14T22:16:00Z

“We are in a time when what some call ‘sense-making’ has become a fraught, ambiguous enterprise,” said the writer Daniel Pinchbeck, an admirer of Bad Guru. A Pop Star Becomes a Guru 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

Q. Jesse’s play deals with a relationship between brothers, while yours is about an equally fraught sibling relationship. Jesse Eisenberg and Zoe Kazan Discuss Their Plays 2011-09-25T03:01:23Z

Yet the pandemic-era briefings have become especially fraught — and an unusually barbed exchange with one journalist on Monday raised questions about whether he reserves special contempt for some. Trump’s ‘ask China’ response to CBS’s Weijia Jiang shocked the room — and was part of a pattern 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

A fraught meeting with the boy’s mother, lent a complex spirit and a troubled countenance by Lolita Marie, reveals family troubles that offer Sister Aloysius no support. 1st Stage puts on taut drama ‘Doubt’ 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z

At the same time, the show feels something shy of essential, its future already fraught, its arrival mistimed, like a train pulling late into a station that has since been closed for repairs. 'Weird Loners' on Fox has promise despite warmed-over premise 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

But corporate gifts are fraught with all the same baggage as personal gift-giving. For lawyers and lobbyists at gift season, it’s never just the thought that counts 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z

Several recently debuted series set their fantasies in past eras bearing some resemblance to our fraught present as a means of commenting on our societal decline. "The Great" is the cheeky post-enlightment balm we've been waiting for 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z

As a rule family members probably should avoid editor-writer collaborations — the writer-editor relationship is fraught enough as it is — but the son did some fairly hands-on editing to help achieve this difficult birth. A Novelist Makes Good on His Promise to Sinclair Lewis 2011-01-26T16:25:50Z

Some of them are sappy and romantic; some of them are fraught with anxiety. A Witty Mastermind of Les Ballets Trockadero Comes Home 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Travel can be fraught with questions about appreciation versus appropriation — heedless tourists can treat cultures as instruments for their own enrichment, and risk trampling them in the process. As Seen on TV: A Road Trip Tracks the Shows of the South 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z

Conversations reckoned to be particularly interesting or fraught with strategic information were recorded on to wax cylinders and subsequently transcribed. Soldatenby Sönke Neitzel and Harald Welzer – review 2013-01-25T20:00:04Z

The producer Buddy Ross embodies the central test of character faced by those during the morally fraught climate of the blacklist. ‘Trumbo’ Recalls the Hunters and the Hunted of Hollywood 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

In recent years, being a teacher has been fraught with challenges, leading to nationwide staffing shortages and widespread burnout. A student needed medical care and a home. His teachers adopted him. 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z

The mercurial director is known for producing fraught, emotionally tense dramas in the vein of her 1993 Oscar-winning film The Piano. Elisabeth Moss: 'How I found my inner tough guy' 2013-07-02T17:12:01Z

One “LA/LA” exhibition, “The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility,” at the Craft and Folk Art Museum, directly addresses the subject of a fraught boundary. A Head-Spinning, Hope-Inspiring Showcase of Art 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The progress of the naked body through photography is the subject of “Naked Before the Camera,” a resonant and illuminating if sometimes fraught exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Review: ?Naked Before the Camera? at the Metropolitan Museum 2012-03-29T21:57:05Z

Set in the present, the movie involves the complicated, increasingly fraught relationships among three characters whose lives are tragically engulfed as desire gives way to rage. Review: In ‘Burning,’ Love Ignites a Divided World 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z

Her new book, "I Think I Love You," which hit stores this week, is not only a paean to Cassidy but an exploration of the fragile emotions and fraught relationships of the teenage years. Author relives teen crush in 'I Think I Love You' 2011-02-11T17:32:19Z

“Green Book” chronicles a road trip that, while fraught and contentious, ultimately pays dividends for those involved. ‘Green Book’ Wins PGA Award and Has Best Picture in Sight 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z

At other times, the references to the modern world are fraught with irony, like when Chantal and Gary Hutchens assassinate Warden Murphy and then announce their plans to go get some Wendy’s. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 12: Hornes Aplenty 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

As these characters consider their fraught relationships with the city, some narrators reappear in the stories of others, revealing unexpected connections. Katy Simpson Smith’s ‘The Story of Land and Sea,’ and More 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, the two fraught situations intersect, and eventually Oliver is able to achieve some crude justice. Review | Walter Mosley is back with a whole new character to love 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Nostalgia is a fraught exercise in the Trump era. At Anton’s, Appetites Shaped by an Older New York 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

She has a wild streak, at least for Spielberg-land, but also seems haunted and, in one fraught scene, she piles the kids into the car to chase a tornado. ‘The Fabelmans’ Review: Spielberg’s Own Sentimental Education 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

The performance artist Cynthia Hopkins has provided her own solution for this emotionally fraught storage problem: she wears what her father left behind. | 'The Truth: A Tragedy': Cynthia Hopkins Excavates Her Father?s Life 2010-05-14T04:08:00Z

As a result, fraught questions about appropriation, biography and the legitimacy of “alternative history” are spotlit, distracting attention from the narrative itself and the often moving stories that it comprises. A Novelist Dares to Imagine Tennessee Williams in Love and at Work 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

The new trial has become so fraught that the district attorney wants to bring in an outsider to keep his own rival, the California attorney general, away from the proceedings. Books of The Times: Cold-Case Trial: Two Opposites on Same Side, Facing Down a Killer 2010-10-06T22:53:00Z

The despondent vulnerability in these images is heart-rending, and it provides a fraught counterweight to the hopefulness of a coda sung by Stevie Wonder: “We are/Rewriting the black American story.” The Playlist: The Weeknd, Leonard Cohen and Dirty Projectors All Want It Darker 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

What a fraught act of poetic license, and it won’t be the last in this surprising novel about the plight of displaced people. Review | ‘What Strange Paradise’ is a visceral account of a refugee’s desperation 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The Mackeys are so well drawn that this is not so much a crime novel as a fraught domestic drama in which people die of very unnatural causes. Tana French's 'The Secret Place' Involves a Girls' School 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

He also belongs to a wildly popular generation of comedians who, far from tiptoeing around 's fraught racial politics, dive in headfirst to defuse the hatred with humour. New Africa: the doctor who became a standup comedian 2012-08-23T23:05:01Z

Such archives tend to skew toward power, which is to say white and male, making them especially fraught guides to the history of the antebellum South. In One Modest Cotton Sack, a Remarkable Story of Slavery, Suffering, Love and Survival 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

As our reviewer, Lauren Francis-Sharma, observed, “Beneath it all lie tragedy and myriad loves that are tender and rich and fraught.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Stallone’s presence in the earlier “Creed” movies ensured that the franchise remained tethered to his legacy, with its sequels and fraught semiotics, even if the titles no longer carried the Rocky name. ‘Creed III’ Review: A Franchise Finds New Fertile Ground 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

Opportunities for a more fraught political drama, however, are basically ignored: When an oil-company executive instructs Sofia to sign a nondisclosure agreement, we expect at least some cover-up shenanigans. ‘The Burning Sea’ Review: Smoke on the Water 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Now Mr. Rogers has packed off another unwitting and honorable American to another fraught and perilous land in “BLOOD AND GIFTS,” which opens on Monday night at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center. The Week Ahead: Nov. 20 ? 26 2011-11-18T22:01:22Z

Things were so fraught, in fact, that Vanity Fair was reduced to putting minor stars like Monica Potter, Vinessa Shaw and Barry Pepper on the cover of its most prestigious issue. Ten for the bonfire: Vanity Fair's most awkward Hollywood issue covers 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

The film refutes the assumption of America’s space inevitability, that “it’s all easy and breezy”, said Grant, “but actually it’s quite fraught, it’s quite deadly, it’s quite tension-filled – there’s a lot of high stakes.” Breaking the color barrier: behind the long fight to diversify space 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

Despite the obvious gifts of the three actors, the all-important sense of a long, fraught history of collective conflict is crucially missing. Theater Review | 'The Subject Was Roses': A Family Talks a Lot but Says Too Little 2010-02-27T00:53:00Z

It’s so fraught, it became inconsequential really fast. Richard Linklater’s career has all been leading up to his ‘Boyhood’ masterpiece

She detours into the emotionally fraught topic of whether black shoppers are viewed suspiciously by store clerks — a form of racial profiling that’s come to be called S.W.B., or Shopping While Black. Books of The Times: Sticky Fingers, Used in Service of a Covetous Nature 2011-06-28T21:45:44Z

Literary adaptations can be fraught, but this one - scripted by "The Beach" author Alex Garland - seems to have gone remarkably smoothly. Keira Knightley due at London Film Festival opener 2010-10-13T15:00:00Z

Perhaps slightly less crucial to the women's movement than this film implies, the encounter was nevertheless fraught with mindboggling gender politics and highly entertaining hucksterism. The Battle of the Sexes – review 2013-06-27T22:15:01Z

Her relationship with her daughter was pretty fraught. "Lost Girls" star Miriam Shor: "I was enraged about how these women had been treated" 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

According to Smoove, there is no one better to help navigate the fraught political terrain. 'We're not Game of Thrones' – Curb Your Enthusiasm's stars on their unsexy TV sensation 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

An audience of 14 joins the newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dunphy in their New Orleans hotel room for a fraught tussle in the bed sheets the morning after a fuzzy night. Festivals In Review: Warring Relatives and Joking Rabbis 2011-01-15T00:29:04Z

Solomon uses a fraught mother-daughter phone conversation to deftly set up the conflicts to come. Review | ‘The Days of Afrekete’ is a bitingly funny novel with echoes to ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

After such a long and fraught silence, I’m not gonna lie: Everything sounded amazing. Perspective | Best classical music of 2021: Noseda reunites with the NSO, ‘Fire’ lights up the Met 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

According to a civil suit filed in Los Angeles in October 2014, Kesha says that her entire experience working with Dr. Luke was fraught with instances of sexual, physical, verbal and emotional abuse. Kesha vs. Dr. Luke: Inside Pop Music’s Contentious Legal Battle 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z

And in the days after this fall’s fraught election, I was dismayed to see posts on my Facebook page from gay men who were victims of harassment. A New Day for Gay Plays? 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

The bureau’s restive comments suggest that Williams’s working relationships may be severely damaged and that his return to anchoring would be fraught with internal dissent. NBC’s D.C. bureau strongly opposed Brian Williams’s return in February 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z

But the embrace is fraught, and one senses futility and defeat in it: If you can’t beat them, join them. Put a lid on the operatic Viking helmet cliché 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

An eerie tale, fraught with echoes of Poe and Hawthorne, set in a small town. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The heart of the series, Dom’s a world-weary, Corona-drinking street racer and car hijacker with an obsessive devotion to his family and a fraught relationship to the law. Wait, Who’s Fast, Who’s Furious? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Her friendship with Halla is fraught with unspoken longing, but it also allows some brief light to enter an otherwise dark story. A Not-So-Cold Case in Not-So-Frigid Iceland 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

It’s a heavy, fraught OK, which holds the weight of having to accept not being recognised for his work, his experience, his worth. 'I’m black, I can’t do method acting’: Brian Tyree Henry on Atlanta and Widows 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z

Harold Pinter and Jean Genet also experimented with the form, and Edward Albee’s career ignited with “The Zoo Story,” about a fraught encounter between two men on a park bench. Two-Character Plays Are Highlights of Theater Season 2010-05-08T02:40:00Z

Given that accusations of blasphemy can have lethal consequences, the study of religion is potentially fraught with controversy. Do we need to hide who we are to speak freely in the era of identity politics? 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

The relationship had always seemed a little fraught — as if you were both trying too hard to be something you were not, just for the sake of appearances. Affairs of the Wrist: The Apple Watch Comes Between Them 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

Anything else would be too fraught with falsity. Adam Thirlwell stares at graffiti in Beirut 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z

Given the fraught state of the nation, and the intensity of partisanship, President Obama’s final State of the Union speech seemed oddly lit with optimism. Obama’s State of the Union optimism: “The difference between Reagan and Obama is that Reagan believed it in his bones” 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

Bobby’s relationship with his parents will not be as fraught. Iceman Came Out. Now He’s Coming Back in His Own Series. 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

Our society's fraught relationship with other cultures and non-white people requires folks in interracial relationships to contend with irritations and trials other couples don't. Where's the love, "You People"? The frustration of Kenya Barris and Jonah Hill's interracial rom-com 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z

But not every showdown with a crasher is so fraught. Not Invited? No Worries for New York’s Party Crashers 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

In mountaineering terms, it would be akin to a middle-aged man deciding to climb the Matterhorn – something a few obsessive and foolhardy amateurs do, indeed, attempt, but fraught with peril. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z

But nothing has been more fraught than figuring out how to tell the story. Sept. 11 Memorial Museum’s Fraught Task: To Tell the Truth 2012-06-02T16:26:23Z

“The book is fraught, forensic, lyrical and fierce, at long last searching the soul of the modern Secret Intelligence Service itself. It’s a superb and fitting final novel.” John le Carré Fans Are Getting One More Novel 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

It is too crowded, expensive, toxic, fraught, divisive and dangerous, both to ourselves and the environment. Redesigning the Concept and Role of the Automobile 2010-03-08T08:45:00Z

They, too, feel like part of the warp of daily existence in a fraught time. | 'Macbeth': The Deed Is Done, the Doers Undone 2011-03-25T23:54:57Z

But weaving politics into scripts can be a fraught business. From EastEnders to Outnumbered: how TV found drama in Brexit 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

This was further heightened by a fraught history. Hawaiian, Gaelic, Yiddish: so you want to learn an endangered language on Duolingo? 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

That’s why the size issue can seem even more fraught in the gay community than among heterosexuals. Penis politics: Sex, size and stereotypes in the gay community 2014-01-12T18:00:00Z

It is instead another mother figure whose chilly attitude toward children seems responsible for making the narrator’s thinking on the subject so exceptionally fraught. “Sight” and The Pleasures of Overthinking Motherhood 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Of course, the story of this year’s fraught Academy Awards could completely change come Sunday. A Fraught Oscars Season Limps to the Finish Line 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

But because she had stuck with the restaurant, even seeking employment despite her mistreatment, the decision to speak out was emotionally fraught. ‘Someone else’s problem’: Six women learn the confusing, ambiguous reality of confronting an alleged harasser 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

The celebrations, which suggest a combination of Halloween and the Fourth of July, but without masks, costumes or political pageantry, grow more chaotic and fraught with danger. Review: ‘Fireworks Wednesday,’ a Domestic Drama From Iran 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Sure, life after the fact would be ace, but getting there involved a general anaesthetic, scalpels and a healing process fraught with potential complications. The gift of a lifetime: how trans 'top surgery' changed my life 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z

Ng’s acclaimed second novel explores a Cleveland suburb divided over a fraught, racially charged custody battle. Hear Hear! Audiobooks that are not to be missed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

This novel about that most fraught of all familial relationships, mother and daughter, follows an actress from rural Irish theater to silver-screen fame to madness and obscurity. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

Being troubled in times of politically charged scandal is the equivalent of sending “thoughts and prayers” in times of politically fraught tragedy. A GOP senator’s guide to a Trump scandal: 1) Say you’re ‘troubled.’ 2) Keep walking. 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

But put a 13 year-old just about anywhere in the world, and the tableaux becomes fraught. Willow Smith’s “controversial” photo is anything but 2014-05-07T18:53:00Z

That’s helpful with a show that takes its time, as “Man Cave” does — sometimes to the point of bagginess — letting the friends bicker and snipe over the course of a fraught weekend. ‘Man Cave’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the American Night 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Robert Kimball, the show’s artistic director, who substituted at the last minute for Charles Osgood as host, told pithy backstage anecdotes about the songwriters and their occasionally fraught relationship with Ziegfeld. Music Review: ?Makin? Whoopee,? at the 92nd Street Y - Review 2012-01-11T00:01:05Z

And such moments of carelessness are all the more fraught for being natural. Intermission by Owen Martell – review 2013-02-22T20:00:01Z

“Bad Jews” likewise probed fraught history and modern identity with knowing irreverence, and it was directed by Serge Seiden, then with Studio and now with Mosaic. Sharp lessons in ‘Hooded, or Being Black for Dummies’ 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

I’m tired of feeling roped into other people’s dysfunctional relationships with food, tired of the default conversation around the joyful experiences of cooking and eating being so fraught with anxiety. Women: Stop apologizing for eating 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

His post-incarceration period was fraught with gangs and drugs, and he even went back to jail. "Free Chol Soo Lee" investigates "what went wrong" in 1973's forgotten conviction of an innocent man 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

His plays’ explosively fraught alliances anticipated the dangerous domestic war games of writers like Edward Albee and the destructive passions of film noir. Reviews: ‘Mies Julie’ and ‘Dance of Death,’ Love and Madness in Strindberg 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

Son and grandson reflect, like a distorting mirror, the fraught relationship of father and son. ‘Sins of a Father’ Resuscitates a 1991 Film Starring Alan Bates 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z

Considering the fraught nature of all of this, do you feel a pressure or responsibility in the stories you tell? A Vision of Asian-American Cinema That Questions the Very Premise 2021-02-11T05:00:00Z

It will make for a fraught awards season, said Stone, the blogger. 'Fear is everywhere': a quiet paranoia haunts post-Weinstein Hollywood 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Its real subject is the fraught, funny relationship, in Hannah’s life, between ambition and friendship. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z

New museum buildings are an exercise typically fraught, tough to pull off on a budget that doesn’t impinge on success with the artistic mission. Applause, and a caution, for the planned Museum and Institute of California Art 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z

Among them are institutional allies and friends who cycle through these fraught places with cruel rapidity, arriving and departing with unexplained, rumored drama. Review | A writer turns her suicide attempts and self-harm into lyrical prose with ‘Juliet the Maniac’ 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z

Which is even more fraught than it sounds: “America” is the show’s most explosive production number, and she had to generate all that exuberance on her own. Natascia Diaz approaches ‘West Side Story’s’ Anita with passion 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The most fraught crisis occurred a week later. Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters 2013-04-17T16:26:43Z

People are constantly coming up to Bridget and alluding to fraught situations that Siobhan is intimately familiar with, forcing Bridget to improvise cryptic, noncommittal responses. Sarah Michelle Gellar flounders in a bland new drama 2011-09-13T15:03:00Z

But the New York Philharmonic, living on its reputation, and the Cleveland Orchestra, banking on residencies outside Cleveland, are both following courses fraught with peril. Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-24T20:03:40Z

Do you worry about how the show will be received, given that larger discussions about race, gender and representation are so fraught right now? ‘The Idol’ Creators: ‘This Is Not Going to Be for Everybody’ 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z

In the fraught, loud, ADD world of pop production, Mars's songs value narrative arc and internal logic; his soundscapes have three dimensions. Bruno Mars: Unorthodox Jukebox – review 2012-12-09T00:05:56Z

Playing on the fraught history between Captain Marvel and Superman, the character is introduced as a big fan of Superman, but the two heroes eventually come to blows. Shazam Is Back. Wait, Who Is He Again? 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z

In three videos at the gallery Commonwealth & Council, Kenneth Tam explores the fraught territory of male social relations, specifically the ways in which men interact with one another physically. Men touching other men: How Kenneth Tam's video art playfully nudges viewers toward discomfort 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Smetana's Shakespearian symphonic poem, meanwhile, is apt to confuse us because it evokes a mood of fraught, almost Byronic nobility that sits uneasily with our perceptions of the play. BBC Philharmonic/Noseda 2010-09-27T22:40:00Z

We’re now to the point where a mere act of flipping through a lifestyle magazine or opening up an email newsletter is now fraught with the tension of an openly derisive rivalry. Martha Stewart Mocks Gwyneth Paltrow Again... With Photo of Pie 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

That’s the meaning ascribed to this powerful but deeply fraught image, which has the potential to do lasting damage if we can’t separate its truth from its mythological power. Perspective | The viral photo of the last soldier in Afghanistan is powerful — and that’s why it’s deceptive 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

In these fraught times, even imperfect light entertainments come along so seldom that we should welcome and celebrate them. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Walter’s males tend to have fraught, suspicious opinions about females of any age. Books of The Times: ‘We Live in Water’ by Jess Walter 2013-01-31T21:10:42Z

“You want those relationships to be strong, especially in a region fraught with different views, different personalities, different leadership views toward the United States,” McBride says. Jill Biden’s six-day tour of Latin America is high-stakes diplomacy 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

In the fraught runup to Oscar night, only a fool would read too much into omens and portents. Riva, 85, poised to make history 2013-02-06T16:48:13Z

Perhaps because of this larger perspective — nature over nationality — Pedernales’s relations with its neighbor seemed less fraught. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z

His infamously fraught relationship with the press continues. Connolly's work marked with Bafta 2012-12-11T07:02:41Z

The exodus of wealthy families from the city comes at a moment that is fraught socially and politically. Rich City Tykes Swell Schools in Hamptons and Hudson Valley 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z

During an audience Q. and A., Boylan said she was of two minds about the fraught question of who gets to tell what stories. At PEN America, a Complicated Centennial for Free Speech 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

It can be fraught and isolating, it seems, portraying a white character activating the racial overtones of a beloved novel brought to the stage. Perspective | The offstage challenges of playing a racist in ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

It may be just as effective, though, and less emotionally fraught to offer an informed counter opinion. How Much Do I Really Owe My Family? 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Adéwalé’s efforts to liberate slaves from plantation overseers are more meaningful and fraught than anything that Edward Kenway does in Assassin’s Creed IV. Critic’s Notebook: The Last of Us: Left Behind, a Game With the Unexpected 2014-04-25T20:23:47Z

Noire unfolds, through flashbacks the game also tells the story of Phelps’s own war history and his fraught relationship with the men under his command. Video Game Review: A 1947 Mystery That Matters Now 2011-05-16T20:25:34Z

“Heat and Light,” her latest and most sweepingly panoramic book, opens up a whole new chapter in this town’s fraught history. Review: With ‘Heat and Light,’ Jennifer Haigh Drills Below the Surface 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z

Eating is also fraught with potential for superfluous stinginess. Frugal Traveler Blog: The Argument Against Pound-Foolish Travel 2012-11-27T18:36:20Z

What Shostakovich’s music had to do with history has been one of the most fraught questions in the history of music. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

At nearly 15, Nia is also navigating this fraught territory, and KB’s longing for her sister’s attention and approval propels the younger sister into danger. The Lives of Black Women, at Home and Abroad 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

“It’s a really emotionally fraught situation because there’s often the sense of the grandparents needing help, but being unwilling to ask for it as well.” Relic: Australian director Natalie Erika James on dementia, horror and her Sundance hit 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The goal — achieved and surpassed — is to subsume educational material in an emotional narrative, punctuated by over-scaled, emotionally fraught objects, amplified by every architectural, cinematic, literary and religious tool available. The 9/11 Memorial Museum doesn’t just display artifacts, it ritualizes grief on a loop

Every action I took was fraught with the concept of doing good. Junk Food Was Our Love Language 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z

Will and Zac’s relationship grows fraught because of the gap between them; after Zac flees north, it seems inevitable that they will meet again on a battlefield. Theater Review: ‘The Civil War,’ From Theatreworks USA, at Lucille Lortel 2013-07-21T22:12:08Z

Their collective humour, though, can’t mask the intensity of feeling of the time, and the fraught, divergent reactions it prompted. Giant condoms and buckets of fake blood: the true story of Aids activists Act Up 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

Author Tiffany Midge, an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux, also shared her memories of the fraught "colonial holiday." "There's so many Natives who are jokesters": Native comedy redefines patriotism & busts stereotypes 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z

We'll have a less fraught sexual culture when we have less fraught gender relations. Despite Virginia Johnson's legacy, we're still screwed-up about sex 2013-07-26T17:33:54Z

As best one can at such a distance, she seeks to return us to the fraught hours of that Jerusalem spring. Jesus Died Only to Rise Again. Where Did the Concept of the Resurrection Come From? 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

This new awareness of an age-old connection inspired the organization of an exhibition fraught with symbolism that ended earlier this year at the Topkapi Palace Museum. Turkey Reawakening to Its Vast Iranian Ties 2010-04-23T11:35:00Z

It's set in a different sphere to most British films, revealing the very fraught human relations that can exist in any family. Readers' reviews 2011-03-10T23:00:02Z

The old days of childbirth, fraught with risk to mother and baby, were followed by a variety of innovations, some more welcome than others. Motherlode Blog: How Can We Bring Trust Back to Childbirth? 2012-05-23T21:33:48Z

For decades, rappers have offered vital and enduring documentation of the criminal justice system’s fraught relationship with Black Americans. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

Wearing a white robe and no shirt, Smith walks around the stage of the small black-box theater in a ritualistic trance, muttering — and eventually shouting — the phrase “this place is fraught.” The Flea Theater, Experimenting Again, Walks a New Tightrope 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

One is planning a socially and politically fraught dinner party for her husband, the other is overcome by memories of past joys, a love affair and 1980s radical politics. 10 books to read in October 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

The hoodie is as fraught a piece of sportswear as there has ever been. Perspective | Documentary series ‘American Style’ embraces fashion as an art form 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z

The increasingly fraught and emotional dialogue pits the progressive ideals of inclusion not just against historical business practices but also the definition of acting itself. Authenticity in casting: From 'colorblind' to 'color conscious,' new rules are anything but black and white 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

This is a particularly fraught moment to reconsider a famous fake. Is a Long-Dismissed Forgery Actually the Oldest Known Biblical Manuscript? 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

A white history professor and her black student brave a fraught office hour in Eleanor Burgess’s play, first seen at the Huntington Theater Company. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

We childless women are fairly devoid of infertile role models: Most who speak publicly about the fraught topic do so from a place of either wild grief or anti-procreative defiance. Lena Dunham Pays Homage to Her Late Literary Hero Diana Athill 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z

Frankly, it’s kind of nice to see a red carpet not be so fraught with marketing machinations. The Tony Awards Get the Red Carpet Blues 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

It was, if not a surprise, a touching affirmation of the sometimes fraught relationship between the countries. In Charlie Hebdo tragedy, the French ambassador finds his place in Washington 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The most fraught word in any language: mother. An Actress Descends Into Madness, and Her Daughter Picks Up the Pieces 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

But Trump’s visit is more fraught than those of her predecessors. Melania Trump will visit four countries on her first major international trip without the president 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Abandoned dreams of artistic achievement, replaced by a television show fraught with vapid comments by its principals, fraudulent vérité and a highlight segment called “Vomit at the Coke Party.” | 'Cut': Behind the Scenes, Action and Angst 2011-05-27T21:40:40Z

Not just some random individual but an ex-convict the judge has had a particularly fraught relationship with. Duvall v. Downey in 'The Judge' argues for acting excellence 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Christmas” can instantly transform a holiday that might be feeling fraught and melancholic into something theatrical and borderline absurd. Embrace the Christmas Miracle That Is Mannheim Steamroller 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

This week’s video is a scene from “Forever,” Dael Orlandersmith’s solo show about her troubled childhood and fraught relationship with her mother. In Performance: Dael Orlandersmith in 'Forever' 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

From some distance, it’s a parable about the current age, in which an increasingly fraught vision of American prosperity abuts the realities of stagnation and loss. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

This statement hints that he might suspect that the business of making habits and breaking habits, fraught and chancy as it may sometimes be, is not the end of the world. Books Of Style: Three Books on Becoming a Better You — Books of Style 2013-01-04T19:17:52Z

When you say that I kind of cringe a little bit, because that’s such a fraught territory. Whitney Cummings: "Crazy" Is the "New C-Word" 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The motifs he employs are powerfully expressive: trains, motorcycles, pool halls and the all-important communal table, in its endless permutations, appear throughout his cinematic landscape, at once lyrical and fraught with narrative intensity. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Her parents’ relationship was fraught; her mother suffered from borderline personality disorder, and her father was depressive. Dani Shapiro’s New Memoir Uncovers a Life-Changing Family Secret 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Ours is a justice system fraught with a long and storied history of racism and classism. Do it for Emily Doe: 10 ways to turn your Brock Turner anger into action 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z

Obviously it has neocolonial histories and it's fraught with fetishism, exoticism. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

Suddenly, even the most commonplace act seems fraught with danger. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z

That image transcends party lines, even in these fraught times, and explains a great deal of the ball’s enduring appeal. Ballgowns, tuxedos, champagne: The last real ball in Washington is a relic of the past 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

Yet despite its surrealist tone, the show is grounded in emotional realism and the all-too-familiar experience of navigating today’s fraught, technologically mediated romantic landscape. Simon Rich on “SNL,” “Black Mirror,” and dressing Bill Hader as Hitler 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

The A+E Networks and iHeartMedia, the radio conglomerate, are aiming to address the fraught subject of race in the United States with an all-star benefit concert and special next month, they announced Thursday. Springsteen and Sting on All-Star Roster for Concert on Race in America 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

But despite the omnipresence of ancient mosaic art, the business of maintaining, extracting and protecting it is a fraught enterprise. Getty mosaic program teaches conservation in conflict zones and beyond 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

The most powerful works pick out socially and politically fraught subjects. Elaine de Kooning and Andreas Gursky in Close-Up in the Hamptons 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Cinema legend Martin Scorsese's next epic, "Killers of the Flower Moon," is taking on the story of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during economically fraught and racially segregated 1920s America. "Killers of the Flower Moon" reveals only part of the monstrous American story of the Osage murders 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z

Or perhaps it was the fact that the idea of African-American upward mobility Chic preached was fraught with difficulty in practice. The Chic Organization: Up All Night – review 2013-06-27T14:30:00Z

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, weddings in the United States brought together people who might not otherwise have gathered in fraught circumstances. The Weddings Boom Is Coming 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Nobody beats French when it comes to writing pub scenes fraught with tension. Tana French’s Irish Western Features a Retired Lawman and a Missing Boy 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z

The healing that finally arrives is fraught with pain and paradox, but no less welcome and remarkable. Review | Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

And then there was the fraught question of raising a family. ‘Ninth Street Women’ Shines a Welcome New Light on New York’s Postwar Art Scene 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Words Without Borders, one of the few magazines in the world dedicated to literature in translation, is turning 20 at a fraught time: Around the world, wars are raging. Celebrating Literature That ‘Brings the World Close’ 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z

Cain was in high demand in Hollywood, but the relationship was fraught. 14 things you don't know about James M. Cain 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

Here, this extends to the fraught realm of labor and delivery. Bridget Jones Hasn't Lost Her Charm 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

This is the first of many relationship challenges you will face in your professional life; these relationships are important, and also fraught with potential negative ramifications, both personal and professional. Ask Amy: Wedding season is torture for wannabe bride 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

In practice, taking advantage of the BMI allowance can be fraught with guilt and shame. People are getting vaccinated due to their BMI. They have mixed feelings about it. 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z

My sense is that such a tactic could encourage viewer “engagement,” to invoke a term that buzzes around the fraught subject of audience-building. Making Museums Moral Again 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

It's a difficult film because every moment is fraught with danger. In "Los Lobos," two boys who flee Mexico discover that the American Dream isn't Disneyland 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

A Cosby conviction would require a rebuilding of infrastructure too fraught to replace — his legacy spanned too many years, his foundation too fundamental to unearth. Just What Was on Trial in the Bill Cosby Case? 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

There’s also the fraught but impossible, including: “When you say Black people, do you capitalize the B?” Ziwe Fumudoh Asks: ‘How Many Black People Do You Know?’ 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

“Shawn took this fraught situation, which could have been angry and extended, and without sugarcoating anything brought the temperature down with a great humanity,” Getzler says. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

It’s also worth pointing out that this movie about three irresistible young French people has arrived at a grimly fraught moment for their country. ‘Paris, 13th District’ Review: Groping Toward Happiness 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

You see, it's also fraught with potential for misinterpretation: “We're so rich we don't need your stuff!” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is it rude for a wealthy couple to ask for wedding presents they can buy themselves? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z

Winning the prize, however, was fraught with complications for one winner, Beth Gillespie, 28, of New York. 3 women honored in Italy for letters to Juliet 2011-02-13T17:21:08Z

Riggs was a match without larger meaning; it was legitimately fraught with epochal implications. Review: In ‘Balls,’ Billie Jean and Bobby Come Out Swinging 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z

Eisenberg thrusts the reader right into her characters’ fraught, layered relationships. Review | ‘Your Duck Is My Duck’ isn’t exactly political, but it eerily captures our national mood 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z

In Act II, when Leila and Nadir, having reunited, sing an impassioned, fraught duet, Ms. Damrau’s body twitches with spasms as her character’s suppressed longings burst out. Review: A Precious Harvest in ‘The Pearl Fishers’ at the Met 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Offutt’s experience was more fraught than most, but nonetheless there is a touching universality to his tale and its mix of longing and despair. ‘My Father, the Pornographer’: A literary detective story 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

The road to this day has been fraught and exhausting for a populace hoarse from resisting and defending. Perspective | Nancy Pelosi’s pin at the impeachment debate was a declaration: The republic will survive this 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

Because of the intentional separation between editorial and business-side operations, publishers usually don’t know about editorial decisions — unless they are very big ones, fraught with legal implications. Can the incoming New York Times CEO keep his job? 2012-10-26T17:26:00Z

What the shift means for immigrants themselves — particularly in quickly gentrifying neighborhoods like downtown or Boyle Heights — is a separate and deeply fraught question. 'Latino Urbanism' influences a Los Angeles in flux 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z

For passengers, all of this means coping with an onerous, shifting security routine fraught with privacy concerns. 2010-01-19T22:10:00Z

Ward has centered earlier novels around such morally fraught issues as surrogacy and immigration, and at first this novel felt like a sunny departure. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

“Don’t Quit Your Day Job” at Hasted Kraeutler, a photography gallery in Chelsea, is an unusually playful, if also fraught, example of the form: It delves into the artistic ambitions of art dealers themselves. Art Review: The Art and Heart of the Dealer 2011-08-04T22:07:12Z

Unlike her character, Root says she doesn’t date, finding the whole experience “too fraught”. Rebecca Root interview: ‘I’m not fighting myself any more’ 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

The nature of Jewish identity has become no less fraught since then. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z

We know we're in for a fraught adventure because Romany is haunted by the ghost of its unknown previous owner, and because Gavin may have suffered but has plenty left to lose. Archipelago by Monique Roffey - review 2012-07-27T21:54:00Z

What about some of the fraught or satirical music from Italian cinema? New York Philharmonic Begins Season at the Movies 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

This is how Bachelder’s novel, which takes place over the two-day reënactment, functions as a whole: unremarkable events become, in the minds of his protagonists, fraught with symbolism, and provoke outsized passions and consequences. Two Novels About Frustrated White Men, Thirty-five Years Apart 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Here he is generous with previously undisclosed material, including details about the dysfunctional presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy, where he spent a few fraught months as press secretary. Best new audiobooks for that long summer drive 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

How is it that a primary driving force of our economy can also be a custom so fraught with confusion and controversy? Should you tip your kid's camp counselors? The answer is tricky 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

If neurosis writ small and fraught sperm don’t say beach reading, what does? What We're Reading: Summer Edition 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

As much as I adored the city of Accra, preferring it to Malaga and Lausanne by far, my first trip to Ghana was tainted by these fraught familial dynamics. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

Granted, lazy urban strolls are newly fraught in the current climate. Is It OK to Take a Walk? 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z

“But maybe it’s just what we need on such fraught ground.” An Invisible Artwork Reminds Austria of Its Nazi Past 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

A charge of fraught chemistry courses briefly onstage, giving new resonance to Jack’s first-act curtain line, in which he suggests that sexual and racial tensions are sometimes one and the same. | 'Race': Eddie Izzard in David Mamet?s ?Race? 2010-07-01T02:01:00Z

But seen at a moment in which the center of a classically self-contained world no longer seems to be holding, these fraught works exude a paradoxical reassurance. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Each is a quartet for two men and two women; each responds, though without slavishness, to multiple layers of the music; each catches Bach’s opposition and connection of emotionally fraught lines and larger mathematical structures. 2010-01-21T06:42:00Z

“Everything Everywhere” accesses familiar themes of fraught mother-daughter relationships and overburdened moms, but this time the film’s whole paranormal dimension is built around Evelyn’s powerful complexity. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

It still presents a future with hoping for, albeit a fraught one set around seven years before the events of the original "Star Trek." Boldly take us where we've been, Captain Pike 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

It's much darker and fraught with tension than TWD and I like that. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 2: The World Said Enough 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z

The dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster described the interview as “fraught with epistemological tension.” George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Suddenly a Best-Seller 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z

Its preview performances have been fraught with difficulties and safety concerns. Spidey sense 2011-01-05T09:39:41Z

The months leading up to the contest were politically fraught, even for Israel. Eurovision’s Sanitized Vision of Israel 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

They toyed with the idea of finding a female friend to have their baby, but most of them were past prime childbearing age, they said, and anyway, it seemed emotionally fraught. In New York, a Push for Compensated Surrogacy 2014-02-19T21:59:45Z

His travels with a young mechanic he befriends yield a glorious travelogue of China, but the pair’s fraught give-and-take feels like a series of attempts at pivotal moments. Movie Listings for March 27-April 2 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Ai Weiwei’s arrest in 2011 was a shocking reminder, at least to the West, that the role of artist in China is frequently fraught. "Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-16T05:00:00Z

Ms. Boo says that she chose Annawadi because the scale of this “sumpy plug of slum” bordering a lake of sewage was small, and its location was fraught with possibilities. Books of The Times: Katherine Boo?s First Book, ?Behind the Beautiful Forevers? 2012-01-30T23:08:37Z

It’s a complicated, fraught decision, with its intimations of mortality and loss of control — especially for those whose names are above the door. Carolina Herrera’s Last Bow 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Yet appointing a new conductor, if not quite as tricky as electing a pope or prime minister, is fraught with hazard. Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

Anyone who has been a mother or a daughter knows how fraught the relationship can be at its worst, a toxic dance of power, guilt, competitiveness, dependency and resentment. Review: In ‘Hot Milk,’ by Deborah Levy, a Broken Life and a Frayed Maternal Bond 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Did the designers forget that wearing fur is fraught with controversy? Furriers Lure Young Designers 2010-03-10T23:53:00Z

The power of The Force is less fraught than organized religion. Is this the way? "The Mandalorian" depicts struggling belief more realistically than that last Jedi 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z

Kells — author of “The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders” — takes up this fraught subject by exploring one simple question: What happened to Shakespeare’s books and manuscripts? Review | Who art thou, Shakespeare? 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

But for Liberians in the United States, the day can feel just as fraught as it does for many other Americans. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

It tells the story of his immigration to the United States from Sierra Leone as an 8-year-old and explores his fraught relationship with his mother, who died of cancer when Tejan-Thomas was a teenager. Saidu Tejan-Thomas Jr. and the Voices of ‘Resistance’ 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Factors other than Podesta’s efforts clearly weighed on the EPA as the Goliad case played out, including the agency’s fraught relationship with Texas officials and the Obama administration’s desire to demonstrate support for energy development. EPA reverses water pollution decision after lobbyist steps in 2013-03-13T22:51:00Z

Whatever you wish to tell me or not tell me, I am grateful to be a part of this most complex and emotionally fraught of processes. A letter to … My brother, who is now my sister 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

It too features a large cast entangled in fraught romances and familial conflicts, depicted through intensely dramatic dance-theater. At La MaMa, a Dance Festival That Embraces States of Change 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

It is a life fraught with conundrums, from the harmless to the alarming: Our 7-year-old returns from a weekend visit and reports that his mother keeps a gun in her car’s glove compartment. Motherlode Blog: Negotiating Pettiness and Heartache in the Modern, Blended, Non-Brady Family 2013-12-22T13:51:47Z

In a way, the dramatic climax of “Hadrian” comes in the fraught opening scene, which takes place in 138 A.D., the last night of Hadrian’s life. Review: Rufus Wainwright’s ‘Hadrian’ Is a Step Forward, but Still Frustrating 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

For Ms. Schlenzka and many others one of the most exciting aspects of placing dance within a visual-art context is what this often fraught transaction reveals about these two insular cultures. In Some sweet day Series, Dance Meets Visual Arts 2012-09-02T07:30:05Z

The eight actors nail the tone of Bovell’s intimate dialogue as this doomed clan broods through a variety of marriages, romances and extremely fraught parent-child relationships. Monsters take the stage in a new Gothic musical and a delayed play 2016-02-10T05:00:00Z

I suppose there are issues we could have explored more with the whole question of sexual violence and women — it’s a complicated and fraught issue. George R. R. Martin on the One 'Game of Thrones' Change He 'Argued Against' 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

It’s fraught with danger, and so is Philip’s journey. 'The Americans' Recap: Intimacy in the Line of Duty 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

One of those photographers, Frédéric Brenner, conceived the project as a way to approach a fraught and familiar subject from a number of fresh perspectives. Israel and the West Bank, Through the Eyes of a Dozen Visitors 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

The idea that Israel generates so many wistful what-ifs is itself a sign of the country’s fraught and fragile existence. Review: ‘Killing the King,’ on the Murder That Claimed a Peace Process 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

It’s the sound of a confident artist showing off his digital ambition and technical wizardry, but the process of developing this sound was often fraught. Rafiq Bhatia Is Writing His Own Musical Language 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z

The truth is that the stepmother/stepdaughter relationship can be particularly fraught and heartbreaking. 'I feared I'd be left with prejudiced children​ ​who didn't love me': life as a stepmother 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Movie theaters and the act of group entertainment are going to be heightened experiences now, fraught with the pain of history. Alone in the dark 2012-07-20T15:55:00Z

If you really want to seek higher ground, Ziff suggests the fraught territory of a heart-to-heart talk. Traveling with the in-laws? Five tips for easing the tension. 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z

What does this have to do with “Watchmen”? The HBO series takes an entirely new and surprisingly effective approach to puzzling out this fraught history. In “Watchmen,” just as in real life, feelings about Vietnam remain uncertain 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

But it also veers into darker territory, eventually encompassing a fraught sibling rivalry, a tabloid missing-persons case and a moral panic about children saying “shut up.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

If their relationship were too fraught, the filmmakers feared, it might play into stereotypes of catty women and queen bees. 'Equity' Forges a New Model for Women in the Workplace 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

But this is the sort of fraught, disorienting moment that characterizes the novel. In ‘Forest Dark,’ Nicole Krauss Plays With Divided Selves 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

“You’re in this pleasant situation, picking up a cabbage, but there’s still a fraught dialogue that happens, whether it be a memory or something a stranger says” that can feel psychologically eviscerating, Ms. Ellis said. Meet Six Disrupters at the New Museum’s Triennial 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

It was not perfect, but there was no mistaking what Teen Vogue became under Welteroth – a conscious voice, tackling the fraught terrain of our culture wars with nuance and intelligence. Ex-Teen Vogue editor Elaine Welteroth: ‘The headlines implied I was a token black hire’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

By the end of the 1950s Freud's fraught personal life contributed to a visual restlessness, and he began standing to paint, letting the raked perspective exaggerate the anatomies of his subjects. Lucian Freud obituary 2011-07-21T21:08:42Z

Indeed, the question of what to make of the womb feels particularly fraught in this post-Roe moment of mounting restrictions on reproductive health care. The Womb Is a Miracle, and a Mystery 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

But the peaceful countryside scene from 1886 is fraught with a back story of plunder, family tragedy and legal battles that stretch from Paris to Oklahoma. Will a Looted Pissarro End Up in Oklahoma, or France? 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z

For many viewers, Super Bowl Sunday is synonymous with indulgence — and sometimes drinking a little too much — and that means that the morning after is frequently fraught with headaches, nausea and irritability. How to avoid the post-Super Bowl hangover, aka 'Super Sick Monday' 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The jitters of both women signal that the encounter is fraught with unspoken feeling. | 'The How and the Why': Student Meets a Mentor She Has Met Before 2011-01-18T22:30:20Z

The pressure to share pleasure is too fraught. Before Midnight: Very True Romance 2013-05-23T20:06:53Z

But the decision was fraught: There were Democrats who didn’t believe that Franken’s actions, especially considering who was president, required such a heavy punishment. What do you do with a problem like Al Franken? 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

Tracks such as The Student or Dubliners are fraught reveries, ambient enigmas, auditory hallucinations of fumbling, tumbling double-bass; stark, poignant dabs of manipulated piano; chirruping percussion and environmental noise. Does Nicolas Jaar's music defy description? 2010-09-01T15:22:00Z

The often fraught relationship between parent and child forms a central theme of the play, alongside that larger theological matter: the equally tortured relationship between God and his creatures. Review: ‘Little Children Dream of God,’ a Drama of Haitian Refugees 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

But that estimate is fraught with an important sub-issue: How many of those killed are Hamas fighters, compared with civilians? Reporters grapple with politics, erratic sources in reporting Israeli/Gaza death toll

That's an effect the producers of “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark,” where flying is far more fraught, would surely love to have. 'Peter Pan' can soar but story is stuck in the sand 2011-05-05T05:59:22Z

Donald Trump’s administration has had a fraught relationship with media in its short lifespan. Tom Hanks sends espresso machine to help White House press fight for truth 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The mission to become living and breathing icons is particularly fraught in an age of iconoclasm. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

Yet language is what conveys this fraught inventory. Review | Sigrid Nunez’s ‘What Are You Going Through’ is an ambitious novel about the meaning of life and death 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

It’s increasingly fraught as we inch toward the moment first revealed in the promo video: Two hands, tightly gripped, snap apart. Review: Justin Peck Runs Out of Steam in ‘Copland Dance Episodes’ 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

His half-sublimated wranglings with race are more complex and fraught than either his shrillest detractors or his most fawning defenders would have us believe. “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z

Its narrative works like the time-delay bomb that is placed fairly early on in the proceedings, slowly ticking away under the floorboards of the reader’s mind, getting louder and more fraught as the detonation approaches. ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

He also reflected on the colourful history of the festival, and its sometimes fraught relationship with its neighbours. Glastonbury 2010: Sun sets on another 'best ever' festival 2010-06-27T14:19:00Z

It’s easy to imagine such fraught topics going off the rails with different guides. A Muslim cook wanted to stop the hate. So she started inviting strangers to dinner. 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Throughout, Thater has exploited the technology and conventions of video to examine the nature of perception and to probe the fraught line between human and animal. 'Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination' at LACMA stuns the senses 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

The question of watching and being watched is especially fraught in “Barbara.” Christian Petzold Directs ‘Barbara,’ Starring Nina Hoss 2012-12-07T23:53:01Z

“Artists lead,” the Jobs character rants to a meeting at a particularly fraught time, and “hacks ask for a show of hands.” “Steve Jobs,” portrait of the artist as tech guru: What we lose when we worship at the altar of commerce 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

This period of life is both fraught and fascinating, Davenport said, because it’s when many people begin “walking into real adulthood.” ‘Run the World’ Is an Ode to ‘Enviable Friendships’ and Black Harlem 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

Leiby understands that whether to have a child is a subject fraught with confusion for many, and she acknowledges it, but that’s not her issue. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The relationship between India and Pakistan continues: fraught, repetitive, no end in sight. An Urdu Epic Puts India’s Partition Into Historical Perspective 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

But it's also a particularly tense and fraught kind of Groundhog Day, and just as in that film, repetition endows banal, forgettable events with an eerie familiarity and inevitability. Source Code ? review 2011-03-31T14:00:01Z

In any case, it’s impossible to imagine any audience for the self-aware “Hamilton” that isn’t cued to view anew America’s fraught racial history, which the occasional scholar bizarrely fears is being erased, rather than foregrounded. No ‘Hamilton’ tickets? This behind-the-scenes book may ease the fear of missing out 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

In Germany that process is infinitely more fraught; especially if your parents or grandparents were Nazi war criminals. TV review: Hitler's Children; Lewis 2012-05-23T21:00:02Z

She had a rare knack for revealing the fraught link between surface calm and unexpected eruptions. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-22T00:06:54Z

And it’s a common touchstone in comedies about Hollywood, where the passive-aggressive dynamic between movie star and assistant is especially fraught. Television Review: ‘Doll & Em,’ as in Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, on HBO 2014-03-18T21:28:44Z

The family drama unfolds more like a mystery, gradually revealing a dynamic fraught with emotional trauma. 'The Midnight Swim' a mystery with supernatural touches 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The destination that Mr. Moran is trying to achieve is both too fraught and elusive for cartography. Theater Review: Martin Moran’s ‘All the Rage’ at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2013-01-31T03:00:51Z

This scenario was meant to evoke Margo’s fraught relationship with her father, whom she described to V.A.S. as emotionally and verbally abusive. If Your Life Were a Movie 2011-01-23T04:45:10Z

This topic is so fraught and multifaceted, and I appreciate that the literary community is engaged in this discussion, a microcosm for the larger social/political inequalities that Latinx and indigenous peoples face. On cultural appropriation: A Latina novelist calls herself out amid the "American Dirt" controversy 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

She turned still; her defeated expression and deflated body told a different story than the usual fraught anguish. American Ballet Theater Steadies Itself for Its Next Act 2023-07-24T04:00:00Z

Photo: Martin Gnedt/AP Her next major commission, the Vienna Holocaust memorial, was an equally fraught process due to the complications of Austrian politics and the inevitable sensitivities around the issue. Rachel Whiteread: a life in art 2013-04-06T08:00:40Z

Given the ongoing conflicts with Palestinians, touring in Israel is a fraught issue for many musicians. Lauryn Hill cancels Israel concert after bungled Nigeria date 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, this is an exhibition that wants to be about the environment and the terrifying current moment in our long and now fraught relationship to it. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

As Caruso pointed out, genre cinema, especially horror, can be a fraught place for women. In Broadway’s ‘Grey House,’ Something Nightmarish This Way Comes 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

I wrote a few weeks ago about Sharon Sutton’s book “When Ivory Towers Were Black” and about the fraught question of race in U.S. architecture and architectural education. Milton Curry, USC's new architecture dean, on educating the 'citizen architect' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

Isaac, who has two other movies showing at Venice, agreed that their close friendship posed “its own challenges” when filming such an inherently fraught projectm since “you care about the person so much.” Jessica Chastain and real-life pal Oscar Isaac redo Bergman 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

These installments also introduces hints of Japanese mythology and the Shinto religion that washes the story with a fraught animism and magical realism. Brit Bennett's "The Vanishing Half" and 4 more must-read novels out in June 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

The first “Sparkle” arrived at a particularly fraught time in black American culture. ‘Sparkle’ Remade With Jordin Sparks and Whitney Houston 2012-08-10T21:09:42Z

Doubtless many a fraught lone parent will indeed see something of her own plight in Mrs Green's travails. Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z

How oddly fitting, then, that the film itself has become a lightning rod for nationalist sympathies — and on an anniversary that is fraught with historical, nationalistic significance. The confused, confusing nationalism behind “Wonder Woman” 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

Our big museums are feeling compelled to acknowledge that they are products of an earlier, ideologically fraught time. America’s Big Museums on the Hot Seat 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Ms. Stevens treats Annie’s captivity as a long and emotionally fraught battle of wills. Books of The Times: Chilling Abduction in Chevy Stevens?s ?Still Missing? 2010-07-04T21:49:00Z

Women who postpone pregnancy often pay a price on these shows with childlessness or costly, emotionally fraught procedures like in vitro fertilization or surrogacy. Television: ... And Baby Makes Reality TV 2011-01-21T17:40:59Z

That commitment that has only strengthened in a fraught political moment. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Still, things remained fraught and as the game wore on we were treated to increasingly frazzled close-ups of the England players, faces gnarled and mealy, drained of their usual romping, thoroughbred sheen. World Cup 2010: Something comforting about return to the BBC fold 2010-06-23T20:16:00Z

At the time, travelers crossing the United States faced a grueling wagon ride fraught with disease, accidents and bandit raids. | Latin America Issue: Twain?s Nicaragua, 144 Years Later 2010-09-17T16:03:00Z

But it’s important to remember, in these fraught times, that hip-hop policing itself is nothing new. Hip-Hop’s Elders and Youth Go to Battle (Again) 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

As Jesse tells it, adoption, domestic or international, seems fraught with risk and closed doors. ‘The Mothers’: desperate measures in search of family 2013-04-10T18:11:16Z

Made into a nightmare theater of a fraught and sinister world by director Pierre Audi, this co-production with Dutch National Opera will be a centerpiece this June of the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. Why Andriessen's daring and difficult 'Theatre of the World' will stand the test of time 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Scorsese deployed rigorous storyboarding, 35mm film and seven cameramen, including the cinematographers behind Easy Rider, Deliverance and his own Taxi Driver, to give a fraught and patchy concert the golden glow of myth. From the Band to Beyoncé: concert films to fill the live music black hole 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z

Eye contact, when made, is fraught with suspicion and hostility. Review: ‘Equals,’ a Futuristic Tale of Defying Deadly Conformity 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

His dilemmas can be as simple as whether to go over his boss’s head to freeze a bank account, or as fraught as whether to shoot an escaping suspect and risk hitting innocent people. Jack Ryan Returns, This Time on Amazon 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

“The classic period of the black market,” the voiceover calls it, an ugly scuttle of murky characters and fraught borders, an impoverished place carved up by predatory powers. Why The Third Man is an essential primer for no-deal Brexit 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Curiosity is one reason to try to forge a new, less emotionally fraught connection and, interestingly, your baby may do the work for you. Should I tell my estranged mum I’m pregnant? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

Yet, in the process, he also unwittingly showed that the depiction of sex in movies is one of the most emotionally fraught and morally perilous of directorial decisions. Revisiting Bernardo Bertolucci’s Artistic Ambitions, and Abuses, in “Last Tango in Paris” 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Beyond the premiere are fascinating pathways to a fraught new era that should be less stressful but isn't, starting with Diane's personal life. "The Good Fight" is as gripping as ever as it tackles Jan. 6, race and ethics in 2021 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z

The genre has taken a rocky, roundabout path to headliner status at the Super Bowl, with this year’s event coming at an increasingly fraught moment for the N.F.L. regarding race. How Hip-Hop Inched Its Way to the Super Bowl Halftime Stage 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Whaling, of course, is a fraught subject, but I don't know enough about the local tradition to have a deeply held opinion. Frugal Traveler Blog: Partying Above the Arctic Circle 2012-07-10T20:39:47Z

For instance, in a novel fraught with the tension of watching over a sister struggling against madness, it is striking that the Stephens’ mentally ill, long-institutionalized half-sister Laura gets no mention. ‘Vanessa and Her Sister,’ by Priya Parmar 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

But the process of making up his mind is as fraught and painful for him as it is for Hamlet. Hamlet and the Surveillance State of Denmark 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z

The world of adoption is so fraught, and I've heard so many stories, sometimes I'd sit at my desk and think, What is the saddest thing that could happen? Lorrie Moore 2010-04-10T23:10:00Z

Ali Catterall That classic tale of an evening's babysitting fraught with mishaps gets an update, with Viva's mates keeping her company while she looks after a gravel-voiced devil child. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z

When women like music, it often turns into a defensive pose, one burdened by stereotypes or fraught with baggage to overcome. Quit chasing “passionate millennial males”: Their tastes shouldn’t dictate what we read and hear 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

I ended up trekking over to Bondi alone – who’d have thought finding a date to a sex workshop would be so fraught? Vivid vulvas and colossal carrots: what I learned from my night at a sex workshop 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

And on a third: The fraught history of psychiatry and the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Investigating a Famous Study About the Line Between Sanity and Madness 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Into this fraught discussion now comes Charlie Smith, a 67-year-old white Southerner, who has just published a gorgeous, harrowing novel called “Ginny Gall,” in which essentially all the characters are black. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

It turns out that Ward is once again writing about morally fraught issues. A Widow Takes Her Grown Kids on a Cruise. What Could Go Wrong? 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

My romantic relationships are often so painfully fraught that I sometimes think it might be best to avoid them altogether. Love is the mother of all addictions: Compelling as nicotine and heroin — and just as hard to kick 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z

The dramatic turnaround sent shock waves through the field and highlighted the fraught nature of “de-accessions,” the term for selling works from a museum collection. A Baltimore museum tried to raise money by selling three pricey artworks. It backfired stupendously. 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z

While Blanchard’s score moved comfortably between bars, college parties and fraught, tender nocturnes, “Fire” was fairly turgid as drama, its individual sequences clear but the broader conflicts driving its characters obscure. At the Met This Season, Opera Was Icing on the Cake 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

DiCamillo handles each girl’s fraught family situation with a light hand, but it is clear that these girls are dealing with enormous stressors. Kate DiCamillo’s ‘Raymie Nightingale’ is a fairy tale for our times 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Although the boys’ lives seems to be circumscribed by their isolation from the world and their complicity in the chaos of their parents’ fraught marriage, change inevitably comes as adolescence steals up on the narrator. Books of The Times: ?We the Animals,? by Justin Torres - Review 2011-09-01T22:00:18Z

Recipe comment sections, like all comment sections, can be fraught places, but Rob's love for this peach tart, and his quest to help other people make it and love it too, caught Food52 editors' eyes. Amanda Hesser's beloved peach tart has one unlikely crusader 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

For while she tells a story about a safe, legal and quick abortion, she doesn’t ignore other more fraught situations, either today or in a potential post-Roe future. Comedians Turn Their Attention to Abortion 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

For Lawrence, the decision to do nudity was a fraught one: In 2014 she was one of several victims of a massive phone hack, during which her private photos were leaked without her permission. Perspective | This Oscars isn’t Jennifer Lawrence’s moment. But really, it’s always Jennifer Lawrence’s moment. 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

The use of “riot” as a descriptor is almost universally accepted, even though the word has become fraught with racial connotations and despite the relatively gradual way the story unfolded. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

There are stories of strained relationships with players and administrators, and he admits things were often "fraught". Michael Tilson Thomas: 'The most important thing about music is what happens when it stops' 2012-05-25T12:04:46Z

It’s a fraught position that places Ingrid firmly in danger and causes Tofte to thoughtfully question what he’s really fighting for — his country or his family? Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z

Yet, all my attempts at intimacy have been fraught with shame, secrecy and a lack of authenticity. My life in sex: the woman in recovery from sexual abuse 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z

All this openness is one way of navigating a period fraught with questions about the BBFC's modern role. Sex, violence and swearing on film: 100 years of the BBFC 2012-07-26T18:59:03Z

It all culminates at an amusingly fraught family birthday bash that nicely paves the way for the film's warmly equitable conclusion. The ethnic wall is steep in the engaging but uneven 'Anita Ho' 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

In Washington, home to many of PredictIt’s “super forecasters,” political gambling is a particularly fraught subject. This site bet big on political gambling. Regulators want it shut down. 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z

The two threads meet in a thrilling and fraught conclusion. The Great American Novelist tournament 2013-01-22T12:51:05Z

The decades before that were often fraught with anxiety, even despair. Julian Fellowes: The Creator of ?Downton Abbey? 2011-09-11T05:00:22Z

As young ballet stars they show a longing to push past the point of comfort in their roles, especially those as fraught with history and emotion as Romeo and Juliet. Dance Review: Natalia Osipova as Ballet Theater?s Juliet at the Met 2010-07-11T21:59:00Z

Foner gets his detailed information about the workings of the underground railroad during this fraught period from two invaluable contemporary documents. 'Gateway to Freedom' reveals underground railroad history 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

That said, as an operatic experience – Vaughan Williams called it a "morality" – it is fraught with difficulties. The Pilgrim's Progress; Total Immersion: Knussen at 60 – review 2012-11-11T00:05:45Z

There are few topics in the South more complicated and fraught than the one between white families and black women who raise their children and keep their houses clean. ArtsBeat: Maid Sues Author of ?The Help? 2011-02-17T19:22:53Z

Morgan is one of the best-known black comedians in the United States, finding humor in the often fraught realm of American race relations. Actor Tracy Morgan in intensive care after New Jersey road crash 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

Their land is fraught but to them it is compelling. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

The title of “Intimisms,” an excellent group show of figurative painting, pluralizes Intimism, the early modernist style best exemplified by the small, sometimes fraught domestic interiors of Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Repeatedly, critics asked why they used the word “sketchy” — a vague, subjective term fraught with all kinds of cultural and socioeconomic judgments — rather than something more benign. SketchFactor: Starting with its name, safety-focused app leaves many uneasy

“Beautiful Day” hits theaters just in time for Thanksgiving, an emotionally fraught holiday at the best of times. With "Dolly Parton's Heartstrings," you know 'tis the season for feel-good culture 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

He has defused the whole controversy, demonstrating Wilder's dominant role in the writing process, in a working arrangement that was always fraught. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z

Russo’s clever debut evokes a time when travel wasn’t so fraught and strangers could get close enough to learn something about themselves. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Though Cat Power’s original interpretation was stripped down to just the singer Chan Marshall’s voice and strums on an autoharp, Woolen had a composer overlay swelling strings as the drama became more fraught. Movie Trailers Keep Tweaking Well-Known Songs. The Tactic Is Working. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

Today, some 1,700 years later, love remains just as fraught, except perhaps for the threat of execution. 2010-02-13T03:57:00Z

Searching for anonymous sex in Bulgaria, a young American strikes up a fraught friendship with a rakish drifter. Notable fiction in 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

She was brought up in San Francisco in a starkly religious household, fraught with repression and fear. Sharon Olds: Confessions of a divorce 2013-01-26T07:29:01Z

Too many documentaries, he believes, explore “weighty,” ethically fraught issues without a human element to provide connective tissue. Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

This is something a little more fraught for a family like the Alvarezes in 2020, as Penelope says after she answers the door: “A guy wanting a list of Latinos in my house? No, thanks!” Review: ‘One Day at a Time’ Still Standing and Being Counted 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z

The Beloved is a deceptively easy and well-paced read, with passages of heart-stopping prose, but dense with notions around the battle between art and life and the fraught bonds of blood. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z

None who consider the possible allegorical parallels between the political machinations set more than 1,000 years ago and our fraught present should be dismissed either. "Vikings" kicks off its final season with its own "tender moment" in history 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

But for many playwrights, the productions that follow a play’s premiere — when it is handed over to theaters around the country and the world — can be fraught. You Wrote the Play. Can You Let It Go? 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

The photographs remind us, repeatedly, that the racial delineations imposed by society are often arbitrary and flimsy, always fraught. An Artist’s Costumed Alter Egos Cross Racial Lines 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z

China’s testy relationship with Vietnam became fraught whenever a Vietnamese leader dared to demand equal footing with a Chinese emperor; the Japanese claim to divine origins was unacceptable. America’s Collision Course With China 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

This latest revelation about Von Saher’s family is just one more chapter in the tangled history of “Adam” and “Eve” and their unusually fraught journey over the past century.  Centuries-old paintings, a Russian aristocrat, an obscure Nazi past: Why nothing about the Norton Simon 'Adam' and 'Eve' case is simple 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

The Ghost Light Theatricals fringe troupe invites you to re-imagine Shakespeare’s tragedy “Othello” set in a punk band fraught with turmoil — complete with a manager named Iago. Boy in space at SCT; man-eating plant invades ACT 2014-03-06T20:17:46Z

Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive Over three decades of bewildering confusion, my personal relationship with the British Board of Film Classification – as exhibitor, distributor, producer and punter – has been turbulent, fraught and surreal. Putting the F-word in BBFC 2010-09-30T21:30:00Z

Some of their fraught courtship is conducted behind the main stage, in custom-built alcoves representing a sweatshop; a drugstore; an apartment. ‘West Side Story’ Review: Sharks vs. Jets vs. Video 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Understandably, the air in the Royal Festival Hall is fraught with expectation. Elizabeth Fraser – review 2012-08-07T10:38:36Z

It’s also a fraught term for characters who grew up in a, shall we say, low-trust environment. Material Event: Unpacking That Pivotal ‘Succession’ Episode 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Their ensuing discussion-cum-argument allows Tyler to cogently sketch the fraught family dynamic. Anne Tyler traces a family line with 'A Spool of Blue Thread' 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

Open immigration from the Commonwealth, attracting thousands of West Indians, put Britain on the road to becoming a multiracial society, a fraught process, underscored by race riots in Notting Hill in the summer of 1958. David Kynaston’s ‘Modernity Britain: 1957-1962’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z

All of that, filtered through the lens of systemic racism in this country, guaranteed that the magazine’s portrayal of Ms. Harris would be especially fraught. Why a Vogue Cover Created an Uproar Over Kamala Harris 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

Issues involving Israel are especially fraught, given the country’s commitment to atone for the Holocaust. Jerusalem Criticizes Berlin’s Jewish Museum for ‘Anti-Israel Activity’ 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z

Their subjects may be “scenic,” but their atmosphere is fraught. ‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine,’ His Muse, First and Last 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

In recent years, who gets seen—meaning who gets nominated and who wins—has become a fraught political question. An Oscars-Night Diary 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z

But even as the spare language of her lines endows them with a monumental feel, their brevity and levity also prefigure the semiotically fraught short exchanges of the texting era. Perspective | For the new opera ‘Eurydice,’ a challenge of mythic scale: Retelling the Orpheus myth without looking back 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

He maintains that uneasy, oblique approach throughout the album, presenting himself as both a throwback and a character living in a fraught, uncertain present. Early James Is a Rootsy Throwback in an Uncertain Present 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

The situation in India proves to be far more complex, fraught with issues of poverty and caste as well as tension between religious factions. 'Great Soul': Joseph Lelyveld tells Mahatma Gandhi's larger-than-life story 2011-04-06T22:21:04Z

It’s a simple, obvious thing to do that has become fraught because of how many ways America has found to make it difficult and mysterious. Perspective | Brace yourself: America is about to act really awkward about Biden’s female VP pick 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Young’s reflections on hyper-masculinity and on gender in general are not without their fraught moments. Review | In ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,’ Damon Young turns an unflinching eye on himself and society 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The romantic playing field in “Supporting Characters” is a perilous place fraught with jealousy and competition. Movie Review: ‘Supporting Characters,’ Directed by Daniel Schechter 2013-01-25T02:05:45Z

All photos are fraught, but the passport photo — an image through which you interact with authorities, borders and your own citizenship — is especially electric. The Promise of a Really Great Passport Photo 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

The second, despite or perhaps because of this, is the gulf in understanding that is making civil-military relations increasingly fraught. The space between 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The score begins with a funeral march and a fraught sonata-form movement, an agitated and fearful farewell. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

A work of movement-theater, lyrically directed and designed by Jessica Grindstaff, the production enlisted a forest of woodland creatures in a collage of fables, fairly tales and epics depicting fraught encounters between humans and nature. Inspired, enchanting puppet theater with a punch: the eco-themed 'Memory Rings' 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Granting autonomy to both perpetrator and victim, Hart handles their fraught relationship with sensitivity and insight. ‘Redemption Road’ and the problem of thriller-killers 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

What to make of this impasse over a beloved, fraught and misunderstood dish that, in so many ways, mirrors the story of a diverse and vibrant Native America? Fry Bread Is Beloved, but Also Divisive 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

For example, which is less morally fraught: Stem cell eggs and artificial wombs, or paying a poor woman in a Third World country as an egg donor or surrogate mother? The future of sex 2012-09-19T19:20:00Z

He followed that by conducting Schubert’s Second with the fraught passion of trying to bring the dead back to life. Dudamel dedicates concert to a slain student in Venezuela — and opens a new chapter with the L.A. Phil 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z

Increasingly, it seems, there is a tendency to rely on experts to help navigate the thorny issues of what to wear when, and not just for highly fraught events. Hey, Governor, What Are You Wearing? 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

This one, set largely on the Osage Reservation in northern Oklahoma, revisits a history of violence as fraught and bloody as that of the United States itself. ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Review: An Unsettling Masterpiece 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z

Visiting the areas most affected is essential for understanding the city’s fraught history. What to Do in Belfast, Northern Ireland 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

The show also highlighted how the Internet has made grief more public and casual, and therefore more fraught. An Online Generation Redefines Mourning 2014-03-21T21:07:21Z

Although engagement may be unavoidable in this exhibition, where history is so heavy and life so fraught. Capturing Human Moments Amid Chaos in Israel and the West Bank 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Like museums around the world, the Smithsonian is preparing to reopen in a landscape fraught with uncertainty. The Smithsonian is on a massive search for six new museum directors. Their work could reshape the institution for generations. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z

Mr. Parker recounted a particularly fraught night when he was an intern there in early 2009 and someone, after other missteps, failed to properly cut the cauliflower. At Bonny Doon?s Restaurant, Dinner With, Oh, Yes, Wine 2010-09-22T04:20:00Z

One is her close but often fraught relationship with Ronald Reagan, who was elected president during her first term. Missionary zeal 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

At a time when so much else seems fraught and troubled, Lakwena’s welcome art advocates for an insistent sense of open-eyed adventure. The sense of adventure in Lakwena Maciver's universe 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Vogt said he drew on that and other fraught childhood decisions as he made “The Innocents.” In ‘The Innocents,’ Kids Behaving Deadly 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

He’s fine and thoughtful company for the journey, sensitive to the fraught history of Europeans who have used Africa and Africans as a backdrop for their exploits. The best travel books of 2021 — so far 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

But imposing a new lifestyle on a loved one can become fraught when the beneficiary isn’t able to communicate — or make its own decisions, she said. The Diet Worked For Them. Now Their Pets Are on It. 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z

Wrenching dialogue, a dance with his wife and some fraught horseplay with his son Biff are heard as if from afar. ‘Salesman is Dead and Gone’ follows Willy Loman to the grave 2013-12-16T19:36:45Z

If you’ve ever wished for a cop show that was just the fraught interrogation scenes, or a movie that was just the big emotional fights and none of the boring parts, watch “In Treatment.” How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Still, some found consuming more stressful and fraught than ever. It’s Not That Hard to Buy Nothing 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z

But what about the peculiarly fraught, hard-to-classify dynamic of the boy and girl dyad, two siblings of different genders raised under like conditions but so often saddled with wildly divergent expectations? When the Family Falls Apart 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z

Set during a long night of opium-fueled conversation, it is one of several books on this year’s short list to tackle the often fraught interactions between the Western and Islamic worlds. Prix Goncourt Goes to Mathias Énard 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Among children of immigrants, cooking is often fraught: It’s a way of carrying on cultural traditions, of fighting off the anxious feeling that you are a generation away from blurring into everyone else. Learning to cook South Indian food, with the help of some experts

“It can model how institutions should and are capable of having complex conversations about fraught objects and their fraught subject matter,” Ms. Cullen-Morales said. An Exhibition Proposes Alternatives to Removing Contentious Statues 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

And sure enough, Daisy and Billy enter a love-hate friendship fraught with a will-they-or-won’t-they sexual tension that makes for some of the strongest pages in the book. A Rock Band Novel — and a Snapshot of the Bell-Bottomed 1970s 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

But because the question of consumption, which is intrinsically linked to Pantone’s choice, and its status as a marketing stunt, is itself fraught. Pantone Picks Two Colors of the Year for 2021 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

And in this cool, verging-on-chilly exploration of perception and fantasy, which won a best screenplay award at the Sundance Film Festival, life, as Ingrid experiences it, is considerably more fraught than mundane reality would indicate. Review: In ‘Blind,’ Perception and Fantasy Converge in a Writer’s Mind 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

Rarely has the relationship between author and editor felt more fraught with consequence. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

But it is a fraught prospect from the start. The future tense of joy: "Deadwood" creator David Milch recaptures memory in "Life's Work" 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z

Lastly, the conclusion in Mr Mishra’s essay—that it is “a profoundly fraught emotional and social condition—one which, aggravated by turbo-capitalism, has now become unstable”—is prematurely dark. The deep roots of modern resentment 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

The exchanges between the two brothers are fraught: Who owns this story? 'Masters of Sex' Recap: The Personal Is the Clinical 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

As the couple prepare to sell the apartment — a fraught process that involves a stress-filled hunt for a new place — Alex observes: “Neighborhood’s changed a lot. It’s cool now. Filled with hipsters … and gentrifiers.” From ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’ to ‘Little Men’: A Borough’s Real Estate Crises, Onscreen 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The unwieldiness of the progression is at one with the fraught atmosphere of the text. Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece Is Still Hard to Find 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

The history in this book is similarly hopeful and fraught, recounting a “somewhat bizarre but incredibly powerful marriage between a fast-food behemoth and the fight for civil rights.” The Surprising History of McDonald’s and the Civil Rights Movement 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

The sniping is adding a layer of complication to an already complex, lengthy and emotionally fraught proceeding. Papers seek removal of a Cosby attorney 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

As millions of Americans become eligible to be vaccinated because they’re classified as obese — prompting public shaming over the perceived advantage — it’s a particularly fraught topic. Krispy Kreme’s ‘sweet’ vaccine promotion leads to bitter Twitter war 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Bravado and Caresses: Girls on the Way to Life “Mosquita y Mari,” an unassuming indie jewel, resists all of the clichés that its story of the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls invites. Movie Review: ‘Mosquita y Mari,’ by Aurora Guerrero 2012-08-02T21:19:57Z

When nudity and sex enter the picture, a story becomes more fraught with concerns about exploitation and critiques over gaze. How Cinemax's "Jett" does nudity — and plenty of it — right 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z

Subject lines are fraught with desperation and resignation: “Sexless marriage driving me crazy!!!,” “I feel like I die more every day”: The “bed death” of sexless marriage is real, and it’s heartbreaking 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

On top of that there is the fraught question of the state's bullet train project. Metro's Union Station master plan a significant shift 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

But she always writes with a purpose, namely to remind readers that teaching was a fraught profession long before “Waiting for ‘Superman’ ” flickered across the screen and everyone had an opinion about the Common Core. ‘The Teacher Wars,’ Dana Goldstein’s History of Education 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

As President Trump prepares to fundamentally rethink the reconciliation with Cuba initiated by Barack Obama, here are a few books that shed light on the two countries’ historically fraught — yet intertwined — relationship: 3 Books That Help Explain American-Cuban Relations 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

A later prospect, equally fraught, involves Larry making the rings as a possible concession for the Las Vegas Raiders football team. "The Ringmaster": When a documentary about the world's best onion rings serves up a sobering twist 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

His personal life was as fraught as his cloak-and-dagger work, and when he wasn’t trotting around the globe, he was apt to turn up in Brooklyn. Books of The Times: ‘The Cairo Affair,’ by Olen Steinhauer 2014-03-12T19:27:27Z

But this latest incarnation goes much further in digging to a core of fraught ambivalence. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

About half the songs on “You and Your Sister” are like that—indelible, lovely, emotionally fraught, delivered with a laconic naturalness but with intellectual landmines. An Obsessive Listen to a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Album 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

And Takeshi was somehow related and … well, it’s all pretty complicated and not terribly relevant, because fraught chases, frantic fights and various beheadings are really what the movie is all about. ‘Yakuza Princess’ Review: Crime, Amnesia and Ancient Swords 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Let There Be Light was the third commission in what sounds like an increasingly fraught partnership between the director and the US army signal corps. My streaming gem: why you should watch Let There Be Light 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

But they had five months to shoot, and this situation is fraught with challenges and quite different. Michael Chiklis' superhero series targets families 2010-09-22T12:28:00Z

Some objects are more fraught — one, because of its history. Pandemics Get Forgotten. But Not at This Museum. 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

On Comedy Central there’s the stoner duo of “Broad City,” on HBO the antagonistic “Girls” and Emily Gould’s fraught novel “Friendship.” In ‘Everybody Knows,’ a dance troupe struggles with a long-distance relationship

It’s important and valuable but also problematic and fraught with pitfalls.” Sorry to Bother You: why Boots Riley’s surreal race allegory is this year’s Get Out 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z

He tackles all of the franchise’s pet themes at running speed: the sanctity of life, the utility of mercy v productive violence, the fraught process of sculpting society from chaos. How Planet of the Apes became a truly modern movie franchise 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z

But for many stars, the decision to post at all is fraught with questions about control, influence, labor and privacy. Celebrity Pregnancy Is Big Business 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

When street photographers catch their unsuspecting subjects in public spaces, some critics object that the practice is ethically fraught. Were These Photographs Voyeurism, or Art? 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Alas, in the time of corona, even touching a gas nozzle seems fraught. Great reads for the armchair traveler 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

The play is an adaptation by David Eldridge of the prominent Danish film “The Celebration,” about a fraught family gathering to celebrate a patriarch’s 60th birthday.   Arts news: New Century season, Kirkland actor in ‘Peter Pan' 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

This alliance came to a poignant peak in “A Mighty Wind,” the 2003 comedy that cast them as a folk-music duo with a fraught romantic history. ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ With Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Turning in slow motion, scanning the amusement park and the green tree-shaded park beyond, marking: the teenaged neo-punk fan, noise leaking from his ear buds; the tourist family; the fraught woman with the noisy toddler. Exclusive: An Excerpt from Valerie Plame’s Upcoming Spy Thriller 2013-05-28T19:43:55Z

Dan Wallace Miller’s staging is imaginative and extremely effective, creating a graceful courtship in the first act, a tense and fraught second act with a deadly swordfight, and a stately processional for the third. Review: Seattle Opera’s ‘The Combat’ brings tragic love story right to the audience 2017-04-02T04:00:00Z

The older they are, the more they are the product of their specific time and fraught with the misinformation of that era. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Two Books About Muslim Identity 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z

And in her most fraught, intense moments she was extraordinary. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

The question of Christmas was still slightly fraught between us. Motherlode Blog: Mixing Hanukkah and Christmas 2011-12-20T20:08:21Z

Matt Wolf, reviewing the play for The New York Times, said that Comer took a big risk making her West End debut in an “emotionally fraught solo play.” ‘Prima Facie’ and ‘My Neighbour Totoro’ Win Big at the Olivier Awards 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z

Those few minutes between the swiping of a credit card and its authorization have never felt so fraught. ‘Emily the Criminal’ Review: Survival Strategy 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

But the idea of understanding the history allows, hopefully, to make it a less fraught encounter until people move forward and understand all the context. "Sound of the Police" filmmaker tells his son, "No good can come from a police encounter" 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z

It has been a long and emotionally fraught process. A ‘Sad Kinship’ as Towns Build Memorials to Victims of Mass Shootings 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

The actor Stephanie Weeks joins Walker onstage, and the two trade off playing Houston and the women she was closest to — her mother and a longtime confidante — in scenes fraught with the stress of celebrity. Review: ‘The Whitney Album’ Looks to Theater to Remake a Painful Past 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Hollywood has long struggled to prominently feature queer characters and stories, but this representation has been especially fraught in children’s media, said Ng. Yup, Velma is a lesbian. A new film removes any doubt. 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The report also cautioned that calculating graduation rates is fraught with technical issues and that no method is ideal. Illinois high school graduation rates slump 2011-10-31T05:01:00Z

The smile is too intimate and fraught with meaning to be casually shared. The Flâneur Discovers Paris, a Step at a Time 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

I find that when the parents try to talk, the situation ends up feeling more fraught and angrier. Perspective | My 8-year-old is constantly mean to her sister. How can I correct her behavior? 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

The answer arrives 18 minutes into this gloriously fraught episode, when Chuck summons Kim to his home and accuses Jimmy of murder most foul. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2 Episode 9: The Brothers McGill 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

But they also offer a lesson in the messiness, complexities and compromises involved in any movement for social change — and the fraught politics of historical memory itself. The Complex History of the Women’s Suffrage Movement 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

In the tradition of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” and any number of Woody Allen movies, “The Perfect Host” presents the dinner party as tense and emotionally fraught. Q&A: David Hyde Pierce Will Be Your Host 2011-06-29T22:29:21Z

Take it from me, writing about your family can be fraught with headaches. Autobiographical TV: it's not worth the family drama 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z

The movie’s creation was fraught in many ways. Fellini’s “City of Women” 2016-02-20T05:00:00Z

But the fraught promotional attempts for vinyl suggest how the disconnect remains. Why Apple and Beats Should Sell Turntables 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

While they may have timed their arrival to miss the actual film festival, they brought enough drama with them to fill several fraught indie dramas. The Bachelor Watch: Fishing For Love 2012-01-24T13:18:02Z

Gerrard often drove the cramped little van through the fraught region, the diverse roster making for a mobile political statement. Alice Gerrard Didn’t Plan a Bluegrass Career. She Broke Its Glass Ceiling. 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

I am prepared to admit that motherhood today is fraught … with whatever any individual mother decides it’s fraught with. Marissa Mayer’s new job 2012-07-17T23:13:00Z

Although she said she likes to connect with her models, most of whom are artists, she occasionally worries that a relationship will “become fraught.” Female Artists Occupy Main Galleries at the New Museum 2012-06-03T03:26:52Z

The road through is dusty, bumpy and fraught with danger. Wadjda – review 2013-07-18T21:50:00Z

Since the 1940s, the racial politics surrounding “Carmen Jones” have been fraught. ‘Carmen Jones’ Is Back, and Its Director Knows What You’re Thinking 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

Because they spend more time away from you, however, nighttimes can become especially fraught. What to do when your kid can’t fall asleep without you in the room 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

Lacrosse has an image problem, deservedly or not, and it is against this fraught backdrop that Mr. Rabil has emerged onto the scene. Can This Man Make Lacrosse Sexy? 2010-10-13T21:24:00Z

But sometimes the process is more fraught, because the events a writer is chronicling are more fraught. Great Draft, Dad. I Have Some Notes. 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

This last turn of the dialectical wheel is the most fraught. A gallery owner talked herself out of the business and into the desert 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

Will readers want a pandemic novel at this fraught moment in American life? Stephen King on Lauren Beukes’s ‘Splendid’ New Thriller 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Still, even with this novel’s flaws, White remains an important writer in both his fictional and confessional tales of his own fraught era. Review: Edmund White’s ‘Our Young Man’ about a gorgeous French model 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

But in this case the choices that define the story have been predictably fraught. A New Story Told at Ground Zero 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

Mr. Grossman and Mr. Snir nest Ora’s struggles in their fraught and pessimistic context, made even a little more fraught, perhaps, by the controversy surrounding the production. Review: In Two Israeli Plays, the Promise of Peace Keeps Receding 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z

The shorter “Gustave le Gray No. 1,” to a lush and meditative piano score by Caroline Shaw, is more harmonious, less fraught. Review: At City Ballet, Bending the Form’s Rituals and Codes 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z

The play is structured around Eddie’s increasingly fraught attempts to get everybody to sit down to a meal together, like a happy clan in a 1950s sitcom. Samuel D. Hunter’s ‘Pocatello,’ With T. R. Knight 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Though the film is sometimes as fraught as the immigrant experience, in the end the ideas are so rich, the look so lovely, Ewa's journey so heartbreakingly real, even the flaws seem to suit it. Intensely moving 'Immigrant' leaves viewers unsettled 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

For Margie, the KonMari method, as it is known, is perhaps the most fraught; what among a beloved spouse’s objects would not spark joy? Super-Sorter Marie Kondo Now Has a Reality Show 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

But that first shoot, which began at the height of the pandemic, still felt fraught. Is Bilal Baig Ready for Fame? Sort Of. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

It was a fraught time, and a hungry one. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’: Who Was the Real James Herriot? 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

Real-life distancing practices meant that the basic engine of sitcoms — people in a room or a bar or an office, talking — was now fraught with angst. Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

Vreeke respects and enhances the many little shadings and shocks of this tale, with small blasts of heavy-metal music, fraught silences and tonal lighting. Review: 'Dying City' illustrates the elusive nature of closure after soldier's death 2010-03-25T21:47:00Z

He peddled off, did a U-turn and headed to the pub, where he hunched over a pint, fraught with self-doubt, while his loved ones supposed he was pedalling towards France. 10 of the most inspiring adventures of 2016 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z

But naturally any time he spends reflecting on “The Godfather” brings back a range of emotions and memories — the pain of its fraught production and the pride of its runaway success. Restoring ‘The Godfather’ to Its Original (Still Dark) Glory 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

And yet, getting in 18 holes remains fraught. Golfers say their sport is made for social distancing. Not all officials agree. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

But his weekend back at his old college is to be fraught with difficulty. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-04T14:30:01Z

As the political situation became more fraught in the run-up to the Spanish civil war, there was, said Gale, "a sense of militancy in Miró's engagement with politics". Joan Mir?'s Tate Modern show reveals the surrealist master's politics 2010-11-19T20:11:00Z

Beginning as a rom-com with all the trimmings, it intensifies into a pair of love stories — each golden in its way, each fraught with quiet fear. ‘The Brightest Thing in the World’ Review: Falling in Love, While Loving Heroin 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

But even at their most feverish and fraught, these situations are diagramed with precision and detachment. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z

The case was fraught with problems and became the basis of Rankin’s seven-part series that persuaded the authorities to reopen the case. Alabama murder mystery could be the new Serial 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z

Did those set off alarm bells with your publisher, considering the fraught history of memoirs taking liberties with facts? Derek DelGaudio and the Great Unburdening of Secrets 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

The facts are not stressful, it’s only the interpretation of them that becomes fraught. Perspective | Pictures of Robert Mueller tell the story of a man who is finally free 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Both the subject matter and the approach are fraught with danger. ‘Incitement’ Review: A Tense, Angry Reckoning With an Assassination 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Ananke’s actions and journey of self-discovery are all the more fraught given the complicated political situation. The AI in C.A. Higgins 'Radiate' poses fundamental questions 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps this choice is so fraught because our names — mine, my husband’s, our daughter’s — are functioning as proxies for not only our cultures, but ourselves. Does My Child’s Name Erase My Identity? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wuorinen’s intention, it would seem, is to suggest the fraught emotions that course within these characters, as well as the societal forces that threaten them. Review: ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ the Opera, Falls Short of Its Potential 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

From soil to bottle the process is fraught with human activity. A New Restaurant, Frenchette, Stands Up for Natural Wines 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

Plot and character mattered less to him than the ripe bit of regional speech, the fraught incident, the startling metaphor, the ingeniously shaped sentence. Barry Hannah, Darkly Comic Writer, Dies at 67 2010-03-03T16:39:00Z

His current fascination is Jerusalem — specifically, what its variegated musical traditions and its place in the European musical imagination tell us about the city’s fraught history and, perhaps, its destiny. Music Review: Jordi Savall?s ?Jerusalem? at Rose Theater 2010-05-04T21:05:00Z

The transaction is more fraught, for Janet rejected all emotional intrusion. ‘People just want a bully’ - director Mike Mills on how the US picks its president 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

The situation this year is made doubly fraught by social-media-driven boycott calls from some “Selma” supporters, who see shunning the show as payback. For Oscars Telecast, Few Black Nominees Mean Fewer Black Viewers 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Relations between scientists and military personnel are often fraught, and spouses are kept in the dark and left to their cliques and power circles — Desperate Quonset Hutwives. ‘Manh(a)ttan,’ Atomic Bomb Drama, on WGN 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Casting proved to be a drawn-out and fraught process. Review | Just in time for an updated ‘West Side Story,’ a look back at the 1961 classic 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

With an all-black crew, he sails to the icy South from a near-future much like our contemporary milieu, fraught with increasingly frequent ecological catastrophes and terrorist attacks. Fantasy set in frozen places: Graham Joyce's 'The Silent Land' and Mat Johnson's 'Pym' 2011-04-27T21:55:05Z

Ms. Ireland, on the other hand, never seems detached from her fraught character, which is all the more impressive since some sort of consoling, intelligent detachment is what the Woman longs for. Review: ‘On the Exhale’ Addresses Grief and the Attraction of an Assault Rifle 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

And the political and economic outlook is just as fraught. Newark Artists, Thriving Amid Crisis and Catharsis 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

It was fraught with posturing and missed cues, brilliant strategy and clumsy planning. Exhibition Review: ‘1812: A Nation Emerges,’ at National Portrait Gallery 2012-06-25T21:40:37Z

You’ll even detect the same age-old tension between insider and outsider, though the boundaries are a little less fraught. Along the Rio Grande, a Hot Spring and a Warm Welcome 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z

Equally important, the show addresses the fate of art from the past in a politically fraught present. 18 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z

But something about understanding that their whole relationship was going to be fraught with conflict made the whole episode into a sentence. Phil Lord and Chris Miller on Maintaining Mystery in 'The Last Man on Earth' 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Indeed, Eddie's fraught family life, overhung by his brutal, charismatic father, is at the heart of this honest and powerful novel. Eddie the King by Leo Zeilig – review 2013-03-22T17:00:01Z

The women writing these novels are only slightly impeded by the inconvenient fact that for middle-grade comedy to bloom, it must be bounced off the fraught emotions of the prepubescent. Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Holidays usually celebrated by family gatherings became fraught with consequences. One Year Together, Apart 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z

Our “desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves” are always fraught with the knowledge that the more we try to insulate ourselves from others, the more we prove those others exist. The Age of Monologues 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

The itinerant lifestyle, though, is less fraught than whatever lurks in the fame-stained recesses of Mr. Mayer’s soul, depths he is beyond game to probe and excavate. John Mayer Knows He Messed Up. He Wants Another Chance. 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

This is, needless to say, fraught terrain, and Srinivasan treads it with determination and skill. ‘The Right to Sex’ Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

I am writing to put in a plug for his FATHER--and my! the relations between these two gifted men must have been pretty fraught. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

In either case, the way ahead is fraught with peril. Why is Greece's finest young director making London his home? 2012-11-11T18:00:01Z

Yet it's fraught with difficulties as a stage play. The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable; The Machine; The Masque of Anarchy – review 2013-07-20T23:06:09Z

Coupledom, on the other hand, is and remains genuinely fraught territory. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The muscular tension and fraught distortion of the figures in Stag at Sharkey's gives them an unexpected modernity. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z

Elle Fanning is the character whose birth name was Ramona but who is well on the way to becoming Ray, a decision that, of course, is fraught with all sorts of obstacles. Review: A Teenager in Transition in ‘3 Generations’ 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

This, as a choice -- of course it’s genius today but was fraught with risks and challenges,” Hollis said Sunday morning. Box office: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' rockets to $94-million opening 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z

Few things feel as fraught, in the modern age, as the long-distance relationship. Bond Touch Bracelets and the New Frontiers of Digital Dating 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

School was an even more fraught environment, and Alexander experienced homophobic bullying from age 9. Olly Alexander Is Done With Shame 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

To an extent, this has been a fraught topic for decades, but lately the conversation has been intensifying. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z

Ruby Hamad asks in the introduction to her essay collection “White Tears/Brown Scars,” which tracks the fraught legacy of White womanhood across the globe. Review | Ruby Hamad’s essay about White women’s tears went viral. ‘White Tears/Brown Scars’ delves deeper into performative victimhood. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

It’s an extraordinary gesture, an “unspeakable gift,” fraught with emotional complications that Erdrich explores with tremendous sensitivity. Louise Erdrich’s ‘LaRose’: A gun accident sets off a masterly tale of grief and love 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Beautiful and forbidding, it is territory fraught with danger and irresistible to curious explorers. | '3 Backyards': What?s Really Beneath Those Manicured Lawns (and Suburban Smiles) 2011-03-11T02:00:47Z

Oh, I knew what I was in for: screams, gun shots, a whistling psychopath, fraught minutes in the dark and rigid postures of fear. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Comfortably Mousetrapped 2012-01-26T14:30:40Z

As the "Monster" tour went on, it became obviously notoriously fraught and stressful for health reasons. Mike Mills on R.E.M's "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" at 25: A record "infused by being on the road" 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

This has the effect of universalizing Johan and Marianne, whose shared history is as mundane and fraught as that of any long-term relationship. ‘Scenes From a Marriage,’ Adapted From Ingmar Bergman 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

And in the face of today’s fraught politics and overt racism, it marks a return to a form of economic protest from another time in America’s not-so-distant history. Buying Black, Rebooted 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

At a time when relations between our two countries are particularly fraught, an irresistible National Youth Orchestra might have provided the goodwill needed to break the ice. Venezuela youth orchestra tour is canceled, pushing Dudamel into the center of a political storm 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z

After all, visiting volcanoes is fraught with hazards. They Loved Volcanoes and Each Other 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z

Over time, she says, "even though it's a fraught term," the world began to call it "natural wine." 12 natural wines for those intimidated by natural wine 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z

Though American audiences are probably more familiar with the history of blackface, “redface” is likewise fraught territory. Johnny Depp as Tonto: Is The Lone Ranger Racist? 2013-07-03T16:31:50Z

As for your marriage and the sense it’s slipping away: I recommend trusting that you can be frayed, fraught, frazzled, all of it, and still ultimately be fine. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Stressed out and always angry, a mother feels herself losing control 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

The partnership proved fraught, as executives at the agency felt pressured by Rizvi's relentless focus on the company's cash flow, according to several accounts. Wall Street investors to Hollywood talent agencies: 'Show us the money' 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

It has been very fraught over the years and I rarely see them. Alan Davies: My family values 2013-07-26T12:00:00Z

Presumably left for the future volume are, among other fraught subjects: the 2016 election, his abdication of his own “red line” in Syria, the entrenchment of the surveillance state and a discussion of drone strikes. In ‘A Promised Land,’ Barack Obama Thinks — and Thinks Some More — Over His First Term 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

Finally, as you are upholding your boundaries and family life is feeling fraught and tense, insert fun, laughter and connection. Creating good boundaries 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Many of the awards won by men highlighted the Grammys’ fraught history with hip-hop. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

“My dad and I are in a much better place than we were 10 years ago,” he said of his fraught, at times openly competitive relationship with his father. Rufus Wainwright’s 10-Year Journey Back to Judy Garland 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z

Men, who are less likely than women to seek out individual therapy, are increasingly looking for outlets in this fraught cultural moment of political acrimony, widespread economic instability and major societal reckoning over their behavior. These Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings With You 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z

But anxiety is a particular kind of internal response to stress, and it’s frequently far more fraught. The truth about anxiety – without it we wouldn’t have hope 2019-02-02T05:00:00Z

Surely, we can anticipate a fraught cultural collision and a subsequent feel-good reconciliation, proving that even perceived adversaries have more in common than they thought. Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“There are too many people who are fraught by fear,” she continues. Krisha star Krisha Fairchild: 'I’m 65. I got no time for fear' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Erskine and Konkle are hunting for those moments of betrayal and rage that can flare up between best friends in seventh grade, perhaps to point out how similarly fraught adult friendships can be. Review | In ‘PEN15,’ two women play themselves at 13 and it’s not just another nostalgia trip 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

There’s no modernism like Viennese modernism, that amazingly fraught, conflicted efflorescence of art and thought that flared up around the turn of the 20th century. Art Review: Fin-de-Si?cle Hothouse, Plush and Neurotic 2011-02-24T23:17:57Z

Sustained woodwinds breathe a chord behind her at the beginning as she sings, between fraught pauses, about an angry, unsatisfying lover. Coi Leray Borrows a Hip-Hop Classic, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mah weaves in the fraught politics of Resistance fighters and collaborators and the tenuous nature of life under Nazi occupation. Pair these wine-centric novels with a good vintage for a taste of mystery, romance and an escape from the pandemic 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Jesse returns to Ohio at her request, and in their fraught reunion the little girl inside her cracks through the intellectually precocious shell. Movie Review: ‘Liberal Arts,’ From Josh Radnor 2012-09-13T22:06:30Z

Roach examines our sometimes fraught meetings with nature, especially when human rules are applied to nonhumans. 13 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Organizing a museum survey of feminist art can be as politically fraught as organizing a women’s march, for some of the same reasons. ‘Gender Alchemy’ Is Transforming Art for the 21st Century 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Few social situations can be more fraught than a costume party. 'I unreservedly apologise': What happens when costumes go very, very wrong 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

The two eventually form a strange, fraught bond that inspires both teenagers to open up, bit by bit, to the people around them. The best and boldest new must-read books for May 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

It was an ugly moment in the evolution of one of our deepest, most emotionally fraught metaphors for coexistence on the planet, the dynamic between the guest and the host. After tragedy in France, rethinking the dynamic of guest and host 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

That's the question that will hang over this fraught site for a long time to come, to be answered on a daily basis. Gravity's Rainbow: The 9/11 Memorial Manages a Delicate Balance Between Grief and Consolation 2011-09-09T21:00:00Z

And Mark Meadows deserves high praise for his portrait of Dean Jocelin: in a crisply articulated performance he moves skilfully from a state of missionary enthusiasm to one of fraught disillusion. The Spire – review 2012-11-12T12:23:08Z

The novel emerges as especially nuanced when the girls must work through occasional self-doubt and a fraught incident in their friendship. Review | Four new books to inspire young readers 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z

People always seem to be offering Joan contradictory, poetically fraught advice about how to live. Review: In ‘Joan,’ a Photographer Tries to Focus Her Past 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Things became so fraught that Burnside would watch their movements out of the window, so that she didn’t put the bins out at the same time. Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

"Sound of the Police" shows many fraught interactions Black citizens have had with the police. "Sound of the Police" filmmaker tells his son, "No good can come from a police encounter" 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z

Instead, it reiterated support for those working to give a full accounting of the past to the general public “at “a particularly fraught moment in our civic life.” Historians Criticize Moms for Liberty Event at Museum in Philadelphia 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

The story of their fraught relationship with the Catholic establishment is also a story about power in religion and the creation of orthodoxy. Books to Watch Out For: December 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Their shelf life is perilously short, their seasons difficult to predict, and shipping them is fraught with obstacles—not least of which is rampant fraud. How a Texas Teen-Ager Became New York City’s Premier Truffle Dealer 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z

Six years ago, Dunst was the toast of Cannes – winning best actress for fraught, gutsy work in Lars von Trier’s Melancholia – only to see the US awards parade pass her by months later. The 10 film performances that deserve more awards attention this year 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

This is already an emotionally fraught occasion, at least one member of the celebrating family is not present. 'Festen': Shocking revelations and a 4-star review 2011-05-06T19:58:49Z

The church has a long, fraught history with the Targaryens, who worshiped different gods when they came conquering. ‘House of the Dragon’: Who Is Otto Hightower, and Why Does He Matter? 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

Sometimes fraught exchanges between singers are prodded along by stubbornly repetitive instrumental riffs. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z

It’s the moment in which I was invited to make art, but it’s also the most difficult, fraught, complicated moment in theater history. After ‘Clyde’s,’ Lynn Nottage Just Has Two Shows Onstage. ‘Whew!’ 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z

“He’s not exactly Johnny Basketball,” Greg says, trying to lighten increasingly fraught discussions. Theater Review: In ‘A Kid Like Jake,’ the Title Character Worries His Mother 2013-06-18T02:00:15Z

But the Gurlitt collection is even more fraught than other disputes. Germany to Continue Funding to Establish Provenance of Looted Art 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

What ensues is an account of the fraught, often near-violent, relationship between ethnic Estonians and the ethnic Russian minority within that country. What Trained Bears Can Teach Us About Formerly Authoritarian Countries 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

At 43, Moayed is a million miles from the fraught reality of that frightened child. Arian Moayed Plays Creepy Men for Thoughtful Reasons 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z

The problem is that some of the music seems like a music-school assignment, feels fraught with pride. Music Review: Chris Thile and His Bluegrass Quintet at Caramoor 2010-07-05T21:56:00Z

I was trying to go back and understand how all of these things could be so fraught with each other. "My dad had a secret rage problem that only we could see": Author Erin Hosier on "Don't Let Me Down" 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

"African Queens" dances into more fraught territory by presenting a straighter historic dramatization. The question isn't why cast a Black Cleopatra but rather why not profile another African queen? 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

But when an author is no longer alive, the posthumous revision process can be more fraught. As Classic Novels Get Revised for Today’s Readers, a Debate About Where to Draw the Line 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z

I think that, at this moment, there is such a sense that every word is fraught and every word can lock you into something. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z

The idea of great men is necessarily more complicated and fraught than it was when this memorial was conceived. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

No wonder the film felt strained – it had an agenda as fraught as the AGM of a failing company. Non-stop action: why Hollywood’s ageing heroes won’t give up 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Motherhood is messy and complicated and fraught with hasty, on the fly choices made by completely exhausted people. Miranda Kerr knows “best” for baby 2012-07-13T21:00:00Z

Few questions are more fraught than those suggested by the veil. A woman’s place in the Middle East? For some, it’s behind a camera. 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Degas’s relationship to modernity was more complex and fraught. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

The issue of whether those older Graham dances were originally like what we’re seeing now is a fraught one. Review: Looking for Martha Graham in Her Company’s Dance Steps 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

A subset in the Anthology series deals with another kind of fraught bond — family — but the urge to preserve heritage and history overshadows potential conflict. A Single Voice, a Single Face, a Single Story 2011-08-06T20:13:02Z

For many people of color, getting close to white people feels fraught, leaving us on edge or even vulnerable. Writing the White Boyfriend: How today's love stories are revising interracial romance tropes 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z

Did that make the end of filming “The Fabelmans” more fraught, because it was the last experience you’d really have with the character? Meet the Newer, Bolder Michelle Williams 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

Though the play is ostensibly about one boy’s fraught survival after a disaster, that story is somewhat thin. ‘Life of Pi’ Review: A Boy and a Tiger, Burning Brightly 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

The path for women, especially women of color, is fraught, he added. Punk Rock’s New Hope: The Ferocious, Joyful Linda Lindas 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z

Of all the relationships we have our the course of our lives, one of the most enduring and fraught is the one we have with our stuff. How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z

The story of a fraught courtship, the film presents performers who, amid widespread segregation, vibrantly asserted their art. Movie Listings for Jan. 8-14 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

But for women who are disabled, leaving is even more fraught. William Hurt and the silent epidemic of abuse 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z

Because children this age have limited language, too much parental talk tends to add frustration to an already fraught situation, so I don’t recommend trying to be rational or “talking her out of” being upset. Perspective | How do I deal with a 2-year-old who has tantrums? 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

One may well wonder how a quick swoon on the sofa became so fraught. This Thanksgiving, It’s Time to Stop Nap-Shaming 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z

Gen Z has a fraught relationship with, well, relationships. A disastrous "Love is Blind" season asks: Does Gen Z really believe in marriage? 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z

In the same way, Brown’s name is being subsumed by protesters focusing attention on the fraught relationship between black Americans and law enforcement. Ferguson is now a symbol, not a place

As technology writer Roisin Kiberd recently pointed out, Tinder has a “subtly dehumanising effect… it turns relationships – already fraught with neurosis – into a transactional game played by the atomised and lonely”. Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z

This time, Biden’s Valentine’s Day decorations come at a particularly fraught time for her husband’s administration. Jill Biden decorates White House with Valentine’s Day hearts for second year in a row 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

As the relationship between the two characters grows more intimate and more fraught, Melville offers a capsule history of Vichy as framework and metaphor. DVD: Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God 2011-07-22T05:27:59Z

I step into this fraught debate only to say this: Everyone is wrong. Pineapple on pizza is actually good — you've just been eating it wrong 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z

Carnival this year is an opportunity fraught with risk. Notting Hill carnival: fraught with risk, but the show goes on 2011-08-19T16:55:04Z

In a clash that highlights the fraught legal landscape facing some transgender people, a man in Georgia is fighting against a judge’s refusal to allow him to legally change his name. What rights do transgender people have to change their name? 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

Although 21 Savage was released 10 days later, his circumstances highlighted the fraught circumstances that both black people and immigrants face in America. Six months after ICE arrest, 21 Savage raps his redemption 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

Artists themselves often romanticize their fraught early years: Patti Smith’s memoir “Just Kids” and the various versions of the busker’s tale “Once” show how powerful this can be. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z

The relationship that develops between these two cagey outcasts is fraught with mystery and suspicion — and a degree of grudging affection that never slips into sentimentality. Review | The tale of a disaffected teen on the run from a crime he didn’t commit 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z

They create, as they must, a sustained, fraught dialogue within their characters and with their physically absent spouses. | 'Three Hotels': Marital Bankruptcy Filed in Faraway Places 2011-07-03T19:09:30Z

“It deals with the fraught relationship between Ukraine and Russia in the realm of religion, but also touches on geopolitics, culture and art.” Canvases, Clay and Cameras, Preserving the Spirit of Ukraine 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Times art critic Christopher Knight has a powerful essay on the subject of removing these fraught civic monuments. Essential Arts & Culture: 'Hamilton' opens, the debate over Confederate monuments, Mozart reimagined 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

She plays Amber Appleton, a high school student balancing homelessness and a fraught family life with her dreams of becoming a singer and enrolling at Carnegie Mellon University. Auli’i Cravalho on Her New Netflix Drama and the Smell of Wet Dog 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

The safety protocols come at a fraught time for Broadway, which is attempting to rebound after the longest shutdown in its history. Broadway Audiences Will Need Proof of Vaccination and Masks 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

Though complicated and sometimes fraught, these transformations can also feel organic: They apply the ideals of creative practice to administrative practice. Dance’s Communal Ethos Is Moving Into the Office and Boardroom 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

“The book is fraught, forensic, lyrical, and fierce, at long last searching the soul of the modern Secret Intelligence Service itself,” he said. Posthumous John le Carré novel to be published in October 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z

The writing of a biography — a fraught and invasive endeavor — is especially complicated when the subject is not only still living but continues to wield influence. Jann Wenner and His Biographer Have a Falling Out 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z

The legendary former editor of Vogue got her way, but Hollywood’s relationship to the larger fashion world remained fraught. | Los Angeles, Where the Wild Things Are 2013-08-20T18:49:15Z

Mr. Park’s own work reflects the various structures born of Korea’s politically fraught history. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Through a Filmmaker's Lens, a View of Korea 2011-06-17T15:17:02Z

That question can be especially fraught with culinary school, where tuitions are usually high but starting wages for restaurant workers tend to be low. A Fast, Frugal Track to a Cook’s Career? Community College. 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

“Lindsay” is, by far, OWN’s splashiest effort and, naturally, its most fraught. Television Review: Following Lindsay Lohan After Her Latest Rehab 2014-03-10T21:29:04Z

Hemon also continued to write about people, like himself, who were caught between two worlds, looking strangely at the new one while the old one remained fraught and internally present. Nowhere man 2013-02-23T08:00:16Z

But it has been a fraught, hard road, one that Kohen details from both on stage and behind the scenes. If You Love ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ You’ll Love These Books 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

To get to a point where they felt comfortable tackling such a fraught debate, Heyvaert and Softley had to go through a rite of passage of their own. Girl X: An actor? In a wheelchair? 2011-04-11T20:59:01Z

For them, the holiday season is particularly fraught. How to make sure your donated items aren’t burdening charities 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z

The mementos range from the mundane — such as a pair of white dress shoes, which came with a note reading, “She tried to impose her fashion sensibilities on me” — to the emotionally fraught. When Relationships Fail, This Museum Keeps the Stuff Left Behind 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

Although its settlers arrived on the sister ship to the Mayflower, relations between the two settlements were rather fraught. Pirates, Runaways, Smugglers and the Occasional Aristocrat 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

In a fraught public sphere, headphones provide a measure of privacy. My Headphones, My Self 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

Rhaenyra's pursuit of the throne may be fraught with difficulties, but she is a dragon-rider, and dragons were the most fearsome military asset in the kingdom. HBO’s "House of the Dragon" was inspired by a real medieval dynastic struggle over a female ruler 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

The nifty little thriller "Closer to God" tells the what-if story of the first human cloning and its fraught aftermath. 'Closer to God's' cloning thriller a modern-day 'Frankenstein' 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

As you note, I’m definitely drawn to writing about class, I suppose because it’s fraught. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on the Elegant Comedy of Hypocrisy 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

It was interesting to go home and read more from our country's point of view and perhaps have a more rounded picture of the, at times fraught history, between our two countries. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

It is unsurprising, then, that English translations of the Koran are so fraught. ‘American Qur’an’ is an old/new masterpiece 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

He has his own fraught, duplicitous relationship with an Israeli military officer. ‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Review: Mideast Conflict as Soap Opera and Farce 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

Perhaps it's meant to, although you would have thought such fraught imagery might be unsuitable for a major urban development. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-19T14:34:45Z

“Mitko” would later become the opening section of “What Belongs to You,” which expanded on the story of an American teacher’s fraught relationship with a hustler picked up in a public bathroom. Garth Greenwell Comes Clean 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z

Unsolicited visits from her landlord and his estranged wife, however, invite troubling conversations and memories of her flawed marriage and fraught relationship with her grown daughter, Aurelia, a perennially recovering addict. New Books by Ivan Doig, Ayelet Waldman and Lily King 2010-07-14T22:50:00Z

A chronicle of her fraught relationship with Argentina’s military dictatorship and her painful exile abroad in the ’70s are recalled, often in her own words, but there is no overview. Movie Review: ‘Mercedes Sosa,’ About a Voice for the Oppressed 2014-01-24T00:23:48Z

This is one of the many questions asked by comic Chris Rock in this funny, incisive, eye-opener of a documentary about the complex and ideologically fraught state of black women's hair in today's US. Film review: Good Hair 2010-06-24T21:30:00Z

It’s about a particular family in a particularly fraught situation — sitting shiva for the father. Inside the Times 100: Corey Stoll 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

I've been thinking recently about the genre of travel writing, because it's such a fraught genre. Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z

And the specific nature of our own history — especially some of the more fraught and unresolved aspects of it — tends to get expressed in ghost stories quite often. America is haunted: “I felt for the first time the weight of the lives that had been lived in these places” 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ohno’s solo performances, for which he was known, were irresistibly powerful and fraught with ambiguity. Obituaries: Kazuo Ohno, a Founder of Japanese Butoh, Dies at 103 2010-06-02T03:25:00Z

At a time of great political change, it became a fraught task. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. culture after the riots, a stirring Beethoven concert, controversial Carl Andre 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

These new episodes are most effective when they reframe the divide to examine the potent, fraught bond between parents and children, mainly mothers and their sons and daughters. Where did the "Big Little Lies" spark go? 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

The court case in the story is an especially fraught one, because it involves an Arab hit-and-run driver and a Jewish child. This Week in Fiction: Etgar Keret 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

How wonderful it is to watch Walton build that complexity, starting with Opal’s fraught music industry debut. Review | ‘The Final Revival of Opal & Nev’ is a dazzling debut full of unforgettable characters 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

She depicts her characters much the way the chorus of male narrators in Jeffrey Eugenides’s “The Virgin Suicides” imagines the Lisbon sisters, building a shrine to girlhood, everything ominous and fraught. The Bodily Terror of Women’s Gymnastics 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z

Whip in Flight is defined by many things: by his alcoholism and his heroism and his fraught relationship with his teenage son. Denzel Washington: 'I don't want movie-star friends' 2013-01-24T13:05:52Z

The connection is fraying, the conversations are fraught. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Stressed out and always angry, a mother feels herself losing control 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z

Any effort to borrow ancient art from South Asia is fraught, even in the best of times. Art Review: When East Met West Under the Buddha?s Gaze 2011-08-10T23:20:02Z

Vidal wrote not just one but two autobiographies, ran twice for public office, and practically took up residence on television for a while, in settings both relaxed and fraught. Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than Illuminates 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

Healing can be an arduous and frustrating road, a process fraught with setbacks and fear and the intense pressure to just get over it and be our old selves again. Welcome to the age of cancer rehab 2013-01-29T20:57:00Z

She uses these places, their complex histories and fraught present, as lenses through which to look at her own nation. A Journalist Abroad Grapples With American Power 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z

He seems anxious, if not anguished: fraught with pent-up emotion. Entranced by Donatello 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Bibliocide seems particularly painful in this fraught era of banned books. We’re drowning in old books. But getting rid of them is heartbreaking. 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z

Yet, in the annals of anonymity, nothing seems quite as fraught, quite as intriguing or quite as dangerous as the whistleblower. Washington is again captivated by an anonymous source. It’s different now. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

In Ms. Simpson’s dazzling debut novel “Anywhere but Here,” it was a girl’s emotionally fraught relationship with her impossible mother that carved the fundamental contours of her life. Books of The Times: Nanny Runs the Show in Mona Simpson?s ?My Hollywood? 2010-08-09T18:02:00Z

This followed the emergence of a video of the country star Morgan Wallen using a racial slur, which spurred a fraught dialogue around race and racial equity within the genre that is still ongoing. Can Luke Combs, Country’s Everyman, Grow Up Without Losing Touch? 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z

A move is never easy, and when it involves downsizing a parent, it is even more fraught. Perspective | A professional organizer shares ways to downsize an aging parent, without the drama 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z

Feldman does not discuss the elder statesman’s role in the fraught nullification crisis of the late 1820s and early 1830s, but it’s only a further example of Madison’s political flexibility. James Madison’s Zigzag Path 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

The secret, underdeveloped heart of my psychosomatic being – still fraught with danger, still hedged around in thorns – had been torn out and thrown quivering before me, in full public view. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

“The novel is about class rather than gender: people passing themselves off as something they’re not. The film is more about colonialism: that very fraught relationship between Korea and Japan.” Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z

For all its benevolence, “Ancestor” is provocative; it makes a case for universalism at a time when such thinking is fraught and on the political defensive globally. Now Visiting From India, an ‘Ancestor’ for Everyone 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z

Now, though, the committees who decide these issues will be forced to begin meetings as long and fraught as the coalition talks themselves. Question Time 2010-05-13T07:00:00Z

He was reflecting the truth that how we express identity in virtual worlds is actually a fraught and complicated question disguised as an amusing game of diversion. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

They rummage through the past, searching the caverns of a fraught relationship, to keep Alice present. Hidden horrors: our writers on the scariest movies you (probably) haven't seen 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

But I was a teenage girl in America, so I already had a fraught relationship with food and my body. Food allergies are on the rise — are they causing an increase in eating disorders? 2023-07-23T04:00:00Z

The film is about the fraught relationship between a single mother and her child, which ends in tragedy. Turkey's art house film-makers hope for further success 2012-11-02T13:23:50Z

Wilson sets this kind of listener against another kind of pop consumer who may engage in a less fraught relationship with music. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z

Do you have a personally fraught relationship with technology? Miranda July faces "The Future" 2011-07-27T00:30:00Z

“Step” manages to tell both stories in under 90 minutes, with a city rived by the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody as its fraught backdrop. Review: In ‘Step,’ Baltimore Teenagers on the Cusp of Womanhood 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

Many were sanguine about the fraught intersection of race, media and law enforcement. Rupert Murdoch Is a ‘Big Feminist,’ Says His Wife, Jerry Hall 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

For someone like me, so guarded yet so longing for connection, it was fraught with peril. I miss playing music 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The overall effect, many promoters say, only adds to the already fraught relationship among fans, rap artists and law enforcement. Rap Concert Shooting Renews a Racially Charged Debate on Safety 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s also an image fraught with political meaning about what a wall — and specifically the planned U.S.-Mexico border wall hailed as “beautiful” by our current president — should be and do. What’s That on the Met’s Roof Garden? A Big, Beautiful Wall 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

Fighting gave her a focus through her teenage years, but struggling with weight limits for judo tournaments fostered a fraught relationship with food and, for a time, bulimia. Ronda Rousey’s Next Fight: Body Image in Hollywood 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

He said under normal conditions he would be moving toward a relationship, but he couldn’t allow himself to do so when everything was so fraught and uncertain. My Quarantine Boyfriend Lost Everything (but Found Me) 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

What's interesting is that through Tope, he formulates a language, albeit a fraught language, that gradually builds to an understanding and supportive situation. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

And behind the book lies another fraught question: Who should write the story of Native America, and how? A Finnish Scholar Wants to Change How We See American History 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z

It’s a fraught arrangement at best, one that has led many great musicians, including those in the indie rock band Cymbals Eat Guitars, to contemplate abandoning the dream altogether. Pop & Rock Listings for Sept. 9-15 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Its driving force may seem topical, but the story’s heart is timeless: the harmony between longtime friends, and Veronica and Bailey throw themselves into even the most fraught situations with giddy enthusiasm. ‘Unpregnant’ Review: Friendship Is a Long and Winding Road 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Everything feels fraught because in his young mind, it is. Their 5-year-old is aggressive and quick to blame. What to do? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Performing at a presidential inauguration, once viewed as a banal honor, became a fraught gig in 2017. How we ended up vetting celebrities as carefully as politicians 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The term “disability” suggests a fraught relationship between the person it describes and the objects and institutions through which he or she must navigate. Becoming Disabled 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

So why attach an old, potentially fraught label to a new group that can stand on its own? MTV Searches for ‘Jersey Shore’ Magic on the Florida Panhandle 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

His 1983 percussion concerto, “Rough Music,” intersperses delicate lines on tuned instruments with explosions of rhythmic and dynamic high jinks, entertaining yet fraught with desperately serious undertones. Masterful maverick HK Gruber leads thrilling program | Classical review 2013-04-19T16:44:35Z

Occasionally the narrator’s circling obsession with food weighs down the narrative, but the overall effect conveys how fraught basic functioning can be for Willa, who feels she fits in nowhere. Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

A lot of the time it was a bit of both, and Chatelain navigates that fraught space with clarity and compassion. Times Critics Discuss 2020 in Books, From ‘Pandemic Blur’ to Favorite Discoveries 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z

It’s a tantalizing image from a historical moment fraught with scientific possibility and geopolitical peril. A Rifle-Wielding Nun, a Medical Student and a Crackling World War I Tale 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

I think that the movies are all fraught with ambiguity. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z

He battles internal demons — his writing, his fraught relationship with his parents — and the very real scourge of poverty. 'An American Type': Henry Roth's monumental saga concludes, thanks to a New Yorker editor 2010-07-07T20:48:00Z

Together, sometimes in amusing counterpoint, the Book and Benny chronicle his journey during the fraught year 2016, when he turns 14. Review | If a book could talk, what would it say? Ruth Ozeki has some ideas. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

As an artist, Finley sees herself as a "historical recorder" and says that art's response to current events provides a lens through which humanity can view fraught situations or issues. For Karen Finley, Jackie O. is for outrage in 'The Jackie Look' 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z

“Constellations” is about, among other things, how inevitably fraught and imperfect communication is, even with people closest to you. ‘Constellations,’ With Jake Gyllenhaal and Ruth Wilson, Opens on Broadway 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The action around her is enigmatic and fraught with mysticism. ‘The Burial of Kojo’ Review: A Dazzling Modern Fable 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

The last years leading up to his death “were very, very fraught,” she said. In Orlando, 25 Mysterious Basquiats Come Under the Magnifying Glass 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z

The sudden influx of variations on Breaking Bad’s theme indicate that the public taste for these fraught power-reclamation arcs is far from expiring. Men behaving badly: how the white middle-class everyman became 2017's antihero 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z

A Solid Rock of the Ages, Mixing New and Vintage Pearl Jam began its first encore at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night with a portrait of ailment, fraught with emotion. Music Review: Pearl Jam on Tour at Madison Square Garden 2010-05-21T22:57:00Z

There is none, in this book or in Flint, where life is episodic, untethered, fraught with Faustian bargains, structural injustices and tangled lives that are “hobbled by the past.” Review | In ‘Standpipe,’ David Hardin offers poignant, fleeting reflections on the Flint water crisis 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z

One winter afternoon in 1992, before a particularly fraught shoot, I watched his mood sour as the photographer, who had arrived late, spent untold amounts of time setting up fancy black draping. When Merce Cunningham Took On a New Collaborator: The Computer 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z

The dispute provides a window into the complex, often fraught dynamics of City Ballet, a close-knit company in which relatives, spouses and romantic partners often share a workplace. A Dancer’s Farewell, Not as Choreographed 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

Eastern time, what appeared to be her entire eighth album, “Anti,” had leaked online, another misstep in an already fraught rollout. Rihanna’s New Album ‘Anti’ Is Leaked Online 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z

Every year it’s one of the most fraught decisions in Washington: How to respond to the State of the Union? It’s the worst job in politics. But somebody has to do it. 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z

The filmmaker Beth B was 13 in 1969, the year the fraught event occurred that would become a family secret. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Will and El also experience emotionally fraught scenes with Mike this season and vent through tears their disappointments over his supposed lack of interest. Will Byers on "Stranger Things" was always going to be gay 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z

Still, “Scream’”s final chapters, dealing with her beloved mother’s death, are harrowing and heartrending, as are nearly all of the sections about their often fraught but enduring and loving relationship. Tama Janowitz memoir 'Scream' is strangely lacking; Elizabeth Hand reviews 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z

Here is a portrait of gender far more fluid, fraught — and beautiful — than man versus woman. Dance Review: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo at the Joyce 2012-12-21T22:29:13Z

While not strictly autobiographical, the story stems from Mr. Colfer’s fraught upbringing. The Many Hats of Chris Colfer 2012-12-21T21:10:46Z

The View on the Way Downby Rebecca Wait But writing about mental illness of any kind is fraught with danger. The View on the Way Down by Rebecca Wait – review 2013-04-13T10:31:01Z

It’s worth contrasting that devotion to that of other filmmakers who are similarly absorbed in classic movies: Jean-Luc Godard’s is fraught with guilt; Martin Scorsese’s is burdened by painful tests of faith. The Brian De Palma Conundrum 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

That this foreign white girl — one performing in a put-on dialect — was achieving such meteoric success in one of the most racially fraught moments in American history swiftly became an unavoidable sore point. Iggy Azalea tries for a comeback: Can she recover from her rapid fall from pop culture grace? 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Jaden’s journey back to his lost self is believably fraught, but flashes of humor lighten the whole. ‘Half a World Away,’ by Cynthia Kadohata

This also means that the institution touches on one of the most politically fraught aspects of the natural history museum’s heritage. Museum Review: The Natural History Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City 2012-03-23T22:08:01Z

Giving a compliment based specifically on weight is so fraught. Carolyn Hax: Stranger asks if cheering for obese co-worker is appropriate 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

In New York, Ben and Kate’s relationship grows more serious and more fraught in equal measure. A Heroine Who Lives at Once in Elizabethan England and 21st-Century New York 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

How did the joke become so fraught, so potentially combustible? We can’t take a joke anymore: The inflated dangers of pushing the envelope and crossing the line 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z

Reminiscent of De Chirico’s depictions of empty plazas, it seems fraught with some unknown, perhaps unknowable, import, like a dream. Vilhelm Hammershoi’s Paintings at Scandinavia House 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

At its best, especially in the brutal episodes in which the terrorists storm the house, unhinged by resentment and hostility, the music is fraught, gnashing and blazingly orchestrated. Review: ‘Bel Canto’ Opera Arrives at an Unsettling Time 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

It is, in essence, a debate play with fraught emotional underpinnings, and it doesn’t avoid the stasis of that genre. Theater Review: ‘Mothers and Sons,’ an AIDS Tale Starring Tyne Daly 2014-03-25T02:00:01Z

And the change felt both fresh and a little fraught. The Kennedy Center Honors felt different, and it was all because of ‘Hamilton’ 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Her experience has made her an outspoken supporter of immigration as well as government support for those out of work or on low incomes — a fraught subject in Britain. She Was About to Quit Acting. Then She Got the Role of a Lifetime. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z

When the fiery Carla turns up unexpectedly from his past, Robert must choose between convention and the fraught path of love and freedom. The A-Z of Gore Vidal 2012-08-01T19:00:06Z

That single word, often freighted and fraught with the worst racist horrors of a whole region when it comes out of a white Southern mouth. The all of “y’all”: On finally embracing my voice, country twang and everything 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

The whole donation process — which did ultimately succeed — was a little fraught, then. Review: Mike Albo Makes a Biological (and Emotional) Journey in ‘Spermhood’ 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z

This year’s biggest moneymaker in the South Korean box office and that country’s entry for best international feature at the 2022 Oscars, “Escape from Mogadishu,” is a based-on-a-true-story thriller whose pleasures are fraught. ‘Escape From Mogadishu’ Review: Conflict Abroad 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

As he grew, Christopher Robin’s relationship to the books and the father who made him famous became more fraught, and he struggled to break free of the public’s fixation on his young bob-haired self. ‘The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh’ is a honey pot of nostalgia 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z

Because while the rules differ over time and between towns, they seem to share a general direction — and that is not in the direction of making things less frantic or fraught for parents. Motherlode: The End-of-School-Year Scramble 2011-05-31T15:33:22Z

There is something torrid in cinema’s ability to overpower the spectator with feeling, and the experience is all the more fraught for black viewers. Can we Trust the Beauty of Barry Jenkins’s “If Beale Street Could Talk”? 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

The three series gathered in this Morton Fine Arts show are quite different, but all address Williams’s fraught relationship with the sea. In the galleries: No day at the beach 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

It must have been fraught to act out those arguments between French and Inez in front of Elegance, who really lived them. Jeremy Pope Is Telling Himself ‘Yes’ 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z

A fraught orchestral transition leads to the second scene, and the way Mr. Levine conducted this music, it seemed like the epitome of pulsing, daring 20th-century modernism. Opera Review: Matthias Goerne Fills In as Lead at the Met 2014-03-07T22:34:23Z

“I try to avoid situations that are going to be fraught with peril,” she says. Dog traveling with you over the holidays? Know your petiquette. 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Donald Trump’s fraught history with Native Americans continues to resonate here. Liquid genocide: alcohol destroyed Pine Ridge reservation – then they fought back 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

The imposition of an “official flag” is part of a bitter decades-long conflict in Northern Ireland that was itself deeply fraught with symbols and signs. Should There Be an Emoji for Everything? 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z

The body is fresh, the clues thin on the ground and the case is fraught with political complications. Fall books: 37 new titles to add to your reading list 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

His process, which involves sloshing, slapping, flinging, and blowing chemicals through a straw, yields abstract works that tackle the subject of atomic radiation through transformation, dilution, and chance—in short, the fraught process of inheritance. What a Japanese-American Artist Inherited from the Atomic Bomb 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

She tore into fraught phrases, one moment leaping to high notes that blazed with steely sound and power, then the next dipping down to smoky, throbbing low tones. Review: A Soaring Soprano Helps Bel Canto at Caramoor Say Farewell 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

Casting decisions are always fraught in the dance world, given the intense competition for plum roles. Peter Martins Left City Ballet a Year Ago. But He’s Not Entirely Gone. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

That fraught night beautifully establishes all the key personalities in this story, inspired by the life of the author’s great-aunt. Life with a medical condition that once changed lives permanently 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z

This year is marked by a fraught primary between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Peace among the Hillary-bots and Bernie-bros: This Thanksgiving, it’s not your right-wing Trump-loving uncle you have to worry about… 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

As depicted by Thomson, it’s a fraught moment. How the four Warner brothers built a movie empire that conquered the world 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

Their conversations are as taught and fraught as any mother-son chats, with the added toxicity of Bill's criminal disease. Life During Wartime: The Year's Best Indie Film 2010-07-25T21:45:00Z

Ever since he started on the Trump beat, Acosta has known that such events can be fraught. ‘I wouldn’t go to your work and flip you off’: CNN’s Jim Acosta engages Trump Nation 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

My relationship with the music is no longer quite so intense, but it's certainly fraught with memory. Closer to Curtis 2010-05-18T11:25:00Z

Over time, the couple’s bond deepens from a fraught, erotic connection into a meaningful relationship — which is then challenged upon the arrival of the artist’s Christian mother. Edie Falco and Alan Cumming Announced in New Group’s Lineup 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z

Limón is just starting to think about a project she might pursue, but she has ideas about how poetry can help at such a fraught time in the United States. Ada Limón Is Named the Next Poet Laureate 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

Set in the early 1960s, when the procedure was criminalized in France, it arrives in the United States at a fraught moment, with the Supreme Court seemingly poised to overturn Roe v. ‘Happening’ Review: An Abortion Story, an Existential Drama 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Firestone’s cheerful support and everyone’s overall good nature are welcome reminders that stand-up comedy is not merely a fraught and disingenuous battleground for podcast hosts. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

So when covid made the step of convening in a studio fraught with anxiety, the trio just continued working on tracks remotely. Saint Etienne looks to the past but limits the nostalgia 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

Like Luiselli, who translated for refugee children, the narrator involves herself in the immigration proceedings of kids with fraught histories and uncertain futures. Review | An author delivers a powerful plea for migrant children 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Stitching together the pieces, Barry Kleinbort’s witty libretto, read mostly by Mr. Skinner, related the history of Berlin’s often fraught relationship with Hollywood and emphasized his hard-nosed business acumen. Review: ‘All Dancing! All Singing! Irving Berlin in Hollywood,’ a Lighter-Than-Air Revue 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

This was a fraught moment in the process. ‘Like a Romance’: Laura Linney and Jessica Hecht’s Spring Fling Onstage 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z

I write to make a small, gentle point that could be of help in our fraught times. Thomas Mann, Guilty Pleasures and Other Letters to the Editor 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

The tactic worked, but their relationship is still fraught. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

That he began with a diary and finds himself returning to the form creates an arc that ties together his fraught and farcical art and life. David Sedaris on his new book, 'Theft by Finding' 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

When the book turns to the subject of H.M. himself, it becomes more unsettling — and also more fraught. ‘Patient H.M.’ Recalls the Story of a Surgery That Took a Man’s Memories 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z

He is a master of intimate dread, at moving his camera past the comfort zone into psychic and visual territory fraught with danger and shame. Movie Review: ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume II,’ the Rest of von Trier’s Story 2014-04-03T23:45:12Z

Bhattacharya shows how this unabashedly forthright treatment of “morally fraught matters” earned von Neumann a reputation for hawkishness, as did his support for the logic of “preventive war.” ‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z

It didn’t, but a working knowledge of the fraught Anglo-American partnership remains crucial to understanding the European conflict. How the U.S. Won the War Against Japan 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z

Both say that it wasn’t awkward, and that their existing relationship buoyed them through potentially fraught transitional moments.. A New Lease With More Space Than They Needed 2020-05-09T04:00:00Z

In the end, it's not the fate of the farm but the critical plaudits for this film that bring optimistic closure to an immigrant story fraught with conflict and ambiguity. "Minari" cultivates the grief and bittersweet allure of America's unfulfilled promise 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z

In 2014, the gowns are objectively gorgeous pieces of emotionally fraught couture. Historic Mourning Clothes on View at the Costume Institute 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

And because they’re social minefields: “It’s fraught on a bunch of dimensions,” she says. In 2020, back-to-school shopping means frantically searching for other families to ‘bubble up’ with 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z

Now a successful lawyer, Lex prepares for a fraught family reunion, where things seem bound to go disastrously wrong. Review | Five new thrillers offer guilt-free distraction 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

But for Mr. Thompson, those first several years at “S.N.L.” were fraught with anxiety and intimidation. Kenan Thompson, the Reluctant Star of ‘Saturday Night Live’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

I have always had a fraught relationship with cats. Cat Girl? A Kinder, Gentler Superhero Comic 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z

In the context of this racially fraught moment in Brazil, she reads as political statement. An Enthralling Show of Afro-Atlantic History Illuminates Brazil 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Discussing these issues over the past week, I have been reminded of how fraught with divisiveness they can be. My bad sex wasn’t rape 2013-03-22T23:00:00Z

"Sick hamsters, a fraught road trip, and a King Kong-esque climax atop Blackpool Tower" are promised. Alexander Armstrong hits back at 'tribal aversion' to posh comics 2013-05-14T15:04:06Z

Writing about the racial past for a modern audience is fraught with challenges, especially when the writing is fiction and the subject matter remains deeply present. A novel about police brutality in 1948 Atlanta that sounds eerily relevant today 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

For the 23 volunteers standing on top of a tall tower in Texas, the wind injected a little extra anxiety into an already fraught situation. What does it really feel like to fall out of a building? 2013-05-25T22:30:00Z

The teeming neighborhood is also a beacon for a city fraught with discontent. Next Time You're in Athens 2011-01-06T09:05:00Z

In a world fraught with more danger than Donald Trump's candidacy, such unthinking actions are not only preposterous, they are deadly. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 12: Your Child Is Your Child 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

This is a skill that is, perhaps, more high stakes now than ever, given this highly fraught cultural moment, as fashion begins to grapple with its own history of racism. Matthew Williams, Collaborator of Kanye West and Lady Gaga, Is Givenchy’s New Designer 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Pope Francis on Sunday extended an olive branch to China, urging the Communist Party-ruled nation which has fraught relations with the Vatican to pursue a formal dialogue to benefit both sides. Pope, in South Korea, extends another olive branch to China 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z

But putting a virtually untried performer on such an iconic platform was a move fraught with potential pitfalls. As ?SNL? season ends, signs of a coming shift 2012-05-16T04:30:00Z

Into this fraught atmosphere waltzes Parker, a full-of-himself young doctor eager to make his mark. Psychological Thrillers That Will Mess With Your Head 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

This is what happens when a person watches Fox News all day on one of the most fraught election days in our lifetime – even more so than in 2016. Fox News was in a "purple haze" on election night until Trump's wild claims gave them clarity 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z

The movie, which is seeking U.S. distribution, also has inescapable echoes of the violence in Ferguson, Mo., as fraught relations with the police only worsen a bleak situation. 'Tales of the Grim Sleeper' documentary looks at L.A. slaying suspect 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

She had a fraught relationship with Sutton and stopped speaking to Hunter for close to a decade; the siblings’ connection with their father suffered as a result. For Sutton Foster, Crochet Is a Survival Tactic 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Internal emails and interviews about the matter also offer new insight into the fraught newsroom dynamics that led to Yore’s downfall from one of the most prestigious jobs in public radio. Inside WAMU’s long struggle to dismiss a suspected sexual harasser 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z

Here were people talking about sports and life and family in ways that were not fraught with complicated meanings and symbols, he wrote in a letter to his now former girlfriend McNear. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z

The pilot effectively conveys the various textures of the relationships among the old friends, which are sometimes fraught and sometimes the only source of peace in their lives. Amazon’s Literary Forays for TV: ‘The Interestings’ and ‘The Last Tycoon’ 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z

Collaborating with Drake may seem more fraught from the outside. PartyNextDoor Is Finding His Voice, and a Bigger Spotlight 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

But adding an extra spotlight on the fraught discussion has been the very man whose life story serves as the show's foundation. A bumpy maiden voyage for 'Fresh Off the Boat' 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

It’s an ecstatic sense of possibility that persists even as their relationship grows more fraught, their interdependence more complicated. Elena Ferrante and What Liking Is Like 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

On Opening Day, Flushing is a place transformed, all smiles and radiance in a generally fraught place just across the way from where your stolen car’s radials are being hawked at a chop shop. Even a Mets fan can be optimistic on Opening Day 2013-04-04T16:12:00Z

The national dialogue is too fraught, he said, and his own fears of the Trump presidency too overwhelming. A Political Satire on Stage, and Not About Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z

But a key sequence of the film plays into a much more fraught history from a suppressed part of Mary Poppins’s past. ‘Mary Poppins,’ and a Nanny’s Shameful Flirting With Blackface 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Long after “Blues” ended, clusters of people remained in the atrium, puzzling over the work in animated and fraught debates. Dance Review: Sarah Michelson and Deborah Hay in MoMA Series 2012-11-05T19:39:22Z

Ella’s relationship with her mother was fraught, and she had never known her father, who had left before Ella was born. ‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

But even ensembles without this fraught history have filled one directorship after another with conductors under 40, and even under 30, in the last few years. Critic’s Notebook: Andris Nelson Is Latest of Orchestras’ Young Leaders 2013-05-19T21:50:33Z

The freelance life has always been fraught with uncertainty. Freelance Musicians Hear Mournful Coda as the Jobs Dry Up 2010-12-05T00:17:00Z

The book is the coda to their complicated relationship, offering an opportunity to reconsider the sometimes fraught transaction between black cooks and white employers that for decades defined the Southern kitchen. Dora Charles Moves On From Paula Deen, and Makes It All About the Seasoning 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

Pity is a hard thing to process, and particularly fraught in this country. Perspective | There’s no hope for America unless we can pity ourselves 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z

But since you can’t deny either its due, some sort of peace treaty, even one fraught with tension and sequins, sounds pretty reasonable. Possessed: The Designer Prabal Gurung and His Feathered Headdress 2012-02-03T17:39:41Z

Not our dreams for the fraught future, but our dreams from last night and the night before. The 150-mile bike trail from Maryland to Pennsylvania puts the cares of 2020 behind you 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z

He conveys the beguiling, lighter elements of the music while drawing intensity, depth and glowing sound from the orchestra when the drama turns fraught. Review: ‘Les Contes d’Hoffmann’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z

Her new album, “1000 Forms of Fear,” her first in four years and first since she became a sought-after diva whisperer, is repetitive and formulaic and fraught. With ‘1000 Forms of Fear,’ Sia goes from hired gun to reluctant pop star

It’s that magazines were already a fraught business. What’s the Point of a Fashion Magazine Now? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

The singer’s journey to releasing these singles was fraught with difficulty thanks to a prolonged feud with her former record label. Listen To JoJo's Much Anticipated #Tringle 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z

But most of “High” consists of fraught tussles among the three characters over Cody’s fate and the tough love necessary to put him on the right path. | 'High': Assisting Recovery, Craving Redemption 2011-04-20T02:01:29Z

The show’s making was unusually fraught, plagued by the leaks, squabbles and contradictory briefings that also characterize British politics. Brexit Is Dividing Britain. So Is a Brexit Movie. 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z

In 2010, Hobby Lobby was offered a trove of items from ancient Mesopotamia in a deal that “was fraught with red flags,” said Richard Donoghue, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. Hobby Lobby’s illicit artifacts are returned to their Iraqi homeland 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z

Given the issues with the overall concept and pushing celebrities to the forefront, it should be not surprise that even choosing the activists to feature was a fraught process. "The Activist" implosion: How a reality show working for greater good became a capitalist nightmare 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

Still, the airlines do seem to be among the most fraught. When Man Buns and Airlines Don’t Mix 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Originally written as a piano solo, the work reflects Mr. Felsenfeld’s longstanding battle with insomnia and his emotional response to the fraught moments when sleep seems possible but then escapes again. Music Review: Da Capo Players at Merkin Hall, Musing on Night 2010-06-03T22:18:00Z

Robbins writes immersive books about the lives of young people, and here she delves into fraught territory: the world of a college fraternity and the emotional lives of the “brothers” who inhabit it. New & Noteworthy 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

To understand her situation, Fuller invokes her family history, contending with her fraught genealogical inheritance, including a paternal grandmother who drank herself mad amid the swells of the British aristocracy. ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’: the latest chapter in a life chaotically lived 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

But that puts a gloss on the fraught journey described in “Parisian Lives.” Learning the Wiles of a Biographer, With Beckett and Beauvoir 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z

Biden’s attendance, says Haddad, signals a return to the traditional relationship between the White House and the press — sometimes respectful, often fraught, but always essential. White House correspondents’ dinner presses on, after covid delays and Trump 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z

Most dramatically potent is the relationship between Ella and her father, fraught with guilt. ‘Clock’ Review: That Biological Ticking Is Now a Time Bomb 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

Davies’s position is fraught and somewhat puzzling for reasons that have less to do with fairness than with his own past work: He has previously used straight actors very successfully in many gay roles. Should Straight Actors Play Gay Roles? A Star TV Writer Says No 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z

But this documentary reveals lesser-known sides to Williams, a Boston Red Sox left fielder, such as his Mexican-American heritage, his service during the Korean War and his fraught relationship with his mother. What’s on TV Monday: Sports Documentaries and ‘Wùlu’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

And the language we use for each other grows more fraught even as the furniture affects casual, velveteen comfort, and skinny ties bloat into neckerchiefs into spread colors into t-shirts. Mad Men Watch: Don Draper’s Baby 2013-06-17T14:54:15Z

Drinking in pregnancy is a fraught issue and causes much anxiety. Little evidence that light drinking in pregnancy is harmful, say experts 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

ET — tackles even the most complicated, emotionally fraught subjects with an easygoing tone that leaves you feeling happy without ever seeming like it isn't treating the material with the seriousness it warrants. "Everything's Gonna Be Okay" is pretty darn great, actually | Salon.com 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z

Under normal circumstances, the biggest question heading into this weekend’s episode of “S.N.L.” — its first new broadcast in three weeks — might be how it would address the fraught final days of the 2018 midterm campaign. ‘S.N.L.’ Jokes About the Midterms, and Pete Davidson Pokes Fun at Himself 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

And solve it he does, leading his hardy — or foolhardy — fellow filmmakers on a journey fraught with volatile warlords, ticked-off elephants and hungry lions. Movie Review: ‘Ikland’ Documents a Visit to a Vilified Tribe 2012-06-14T23:54:20Z

“That line, and it’s such a simple line, was so fraught with meaning,” Manzano recalled. In ‘Alma’s Way,’ a Young Latina Thinks for Herself, Like Her Creator 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z

When he broke free of the label in 1996, he released an album fraught with symbolic meaning: “Emancipation.” Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

These are fraught times, and while you may be scared, Tim Wu suggests that you may not be scared enough. A Look at Competition in Business Urges Us to Think Small 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Thompson was in love with Plenda, but such interracial relationships remained fraught, so you can imagine why images of black monsters and lynchings made it into his work. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

Pairing the Grieg with the Brahms offered a stark contrast in two faces of passion, one fraught and anxious, the other lyrical and serene. Violinist Ji Young Lim struts in a Phillips Collection recital 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Yet I found myself more engrossed than ever by this skillful retelling of a fraught and pivotal chapter in English history – and divorce law. London Theater Journal: Shadowlands 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z

For example, ABC shelved a February episode of family comedy “Blackish” that dealt with fraught political topics. What happened to that ‘Blackish’ episode? This week, TV networks faced uncomfortable questions 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

That archetype is critical to both his legacy and the movie’s larger ambitions, which draw a line between one man’s patrimony and the country’s fraught bequest. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Complicated topics, like the fraught relationship between the Paralympics and the Olympics, which take place in the same facilities but can receive uneven attention, are skimmed or skirted. ‘Rising Phoenix’ Review: Carrying the Paralympic Torch 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Couples deal with relationship woes in many ways — from denial to outright war, and every fraught emotion in between. The Hail-Mary-Moon 2013-08-01T00:59:19Z

This tension between who we are, who we think we are and the personas we project is especially fraught for actors, and it weighs heavily on Jeff and Judy. ‘Which Way to the Stage’ Review: Theater Buddies, With Claws Out 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z

A girl science star and a boy poet leave fraught home lives in Tennessee for a Connecticut prep school in this novel of friendship, loss, kind strangers and blind love. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2021 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

The office setting may be a familiar one, but navigating its complex politics can be fraught. Popularitea: how putting the kettle on will make your office life better 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

News organizations regularly edit interviews to fit time and space constraints, but the process can be fraught. A Rochelle Walensky interview sparked outrage. But the CDC says ABC omitted crucial context. 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z

In another show, the episode would have built to that singular moment, but in this series, always fearless about depicting things that are hard to watch, it’s just one of several emotionally fraught developments. The Memorable TV Episodes of 2016 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

This is the emotionally fraught terrain Ms. O’Connell has walked with subtlety and ferocity over some 40 years as an actress, most prominently on the New York stage but also in film and on television. Deirdre O’Connell, Theater’s Master of the Melancholy Mom 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

It augurs the arrival, in the midst of a fraught time for theater and other performing arts, of a bona fide new musical. Review | Judy and Mickey would have loved the TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ — 2021’s answer to ‘Let’s put on a show!’ 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z

As anyone who has been married knows, marriages can be fraught, and they sometimes dissolve entirely, rarely amicably. The Two Friends Who Changed How We Think About How We Think 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Their workplaces, particularly if at cultural institutions, have become professional minefields: In these fraught times, linguistic slips involving any kind of race or sex or “otherness” can trigger a layoff. A Liberal Uneasy in the World of #MeToo Feminism 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

Few human gestures are more fraught, desperate or often final than these. Review: ‘Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld’ Studies Perceptions Shaped by Photography 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

It is a reminder to visitors that no matter how avant-garde Paris gets, they will always be walking in the shadow of its fraught and glorious past. My Paris: Seduced by the Past 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z

He is also white, and this is, necessarily, fraught territory; Harlow’s album rollout has not been without hiccups. What’s Next for Jack Harlow? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Where Browning looked at love fondly, Beasley presents romance and desire as challenging, sometimes dangerous and fraught with emotional distance. The three best poetry books for June 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

There is another complicating factor to the already fraught relationship between Lisa and Jimmy: the fact he is the child of Indian immigrants, and she is a white woman. Maggie Gyllenhaal: 'There have to be consequences for disrespecting women sexually' 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z

Wheeldon's Tryst also pushes its dancers into fraught terrain, especially its central pas de deux. Royal Ballet triple bill 2010-05-25T21:40:00Z

The movie chronicles a fraught childhood and a rapid musical development. ‘Nothing Compares’ Review: Sinead O’Connor’s Rise and Fall 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

But the band’s ascent was fraught with tension. At the Drive-In pulls into Showbox SoDo on Wednesday 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

Into this fraught discussion now comes Charlie Smith, a 67-year-old white Southerner, who has just published a gorgeous, harrowing novel called “Ginny Gall,” in which essentially all the characters are black. Why write a novel about a race that’s not your own? The case of ‘Ginny Gall’ 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Adept at negotiating fraught moments and achieving the impossible, weddings professionals are now also acting as health, infrastructure and grief experts. The Weddings Boom Is Coming 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

He is much sought-after for projects that help define cities' modern views of themselves, often in relation to rich or fraught history. David Chipperfield: master of permanence 2011-02-06T00:06:23Z

A former Vogue editor sums up his decades-long career in the fashion world, from his first apprenticeship to the front row at couture shows to his fraught relationship with Anna Wintour. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

Fox, who long endured a fraught relationship with Hollywood, is ready to embrace acting and being in the public eye again — due in no small part to her intuition. The Megan Fox renaissance is here. It’s long overdue. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

The flinty sound he summoned in the most fraught passages certainly conveyed its hurtling angst. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz in Exciting, if Blaring, Form 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z

On-screen slave narratives are a fraught subject, with critics keeping an eye out for historical accuracy, or whether we need another movie about slavery. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Even going out for ice cream with your family is fraught. How to Make a TV Drama in the Twitter Age 2013-08-09T14:51:02Z

Asked whether the performance could fall victim to the very thing it was trying to resist, Mr. Richter said, “It’s fraught with ironies.” On the Mattress for ‘Sleep,’ an 8-Hour Lullaby 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z

Grocery shopping is fraught with indecision over food brands, and later, a discussion about Julie’s second child spurs a panic attack over whether the baby will like her hair. ‘A Mouthful of Air’ Review: Depression Clouds a Domestic Idyll 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Yet as I delved deeper, asking around to Italian-food friends, I soon learned that the topic of fruit risotto is a fraught one. Smitten with summer fruit, a young man’s thoughts turn to . . . risotto? 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

The decision is especially fraught for black families, given the hard-won, often violent battle of integrating public schools. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

He found a land no less fraught with politics than the sights and monuments of New York and Washington, D.C. Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

After it proved untenable for television, it evolved into a stage production and began touring the country in the fall of 1977 on a circuitous journey to New York that was fraught with artistic disagreements. Phillip Hayes Dean, the Playwright of Divisive ‘Paul Robeson,’ Dies at 83 2014-04-23T03:06:19Z

Ana and Derek spend decades raising their virtual children, and, by means of a “slow, difficult, and very fraught process”—playing, teaching, chiding, comforting—succeed in creating artificial beings with fully realized selves. Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

As you can see in the video below, the discussion around Silverman’s joke seems even more broken and fraught than it probably did at the time. Maher’s been here before: Watch him defend using the n-word in 2001 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z

Like Pearl Jam's music at the time, Klausen's early posters are powerful but overserious, overdramatic, fraught with shredded American flags, spilled blood and grim reapers. Pearl Jam poster artist Brad Klausen has a new book: 'From a Basement in Seattle' 2010-11-28T05:01:00Z

She envisioned the work as being for the British public — caught up, like the American public, in the fraught ongoing project of building a pluralistic society. Kara Walker Takes a Monumental Jab at Britannia 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

We decided to accept the culturally resonant but epidemiologically fraught risk, and made the short hike to the arch, which is probably a relic of a collapsed cave that carried an underground river. Perspective | Rekindling the wonder of Natural Bridge, once a testament to American grandeur 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z

But they have moved on, esthetically, and outfitting this space is a fraught endeavor, said Amy Astley, the editor of AD magazine, in a recent email. Kitchens and Their Evolving Personalities 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Look closer, though, at the framed pages on display, and a fraught and excited dialogue surfaces, reminding us that what is now archival was once trembling potential. Tennessee Williams, Restless and Revising 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z

Probably most of us read news articles and absorb reports about fighting in Syria or similarly fraught regions. Review: In ‘Oh My Sweet Land,’ Dinner Is Served. Don’t Come Hungry. 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

My practical approach to this problem has taken the following forms: I found that my writing practice was fraught with fear and tension, and so I started doing the Amherst Writers and Artists method. Is journalism killing my creativity? 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z

The potential for embarrassing misunderstandings here seemed almost too fraught to bear. The Year in Stupidity 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

What’s more fraught is Birch’s declining to see mental illness as something incapable of treatment or productive intervention. Review: In ‘Anatomy of a Suicide,’ Pain in Triplicate 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Among her latest career high points: On Saturday, she will be the featured entertainer at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, the annual, increasingly fraught Washington gathering of news media figures, politicians and celebrities. Michelle Wolf’s Next Gig Is Hard Work: Making Washington Laugh 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

“I’m trying to break the cycle of thinking only fraught situations bring meaningful art,” she said. Mitski’s ‘Puberty 2’ Mines Her Scars for Raw Meaning 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

For single fathers and those in same-sex relationships, the festive period will be equally fraught with emotional responsibilities and stereotyped expectations to manage. ‘I think my husband thinks Santa does it all’: why women dread the emotional labour of Christmas 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

But it's the depiction of all things Corinth that makes this tale of fraught academia so timeless and dead-on. ArtsBeat: Times Staffers Recommend 'School Books' 2012-08-24T16:53:00Z

For some families, though, the annual tradition is fraught with tension grounded in their children’s food allergies or the parents’ personal beliefs on what their kids should eat. Carrots are not Halloween candy: Stop telling us what we can — and can’t — hand out for trick-or-treat 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z

This is a fraught question for most people, and doubly so for her. Writers Recount Stories of Grief and Joy in Illustrated Panels 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

They were both formally innovative and fraught with the signal event of their era: the civil rights movement. Romare Bearden’s Rarely Seen Abstract Side 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Today's clergy are in a particularly fraught position. Michael Arditti: why I write fiction about faith 2013-07-26T10:47:00Z

In the best of times, building any restaurant from scratch is a fraught venture. How to Open a Top-Tier Restaurant in a Pandemic? Rethink Everything 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

And, particularly if you’re a writer of color, or a queer writer, or a woman, you may learn that entrusting your work to would-be champions is a fraught endeavor. My Strange Literary Fellowship 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z

The historical moment is fraught as American Jews try to save relatives in an increasingly untenable Nazi Germany. A Sudden Tragedy Leads to Unsinkable Family Secrets 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Aside from a stable of genuinely talented actors, the dynamic between Harlee, her boss and her FBI overlord is fraught in a rather interesting way. Shades of Blue – Jennifer Lopez's cop show is a criminal waste of her talent 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

"The Assassination of Gianni Versace" sought to view America's fraught relationship with queer culture through a lens of obsession, with each portraying the media as complicit in perpetuating bigotry through editorial choices and coverage. FX's "Impeachment" doesn't acquit itself well, despite a humanizing portrayal by Beanie Feldstein 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z

“If you understand that in the politicized term, it’s fraught with problematic racial views and exceptions and blind spots,” she says. Why some Black churches aren’t elated about the possible end of Roe 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z

The authenticity issue is particularly fraught in the market for Modigliani. Modigliani Expert Says a Nonprofit Is Holding His Research ‘Hostage’ 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z

It's a striking enough opening and, viewed retrospectively, a witty summary of the rest of the book, which takes place over the course of one fraught day. Booker club: Last Orders by Graham Swift 2012-07-24T11:28:36Z

Lloyd's words struck a chord and called into question how to navigate talking about women's sports, which is fraught with so much meaning politically. Why Donald Trump and the right can't leave women's soccer alone 2023-08-09T04:00:00Z

Symbolic of their fraught relationship is a moment when they chill a split of warm Champagne by turning the refrigerator setting to “super frost.” ‘If You Don’t, I Will’ Stars Mathieu Amalric 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

Colchester, home to the University of Essex and an army garrison, is less socially fraught, with a fast-growing population attracted by the 50-minute commute from London, good schools and attractive neighborhoods. Museums: Contemporary Art and Question Marks in Britain 2011-11-01T13:00:08Z

For an architecture critic, somebody who thinks about built space for a living, it’s almost impossible to think of an opening question more fraught. Architecture catches the acting bug 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

When I arrived as a lawyer in 2002, things were still too raw, busy and fraught. When a Corporate Picnic Plus Shakespeare Is Anything but Routine 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

“The Souvenir Part II” is the follow-up to Hogg’s 2019 drama about a soft-spoken student filmmaker who falls into a fraught and ultimately tragic romance with an alluring heroin addict. When Women Filmmakers Get to Tell Their Origin Stories 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

Whether it’s the book’s characters, its messaging or the escape to a time when the feminist discussion was less fraught, readers are hungry for it. Beneath Its Pink Cover, ‘Lessons in Chemistry’ Offers a Story About Power 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z

Jones is known for taking on bold content — such social malignancies as homophobia, racism and fraught histories of all sorts. Review | Bill T. Jones reveals the power of the human spirit in dance, music and text 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The effort to bring Jefferson Davis home to Fairview shows just how fraught navigating that conflict is. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

But the kitchen’s always been a fraught place when it comes to gender and class, and the twenty-first century is shaping up to be no different. Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig? 2013-04-28T01:00:00Z

Later, as a young man, he made emotionally fraught installations with oversized dolls. Christian Boltanski Has a Show at the Park Avenue Armory 2010-05-09T23:40:00Z

Vogel's gynecological examination of young Rachel, her feet in stirrups as he leans in and she tries to ensnare him, shows a woman at her most vulnerable, fraught and resolute. The Debt: The Spy and the Gynecologist 2011-08-29T16:20:00Z

It’s also about community, listening to one another and breathing together, creating a mood-lifter and balm in a fraught world. A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel. 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z

It’s a fraught scenario that seems bound for inevitable disaster — until Miss Cooper smothers the explosion in a near-saintly gesture. 1950s tales of loneliness and redemption told with conviction in 'Separate Tables' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Complaining is an awkward, emotionally fraught interaction — especially when you’re, say, on a date. Have a problem in a restaurant? Speak up promptly, and let a manager help. 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Whether they requested that meal is unknown, Professor Green said, but it was dutifully recorded, and so those images — so fraught with racial baggage — went onto plates. ‘The Last Supper,’ by Julie Green, at Arts Center in Oregon 2013-01-25T23:50:40Z

As directed by Danya Taymor, with a cast that burrowed into its characters’ uncomfortable skins like ticks, it made ideological debate seem as fraught and potentially wounding as a boxing match. Best Theater of 2019 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

Given Mr. Broad’s fraught history with other Los Angeles museums, his denials about taking over this one remain hard to trust. Critic’s Notebook: Hurdles Grow at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 2012-07-22T21:54:39Z

The move was fraught with legal risks — the corporation, in its collaboration with federal investigators, already knew at this point that its game was compromised. The ‘McMillions’ Monopoly Scheme, Explained 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

It was terrific, and a useful reminder that American politics has always been fraught, anguished, and flecked with important victories. Election Day in the East Village: Singing Helps 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

The unsurprising reality is that a specialized language fraught with euphemism and obfuscation is better known as propaganda. When artspeak masks oppression 2013-03-07T22:48:00Z

Ever since Adam and Eve were booted from their naked paradise, presumably in search of fig leaves, humans have had a fraught relationship with public nudity. The naked truth about nude art modeling 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

For Rihanna, the leak and early release of her album reflected her increasingly fraught and unsteady relationship with music, the thing that made her famous but not the thing that keeps her that way. Popcast: Beyoncé, Rihanna and the Art of Music Releases 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Koch confines his story to one fraught restaurant meal, where malice, cruelty, craziness and a deeply European malaise are very much on the menu. Books of The Times: ‘The Dinner’ by Herman Koch 2013-02-06T22:50:22Z

This was already destined to be a politically fraught Oscar year, coming off the #OscarsSoWhite fiasco—an inescapable indictment of how Hollywood represents minorities. The Oscars and the Election 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

In “Also a Poet,” again, she lays bare her fraught relationship with her father. A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z

Greenwold creates disquieting domestic scenes that are emotionally direct and psychologically fraught, bursting with energy and with his own conflicts, nuttiness, impulses, narcissism, and love of bodies. The Weird, Violent, Uplifting Paintings of Mark Greenwold 2019-06-26T04:00:00Z

From the start, Sarah appears fraught, coping poorly with the recent death of her father. ‘Run Rabbit Run’ Review: No Child of Mine 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Now, with the pandemic hitting its third calendar year, global travel is more possible, but it remains difficult and fraught with uncertainty. The World Has Changed. So Has ‘52 Places.’ 2022-01-10T05:00:00Z

Sexual fantasy is always in search of a forbidden frisson — and fraught social issues tend to lend a helping hand, so to speak. MILFs, butts, and threesomes: This was the year in porn searches 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

This superb yet fraught exhibition creates a vortex of history, visual culture, language and ideas that is both heartbreaking and exhilarating. Art Review: ?Kindred Spirits? at Peter Blum Gallery in SoHo 2011-12-22T23:13:25Z

The shows are starting at a fraught time, with the Delta variant extending the pandemic’s perils. Musicals Return to Broadway With ‘Waitress’ and ‘Hadestown’ 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Despite the fraught subject matter, he said, “we felt super-safe about it because we controlled everything.” Dave Navarro’s ‘Mourning Son’ Tells the Story of His Mother’s Murder 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

He strives to attain mysticism in choreography that is fraught with a pull between restraint and anxiety. Dance Review: ?Bacchae? From Morphoses at the Joyce - Review 2011-10-27T00:12:35Z

Think “Game of Thrones”-level fraught sagas of familial responsibility and the scamps that subvert it, but without the drudgery. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

But it is limited in its ability to provide solid guidance in handling fraught emotional situations. Trump treated the Dunns like characters on reality TV, with grotesque results 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Each of the first three parts of "Father Comes Home From the Wars" revolves around a fraught decision to stay or leave. Four political dramas that play around with form 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Mr. Joseph’s play is wonderfully daring in its imaginative scope, convincingly evoking the fraught relationships between the occupying American soldiers and the frightened, suspicious Iraqi civilians. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Rajiv Joseph?s Play at the Mark Taper Forum 2010-05-14T23:58:00Z

He promises not to sweeten the very fraught story of this culinary staple. The Not-So-Sweet Side of Sugar 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z

This is, as we readily admit, a fraught and inexact sorting, since there’s no simple consensus among scholars and critics as to what constitutes an African American movie. Chris Rock Is Right: Hollywood Isn't Fair to Black Films 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

It covers the period from 9/11 to the day, two fraught years later, when he finally leaves Downing Street. The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq by Alastair Campbell – review 2012-06-21T07:00:01Z

“It can be a fraught position,” she says. ‘Make films where black characters don’t die’: Queen & Slim sparks debate over ‘trauma porn’ 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

And that any attempt to do the right thing is fraught and filled with potential failure. James Gray on ‘Armageddon Time,’ Antisemitism and Racism in 1980s Queens 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z

Everything could be so fraught and so intense. Remembering Miriam Schapiro: The unheralded legacy of a CalArts pioneer 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

After years of ups and downs, Sally's fraught relationship with Betty — who once threatened to cut off her fingers — has reached a fragile détente. Women of 'Mad Men' make a strong impression amid their fight for change 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Farrelly said he wasn’t any more nervous making a drama dealing with such fraught themes than he was when he made comedies. Peter Farrelly made some pretty ‘dumb’ movies. So how did he end up directing a smart drama about racism? 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

Even the wanderer’s seeking refuge in a humble charcoal-burner’s hut was fraught with meaning: it was a hint at the carbonari, an Italian secret society which Austria’s Habsburg rulers suspected of subversion. Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Outsiders may view growing up Amish or Mennonite as unfortunate baggage and deem whether to remain in the faith a fraught choice – perhaps it is. Would we ever tolerate “Breaking Muslim”? 2013-05-11T20:30:00Z

Ms. Ash-Milby worried that museums might avoid showing Native artists after the Durham controversy, thinking “I don’t want to step into something I don’t know enough about. This is too fraught.” A Canadian Museum Promotes Indigenous Art. But Don’t Call It ‘Indian.’ 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

But, without being fraught, the connections are always palpable, charging the gaps between the performers as the dance fills the silences between the musical passages. Dance Review: Emanuel Gat and Ballet Gen?ve at the Joyce Theater 2012-02-29T22:36:31Z

“Part of the story we learn from the New York Kidnapping Club,” Wells concludes, “is that the relationships between the Black community and the police have long been fraught.” Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

In keeping with the rest of her book, one of the characters from that chapter goes on to play a crucial role in Bakerton’s fraught engagement with fracking. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z

Spafford most often draws from sagas of conflict, as with the battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs, or from moments of fraught creation, as with the birth of Athena. Three Seattle galleries join forces to display works of artist Michael Spafford 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

André also offers the sisters residence in his home, in an arrangement fraught with class tension. Review: In ‘Planetarium,’ Natalie Portman as a Medium in 1930s Paris 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z

The woman sits on an apartment building stoop while she talks, and the simplicity of the visuals belies the fraught aspects of culture and color you see her trying to work through. Watch “Strolling,” a Powerful Web Series About the African Diaspora 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z

But this is definitely a fraught time to be hosting a talk show — or, if you’re Jimmy Fallon, even not to be hosting one. The Talk Shows Have Labor Pains 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z

Within the production’s alternating visions of the claustrophobic boardinghouse and desolate roadscapes, the fraught denizens of Duluth seem perched precariously on the brink of infinity. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

Schreker not only wrote his own librettos but conceived extravagant, psychologically fraught stories that seem to arise from the complex textures and rich colors of the music. Schreker's Operas Begin to Be Heard 2010-04-13T10:00:00Z

Hinton’s book may also heighten another fraught debate: what to call these events. Unearthing the Roots of Black Rebellion 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

It arrived at a time when official relations between the United States and Russia are, to put it mildly, fraught. ‘There’s still high culture in America’: Why the National Symphony Orchestra went to Moscow 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Writing this now from the safety of my own desk, I’m still amazed we managed to take two kids across the world in the middle of a travel summer fraught with restrictions and curfews. How my family of four pulled off a Portugal trip during the pandemic 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

Her larger project, which includes oral histories from these relatives, constitutes not simply a celebration of heritage but a fraught autobiography. A Daughter’s Ghostly Re-Creations of Her Late Mother’s Old Photographs 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

If Ms. Rogers’s mandate to remake magazines with such cherished places in black culture were not heavy enough, it is even more fraught because of who is counting on her to deliver. Desir?e Rogers, Post Crash 2010-10-01T21:16:00Z

Understanding polyamory is complicated, but monogamy is fraught with ambiguity, too. ‘Discovering my true sexual self’: why I embraced polyamory 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z

Given free rein in the Museum of Modern Art’s archives, the authors mined the untold story of the museum’s fraught relationship with race in general and black artists and their work in particular. Times Critics’ Top Art Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

She was the one who leaned into fraught symbolism in the right way. Perspective | Warren and Klobuchar stopped tone-policing themselves. It created the realest debate moments yet. 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

This grants Lovely the chance to pummel a horde of scowling grunts in a frenzy of whiplash editing and over-amped sound effects before returning to the fraught courtship. | 'Bodyguard': ?Bodyguard? With Salman Khan - Review 2011-08-31T21:42:33Z

On “The View,” she wasn’t a political expert but she was opinionated, emotional and easily drawn into ideological spats that were often fraught and sometimes instructive. After 17 Years, ‘The View’ Isn’t So Clear Anymore 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

The question of who ordered her death remains the subject of fraught international conjecture. Review: A Slain Journalist’s Voice Resounds in ‘Intractable Woman’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Miss Dickinson’s materially comfortable home life is emotionally fraught in a way that explains her ecstatic fancy. “Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

The future may be fraught with challenges and Santos and her colleagues have to work in a difficult political climate: the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, recently labelled people with HIV “an expense for everyone”. 'Health workers are too scared to enter': the fight to treat HIV in a São Paulo favela 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The dilemma Ever since I made the conscious decision to live my life fully as a feminist, it has been fraught with conflict and stress. I live as a feminist, but I’m tired of being so furious all the time | Dear Mariella 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

These relationships are often complex, fraught with emotion and, most importantly, unarticulated. 'A language of secrets': how My Brilliant Friend revolutionised female friendship on TV 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

Honoring the Black dead from the Civil War also has been a fraught issue. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Previous studies on the subject were overwhelming retroactively self-reported; researchers asked people after the fact to recollect how often they thought about sex, a method fraught with error. Studied: Sex on the Brain - Studied 2011-12-09T18:46:34Z

So beating the market is a challenge and a game: fraught with danger but ultimately exhilarating. The Conman: How One Man Fooled the Modern Art Establishment 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

In a moment when the act of articulating identity seems both urgent and fraught, there’s something comforting about the expanse of contradictions delivered without an answer by this suddenly famous teen-ager from Jakarta. Rich Chigga and the Difficulties of Keeping It Real 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z

The relationship between parents and the caregivers they hire is unique — and uniquely fraught with personal biases and preferences. Civilities: ‘I wouldn’t want a lesbian taking care of my children.’ 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z

The mood in the house is fraught with adult tensions beyond the narrator’s ken. Perspective | The end of summer is always sad. This year, my grief led me back to a favorite short story and book of photographs. 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z

But now it is Northern Ireland at the height of the politically fraught period known as the Troubles. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

It has to be significant that he’s airborne in these views, floating above the earth, maybe even escaping the fraught region that was his life. Grant Wood at the Whitney Both Thrills and Disappoints 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The same would be true of “This Is Us,” and potentially less fraught. Zombie apocalypse is a bipartisan issue — on TVs across the U.S., at least 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

She handles the sonata's opening left-hand lunge, such a fraught exercise for Perahia and other mortals, as a balletic liftoff. Yuja Wang slays Beethoven's monster piano piece — and makes it look easy 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

There could hardly be a more fraught parable of the artist and her audience. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

In each aspect of Brodie’s life, communication is fraught with challenge, and a potential barrier to fulfillment. In ‘Precious Little,’ a linguist grasping for the right words 2013-08-08T19:43:11Z

He’s just saying that success for him has been fraught. Ethan Hawke Is Still Taking Ethan Hawke Extremely Seriously 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z

“All of these activities are severely restricted or fraught with risk.” As we approach the holiday travel season, is it safe to travel yet? 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z

No matter a company’s size or legacy, this was a week fraught with tension because of the novel coronavirus. Perspective | Chanel, what has become of you? Paris Fashion Week ends with a bust and then a bang. 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z

But “Astoria refused to raise their grandson Scorpius in the belief that Muggles were scum,” making family gatherings “fraught with tension.” The 50 Most Important Things We've Learned From J.K. Rowling 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

And how can I not admire Alex Ross, also, a beautiful evangelist for all kinds of unusual music in a difficult and fraught time? Why a ‘Peanuts’ Collection Has Stuck With Jeremy Denk, Concert Pianist 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z

I told Jessie that she was ignoring the empirical in favor of the anecdotal, and what a fraught and dangerous path that was. “OK, so what would convince you that racism is real?” 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

More important, the book implicitly raises thorny questions about responsibility, agency and forgiveness, especially in the context of #MeToo and its fraught narratives of personal downfall and potential redemption. Review | ‘Howard Stern Comes Again’ gives a glimpse of a kinder, gentler shock jock 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z

Race, gender, collaboration: These are the fraught subjects that the AIA is making an effort to confront. For the late L.A. architect Paul R. Williams, national honor overlaps with a bleak anniversary 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z

The seasons of a young monk’s life, under the care of a wise elder, are shown in an eternal cycle as he journeys towards a fraught enlightenment. Kim Ki-duk: punk-Buddhist shock, violence – and hypnotic beauty too 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

Some film experts see in it echoes of the fraught relationship, curdled by jealousy, that first sprang up between the academy and Mr. Spielberg around the time of “Jaws.” Why Didn’t Steven Spielberg Get an Oscar Nomination for ‘The Post’? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z

Tate looks back at the nearly two decades she spent in “Rosen-land,” weaving together anecdotes from those fraught group sessions with her quest for an integrated life. Review | Christie Tate’s ‘Group’ is a sometimes salacious look at the secrets of strangers 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

New York in those days, under Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, was a fraught but confident city, charging into the new century with a vigor unknown since the 1960s. When Wall Street Was Unoccupied 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“There’s probably no more issue that’s fraught with hypocrisy today in our country — other than maybe sex, I don’t know — than the issue of race in America,” he said, drawing a bit of laughter. March on Washington Film Festival mines history, has eye on the future 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z

Her opening balances were fraught and there were other moments when her supporting leg seemed to tremble, giving way to slips that left her connection to the music unresolved. The Return of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Isn’t City Ballet’s Reawakening 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

The other leitmotifs that float, musically, throughout this volume concern the fraught relationship between fathers and sons, the ocean crossings made by refugees and the conjuring power of words. Review: ‘Night Sky With Exit Wounds,’ Verses From Ocean Vuong 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

It’s fraught with challenges, heartbreaks and opportunities for self-doubt. Perspective | Kids’ awards ceremonies ratchet up the parent guilt 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z

The two men’s friendly if sometimes fraught working relationship was the focus of the series, which since its original run ended was seen in syndication on the Nick at Nite and TV Land cable channels. James Noble, Absent-Minded Governor on ‘Benson,’ Dies at 94 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

It was a corrupt system fraught with dangers, which were becoming visible to the public. Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood’s corrosive, systemic sexism 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

Cases of a parent who is incarcerated or whose only income is public assistance are more straightforward, but the prospect of evaluating a parent’s ability to pay is fraught. Are student loans the new subprime mortgages? 2012-10-07T14:00:00Z

Which was good, because Almodóvar’s film introduced the theme of fraught motherhood which soon became a recurring feature. Venice: Women’s Stories 2021-09-12T04:00:00Z

Life, she points out, is always fraught and chaotic. Helena Bonham Carter on 'witty' David Cameron, 'weirdo' Lars von Trier and why Tim Burton won't watch a romcom 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

Its recording was fraught, its release teased and then withheld many times. Rihanna’s Anti-Album 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

“That which promised happiness when we were one at heart,” she tells him, “is fraught with misery now that we are two.” Scrooge on a Screen Just Can’t Be the Same 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

The fraught associations of debarking the hemlock were not lost on Shin. A 140-Year-Old Hemlock Was Lost. Now It Has New Life as Art. 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

The plot centers on three characters whose story lines converge during a solar eclipse, in scenes fraught with magic and danger. Fall reading: 12 books to keep you occupied for the rest of 2020 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

Although their arrangement seems mutually convenient, it’s fraught with unacknowledged tensions beyond the usual ones involved with caring for an older relative. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

But for some, the task of translation led straight to the most fraught questions posed by the plays. Translating Shakespeare? 36 Playwrights Taketh the Big Risk 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

The death of his father re-opens old wounds as Wallace navigates a series of fraught encounters with fellow program outsider Miller, whose attentions bear the uncertain possibilities of deep intimacy and trauma. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

Eventually, the duo figured out how to approach key scenes that would develop Theo's character and build our understanding of his fraught history at the Arconian. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The fictionalized biopic continuation of the Ip Man saga is nowhere near as epic, fraught with drama or burnished with the lush production design of its predecessor. 'Ip Man 2': Sequel's martial-arts action beats the storytelling 2011-01-27T22:55:30Z

Perhaps Bishop’s most fraught affair took place during her many years in Brazil. Review: ‘Welcome to This House,’ the Private Life of a Poet 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

But like the journey itself, the film is fraught. Harsh realities of immigration issue drive overly earnest 'Frontera' 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Shows that depend on loans from abroad are often fraught with difficulties, with museum directors jealously guarding national treasures. Long-Delayed Show of Buddhist Art From Pakistan Is to Open 2011-07-26T22:48:05Z

If you want a better idea of the fraught relationship of Black and Asian Americans in history and today, here are some resources for allyship and additional viewing suggestions: My fellow Asian Americans, we must address the anti-Blackness rampant in our community 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

But as I read more about her, it felt too sad and fraught. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: ‘Sight’ Balances Grief, Freud and Parenthood 2018-10-14T04:00:00Z

And even though the technological aspect of putting the show together can be occasionally fraught, he knows all will turn out well. Celebrating "great songwriter" David Bowie's 75th birthday & introducing him to a new generation 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Ms. Fleming sang Strauss’s fraught lines with an affecting blend of tremulous anxiety and wistful warmth. Review: Renée Fleming’s Poignant Farewell to ‘Der Rosenkavalier’ at the Met 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z

That’s because the focus of the film is the relationship between Louise and Simon, which is far more fraught and significant than it initially seems. Is Sister Switzerland's Best Chance at an Oscar? Yes. 2012-10-04T18:26:13Z

The holiday is fraught enough as it is, creating unreasonable expectations around set emotions that never respond to reason. Before their blind date, they both felt a lot of pressure. Then they locked eyes. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Hodes also had to wrestle with a particularly fraught question: how to tell the hijackers’ side of the story? An Infamous Hijacking, Revisited Through a Child’s Eyes 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

Arguably, it is more fraught than Charb was willing to recognize. A year after the Charlie Hebdo attacks, slain editor Charb makes his case in 'Open Letter' 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

The former president, like the narrator, is never named, an omission that emphasizes their fraught and peculiar relationship. Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z

He uses digital echo and delay and looping in a rudimentary way, creating fraught clouds of sound rather than being clever. Albums From Jesse Stacken and Norberto Lobo 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z

You go in there and it’s fraught, because you go in there and part of you hopes to be transformed by the clothing, by that experience, into something more beautiful. Mona Awad on her sharp-voiced debut, '13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Then again, we are living in times when the very definition of “patriot” is deeply contested and fraught, when the word alone often causes liberal neck hair to stand on end. On ‘Patriots Day’: ‘Love Will Defeat Evil’ 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

While I am decades past the era investigated by essayist Melissa Febos, her third memoir resonated with my own fraught emergence under surveillance and scrutiny. Review | Melissa Febos’s ‘Girlhood’ brilliantly illuminates how women are conditioned to be complicit in their own exploitation 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z

Sam embodies all those synonyms for “tired” attributed to single and/or working mothers: fraught, frazzled, overworked. Bad moms: why messy motherhood is finally being accepted on screen 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z

A routine practice, it is nonetheless often fraught with controversy. Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z

But there’s no end to the horrifying series of events in Macmillan’s increasingly fraught and sometimes overwrought drama. ‘By the Time You Read This, I’ll Have Killed One of Your Husbands’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z

Some of the more combative exchanges have a whiff of the artificial about them, and Claire’s dramatic revelation of her pregnancy seems unnecessary given the already fraught nature of the occasion. Review: ‘The Herd,’ Rory Kinnear’s Drama About Family Friction 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

Complicating matters is her fraught start in life: “My own childhood began as an unwanted pregnancy,” writes Lauren, who was adopted in 1973. A surgeon confesses his mistakes, and other best memoirs for May 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

What begins as a larkish contest categorizing various people, items and ideas turns into something personal and fraught. Theater Listings for Jan. 2-8 2015-01-01T05:00:00Z

Ruling Haiti was a fraught task even before an earthquake in January killed an estimated 230,000 people and left 1 million homeless. Wyclef Jean changes his tune over run for Haiti's toughest job 2010-07-27T19:23:00Z

Spragg's writing is spare but strangely tender, and his exploration of the characters' fraught relationships and hard life choices makes for a deeply moving story that sticks with you long after the final page. 27 best books of 2010: The Seattle Times looks back at a year of great reading 2010-12-18T01:15:33Z

It's a stylish success in a crossover territory often fraught with pitfalls. James Carter: Caribbean Rhapsody ? review 2011-07-21T20:30:01Z

David became our negotiator, the one who dealt with our parents and the endlessly fraught calendar requests. The Secret to Sibling Success 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

The idea seemed fraught with financial risk at the time and absolutely ludicrous now, but back then, it just seemed like the right thing to do. I clean out hoarder houses. Some jobs are even harder than the rest 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z

In those years, Mr. Obama recalls, “everything was just fraught with existential weight,” and he did not really regain his sense of humor until he moved to Chicago and began work as a community organizer. Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

That journey is especially fraught when one’s private trauma is smothered beneath the country’s general calamity. Review: ‘Before, During, After,’ by Richard Bausch

But there’s only so much wall space, and taking down a drawing to make room for others is fraught. A final seating for the man who knew every D.C. power player’s favorite table 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

But agony is often the flip side of ecstasy, and the engine driving “Angel Reapers” is the fraught relationship between stated Shaker philosophy and the messy, complex frailties of those who sought to live it. Dance Review: ?Angel Reapers? at Joyce Theater - Review 2011-12-01T22:38:17Z

Now 43, Sarpong is still trying to improve the diversity of British television — just at a much larger, and more politically fraught, level. The Former Youth TV Star on a Mission to Transform the BBC 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z

He remains a fraught and highly contested figure. Review | How to look at African art? Slowly and impressionistically. 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Seat of power for the King Of The Seven Kingdoms, the Iron Throne is not only imposing, sitting on it seems to be fraught with danger. Six to watch: TV's most famous chairs 2012-06-05T10:04:00Z

Here, he crams an entire global tragedy into 140 fraught minutes. Ai Weiwei: ‘Without the prison, the beatings, what would I be? 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Given how fraught the topic has become, it’s worth being crystal-clear right away about what the book is, and isn’t. A heartfelt lament on patrolling the border: Francisco Cantu's 'The Line Becomes a River' 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The bathroom is the ideal venue for the fraught micro-interactions that make the series sing. Girls, Insecure and Stranger Things: how bathrooms became TV’s safe space 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

“As a writer, sometimes I’m fraught, I’m frazzled,” she said. Michaela Coel Puts Herself Together in ‘Misfits’ 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z

New York proved to be a fraught experiment, as Mr. Peng’s restaurant soon closed. Peng Chang-kuei, Chef Behind General Tso’s Chicken, Dies at 98 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

Mr. Benjamin’s music surges with volatile feeling; in Mr. Crimp’s libretto, the relationship between the king and Gaveston, the favorite in question, is both heady and fraught with risk. Opera’s Perfectionist Tries to Follow His Masterpiece 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

The Mexican national anthem is sung by the characters during a particularly fraught sequence, to let you know that the whole thing is a metaphor. Review: Cannibalism, Torture and Apocalypse in ‘We Are the Flesh’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z

PS1’s leaders have often had to navigate its level of independence from MoMA, a relationship that is both mutually beneficial and potentially fraught. MoMA PS1 Looks to Los Angeles for New Director 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

That decision — akin to presenting a string quartet in a punk rock venue — was a clever provocation, given German’s fraught cultural history. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z

A production of Mazzoli’s gritty, fraught chamber opera “Proving Up,” at Miller Theatre, last week, confirmed that she is a major new dramatic talent. A Hell-Raising Mezzo-Soprano Cuts Through a Dreary First Week at the Metropolitan Opera 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Yet to others in the profession, psychotherapists who do not specialize in any single kind of patient, the very claims on which Antioch’s program is based are fraught. The Couch in Rainbow Colors: ‘L.G.B.T.-Affirming’ Therapy 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z

The holidays and all the fraught togetherness they can bring are now in the rearview mirror. ‘A Beautiful Day in November’ Opens at City Center 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z

“Le Roi Arthus,” based on the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table, proved a powerful work for this fraught, polarized moment in American life. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

The meeting of western rock stars and non-western musicians is so fraught with potential pitfalls, it's a wonder any decent records ever come of it at all. Bombino: Nomad – review 2013-03-31T00:05:07Z

But its dramatic components, fraught as they are, are tepidly delivered. ‘And Then We Danced’ Review: Caught Between Desire and Tradition 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

Many of these passages are rendered in the second person, attributing to the unnamed “you” thoughts too fraught for the “I” to confront. Off the Coast of Los Angeles, a Father and Daughter Fight to Survive 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

"Strange New Worlds" still presents a future worth hoping for ... albeit a fraught one. Boldly take us where we've been, Captain Pike 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

Some artists need protecting from time to time, when they stray into difficult or fraught subject matter. Review | Artist Sarah Lucas takes all the fun out of being naughty 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

Daylight muted the opulent reds and golds of the abandoned Grand Foyer, its monumental stillness fraught with grief. Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra reunite, and it’s a joyful noise 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

Another scene takes on the fraught topic of masking on airplanes — with one businessman asking if he's okay to drink a scotch sans mask. No masking Americans' confusion over new CDC guidance in "SNL" cold open 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z

Instead of scrapping the project, Jones embraced that blistering chapter, inviting sex-work activists more fully into her fraught and comedic reckoning. ‘Sell/Buy/Date’ Review: The Topic of Sex Work, From All Sides 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z

Dramatic examinations of power dynamics abound on television these days, a number of them framing those views with the context of our current and greatly fraught political landscape. “GLOW” returns to Netflix with an excellent season 2, right when we need it 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z

How else would anyone have expected this discombobulating, fraught fashion month to end? From Plagues to Floods to Black Tuesday, Fashion Goes On 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

Sitting in the front row at Fashion Week, after all, is a fraught enterprise. New York Fashion Week: Front Row at Fashion Week Requires Limber Legs 2012-09-14T19:03:36Z

“It’s a monument to openness over enclosure, lightness over heaviness, transience over permanence. It’s also an image fraught with political meaning.” New York’s Reopened Museums: Where to Go and What to See 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

For many viewers and fans, especially Black fans, the incident involving three of the highest-profile Black artists in Hollywood was fraught and did not lend itself to easy judgment. A Slap Could Sting the Smith Family Brand 2022-04-02T04:00:00Z

His colorful frames track a deeply religious upbringing in southwest Louisiana — where he was raised as a girl — and present his improbable, fraught journey to M.I.T. and later into his transition and marriage. When Comics Writers Defy Gender Norms 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z

Rubell’s work certainly invites criticism, but only as part of a larger and more ambivalent contemplation of Trump’s role as a fraught female figure in American society. Perspective | The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

The reopening on Saturday brought a publicity blitz that sought to put a happy ending on the fraught five-year project. Picasso Museum in Paris reopens after renovations, internal tumult 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

The organization’s relationship with the Trump administration was already fraught, but over the weekend, a new rift developed. Top Voice of America editors resign amid strife with White House, arrival of new Trump-appointed director 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

“The race” here refers to Blackness and though Federico is of African ancestry, the relationship between his genealogy and racial identity is fraught given the entanglements of race, skin color and indigeneity in Brazil. A Novel Punctures the Fantasy of Post-Racial Society 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z

The show opens with images that chronicle the brutalized aftermath of combat, social destabilization from the sudden eradication of empire and the new realities of life in Germany's first, fraught, ultimately failed experiment with democracy. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Directed by Elise Thoron and featuring a high-powered cast led by Keith David, “ToasT” obviously hopes to honor a fraught chapter in a fraught era, and to testify to its enduring relevance. Review: ‘ToasT’ Where Words Are a Cellblock’s Weapon of Choice 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z

The sculpture emits a light, floaty feeling that contrasts with the fraught subject: A fetus dangles from a cord between the woman’s legs. After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

When I was growing up, Dad was strict, with mealtimes particularly fraught, as any suggestion of wasting food made him furious. My father’s hoarding inspired me to change other people’s lives 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z

But Russo-Young’s mothers, who still live in the Greenwich Village loft where Russo-Young grew up, also said how much they enjoyed spending time with her — even fraught time — when she would fly in for filming. In ‘Nuclear Family,’ a Filmmaker Frames Herself 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

But many nudists balk at any suggestion that cooking — or vacationing, or living in general — is more fraught for them than for the clothed. The Joy of Cooking Naked 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The story starts off with the fraught, to say the least, relationship between a Barbadian nanny, Britney, and her former white employers, Brooke and Jay. Welcome to the Playhouse 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Rihanna’s quick deletion of her tweet indicates, perhaps, just how fraught the ongoing strife in Gaza — one with two entrenched sides with deeply held positions — is for public figures of all stripes. Rihanna tweets, then deletes, a pro-Palestinian message 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z

But the 1968 commemoration is taking on a history that is more recent and perhaps more fraught, even at a school where a tradition of student protest is touted as part of the brand. At Columbia, Revisiting the Revolutionary Students of 1968 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z

Even the notoriously taciturn Van Morrison, who had a sometimes fraught relationship with Berns, turns up and is quite generous in his assessment. Review: ‘Bang! The Bert Berns Story,’ With Juicy Showbiz Lore 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Choudhury is excellent here as a fraught matriarch — as good as she was as a young rebel three decades back. ‘Evil Eye’ Review: The Man of a Mother’s Dreams May Not Be Mr. Right 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

“Hello Again” largely eschews dialogue as it leaps among historical eras and song sequences, depicting a series of fraught romantic encounters across decades. Review: ‘Hello Again,’ a Movie Musical Ode to Love and Lust Over Decades 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

In Uriu’s case, the compelling combination of mediums broaches the subject of how we control and construct experience, particularly our fraught relationship with the natural world. ‘The Veil’ exhibition at Bridge Productions spans ideas of what’s seen and unseen 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Setting aside the fraught question of what constitutes real Arabic, there is surely something to be said for introducing children to literature that speaks to them. Translating 'Frozen' Into Arabic 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

“I had reservations every day, up to the present day, because the subject is so fraught, and rightfully so,” Mr. Winters said. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

At the time, the company performed at the Cincinnati Zoo, a setting fraught with the potential for unintended consequences. Lili Chookasian, Opera Singer, Dies at 90 2012-04-12T17:31:06Z

Mr. Pride’s 1994 autobiography paints a more fraught picture of his early years in the music business. Charley Pride, Country Music’s First Black Superstar, Dies at 86 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z

Certainly, the pair’s relationship was quietly fraught for a while: After a SpaceX launch at the Kennedy Space Center in May 2020, Trump spoke to a large crowd that included several high-profile Florida Republicans. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z

Sheffield’s personal history with public restrooms is fraught. How the bathroom became a political battleground for civil rights 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

But the comedian Jerrod Carmichael breathes new life into the paradigm with this lyrical and restrained special, in which he comes out as gay and explores his fraught relationship with his family. The Best TV Episodes of 2022 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

An emotionally fraught transition from one regime to the next, with no clear-cut successor to the previous ruler. Books of The Times: Abrupt Regime Change in Egypt Is Nothing New. Just Ask Thutmose III. 2011-03-28T22:49:02Z

Concentrating on the history of modern art, Ms. Ingberman wrote her master’s thesis on the intersection — often a fraught and rocky place — between art and the law. Jeanette Ingberman, Founder of Exit Art, Dies at 59 2011-08-26T23:43:12Z

The power of the image is also directly connected to the fraught power of the Lincoln Memorial, which is architecturally one of the most beautiful in the country. Perspective | The dystopian Lincoln Memorial photo raises a grim question: Will they protect us, or will they shoot us? 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. David doesn’t wear dresses, which means finding formal wear can be a fraught process. On the Runway Blog: When a Bride Wants to Wear Pants 2013-07-02T12:23:07Z

During her testimony, the witness unraveled a complex, emotionally fraught relationship she had with the fallen producer that lasted through 2016. The six women who accused Harvey Weinstein at his trial, and what they said 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z

The story largely takes place at a grand hotel where the two have come for an intimate, progressively more fraught getaway. In Toronto, Films by Women About Women, but That’s Where the Similarities End 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z

I’m happy that she made a decision – not an easy one, not one that won’t be without some regrets and “what ifs,” just as mine is sometimes fraught with glances at the road less traveled. Motherlode Blog: Fertility Diary: Childless as Opposed to Child-Free 2013-08-20T13:48:55Z

If New York overcame the hard scrabble ’70s, the afterlife of Mr. Grooms’s masterpiece has been more fraught. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

Poems such as "That Woman" and "Ode to the Walking Woman" reflect this fraught inheritance. Everything Begins Elsewhere by Tishani Doshi - review 2012-06-01T21:55:01Z

“I Feel a Change,” from a collection due in November, is a long, aching crescendo, a fraught love song set over a patient vamp, exulting in togetherness only to realize it’s not to be. The Playlist: Thom Yorke’s Chilling Ballad, and 13 More New Songs 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

The questions they had debated and decided months earlier were simple yet fraught: Continue to bleed money at National Harbor in Prince George’s County, in cramped storefront quarters difficult to reach without a car? The little museum that couldn’t ... 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

For people with a fraught relationship with food and their bodies, these conversations can be stressful, draining and sometimes toxic. Thanksgiving means family, food — and plenty of harmful diet talk. Here’s how to deal with it. 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

It can be a fraught space, full of peril; but it can also be a place of stunning fertility and biodiversity. ‘The End of Bias’ Says There’s Hope for Meaningful Change 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Sex in the wilderness is fraught, and not just because of the teen hormones running wild. ‘Yellowjackets’ Season 2, Episode 2 Recap: Dig In 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

For the most part though, enjoying music has become more straightforward; a pure pleasure rather than a fraught consideration of credibility. Silibil N' Brains: California Schemin' ? the end of authenticity 2010-04-17T23:09:00Z

Their experiment remains incomplete, ongoing — the road ahead wide open but fraught with danger and uncertainty. A Contemporary Feminist Spin on the Traditional Pioneer Novel 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z

No matter America’s fraught relationship with Iran, Bernstein’s piano music happened to be played in Tehran on Jan. 1. Leonard Bernstein at 100: Why the music world is making this the Year of Lenny 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

The ethereal soundtrack largely echoes the misty, haunting photography, except for a galumphing, rocking interlude during a fraught boat trip into town. Tangerine Dream’s Music in BAMcinématek Series 2012-06-02T23:03:01Z

But racial tension in South Central Los Angeles, especially in the early 1990s, was fraught between these demographic groups, both caught in a system of limited access to economic and social resources. Where Mexican Folk Ballads Meet Trap Music 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

Gratuities — a fraught topic in the catering world, where waiters are paid a much higher wage than most restaurant servers — are not expected. Tips for hiring and working with a catering company

That juggling act continues in Season 5, as Jimmy and Gretchen’s fraught, sometimes agonizing progress toward adult responsibility is balanced by the more farcical subplots involving their small and motley collection of friends. Review: ‘You’re the Worst’ Heads Toward Happily Ever After. Maybe. 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

She was also aware of the fraught nature of her work as a non-Palestinian author writing about Palestinian food. A Writer Describes Palestinian Cuisine, and the World Around It 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

It can be a space for quiet reflection or a state fraught with discomfort. Ssshhh! How the cult of quiet can change your life 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z

Their journey becomes more fraught than they had anticipated, marked by accidents and dangerous encounters in the middle of the lonely desert. Books to Watch Out For: November 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z

“It’s an area where though the intentions are good, it’s fraught with issues,” he said. Will applying for TSA PreCheck outsource your privacy? 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

“Readers’ kind donations will enable our volunteer doctors to provide even more essential medical care to refugees at every step of their fraught and life-threatening journey. Guardian and Observer refugee charity appeal passes £1m mark 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z

It understands that much of what it portrays is guaranteed to stir fraught memories among many of us. Review: ‘Come From Away,’ a Canadian Embrace on a Grim Day 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z

Her affair with Will was tentative, fraught and full of complications. How 'The Good Wife' Changed Feminism and Politics on TV 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

Depicting mankind in the ominous moment before the biblical Fall, the painting's ownership battle, too, points to a period in human history fraught with uncertainty: a 20th-century Europe ravaged by war. Nazi-looted "Adam" and "Eve" paintings to stay in California 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z

In the book, which spans the 1940s to the 1980s, a woman in North Carolina named Azalea “Knot” Centre battles alcoholism, various estrangements and her fraught romantic relationships with men. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z

The scenes come suddenly — pure emotion and sensation — at turns fraught with laughter and sadness. The creamy gorgonzola pasta my mom’s been making since the ’50s 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z

A fraught trip to China wrecks the dads’ relationship, but by then the girls want to force the incompatible couple back together. Finding the Comedy in Tween Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

But the joy of exploration, the power it still held on Dial, were fraught in more ways than one, and in “The Adventurer’s Son” he doesn’t shy away from that anguish. His Son Hiked Into the Costa Rican Jungle, and Never Came Out. What Happened? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Talky domestic dramas live and die by the quality of their fraught dinner party scenes. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

Long before its building was complete, for example, the museum staged exhibitions off-site, some on the fraught topics it would confront, such as Thomas Jefferson’s deep involvement with slavery. How the Fight for a National African-American Museum Was Won 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

And whether he means to or not, his character is evoking a fraught immigration dynamic in the United States. How Jinder Mahal, an Indian WWE Star, Is Turning Up the Heat 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z

They married in 2008, shortly after the birth of a twin son and daughter, in a pregnancy that was fraught with medical complications. Il Divo Tenor’s Ex-Wife Sues Him, Citing Sexual and Physical Abuse 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z

And in the fraught times in which the novel has arrived, its bonhomie comes off as strained and false. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Strictly speaking, we never get to see the presentation — just the increasingly fraught rehearsals for it. Theater Review: ‘We Are Proud to Present a Presentation,’ at Soho Rep 2012-11-16T23:47:40Z

Back in the 80s, setting forth as an actor, Bonham Carter regarded the profession as her means of escape; a way of wresting control of a life that had turned fraught and chaotic. Helena Bonham Carter on 'witty' David Cameron, 'weirdo' Lars von Trier and why Tim Burton won't watch a romcom 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

That’s a very high bar to set for any novel, and perhaps an even more fraught standard for someone who already sits on such a great perch. Is Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' bound for the 'Interstellar' trap? 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

The story lends itself to the opera’s fraught, vivid choral scenes, which were a triumph for the impressive Bard Festival Chorale. Review: Flawed but Fascinating Dvorak Opera in a Rare Staging 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

The most emotionally fraught dispatches spark some of Beyoncé’s most impassioned singing, but show little trace of vulnerability. Music: New Concert DVDs From Beyonc? and Adele 2011-11-27T05:03:07Z

The longevity of the trumped-up fraught relationship between the two – already overexposed in the media – might just be a way they’ve found to extend their brands. The Kanye-Taylor Industrial Complex must die: Can West and Swift stop feeding this aging, pointless “feud?” 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

Many of these debates wouldn’t be nearly as fraught “if there were enough roles to go around,” said Nancy Wang Yuen, the author of “Reel Inequality: Hollywood Actors and Racism.” ‘Crazy Rich Asians’: Why Did It Take So Long to See a Cast Like This? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

But she didn’t have to plunge very deep into Alex’s fraught psychology to feel for her. In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Lizzy Caplan Makes a Mess 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

It is different — both fraught and familiar — playing with peers who invented a band sound and sidemen trying to recreate it. Review: Guns N’ Roses, Partly Reunited, in Its First Arena Performance 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Still, the meeting of the current and future first ladies was a moment to consider both the fraught public relationship between the two and their differing styles. Melania Trump and Michelle Obama carry on an awkward tradition, too 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

But the visits also meant that show-and-tell became a fraught activity once he returned to school. At the Aldrich Museum, the Coyote Takes the Lead 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

This arts complex reopens as an interactive exhibition in Smoke & Mirrors Collaborative’s immersive piece about race, prejudice and America’s fraught inheritance. 11 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

There is also a sense of fraught struggles between grandfathers, fathers and sons. ‘The Inheritance’ Arrives at a Festival of German Drama 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

Both shows love to play off what viewers “hope” will happen, and their disciplined refusal to give over to the more familiar contours of happy endings and redemption make them richer and more fraught. Miss ‘Succession’ Already? Here’s What to Watch Next 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z

His early work developed in opposition to the harrowing performances of the Viennese Actionists, which were fraught with physical ordeals and existential intensity. ArtsBeat: Franz West, Celebrated Austrian Artist, Dies at 65 2012-07-26T17:19:43Z

The trailer shows the young boxer looking to understand his father’s fraught and legendary boxing career. Watch the First Trailer for 'Creed' 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

It wouldn’t be a western without a fraught standoff, but when Pedro Almodóvar is behind the camera, the glances are even more loaded than the pistols. Pedro Almodóvar’s Answer to ‘Brokeback Mountain’ 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Birkmaier’s re-enactment of the theft was done with a cheap photographic reproduction but it “looked eerily original,” he said, and the process felt fraught. Sacred or Sexist? After a Brazen Theft, Seeing de Kooning in a New Light. 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

For someone like Shelly, whose legacy is still up for grabs, an unfinished work is much more fraught, especially when it's a total stinker. 2009-12-03T17:21:00Z

The first couple of years with a child are fraught with doubt, worry, concern and confusion. Perspective | My husband and I disagree about what is safe for our toddler. How can we find common ground? 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

Is there a more fraught, vilified figure in American letters — in worldwide letters, perhaps — than the mother who abandons a child? A Dazzling, Sweetly Aching New Novel From Jacqueline Woodson 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z

According to Campbell, the hero emerges from humble beginnings to undertake a journey fraught with trials and suffering. What would Joseph Campbell say about Donald Trump? He should’ve already been exposed as Darth Vader 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

For one thing, the fact that the band changed formation makes the notion of recycling old recordings particularly fraught. Pink Floyd’s Endless River Is Just the Latest Album to Recycle Old Material 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Their most fraught marital battles were as intense and mesmerizing as any by Edward Albee or Tennessee Williams. The TV Watch: A Complicated Actor Who Made a Complicated Mob Boss Indelible 2013-06-20T23:08:03Z

But our relationship with mushrooms, particularly in the West, can be fraught — and not just because misidentifying one might be dangerous. Mushrooms Aren’t Here to Destroy Us — Or to Save Us 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z

As their romance unfolds, the fraught relationship inspires Shakespeare to pen "Romeo and Juliet." American actors with the best onscreen British accents, from Peter Dinklage to Renee Zellwegger 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z

Even the most practiced of us know how fraught just a routine excursion can be. The Failed Dream of the Easy Commute 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

While Cristian seeks to protect her, their journey is fraught with danger. Michel Franco's dystopian drama "New Order" is an electrifying cattle prod to the nether regions 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

But he warned that efforts to transform a pub into a house or a flat would incur greater difficulties: “Conversion to residential use is often fraught.” The death and life of the great British pub | Tom Lamont 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

I awkwardly waved and made some goofball expression that stated the obvious: that this moment, at least in a movie, would be ridiculously fraught. Life Isn’t Like the Movies (Even if You Write the Movies) 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Human and wild animal interaction has never been so available, nor so fraught with possible conflicts. TripAdvisor bans ticket sales to attractions that allow contact with wild animals 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

A satirical but apt addition to the culture’s fraught conversation about race. New & Noteworthy 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z

We meet the two characters at a fraught moment — probably an over-fraught one, dramatically. Review: In ‘Fireflies,’ the Preacher’s Wife Gets Her Say 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z

What it was, however, was a quagmire of weirdness: fraught with issues of journalistic ethics and possibly even legal concerns. Perspective | Publishing that anonymous New York Times article wasn’t ‘gutless.’ But writing it probably was. 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z

My relationship with Disney has always been a little fraught. On a Disney Cruise, It’s a Stressful World (After All) 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

In her new memoir, “My History,” Fraser turns the clock back further, to her enchanted yet fraught childhood. Antonia Fraser’s ‘My History’: The biographer and mom of six looks back 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

When I became a vegan at 19, my meat-eating parents worried my already fraught relationship with food was deteriorating. What I’m really thinking: the vegan 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

And that reputation is only growing, thanks to the cookbook and TV appearances on shows like Netflix's "Iron Chef" reboot, but Hereford maintains a fraught relationship with the spotlight. New Orleans' cult favorite sandwich shop finally has a cookbook 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z

This fraught existence extends to her options for locating Marlin, whom she can’t report as a missing person for fear of attracting the attention of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Review | ‘Edge Case’ begins with a husband’s disappearance and turns into much more 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z

Far from being the solitaries of popular mythology, their associations with one another, sometimes ecstatically happy, sometimes painfully fraught, were vitally important, to their daily lives and to their work. Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

The rendezvous and its fallout are fraught and absorbing, but Krauss doesn’t stop at their immediate impact. Nicole Krauss’s Stories Cross Boundaries of Geography and Convention 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Through Parker’s story, Richardson explores why political debates about abortion are so fraught. Weekend Reading: Mississippi’s Last Abortion Clinic, Airbnb Battles, and More 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

Williams has had a fraught relationship with the city of Virginia Beach recently. Pharrell to college grads: ‘We are the emerging majority’ 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z

Street naming has often been fraught in Berlin. The naming of Berlin 2011-03-18T12:27:49Z

For many black South Africans before the fall of apartheid, the act of commuting on public transportation—buses, trains, communal taxis—was almost always fraught with pain, regret, and bitterness. Train Church 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

I imagined that she was talking about other politically fraught buildings, like, say, nuclear power plants or abortion clinics. Prison Architecture and the Question of Ethics 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z

“Just as the film critiques a moment fraught with violence, in tenderly portraying the artist’s friends and family, it also speaks to our capacity for love,” the jury concluded. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

“Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire” is an account of a particularly fraught period in the first phase of his stardom. Review: ‘Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire,’ Portrait of an Artist in Chaos 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Watching the often fraught relationships at the intersection of science, government and industry in a time of crisis proves that it is eerily germane to our pandemic reality. A Forgotten Town at the Center of the Manhattan Project 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

This subject is fraught with controversy and confusion - this series will provide viewers with unmediated access to a live drug trial. Drugs charities criticise C4 show 2012-07-16T12:11:38Z

She has transformed from jobbing actor to bankable filmmaker, a transition that is usually fraught and complicated – but she has made it seem easy. Elizabeth Banks: ‘My film is loaded with sneaky feminist ideas’ 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z

Their too-brief scenes are fraught with tension and ambiguity and suggest that Milo was exploited, though he denies it. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Star in ‘The Skeleton Twins’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The years of struggle and conflict that characterised the Tolstoys’ long, fraught journey dissolved, leaving young lovers drunk on the possibility of each other. Christopher Plummer remembered: 'It was a privilege to stand so close to greatness' 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z

Their complex, fraught dialogue scenes – with something of Bergman as well as Resnais – are an anti-courtship; an anatomy of a failing relationship, as well an attempt to revive it. 'Greatest of the great' - Agnès Varda: the eternally youthful soul of world cinema 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a relationship so stereotypically fraught that it birthed its own idioms: getting along like, fighting like. In this vicious world, guess who became best friends? Cats and dogs. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z

How sacrifice of that kind played into the turmoil of revolutionary politics back in Ireland, and in the fraught formation of the Irish Free State, is something into which historians will doubtless continue to delve. Why Do We Remember Gallipoli? 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z

Each day was fraught with uncertainty as Troy and Barbara struggled to balance the demands of his recovery against the actuality of their lives. His last shot: Will a monthly jab of a new drug keep this addict out of jail? 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

It may be that the crisis in capitalism –- a system with which unions have a fraught but also symbiotic relationship – means unions can’t operate the way they used to. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z

The lead-up to the summit has been fraught, as the poorest nation in the Apec group has scrambled to prepare buildings, accommodation and infrastructure. Polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea reaches capital Port Moresby 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z

His statement turned a spotlight on the often medically complex world of infertility treatment, which many abortion opponents also consider ethically fraught. Lawmaker’s resignation raises questions of ‘pro-life approach’ to IVF, surrogacy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

Not exactly fraught with Scandinavian angst, but still ... Scenes from an Apatow marriage 2012-12-21T21:55:34Z

This memoir tells the story of the cartoonist Joel Christian Gill’s adolescence, which is fraught with acts of violence, some directed at him or at the adults in his life. 8 Comic Books to Get You to Spring 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

But even as Care multiplies, surrounding Faust on several screens at once, there is no question that she and he are in the same space, in dialogue with each other, however fraught. Review: A Devil’s Bargain, Live and on Video, in ‘Faust 2.0’ 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Doubling down on punishment or consequences will only add frustration to this already fraught scenario. Perspective | Our 6-year-old’s meltdowns are taking over our family 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

And heritage, in the United States, is fraught with violence, racism, anti-Semitism and misogyny, carefully packaged in storybook visions of well-intentioned, white-dominated patriarchy. Perspective | The National Archives used to stand for independence. That mission has been compromised. 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z

But none of them has stared down an Olympics as fraught with challenges as the one Jill Biden is at in Tokyo right now. At fraught Tokyo Olympics, Jill Biden may win just by showing up 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

That feeling of being in outer space, high above the fraught earth where problems seem entrenched — racial violence, climate change, you name it — fills the production. Review: To the Moon! A Vivid Bill T. Jones Dance Leaves Earth’s Orbit 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

And some happenings are so fraught that they can’t really be communicated head-on, at least not immediately. Songs of Separation, and Lessons in Persian Cooking 2021-01-11T05:00:00Z

You want coziness, reassurance, home, and instead you get subtle disorientation and a sense that these interiors have psychologically fraught stories to tell. Fraught and Fabulous: Art That Shows a Passion for Democracy 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

Instead, it was the latest in a series of fraught relationships, all of which seemed destined to end in failure. 2010-01-28T07:20:00Z

When she got pregnant she was not married to her boyfriend, and she was relieved not to have to tell her mother and contend with her disapproval at such an emotionally fraught time. Oh, By the Way: I Had a Baby 2022-01-22T05:00:00Z

Other highlights of the purchase are the fraught assemblages of Thornton Dial — which commemorate the deaths of a fellow artist, Bessie Harvey, and Princess Diana — as well as his 1995 painting “Clothes Factory.” National Gallery of Art Acquires 40 Works by Black Southern Artists 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z

Constance and Bartholomew are isolated by their different ways of grieving for the baby who died an hour after birth; at their fraught parting, her husband tells her, "you are already gone." Laird Hunt's 'Neverhome' tears a woman and a nation in two 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Inseparable from the way of life that Walters documents is her awareness of the fraught racial history of her home town. A Photographer's Search for the Meaning of Womanhood in White, Blue-Collar America 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z

Revisiting fraught memories onstage takes enormous daring, too — for those women, and for the “Minefield” men. Trump, Trauma and a War That Won’t Go Away 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Lock isn’t striving for credibility in the events that erupt from there, or for an emotional response to the fraught subject of an infant’s abduction and threatened murder. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

The film is right that the pope and Michelangelo had a fraught relationship, and that the artist considered his original commission too limiting. The Agony and the Ecstasy: more passion would've been less painful 2013-05-24T08:57:47Z

For the Fazilis, the ethics of autobiography remain fraught and unresolved, as does the family’s immigration status. Midnight Traveler: a powerful refugee documentary filmed on a phone 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Kelli O’Hara plays the central role of the 1950s housewife who finds her orderly life suddenly fraught with peril. The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z

Yet amid the humor and the “will they won’t they” moments, life inside the academy is fraught, belying the idyllic surface of all that ivy and stately architecture. Can Campus Culture Wars Be Funny? ‘The Chair’ Dares to Think So. 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z

It's a complicated act, often fraught with conflicting emotions -- even if it's highly unlikely that Aerosmith's legendary exploits could be pinned on one terminated pregnancy. National Review's crazy Steven Tyler abortion take 2011-05-06T19:01:00Z

Why not mention the fraught and fascinating role of beauty in art? Another Once-in-a-Lifetime Chance at an Art Career 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z

For Moore’s daughters, “Inside Out” is a more fraught project. Demi Moore Lets Her Guard Down 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z

In “The Magician,” his 12th novel, Toibin delves into the layers of the great German novelist’s unconscious, inviting us to understand his fraught, monumental, complicated and productive life. Colm Toibin Imagines the Life of Thomas Mann in ‘The Magician’ 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

These throwaway lines somehow perfectly capture Greece’s dark mood, and its fraught relationship with Germany, the European superpower that seems to hold its fate. In Athens, Art Blossoms Amid Debt Crisis 2011-10-14T12:10:58Z

Independent filmmaking is often as fraught a process as studio production. What to Stream this Weekend: Director’s Cuts 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

For a few minutes, I let the fraught world pass by. Fashion Review: New York Fashion Week Review: Creatures of the Wind, Richard Chai,Peter Som, Lisa Perry 2012-09-08T00:03:15Z

It’s an obvious reference to the fraught position the firm’s members find themselves in, both personally and professionally. 'The Good Fight’ Season 1 Finale Recap: Trojan Horses 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

But statues can also be reinstalled in less symbolically fraught places, or moved to the edge of the civic realm. When our icons tumble 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z

Every state is stuck in a fraught marriage with Washington, and California’s may now be the fraughtest. This is California in the era of Trump 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z

Still, Asian American identity has been fraught in education. The Fight for Asian American Studies 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z

The incident demonstrated the fraught line toed by comedians when edgy routines are removed from their natural habitats in dark, late-night, alcohol-lubricated clubs and posted to social media for all to see. Comedian’s Malaysia Joke Prompts Threats and a Diplomatic Incident 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

It leads to some fraught conversations, which are alternately disturbing and well, heartbreaking. "The Morning Show” and making sense of Mitch and Alex's wild ride in Italy 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z

Seduction is an especially fraught subject because we have long had trouble agreeing on what it is. Philanderers, Predators and Pickup Artists: A History 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

And it doubles as a timely look at the fraught relationship between science and politics. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The beat is buoyant, but the tone is fraught. Meshell Ndegeocello’s Magnificent Mix, and 9 More New Songs 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z

They shine in brief solos, same-sex duets of fraught tenderness and multiple struts down the catwalk, sharing the credit for choreography with Mr. Jones and Ms. Wong. Review: A Message-Heavy Bill T. Jones Dance-Theater Collage 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

His girlfriend’s parents are divorced, and her family situation is fraught. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary: My Son's Girlfriend Is Bulemic 2012-03-16T15:07:20Z

Given how fraught the real world can be, he may never stop quarantining. 6ix9ine, the Chaos Agent 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z

There is something fraught about her, as if she were host to past lives. Juliette Binoche's Tuscan Romance 2010-05-17T12:00:00Z

It’s hard enough to move through a world fraught with bigotry as a young Latino woman. My 15-Year-Old Daughter Told Me She’s Pansexual and Dating a Transgender Boy. I’m Struggling. 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

Approaching the great man was hardly less fraught with procedural issues than embarking on idle chit-chat with the Queen. 40 years of Stars Wars – why the blockbuster saga is a galactic soap opera 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

I’m talking about something more shameful and fraught with incrimination: leftovers. The one thing about being a food critic that fills me with shame 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Teddy is a fraught choice for biographical treatment these days, a trustbusting conservationist who was also a big-game hunter with a dubious view of racial equality, appearing almost buffoonish behind his pince-nez and buck teeth. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Fifty years later, it’s easy to see this as a response to the decade’s fraught conversations about art and culture. Revisiting an Oscar Winning Animated Film by Chuck Jones 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

The final Adagio lamentoso was too fraught and searing to be despairing and defeated. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z

You have to put this in perspective - the ethics of buying commodities in our globalised world is a very tense and fraught one and there are many difficult ethical issues. Should you feel guilty owning Rolf's art? 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z

The Adagio is like a homage to the slow movement of Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto: a fraught dialogue between a feisty, somber orchestra and a questioning piano. Leon Kirchner CD With Piano Concerto No. 1 and ?Lily? 2011-10-29T04:30:09Z

Christmas dinner was fraught, as it always was. My life had grown distant from my mother’s – but she tended my baby while I read Marx 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

And we’ll see how it goes as he ventures deeper into the fraught political debates around many scientific issues. Bill Nye the Science Guy: ‘I have no trouble taking political stances’ 2013-07-19T16:31:37Z

He can believe that the n-word can be treated as an intellectual conversation piece rather than as the single most fraught and painful word in the English language. Perspective | Joe Rogan is too powerful to keep acting as if he’s just a regular guy chopping it up 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

At the same time, “The Chi” doesn’t present its characters as unrealistically pure of deed; even banal transactions and conversations seem fraught with wariness and moral qualms. Review | ‘The Chi’ is best when it gives life to a community known mostly for its killings 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

The conversation turns into an emotionally fraught confrontation that tackles the issues of parental responsibility, youth violence and schoolyard bullying, with a strange detour into the world of medieval poetry. ArtsBeat: Behind the Poster: ‘Gidion’s Knot’ 2014-04-21T17:54:33Z

His tenure covered the IRA ceasefire, Bill Clinton's Belfast rally and the fraught runup to the Good Friday agreement. Belfast-set thriller penned by ITN man Tom Bradby set for cinema debut 2012-08-20T17:13:14Z

Such fraught moments of complex emotion — sometimes mundane, sometimes muted — are a refrain throughout the book. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

It felt forced even as he read it.Two moments struck me as especially fraught.... ‘Westworld’ Season 1, Episode 7: They Cannot See 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

"A deluge of fraught, breathless veil-related emails followed … insistent, unstoppably amorous." Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked – review 2013-02-07T07:00:01Z

Photography’s fraught and complicated relationship to the older genre may be too heavy a subject for Mr. Houck’s austere approach. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

It's a condition fraught with unhappiness as there are few guidelines and no clear rights and wrongs. TV review: Monty Halls' Great Irish Escape; Me, My Sex and I; Renaissance Education 2011-08-11T21:45:01Z

Taylor is a deft and engaging historian of her fraught life. Historian recollects the demons of her own past in ‘The Last Asylum’ 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z

Part of the attraction of the rituals in this show is how fraught they are. Ritual love of “Vikings: Valhalla” 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z

The score, played here by the ensemble Contemporaneous under William Cole’s direction, ingeniously translates some fraught conversations between a doctor and patient into a percussion duet. Cataclysmic Suffering Sprawls Through the Prototype Festival 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

“We caught lots of flack from the die-hard bluegrass fans,” Mr. Osborne said of the group’s sometimes fraught relationship with bluegrass purists in a 2011 interview with the online publication Mandolin Café. Bobby Osborne, Mandolinist Who Flouted Bluegrass Convention, Dies at 91 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z