| 单词 | fray |
| 例句 | She slipped out of bed and went to her window, A servant was sweeping the empty driveway with a frayed broom. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I look at our joined fingers, at the fraying cuff of his gray shirt and the worn knee of his jeans. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Her nerves were still as frayed as old rope; every sudden skitter and crunch of leaf underfoot rattled her insides. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I gathered the fraying strands of song and wove them carefully back to what they had been a moment earlier. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He wears a red collared shirt and a pair of jeans that are fraying at the knee. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z With the one tipping out of alignment, the whole elegant scheme had torn, frayed. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Father is walking around in frayed trousers, and his tie is also showing signs of wear and tear. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He looked like he was fraying at the edges. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “I’m so sorry,” she said, repeating it three times, her voice raw, a fraying rope. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But there’s no pill, and our quarrels fray instead of knot, always ending in him crying and me soriy for hurting him over something he can’t help. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z I look at her, and I can see the way time has worn through her like an old piece of cloth, the fibers exposed and fraying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The clothes she wore were rags, faded and fraying, but warm clean rags for all that. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The steward walked easily into the fray of scurrying servers, and Ivan started after him. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z He unspools the memories, and sometimes they have knots in them, and. sometimes they are frayed, but they are the things he thinks of when he thinks about his father. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I could see the jagged holes, and the frayed edges. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z And with a flourish, he pulled a thread out of his fraying sleeve and tied it around Pinmei’s wrist. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Matty scolded his puppy, who had jumped to grab and tug at the frayed edge of the woman’s skirt. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z All the fraying edges of the dream world. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She nestles her grandson beneath a frayed blanket on her bed and kisses his eyes closed. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She made me sit down on the frayed silk of her eighteenth century settee while she made me a little supper, with bread and honey and coffee, and tiny yellow apples, and a boiled egg. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I put my coat over her fraying blouse, even though the summer air is too hot for it, and wave to Helena. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There was nothing in the room, just a frayed rug, a few dishes, a pair of mattresses, and a lantern. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I saw something like them in Hampton Court, but there they were worn and frayed and moth-eaten. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Violet stood up and took off her coat, carefully pulling her arms trapped in frayed silk. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z We followed him through dim, grimy hallways where barefoot children dressed in frayed sweaters ambled around. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Sammy cursed for a while, or left the house, or threw himself into the fray. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “Estha Mon!” he would call out, in his high, piping voice, frayed and fibrous now, like sugarcane stripped of its bark. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have a ham at Christmas,” she responded, inspecting a frayed cuff. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z He bought his clothes old—frayed, holey, faded. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her voice was fraying from the strain of picking words so carefully. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Now, having run out of things to say, she was standing at her desk with her frayed shawl clasped around her shoulders. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The frayed end had become entangled in a fairsized dead limb. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her frown deepened when she discovered the Captain of the Guard smirking as they walked into the fray of the readying company. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Inside are a small anaco and blouse, and a pile of fabric scraps of all colors, faded and frayed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The straps that had suspended the shark from the hoist had been sliced and frayed. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But no one else cared that Professor Lupin’s robes were patched and frayed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z A frayed scandal sheet called Madam Solaina's Secrets is tucked between two pages. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She didn’t look too enthusiastic about having Ron as a partner, though; her dark eyes lingered on the frayed neck and sleeves of his dress robes as she looked him up and down. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing an old seersucker suit which hung very loosely on him—he, too, had lost some weight—and a frayed old Sulka tie. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Gently, gently, I picked at the knot in the frayed green nylon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The thing had frayed in the wash, so the silvery gray now just looked gray, a total noncolor, like something she’d washed and worn for a decade. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He is one of the men wearing a worn hat, woven and frayed. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards lift me up above the fray, where I continue to thrash as I’m conveyed over the crush of people. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He kept Pong's bracelet supply up, always replacing the frayed ones just before they snapped. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As if his design were to watch me steadily unravel from the inside out, to record in my fraying mesh of self the hidden hazard of all traitors and spies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The bed was as empty as the stairs, its sheets frayed by mice. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Magdalys barely had time to nod before Redd spun Reba around one more time on top of the trike and then sent her leaping off, directly into the fray as shotgun blasts erupted around them. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I find only the frayed end of a seat belt and a broken buckle. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Tatterfell sews on cunning cuffs made from the scales of pinecones around the edges of frayed sleeves. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The commandant raises his left arm and yells, “Ten!” and the wind frays the word across the long expanse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She wears a yellow star pinned to her frayed brown coat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z A man screamed in the center of the fray and tried to free his arms to pound the man biting his thigh. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A little north of the rock fight, John and the Williams boys, oblivious of the fray, continued their game of diving and floating. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Belle whinnied in surprise, then took off with the touch of my heels—she felt left out of the fray and wanted to catch up. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z We kept the program largely behind closed doors, rather than thrusting these girls into the media fray. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Despite his fraying nerves, Dasch remembered the captain of the U-boat telling him the sailors had a flare in case they had trouble getting back to the submarine. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The discs sprouted thin, wiry legs like spiders and skittered into the crowd, where they affixed themselves to Mr. Flux’s troops, delivering electrical charges that sent them yelping up and out of the fray. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I sit in her matching chair, which is less frayed but just as worn. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, carefully, using the delicate cutting tools she had been given, Kira snipped away the frayed threads. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And they imagined that they were singing to fellow officers fresh from the fray. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Things tend to get worse, not better, and knowing how unbalanced I’d felt being in the midst of the fray, I couldn’t imagine the state of the streets right now. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z The Mask removes himself from the fray, rubbing his jaw. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z But for me at least, this non-appearance of Hailsham students just added to a feeling that Hailsham was now far away in the past, and that the ties binding our old crowd were fraying. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The other Edith’s box looks wilted and old, with its worn cardboard and frayed edges. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z And even that rope had frayed and been reknotted in precisely the same spot, and she knew it intimately, having been tied up in that very sledge for several agonizing hours. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nick and Leah end up talking about Doctor Who, and Leah tucks into the video game chair, tugging the frayed hem of her jeans. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “I’m sure he’s in the fray,” she said, rolling her eyes at the ceiling, which thrummed with the thudding of feet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Mary Anne scratched Red’s face as he tried to rise and re-enter the fray, but Red shoved her down as he rose to his knees, stunned and uncomprehending. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a strip of cloth made of blue-striped fabric, frayed and faded. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I picked up the bottom end of it, attached my jumar* to the slightly frayed line, and began to climb. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A boy, larger than himself and probably a few years older, was standing at a counter talking with a stout marketwoman in a frayed red skirt. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Assassin picked at the frayed cuff of her blouse. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Trainer Conway was a frayed wire, shouting at reporters to get the hell away from his horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the burly leader was still in the fray, staggering awkwardly on mangled legs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z As Colonel Meecham looked over at Mary Anne, Karen saw her chance to join the fray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She hadn’t stopped chewing on her iced-coffee straw, and now it was stained with her pink lip gloss, the top starting to fray into pieces. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I untied my frayed shoestrings—I had to cut them, too—and slipped my sneakers off, tucking them under the bench. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The thread faded, fraying away, until it was gone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z It’s early evening as I climb the frayed ratlines that drape the ship like shrouds. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z It’s altogether white now and looks like frayed nylon thread. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The album was flipped through and, finally, the customer was satisfied and seated, frayed plastic hoisted around her neck, her chair height adjusted, and Mariama all the time smiling a smile full of things restrained. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z By the time the girls burst into my room, frayed backpacks and old bucket purses busting at the seams, I was all ready to go. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z “Rules are rules!” the conductor said, his patience fraying. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z She is carrying two towels: one white, one gray, both frayed at the edges. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She and Sally had first cried and then attempted to pull themselves together, but their nerves were frayed. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It’s like looking up and seeing the material of your parachute fray and flutter. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z A little skin remained, stretched across his face, tight and hard as white leather, but even that was fraying, and here and there the brown and yellow bone beneath was poking through. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Gentle Mother, strength of women, help our daughters through this fray, soothe,the wrath and tame the fury, teach us all a kinder way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The sight was a welcome relief for my frayed nerves. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z It's so worn the edges are frayed, and so huge it swallows her up, so tiny is she. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘Father, this hero has fought long and hard for our cause. His nerves are frayed. We should take that into account.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z My patience was as frayed as my second-best dress. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They crept inside, stepping over frayed curtain ropes, a lute with no strings, a plastic pitcher, and an old broom. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Soft, pale blue, with a fraying edge around the bottom that will never show, bought yesterday in the market with what should have been the egg money. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z By the time Arturo arrived, not more than ten minutes later, I was pacing outside, knotted with worry, every knot pulled so tight that it had begun to fray. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z The U.S. government also entered the fray in the hopes of gaining twenty years of back taxes owed by Bobby, and what was left over from the 1992 match. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He drooled and the saliva dripped down to her breasts, soaking her frayed polyester bra. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z He felt they sensed each other’s frayed loneliness as past champions, a nostalgia to which few could relate. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His voice trailed off, but I picked up the frayed ends of his thought all the same—how could I not? The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z And they voted to replace the bell rope, seeing how it was so frayed it would certainly come down by springtime. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A pair of frayed trousers stick out from beneath a ’55 Plymouth. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben answered the phone and heard the voice of Arrabelle Smalls frayed with hysteria and almost unintelligible as she wept and tried to speak at the same time. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They used steel cables, frayed at the ends. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to stay calm, but the way he spat the word out—Blue—rankled my already frayed nerves. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They were often the first sign of a storm, the frayed hem of cloud heavy with weather. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z “I have something for you,” he says, then hands over a paperback, its edges frayed and bent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The leather satchel he carried looked familiar, worn and oily dark with handling, the edges frayed and repaired with duct tape. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Most of the book spines were faded and frayed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We played them in the evenings as the sun set over the steeples of Boston, casting broad, brazen rectangles of light across the fraying rugs. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He wore a robe of rich baroque brocades, yet on his feet were frayed, treadworn slippers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z And now he noticed that the ropes that held the swing were frayed and the picket fence that had looked so bright and perky before was really flaked, peeling, even leaning to the left. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It's navy, already tighter than it should be, frayed at the hem and several years old, from before the war. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Gentle Mother, strength of women, help our daughters through this fray, soothe the wrath and tame the fury, teach us all a kinder way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His eye patch was frayed around the edges and the black cloth was faded, like he’d been wearing it a long, long time. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I tore the LED bulbs out of one and left the two frayed power wires very close together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Candice pulled at the fraying threads of one of the couch cushions. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He seemed about to speak, but turned quickly without a word and ran toward the fray. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z There in the corner, worked in faded thread, initials had magically appeared on the fraying hem: M-T-L- Suddenly, Mrs. Weidenbach appeared, gripping the preacher’s stovepipe hat. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I hold onto that hope like the frayed end of a lifeline, because I still refuse to face any of the alternatives. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Underneath he was wearing a simple white shirt and a pair of rather disreputable looking pants held up by a piece of frayed rope. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Don’t let him bite his tongue off,” a short sergeant near Yossarian advised shrewdly, and a seventh man threw himself into the fray to wrestle with the ill lieutenant’s face. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I squinted into the dim space, trying to focus on the frayed wire. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He began fishing limes out of his frayed pockets. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were all a jumble of frayed fabric and slack collars, the students at the party, all their clothes looked determinedly worn. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Its hem was frayed from dragging up and down the rough stone steps of the stacks, and it was large, so the shape of him was quite lost within it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There’s a place where his jeans are fraying, and a tiny patch of brown skin is barely visible between the fibers of the denim. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z His favorite pair has frayed cuffs and a small tear in the rear. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Three frayed electrical leads sprout from the top. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She picks at the frayed edges of the rug. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Or because she looks just right, even wearing frayed jean shorts and a T-shirt. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The NSA had instructed him to patch up fraying relations with Britain’s intelligence community—and also to lay the groundwork for spying on America’s enemies, as well as some of its closest friends. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Two beds, a washstand, and a wooden trunk with frayed leather straps nearly filled it. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Trina was reaching for Deedee; she grabbed her and pulled her into a fierce hug, leaping out of the fray just as more people rained down from above. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z My jacket scrapes at my arms, my hair is frayed, and my eyes feel shot with blood. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The leather is frayed and splattered with paint, but it’s still a million times better than the backpack I already can’t believe I let Mom buy me. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Ivanito watches his mother put on her flannel nightgown then wrap herself in a frayed Chinese tunic embroidered with chrysanthemums, a onetime gift from his father. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes were flat and cold but her fingernails were tearing at the upholstery of the chair, ripping and fraying the silk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He carried no trunk, only a carpetbag that was fraying apart at the seams. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Her style didn't come from her clothes—leather boots, cracked all over the toes, a fraying shawl and faded sweater she hid under—but rather from the way she stared ahead with resolve. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z There were two mattresses on opposite sides of the room, a worn Herati rug with frayed edges in between, a three-legged stool, and a wooden table in the corner where Hassan did his drawings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They’d passed a huge battalion of policemen, looking worn-out, some badly injured, but nightsticks drawn and clearly marching back into the fray. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z There wasn’t much oomph left in the stuffing, and the edges were frayed. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z His jeans are dark and frayed at the hems. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He thought he could smell smoke, though perhaps it was just the scent of his nerves fraying. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Jason didn’t really understand, but he nodded, and Will and Nico dashed off into the fray. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He casts nervous glances upward at the additional chairs and the round iron cages suspended by nothing but fraying ribbon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A strange tassel hung from the top of the book—a worn leather cord, frayed and tied back together in several spots. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “So he thinks I’m crazy too,” I say to my mother as we rejoin the fray in the waiting room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z You can imagine the scene: a dark-paneled room, an artfully frayed Persian carpet, row upon row of leather-bound legal volumes, oil paintings of Mr. Mudge and Mr. Rose on the wall. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The preacher yipped and jabbed at the sky with his fraying Bible. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The spurt of flames it sent up lit the frayed edge of the papers and quickly spread over the whole bundle. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He staggered inside and collapsed on the fraying couch. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z His trouser hems were fraying to bits, but he had nice leather boots that hardly looked broken in. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z His clothing was worn out, with fraying sleeves and collar. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z An ugly girl should dress in ugly clothing, she decided, so she chose a stained brown cloak fraying at the hem, a musty green tunic smelling of fish, and a pair of heavy boots. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The bottom edges of his jeans were frayed. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Nothing had changed—the frayed red curtains, the armchairs with the upholstery worn thin, the hideous mud-colored carpet. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I love this place: the jumble of old, glittery broaches in the glass case, the worn pots and dishes and frayed baskets on the bookshelves. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman’s hair was long and disheveled, and her long tunic dress was torn and frayed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Johnny broad-shouldered, in jeans and a pink plaid button- down so old its edges are frayed; nails bitten, hair cropped. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Books balanced precariously on top of shelves, and there was a tall stack with bright, frayed covers next to her desk. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Jinx made his way through a cramped maze of tables, chairs, and empty whiskey glasses, past a frayed curtain. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Candice stretched out on the couch with her eyes glued to her dad’s old iPod touch and her feet tucked underneath a frayed throw pillow. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It is oddly pretty, for being an old hat and a handkerchief and a card tied up in fraying ribbon. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Once they reached Weep and all was revealed, whoever had made the closest guess would win the purse—which was up to some five hundred silver now, and bursting at its frayed green seams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z All they ever really saw of the soldier in white was a frayed black hole over his mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z An image flashes through my mind of the frayed tire swing rope over the river that snapped in two one summer when I tried to kick too high, sending me plunging into the water. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Celia half drags her son to her bed, the bed in which he was conceived, and for three days he sleeps wrapped in blankets and his father’s frayed pajamas. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The fallen logs with frayed strips of bark. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z It was Henry, the hunger in him, the fraying boundaries. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z And, most of all, that frayed and tattered letter stuck to my chest like a scar. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He was very tired, Yellin was, and his nerves long past frayed. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Ben was sitting on a stump, huddled in his frayed brown cloak. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His wrapper had come undone to reveal a pair of white shorts with a frayed elastic band at the waist. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z While I walked I thought about Dee, thought about her frayed orange and gold sari and the red color painted on her tiny lips. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Once the wellspring of hope, Levittown is now ground zero in America’s new narratives: income inequality, the fraying of the working class, suburban poverty. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He looks old and worn, like the red velvet sofa that’s frayed and faded over the years. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His bright, indignant eyes swept from my battered gray cap, down the frayed sweater and paint-stained pants to a pair of clodhoppers. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Music from a jukebox blared from the windows; men in stained overalls, factory workers, and women in frayed dresses were sitting on the crumbling front steps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The cement floor was a jungle of boxes, ragged pants, overalls, jackets, bicycles, unwashed pots and pans, opened cans of fish, empty beer bottles and cartons, old newspapers, greasy underwear and frayed suitcases. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Mike was born, though, family life had begun to fray in the Rantz household. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She unfolded her strip, a piece of sky blue denim with fraying edges, on which words had been printed in white. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “It’s because it’s so young here,” said the OIC, whose nerves seemed frayed. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The place smelled of their beer and hair tonic, their punch-clock misery, their frayed nerves, their trade unionism. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Marcos decorated the carriage house with some frayed curtains that had once belonged in the drawing room but that neglect and age had turned to dusty rags. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Patched, frayed, and dirty, the hat lay motionless at Harry’s feet. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Their long embroidered kilts had seen better days: The colors were faded and the tassels frayed or missing entirely. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I pulled the jeans up and tucked in the fraying seam of what used to be a dress. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z For one thing, the relationship between Lawrence and Oppenheimer had become seriously frayed. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z She wanted to grab those threads of fear over the army, fray them away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Grigori vanished into a fray of tourists, and I followed after him. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Dad was a perpetual optimist, confident that brains someday would triumph over inanimate steel; bolstered in the belief that he entered the fray with clean hands and a pure heart. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z As War Admiral walked to the line alongside the flagman and starter Cassidy, Woolf worked to fray the Triple Crown winner’s famously delicate nerves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Something tiny, like a frayed string, flicked from its mouth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z He observed her fingers, tipped with black nail polish, turn the pages of the book she was reading as she lounged on the fraying orange sofa. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z My entire world had shrunk down to the frayed margins of the sodden road. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It is thick, with a worn cover and frayed edges. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She'd caught up to me, even with the added weight of RiRi’s roll attached to her own with a fraying bungee cord. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They jump from faded paint on the wall to frayed edges on the quilt cover to a David Letterman bobble-head on top of a stack of magazines, on top of an old record player. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her cargo shorts are frayed at the edges, and her gardening clogs smell like they’ve been doing exactly what they were made for. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He ran his trembling fingers around and around the frayed bracelets on his left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z She was wearing the same light-blue tee shirt and black yoga pants that she'd been in the last time Hazel saw her, but they were now faded and frayed. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Baachan’s coat was old with frayed sleeves, but it looked heavy, so she was probably warm enough. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z In a few weeks four more children joined the fray, for a total of eleven foster children between the ages of two and six. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z There was a frayed velvet rope and a big pink-once-red awning. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I let the cow out and lead her by a frayed rope down another dusty road to the colegio grounds, where she grazes on the grass near the avocado trees. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It worked fairly well; at least he was now lace-free, although he hadn’t done a very neat job, and the edges still looked depressingly frayed as the boys set off downstairs. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z As we stumbled through the fray, I glanced back the way we’d come, not sure what I expected to see. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Amil started to play with the thin, frayed leather on his sandals. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z My body feels like it’s held together by strings that are splitting and fraying inside me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There were dark smudges under his eyes, the frayed edges of somebody who hadn’t slept in a while. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It's the perfect hat for Max, and it hides the frayed ends of the wires I've trimmed. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The flowers had been laid evenly to cover the mound of new-turned damp earth, and already the wind had frayed the blossoms and flung the smaller bouquets out into the path. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z His guards had gone to join in the fray. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He had dim eyes and two buttons missing on his frayed maroon coat. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She has read Around the World in Eighty Days until the Braille is soft and fraying; for this year’s birthday, her father has bought her an even fatter book: Dumas’s The Three Musketeers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Inside the airplane are rows and rows of seats covered in ripped, fraying blue fabric. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Now its blue soft covers were beginning to fade and its corners were frayed. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Rajesh had arrived in Calcutta in 1946, just as the city was itself losing sanity—its nerves fraying; its love depleted; its patience spent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But with her diamond-patterned mermaid tail, frayed tank top, and the little beaded seashell necklace around her neck, the drawing was also Greenleigh. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I’ll carry him outside, feeling his warmth turn to cold as the horizon frays and falls down in my backyard. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The next morning I met Dinitia in front of the pool entrance, my thrift - shop one-piece rolled inside my frayed gray towel. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the fraying relationship between Whitiker and her boyfriend fell apart and, without him to pay the rent, she fell further behind. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Fear kept coming back, sprouting up anew as soon as Anya frayed those threads away. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z I pick up a pair of jeans that are frayed on the bottom and have a few holes in them, and am about to show them to Mama, until I think better of it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z It reminded her of the time she’d been plugging a frayed lamp cord into the wall and her finger had landed on bare wire. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z After a bit I shimmied up the frayed rope to see how climbable the tree was. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then he looked at my torn, frayed jeans. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z How your patience must fray waiting for my letters. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z It was Alec—and suddenly bodies were flying everywhere.The man had charged forward and leaped into the fray, taking down half the people trying to get to Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z The ends of his frayed boxer shorts were visible below. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My nerves felt frayed, and it was all somehow more intense because we didn’t really speak. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z And as the dinghy rocks in the growing current, I see the rope holding it to the pole begin to fray against a cluster of sharp mussel shells. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z From how frayed it is, I’d say I wasn’t the first to have this idea. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z This hat was patched and frayed and extremely dirty. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She frayed them away, one by one, and everyone moved faster and more purposefully. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z One man looked poorer than the others; the cuffs of his coat were frayed and his hands were stained with ink. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s wrinkled and a cuff is already fraying. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Flies perched on them in dense clusters, so that for a moment it seemed as if their frayed white caftans had been splashed with dark-colored paint. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z In her black shirt that hangs below her bottom and pants that are frayed at the hem, she looks smaller than the rest of the group. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They were dressed in jeans of that light blue, lighter and a little frayed at the seams, that can be achieved only by a hundred washings. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed the cover and fingered one of the rounded corners, feathered and frayed from overuse. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Who cares if it’s gray and fraying and maybe even a little smelly? A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He had on a loose black T-shirt and jeans that were frayed at the hems. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Without thinking, Jule pulled off her running shorts and then her bleached, frayed Stanford T-shirt. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Florah was singing lullabies to Merriam; Maria was playing placidly with her frayed rag doll; and George huddled near the brazier, sleeping. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon one of the nailheads was almost out of sight under the frayed edges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I knotted their frayed ends together with the wires that sprouted off the reed, just as I’d always pictured. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z As I pass him, I grow very conscious of the frayed rope in my hand leading the cow, and the rhythm of my ponytail swinging back and forth behind me. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was carved in black wood, with a canopy of angels in relief and a few scraps of red brocade that were frayed with age. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Through absence and neglect, the ties that bound me to my father and to Laertes had frayed since I had entered Gertrude's service. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Overhead, the rope frayed with its next sharp drop, and Mary Lou screamed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z On board were two benches, some steel wool, an old cooler, and a mound of frayed rope with one end tied to the mooring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I started cleaning the camp area, or what was left of it I piled all the palm fronds, frayed by the wind, in one place; sticks of wet driftwood in another. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z We were instructed to repair the garments, but we discovered that most of these jerseys were frayed beyond repair. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was standing still, one hand upon the doorknob; the other hand clutched a frayed pocketbook, which she dropped and ran to him, throwing her arms about him, crying, “My baby. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z By now my two pairs of pants were threadbare and my three sweaters were frayed. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He was looking down now, playing with the frayed edges of the straw mat. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Two of them also had rusty automatic rifles dangling by shoulder straps of fraying twine. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He untied the frayed ropes and unwrapped the fabric that covered it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The frayed threads, like delicate hairs of a newborn child, caught the dim light from the doorway. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z The curls are starting to fray on the ends, but the rest of my hair is still smooth. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z She nodded like she was dreaming, half-naked in her fraying dress. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “My nails are a sight from all that scouring,” she said, taking a long file off the mantelpiece and smoothing a frayed thumbnail. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She still had a rope around her waist, frayed green nylon. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The top flaps are fraying around the edges, and layered with tape that isn’t sticky anymore. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I slip between two security bots that have rushed into the fray but are still unsure how to handle the hijacked bots. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I have something for you,” he says, then hands over a paperback, its edges frayed and bent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Without them I wouldn’t be able to jump back into the fray with my usual composure. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The fighter planes started firing their guns, and more and more aircraft joined the fray, until there were nine Soviet fighter pilots battling forty Luftwaffe aircraft. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The survivors were exhausted and haggard looking, their clothes frayed and soiled and smelling heavily of vinegar and camphor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z What if her girlfriends pawed through her threadbare socks, Nancy Drew mysteries, and frayed hair ribbons, casting them aside and choosing none? Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z No leader could credibly claim to be above the fray. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In a minute all that was left of the man was a frayed mess of veins and entrails hanging from the monster's mouth. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z A bootlace, tip fraying, stretched out long for a stem. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We were sitting on the ribbed wooden floor, on frayed, stained blankets used to wrap furniture, feeling for one another with our hands. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The edges are fraying and the fabric’s all rough. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At this point both benches emptied and converged, and the twenty or so fans watching joined the fray. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get closer to them, I see that they’re worn and frayed at the edges. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z German submarines had killed Americans, and relations with Germany were fraying. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the wall behind her, a painted wisteria vine frays into a tangled modernist spray of color that makes von Rumpel uneasy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I asked, touching the frayed skin around his thumbnail. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z That night she and her father wind up the twisting staircase and go to bed side by side on the same lumpy bed in the same sixth-floor bedroom with the fraying silk wallpaper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Koffi tugged at her tunic’s frayed neckline, trying to temper a moment’s guilt. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Palmer tore off the paper to reveal an old, frayed shoe box. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z "House Kent is falling apart, going bankrupt. Did you see Lady Kent's dress—frayed at the hem." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A fly was ready fastened on the line, a black gnat, a little frayed but still hairy enough. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z These strong passions have somewhat frayed the tolerance for ambiguity that is essential to science. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The clothes were frayed, though, with wear, and they were barefoot. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z As usual, he took the point position himself, determined to be the first into the fray if, as he fervently hoped, a fray developed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z The gaoler was a scarecrow of a man with a rat's face and frayed beard, clad in a mail shirt and a leather half cape. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The floor was covered with a flat rug whose fringes had worn away into frayed edges where they met the wood floor. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z “Here’s rosemary; that’s for remembrance,” I said, tucking a sprig into his doublet, which had been ripped and smeared with dirt in the fray with the guards. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He mourned the dead girl all that day, fraying the nerves of the whole family and all the neighbors, who came running at the sound of his shipwrecked howls. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As Harry plunged after them, one of the fighters detached themselves from the fray and flew at him: It was the werewolf, Fenrir. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Winky was twisting the hem of her tea towel so violently that it was fraying beneath her fingers. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I was intrigued by her strange, flat-toed shoes, badly frayed, worn down by the boards. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Trails of frayed odd ribbons and precious bits of gift wrap and other junks of the past. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The leather is worn and the binding is fraying at the edges. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I peek at the long cardboard box he just came out of and see a couple of plastic bags tied closed and a frayed green comforter. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Had it not been for my superior brawn, she would have sacked my wagon. Finally she limped away from the fray, her glad rags askew.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A man with a shirt frayed at the cuffs, without a jacket and wearing broken shoes, marched along reciting the Poet’s most revolutionary poems, his grief streaming down his face. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The school day is already in full swing, so when I open the doors, I jump right into the fray. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z A wide smile crossed his face as he urged the tyrannosaurus into the fray. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z His shirt, spilling out of his trousers, wasn’t very clean, and his dark-green jacket with fraying cuffs was clearly old. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z Every morning it’s the same: the Americans ever closer, the Germans fraying at the seams. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Other girls ran into the room, joining the fray. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The holes were big and uneven, and the rope was frayed. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z There was a frayed weariness in the old man’s words, as though they had long since worn out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “No matter what you hear, you don’t join the fray unless I give the command. Stay sharp.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She held up a small key tied with a frayed blue ribbon. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Above from the crab apple tree the frayed end of the rope swung gently. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He leaves me in a wide, windowless corridor crammed with people sitting on metallic folding chairs set along the walls, others on the thin frayed carpet. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A gang of kids, little thieves in training, flutters through the fray with sticky, searching fingers. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z No matter how I tried to dodge through the fray it was hopeless. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Excited, she picked out the first book, but she grew quiet as she saw how raggedy it was—the binding frayed, even missing pages. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z She remembered watching, fascinated, as her mother pushed a bone needle with thick colorful thread through the fabric; gradually a bright gold replaced the small frayed spot on one sleeve. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As she pulled on her red jacket and tied the frayed and knotted laces of her shoes, she thought about it. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The seams of the cushions were frayed and slipping apart. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She’s just as dark and wears the same frayed red dress every other day. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z His jeans are half tucked into his boots and his baseball cap is fraying and trimmed in sweat stains. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Horse looked skeptical, but Gerry nodded sourly and tugged at one of his fraying sleeves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Then she takes off her raggedy skirt and runs right into the swooshing ocean in the long, frayed T-shirt she's wearing. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z He looked up at the hoist with the frayed straps hanging down. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z A ratty pair of ginger cat-shaped house slippers curled up underneath a fraying sweatshirt. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z But today I start to feel my edges fraying. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The binding is frayed, and the rope around its center barely holds in the contents. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z A length of frayed rope bound the bundle together. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z And Eduardo was safe in a bobbing rowboat well below the fray. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The painting over their fireplace, by Daniel Aronstein, was a modem depiction of an American flag: strips of frayed muslin layered with oil paints in greens and mauve. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Its edges are all fraying, wearing with time. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Passengers’ clothes, still dressy in those days, nevertheless showed wear and tear: hats gone unblocked for months, hemlines and cuffs frayed, neckties and lapels gravy-stained. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z You stroked a frayed knot of the rope that had once held our roof together. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z She was exasperated by his mugs of coffee at five in the morning, the disorder of his workshop, his frayed blanket, and his custom of sitting in the street door at dusk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z A little more than a decade later, the rosy picture was fraying around the edges. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z My mother says frequently that she doesn’t give a hoot about clothes, but this indifference does not extend to holes, frayed edgs, or dirt. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A little boy and his sister straddled an ox, gripping a frayed piece of rope tied around the animal’s neck. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Many a time my husband stood aside unable to face the fray: if I had not reproached him his distaste of the whole procedure would have led him to starvation. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Arliss was racing around the cabin, dragging a short piece of frayed rope. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “Almost,” Anya grumbled, and the rope finally frayed enough for her to yank it apart. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z He had in his pocket and placed on the parlor table the lead bullet they had given him to bite while they cut off his frayed leg. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The girl wears a long shirt, which is an excuse for a dress; its frayed hem kisses the tops of her feet. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “Not Ready to Make Nice” was a linchpin of “Taking the Long Way,” the Chicks’ defiant but surprisingly nonpolitical response to the fray, which has sold two million copies. Two Dixie Chicks Form Court Yard Hounds 2010-04-24T02:45:00Z Black tarps are readily available and come with bound edges, to prevent fraying, and grommets with which to tie them down. If pulling weeds makes you want to pull your hair out, there’s a simple solution 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The show began to invent characters to hurl into the fray, such as the drunk and dishevelled Reverend Shnorr. Farewell to The Jerry Springer Show: 27 years of fights, bleeps and outrage 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Rather than sleek black gondolas with their polished brass fittings, Mr. Zec’s eye is caught by broken-down old fishing boats moored in obscure canals, draped with stained cloths and coils of frayed rope. Special Report: Contemporary Art: Returning to Where the Dream Began 2010-06-15T11:30:00Z As White’s predicament with Carl makes clear, public hospitals like Highland serve not just as the last, frayed strands of the healthcare safety net but also as social-service agencies of last resort. “The Waiting Room”: Welcome to Romneycare 2.0 2012-09-26T22:34:00Z The Daily Show always claimed it was fake, somehow below the fray of usual journalism, but it wasn’t that. Jon Stewart's Daily Show skewered the powerful and pushed US satire forward 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Yes, a lot was happening in “Black Moon,” and often the strings holding all the points of departure together became a little frayed. Dance Review: Monstah Black?s ?Black Moon,? at Dance New Amsterdam - Review 2011-09-19T22:35:22Z All seem in tune with Mr. Jones’s deadpan humor, which gives his dialogue plenty of comic bite even when the plot starts fraying at the seams. Review: In ‘Important Hats of the Twentieth Century,’ Saggy Jeans and Sweatshirts Make a 1930s Incursion 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z In some ways, though, Ms. Carey is comfortable letting those frayed seams show. Mariah Carey Brings Christmas to the Beacon Theater 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Leopold Mozart would have admired the marketing skills of the persistent young men in ratty wigs and fraying red waistcoats who prowl Stephansplatz, Vienna’s central square. Stalking the Memory of Mozart in Vienna 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Aydin is an intellectual who fancies himself above the fray, spending his days contemplating life, penning opinion pieces for the local paper, avoiding the book on Turkish theater he intends to write. 'Winter Sleep' haunting portrait of one man's crumbling world 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z It was not until the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post published articles that examined the Begelman case that The Times entered the fray by running an edited version of the Post article. Charles Champlin dies at 88; former L.A. Times arts editor, critic 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z Calling all tomato pickers, the old ones, wearing frayed radiator masks. Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate With a Working-Class Voice Meant to Be Spoken 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “It creates this serrated, fraying sound that you hear almost as a stutter,” Parker Woods said. From Lady Gaga to an ice cello, Seth Parker Woods redefines what it means to play cello 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z In a world of relentless change, she has been a constant — representing the U.K.’s interests abroad, applauding the nation’s successes and commiserating in its failures, and always remaining above the fray of politics. Elizabeth the Steadfast: Queen marks 70 years on throne 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z But resounding above the ordinary fray are the cries of young men playing pelote, a game akin to jai alai. The Wines of Irouléguy, in French Basque Country 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z In “Belleville” Ms. Herzog provides a portrait of a marriage beginning to fray under the pressure of an alien environment and the natural stresses experienced by any young couple. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z Once World War I conscription began, the entrenched media of the day was successfully able to paint the League as anti-American, and it began to fray. Review: In ‘Prairie Trilogy,’ All-American Stories of Socialism 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In the age of constant chatter from all sides, staying apart from the fray—though not necessarily above it—says something in its own right. Frank Ocean's Visual Album Endless Is the Year's Most Curious Work in Progress 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z As their marriage weakened and became frayed, the idea of losing what the four of us had—in a town where friendships weren’t easily made—grieved us all. His infidelity, our infertility: Could I forgive an emotional affair now? 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Even when the action slows, James Newton Howard’s overbearingly aggressive score insists on fraying your nerves with its pounding beats. | 'Inhale': A Life-Saving Journey to the Dark Side 2010-10-21T23:10:00Z Last weekend, I stood on the second-floor balcony of Gene's Sausage Shop and Delicatessen, a European-influenced market in Chicago's Lincoln Square, sampling gin while peering into the fray below. Want to make a fresh and festive Thanksgiving dinner for $40? Here's your menu 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Between grueling assignments in which she faces death by venturing into the heart of the fray, camera in hand, Rebecca returns to a picture-perfect existence at her home on the Irish seacoast. ‘1,000 Times Good Night,’ Starring Juliette Binoche 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Based on a 1934 Kaufman and Hart play of the same name, the musical tells the story of three friends, Frank, Charley, and Mary, and the fraying of their bonds and their dreams. Revisiting a Legendary Sondheim Flop 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “The fabric was really starting to fray with a lot of people.” What we lose when a great American city has no nightlife 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Lest there was any question about her national identity, she wore boots and a frayed faux-fur coat, revealed a fleur-de-lis arm tattoo and called the piece “Caribou.” Young Canadian choreographer brings promising works to Dance Place 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z We're talking about working-class guys with raw edges and frayed nerves who are not without their moments of both high comedy and deeply-felt introspection. 'Lakeboat': Salty language and guy insecurities worth 3 1/2 stars 2011-01-21T18:28:01Z Pushing students into that fray when they are not chronologically or emotionally prepared for it is something we should approach with great caution. Motherlode Blog: Against Accelerating the Gifted Child 2012-10-14T12:00:25Z Mike Pence jumped into the fray: “For Hillary Clinton to express such disdain for millions of Americans is one more reason that disqualifies her to serve in the highest office,” he told reporters. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z It feels less like a pub than a dinner party thrown in a tastefully frayed town house. Bites: Restaurant Review: Upstairs at the Ten Bells in London 2012-03-30T18:21:43Z Divisions over how to discuss the conflict in the Middle East have frayed yearslong relationships between collectors and artists. Artists Call for Boycott After Artforum Fires Its Top Editor 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z So is "Cursed," which debuts on Netflix July 17, placing Langford in the fray of a fantasy offshoot of the standard Arthurian legend. Enough already with the white warrior woman worship 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z Liz Robbins, a Washington lobbyist and a close friend of the Clintons, said she was surprised that people just now seemed to notice that Ms. Clinton was jumping into the Twitter fray. Now on Twitter: Chelsea Clinton, Unbound 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z She even mends a frayed flag edge, a nice way of showing her laser-like focus. Review: Holland Taylor's 'Ann' a sweet valentine 2013-03-08T01:09:08Z Green, in sandals, a striped T-shirt, and a denim jacket, sat by a window and blew cigarette smoke through a fraying screen as he waited for three of his newest muses. A Counterculture Portraitist’s Chronicle of New York’s Youth 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z Joining the fray is fringe survivor Red Shift, a company that may date back to the 1980s, but which is forward- looking in its use of technology. This week's new theatre 2011-08-19T23:09:21Z There’s a remarkably density and confidence to “Heartbreak Dream”: Who applies layers and layers of hooks like a cake decorator with a heavy fondant hand, but trusts in her voice to soar above the fray. Betty Who Goes for the Big Time in New Single “Heartbreak Dream” 2014-02-11T17:31:50Z Lifted above the fray by his family’s money, Darwin sat at his desk amid papers and books, gazing at an ugly building across the street and thinking about reproduction, competition and the struggle for life. Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Virgil Abloh is best known as a designer; no wonder “Delicate Limbs” begins with fashion-conscious lyrics: “Those gray pants you love might bring you luck, but if they ever fray you can call on me.” Taylor Swift’s Ode to Moving On, and 9 More New Songs 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z He says what he thinks but stays above the fray.” Olaf Olafsson, ?Restoration? Author and Time Warner Manager 2012-03-05T16:16:53Z But Ms. Harry, who turned 74 in July, displays no frayed edges whatsoever. The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z Across two decades, a move to Wyoming, three children, several books by Fuller and eventual financial calamities, the warp and weft of their life together frays and eventually unravels. ‘Leaving Before the Rains Come’: the latest chapter in a life chaotically lived 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Even the most disorienting novel is a reminder that you are more than a frayed nerve ending flailing across the Internet—that you, a somewhat coherent person, exist. The Best Books of 2018 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Herman Melville stayed physically out of the fray but wrote dozens of knotty, passionate poems during, and about, the war. American Eden, After the Fall 2013-01-10T22:01:26Z So let’s see if we can decipher some of them, process our feelings and collectively repair our frayed nerves. Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z And now Nando’s has willingly stepped into this fray, not with a fundraising campaign for charity but with posters that promote diversity, equal pay and multiculturalism, subjects that can be flashpoints for Trump supporters. Can restaurants take a stand during inauguration without alienating Trump voters? 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z In the new film, Mark Wahlberg represents the human race, and Dinobots — robots that turn into dinosaurs, obviously — join the fray. 5 Things to Do This Weekend: Imagining the Apocalypse Edition 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z The most prestigious of the major festivals, Cannes tends to attract the loudest criticisms but also to float above the fray. Special Report: Cannes Festival: They'll Always Have Cannes 2012-05-15T23:11:00Z US pop star Meghan Trainor entered the fray in August after her image was used without her permission to urge Australians to vote against legalizing same-sex marriage. U.S. rapper to sing 'Same Love' to Australian rugby fans amid same-sex marriage vote 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z The king is a constitutional monarch who is seen as above the political fray. Hospitalized Thai king healthy, palace says 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Dominic is a sex addict, which has ruined his marriage and frayed his relationship with college-aged Albie, who considers himself to be a "nice guy" and comes with his own sexual hangups. "The White Lotus": When it comes to vacation, what does pleasure actually look like? 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z But mostly the hands-off production by a small team of collaborators including Don Was leaves plenty of space for the singer’s eloquently frayed voice to whisper, murmur and confide. 'Blessed': Lucinda Williams goes beyond the break-up song 2011-02-28T22:14:26Z An omnipresent, nine-month marketing campaign propelled “The Angry Birds Movie” to No. 1 at the North American box office over the weekend, giving Sony Pictures an important feather for its frayed cap. ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ Nests Atop the Box Office 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z Does she worry that as she enters her 50s the voice might start to fray? Nina Stemme: 'I am always questioning myself – could it be better?' 2013-05-02T12:51:45Z Indeed, the fraying hems brought the threat of unraveling everywhere, making the outfits seem loaded with back stories. Powerhouses Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein cap New York Fashion Week 2013-09-12T21:20:53Z The sleeve of her good will has begun to fray. Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues. 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z They’re all flawed in their own ways, but as Gaines writes of his imperfect family, “We were just another frayed thread in an infinite tapestry.” ‘Inside My Head I’m a Girl’: Three Ways of Growing Up Gay 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z He has frightened away therapists, and Tami’s composure, barely fortified with alcohol, is fraying. Theater Review: ‘Falling,’ at Minetta Lane, Looks at Autism’s Role in a Family 2012-10-16T21:58:05Z For British conservatives, the “special relationship” has felt frayed for some time. Nigel Farage on the Story Behind His Friendship with Trump 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z This year, it was straight to the fray. Film Festival Opens With a Crowded Slate 2013-09-06T17:09:25Z “You can see the fabric itself starts to fray.” FAQ: How to care for your face mask (and why you shouldn’t hang it from your rear-view mirror) 2020-08-13T04:00:00Z Though the misleading content of her story remains the same, her place in the fray was not first. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z In 2005, Mennonite women living in a colony in Bolivia reported waking up bleeding with frayed rope around their wrists. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The story is about the grind of being housebound: the aggravation, the fraying nerves and emotions. Opening the Door: 3 Picture Books Look at Life on the Other Side 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s unclear what, if anything, caused the Drudge-Trump bond to fray this summer. Matt Drudge played a major role in the Clinton impeachment. Now he’s back for another round. 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He has grown a goatee, and his drab brown uniform has a frayed collar and a hasty patch on its right shoulder. Walk Through This Exhibition With Dread. You Know Where It Leads. 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z The ostentatious humility is a cop-out, its endearing quality frayed by protraction. Review: Staging Their Own Siege, Sardonic and Messy 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Still, her decision to stay out of the fray for nearly the entirety of the race had been notable. An underwhelming end to Oprah’s Dr. Oz drama 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Having a knot slip or a frayed leader break is an unnecessary hazard. No chill on hot Lake Chelan mackinaw and rainbow trout fishing 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z It’s difficult not to roll your eyes when another one enters the fray. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z But my biggest issue was the cloying and childlike Sarah Jo, whose narratively expedient naïveté worked my last frayed nerve. Sundance Wrap-Up: 6 Movies We Like and One We Disagree on 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Disney/Pixar's Monsters University will also enter the fray in North America and poses less of a challenge to Man of Steel as the target demographics most definitely do not overlap. Man of Steel takes off – but will World War Z bring him back to Earth? 2013-06-17T12:57:47Z In a sense, Oliver had removed himself from the fray, operating as a kind of controlling conscience or guardian angel rather than, as has previously been the case, a manic one-man Salvation Army. Rewind TV: Jamie's Dream School; Attenborough and the Giant Egg; The Promise 2011-03-06T00:09:51Z As we get to Day 4 of the stretch, my nerves, reinforced by the days without them, begin their bimonthly fray, even as it hurts to see them go. Motherlode Blog: The Half-Life of the Divorced Parent 2013-07-25T13:56:44Z And so Gunnar joins the fray, as does a third hostage. ‘Stockholm’ Review: Seduced by a Hostage-Taker 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Sometimes you need to write lines so outlandish and full of truth-seeking that they slice through the fray. No Compromises 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z The latter was the night’s peak, the sound of nerves frayed to raw from the repeated pull of longing, rendered in tortured whisper. Sufjan Stevens, a haunting presence at Constitution Hall 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Dealers jumped into the fray when rarities came up. Old Masters Rush In to Save the Day 2010-12-10T12:42:00Z And then there’s Beckman, swaggering above the fray and finally breathing fire when D.J. boasts about how he cynically games the system and keeps winning. Review | A woman plays the title character in ‘Don Juan,’ and he’s still a jerk 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “They get to look like old melted candles, as if their bodies were preparing to waddle. Irish get slovenly and dirty. Anglo-Saxons get frayed and worn.” Fitzgerald and the Jews 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z It is fraying at the edges but its words, in ink on parchment, are still perfectly clear. Behold, the Tiniest of Books 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Philo said the collection was her way of stepping back from the industrialized, urban fray. Celine aims to redefine luxury values 2010-10-03T23:31:00Z Three dresses came out, blossoming in layer upon tiny frayed layer of printed chiffon — red-orange, lilac, silver-gray — and each was roundish and soft, like a dandelion head or a child’s stick-figure drawing of a human. Fashion Review: McQueen, Louis Vuitton and Miu Miu Bring Paris Shows to a Close 2012-03-08T00:21:03Z While grieving the loss of their parents, the siblings uncover dark secrets about their family business, and their own relationship begins to fray under the pressure. 7 Fiction Podcasts Ready Made for Vacation 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Wearing a thimble but no gloves, Ms. Whelan layered fine, nearly invisible netting over and under each hole, then used polyester thread finer than human hair to stitch around the damage to prevent further fraying. Where George Washington Slept (Perhaps Not Well) 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Even as Twitter frays and coarsens under Musk’s ownership, it’s still possible to have fun with others, one of the few things that keeps users from leaving. David Crosby, a King of Twitter 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Because generating feminist outrage is part of their marketing plan, I fully admit to hesitating before jumping into the fray. Sorry, Calvin Klein, but women are not flattered by sexual harassment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Her devout mother and her cerebral colleagues both preach a kind of evangelicalism that frays at the outer limits. Review | Yaa Gyasi’s ‘Transcendent Kingdom’ is a book of blazing brilliance 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z At the bustling offices of Evergreens Cemetery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, staff members often pore over hefty reference books with frayed spines and tattered pages. A Brooklyn Cemetery Is a Resting Place Rich in History 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Within a few days, other mice joined the fray. Up in space, mice found a new way to play 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z The fetal autopsy finds a “compromised” coupling of umbilical cord and placenta, but at the doctor’s office Mackey sees the cord’s “frayed end” as leaking sustenance, her child starving in the womb. The Concealed Weapons of ‘Kiss Me Someone’ 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z “That’s how you stay above the fray: by constantly introducing the consumer to the rarest and greatest pearls.” Special Report: A Cut Above: Jewelry: Mother Nature Fights Back 2010-12-10T18:40:00Z A full-skirted gown in white organza evoked Pointillism with tiny frayed ribbons, while another was embroidered all over in pale blue and pink feathers. On the Runway Blog: Raf Simons Starts Triumphantly at Dior 2012-07-02T16:03:41Z Game of Thrones also enters the fray after arguably its most critically unpopular season. Emmys 2019: Game of Thrones leads the race but can it rule for the last time? 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z But as audiences drift to newer on-demand audio sources such as podcasts and streaming, the bonds with local stations — and the contributions that come with them — may be fraying. NPR is graying, and public radio is worried about it 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The Republican front-runner had floated above the fray less than 12 hours earlier, in an another network debate. Romney target of GOP rivals at debate 2012-01-08T16:39:00Z Jason Butler Harner, the first actor to appear, wisely takes off his watch and hands it to a woman on the sidelines before he enters the play, or fray. Theater Review: ?Cockfight Play,? Directed by James Macdonald, at the Duke 2012-05-18T02:00:02Z But what captivates are the unfolding lives of a panoply of characters who share DNA and a fraying connection to their agrarian roots. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z If they were all returning to the fray after a decade-long sabbatical with batteries recharged instead of a gross-out comedy or three, I might welcome them all back with open arms. Silver linings playback: will Jack Nicholson's return inspire film's dormant veterans? 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Or Mozart’s “Turkish” Violin Concerto with the eminent Pinchas Zukerman, whose playing had a worn elegance, frayed in intonation but all the more dignified for it? Budapest Festival Orchestra Plays at Avery Fisher Hall 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Striking a commanding pose, whether you are in a sparkling gown or frayed jeans, can change how you perceive yourself, which ultimately influences how you are perceived by others. Studied: The Right Stance Can Be Reassuring — Studied 2013-05-03T23:12:24Z But over time, their relationship began to fray. A Power Couple Finds the Spark Once Again 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z He added, “She’ll be ready to jump into the fray, swinging her sword, and see who gets killed later.” The National Rifle Association’s Telegenic Warrior 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z “We wanted to help U.S. art institutions join the climate fray,” Fred Iseman, the president of the foundation, said in a statement. Frankenthaler Foundation Energy Project Is Giving Museums $10 Million 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Last year’s champion, Boulevard Brewing’s sublime Tank 7 Farmhouse Ale, is the only beer from 2015 returning to the fray. Beer Madness 2016: It’s city vs. city in a craft-brewed battle of rivalries 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The “monoculture”, that sense of all of us enjoying mainstream events together, has already been frayed by the rise of the internet. Worst job in showbiz: why will no one touch the world's glitziest gigs? 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z “Jerusalem,” Jez Butterworth’s beautiful, funny and mournful comedy about the fraying fabric of English culture, is steeped in a specific language that simply wouldn’t sound the same without the specifics of vocal inflection. Stage Accents Trouble American and British Actors 2010-03-21T21:41:00Z Now, after an initial pause, many of Seoul’s moneyed collectors have re-entered the fray. In Seoul, the Art World Gets Back to Business 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z The artist scattered the photographs throughout the galleries here, creating quiet moments off to the side of the boldly theatrical fraying flag. William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z But this memory is a gem – shoulder to shoulder into the fray. Family life: Mrs Thatcher's chair, Sister Suffragette and Dad's Mish Mush 2013-07-20T06:30:06Z When Latil refuses to be an assassin, a quarrel develops, the hunchback’s three companions join the fray and the swordsman is left for dead. Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z To do that, Kagan concludes, Americans must first address the fraying of the liberal order domestically. What Is America’s Role in the World? Three Authors Offer Very Different Views 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z “The Adventurist” is about the small and then the large ways in which Henry’s life begins to fray. Review: In ‘The Adventurist,’ an Executive’s Search for Meaning and Small Raptures 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The pressures of Central Park were fraying Olmsted’s nerves, while his budget overruns were vexing the board. The Parks That Made the Man Who Made Central Park 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z On the contrary, the 79-year-old actor is as vital and determined as ever, returning our beloved Jean-Luc into the fray with a renewed purpose. "Star Trek: Picard" marks the engaging return of the Enterprise's greatest captain 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z The country’s famous political disorganization has an analogue in the capital’s chaotic, fraying street plan; one of the city’s main arteries, the Tunnel Stéphanie, got shut down in January after the discovery of crumbling concrete. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Our parental nerves were fraying from the hourlong journey from Nagoya and the general struggle of moving tiny, diapered humans around an unfamiliar place. Our Favorite Magical Creatures Live at Ghibli Park, So We Had to Go 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Time to dive into that fun game of sight-unseen predictions, and the Los Angeles Times enters the fray with relish, providing a list of 14 possibilities -- some of which were familiar to me, some not. Next year's Oscar bait 2010-03-18T22:51:00Z As the chicken sandwich wars continue to sizzle, Popeyes’ is diving into the fish sandwich fray for the first time with its Cajun Flounder Sandwich. 7 fast food restaurants selling fish sandwiches during Lent 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z Before long, Leipzig was pulled into the fray. ‘New Berlin’ or Not, Leipzig Has New Life 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z I rolled into the studio like a skein of frayed nerves and found Laurie seated serenely at the pottery wheel, cradling a mug-in-process between her hands. dIn North Carolina, the Art of Living Retreat is a balancing act of rest and activities 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Our predispositions, our rituals, our norms – in this case interruption and its frayed and fractious outcomes – are our habituated context. Let me finish: how to stop interrupting… and change the world 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Throbbing veins on a raging steed are warlike, but the rider’s exposed knee, framed by the frayed denim threads of his pant leg, seems vulnerable, even in bronze. Kehinde Wiley’s Anti-Confederate Memorial 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Affleck was also keen to home in on the workaday quality of spy life, especially the way it both connected and frayed its employees and their families. The Carpetbagger: Ben Affleck, Now an Underdog With ‘Argo,’ Is on the Rebound 2013-01-16T22:39:05Z This fresh story served up some intriguing romance thanks to the fascinating fraying bond between two guy friends. 10 of the Most Memorable Love Triangles in Movies 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z If you don’t, “the bristles tend to get frayed and do not effectively remove as much bacteria and plaque from your mouth,” she says. When to replace smoke detectors, sponges, pillows and more, according to experts 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The boundaries between states are artificial, of course, but West Virginia looked different from Virginia, more frayed at the edges, with a greater distance between the towns on Route 59. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Beside the frayed edges of the letters were two mismatched posters of politicians. Adam Thirlwell stares at graffiti in Beirut 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z When an Air Force drone pilot and his crew start taking orders directly from the CIA and the stakes increase, his nerves and marriage begin to fray. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z It was at this time, spurred by the threat of religious schism, that Charles V entered the fray. Christianity’s original anti-science crusade: The religious order that tried to crush modernity 2014-04-13T18:00:00Z On the other hand, the Browns face a court battle, and the family appears to be fraying. "Sister Wives" in legal spotlight for Season 2 2011-03-10T23:59:10Z He then returned to the fray to run for New York mayor in 2013 on a platform of protecting the middle-class. Weiner: 10 political lessons from the warts-and-all documentary 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z That's why he further frays our nerves when he breaks into her house the next day while she's at work and almost gets caught there when she doubles back. The chameleonic importance of Lalo Salamanca on "Better Call Saul" is that his evil travels 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z It is not until he takes the stage that moodier and more introspective edges begin to shine through the dance, fraying its more conventional edges. Dance Review: A Turkish Choreographer Inspired by New York 2011-06-27T22:20:35Z As these two women plunge rapidly down their parallel tracks, the layers of meaning stack up, and the edges begin to fray. Theater Review: ‘There There,’ by Kristen Kosmas, at the Chocolate Factory 2013-01-02T22:39:16Z The motel room is seedy, with smudged walls and frayed carpeting. Review | Everything but the continental breakfast at ‘Crystal Creek Motel’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Vienna's top priest has been drawn into the fray, citing scripture in favor of her attendance. Ruby's presence shakes up staid Vienna Opera Ball 2011-03-03T14:17:28Z No, fresh masa can produce frayed, dry, unforgiving tortillas just as easily as masa harina can. How to make the single most important element of a taco, at home 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Its slower songs — still frayed with noise — counsel perseverance against any odds. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2011-01-10T22:51:16Z They disappear in strange and obscure ways because their social connections are frayed and broken. My junkie friend secretly died 2012-12-21T01:00:00Z Prejean has also described the tragedy of Clark’s upbringing, the poverty that frayed both his future and his chance at a fair trial—a theme that echoes in her book. “Dead Man Walking,” Revisited: A Prophetic Argument Against Capital Punishment 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z And in Mr. Terry, who maintains his dignity and genial sense of humor in the most trying circumstances, there’s a durable jazz ideal, at once in the mix and above the fray. Jazz’s Year of Complaint, Citing ‘Whiplash’ and The New Yorker 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z The low-ceilinged, somewhat frayed venue is reminiscent of the original nonvegetarian cafeterias in Chennai, known as “military hotels,” supposedly because they catered to soldiers who were more likely meat eaters. Indian Chains in New York, Worthy of Their Flagships 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Now, two more joints have entered the local fray. Here come the BonChon imitators 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Wright has weathered the vicissitudes of celebrity, raised two children and returned to the fray without missing a beat. Robin Wright: 'I'm in my 40s and I don't inject my face with Botox' 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z As the first gymnast sprints down the fraying stretch of carpet toward the vault, his gruff coach shouts encouragement in Arabic: “Jump big, like you dream!” Pommel horses and protesters 2012-08-25T12:00:00Z Saying that Mr. Taylor’s placid songs helped soothe the country’s frayed nerves after all the chaos isn’t quite enough. Books of The Times: Why 1970 Deserves Its 15 Minutes of Fame 2011-06-23T21:59:42Z “Nostalgia helps comfort people when they’re stressed or anxious or frayed or lonely,” he said. Actresses From ‘One Tree Hill’ Reunite. Cue the Healing. 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Rather's relations with his bosses grew frayed and he resigned the following year. Brian Williams suspended amid Iraq war scandal 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z But by the time the play, in its second half, takes a turn toward the purely personal, focusing on Wolfe’s own disappointments and milestones rather than biology’s, the thread of the storytelling has completely frayed. Review: Playwriting and Bug-Hunting Wed in ‘The Catastrophist’ 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z If I ran out of matches, I would light the frayed butt on an electric coil of the stove, tiny strands of ash catching fire and floating up. My Life in Smoke 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z The vital contact with the public is fraying, as is the sense of accountability to the music itself. Debate: have modern opera singers got the wrong attitude? 2013-03-16T18:00:02Z The TV chef Rachael Ray was accidentally pulled into the fray — because of her similar name. Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ Lyrics Entangle Two Rachels 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Maybe stay above the fray: Enter Alaska Airlines’ contest to win two seats on its chartered, invitation-only eclipse flightfor astronomy enthusiasts and eclipse chasers. Last-ditch places to stay to view the solar eclipse 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z The struggle is viewed through the eyes of Burnat's wide-eyed son Gibreel, whose first birthday coincides with the start of protests and whose childhood is shaped by demonstrations, soldiers and families fraying under pressure. Oscar contender on Palestinians angers many 2013-02-10T18:48:13Z The only thing that's stopped me writing the Great British Novel is that every novelist I've met has begged me not to enter the fray. Has David Hare really joined Twitter? 2013-05-06T12:36:33Z Flywheel Sports jumped into the fray last November with its own at-home program, Fly Anywhere. She Missed Watching the Wheels Go Round and Round 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z Now, at a time when social trust in general is so badly frayed, it’s a time to recognize and celebrate its fundamental role in making science work for all of us. Why march for science? Because the value of social trust — under attack by Trump — is worth fighting for 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Here we saw it used artistically in hemline frays which turned into tassels, and twisted fabric that wrapped round the back sewn crudely together in a lump. Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant 2012-10-01T02:46:03Z But other institutions are jumping into the Fab Four fray, too. Celebrating the Beatles’ first concert in Seattle 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “The only thing he and Dennis had in common was that they both loved Claire,” Hulse writes, “and now that she was gone, so too was the fragile, frayed thread that tied them together.” Book review: ‘Black River,’ by S.M. Hulse 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z But such things serve mainly as rejuvenation for getting back into the fray. An expressive slowness to Jacaranda, Sankai Juku performances 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z The main titles begins adrift in blackness before light ignites into a horizon, becoming a single white thread that starts to fray and then snaps. Magic and mysteries woven into "The Wheel of Time" main titles 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z “It feels subconscious, but there is something about our relationship with the world around us that seems frayed, and more and more frayed, at least for me,” Mr. Esmail says. The Surreal World: TV Delves Into Paranoia, Anxiety and Misinformation 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z Through reading, the child’s humdrum world was magically transformed: “The frayed tatami, now forest floors. The dripping tap, a thunderous river. The steep stairs, a mountain pass.” His Short Story Inspired ‘Rashomon.’ His Life Has Inspired a Novel. 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z He pulls a pack of cigarettes from a frayed pocket of his sweater. In a Tokyo neighborhood's last sushi restaurant, a sense of loss 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Bennett improved the design — stitching around the edge of the netting to keep it from fraying — but left the name. Makers: Who Made That Fly Swatter? 2012-05-27T06:55:04Z I also wanted everything to be frayed because their lives are unraveling before us. Behind the Poster: 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z As the thrilling You're Nothing finally tears the set asunder, Rønnenfelt launches himself furiously into the fray once more, before ploughing through and out the venue's front door, into the night. Iceage – review 2013-02-27T17:47:07Z At times during the “Daniel Variations,” the strings’ rhythmic precision frayed a bit. Review: One Birthday Tribute (of Many) for Steve Reich 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Fortunately, Roadside Attractions stepped into the fray, and it opened this week in four sites, grossing an excellent $85,400. The Karate Kid thrashes The A-Team at the US box office 2010-06-14T11:50:00Z While contemporary pop and hip-hop artists were quick to adopt the format for new releases, convincing veteran rock acts to enter the Atmos fray proved more of a challenge. Dolby Atmos Wants You to Listen Up. (And Down. And Sideways.) 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z But there could be another twist as two Bond girls enter the fray. Trailer Trash Cannes 2013-05-25T11:00:03Z Imagine “Twitter: The Quartet,” with each voice brazenly independent, stubbornly struggling to be heard above the fray. Review: JACK Quartet Conquers an Elliott Carter Marathon 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z Visitors should begin, however, by plunging into the fray of the mural. Thomas Hart Benton’s ‘America Today’ Mural at the Met 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z His organization received $5,000 to help revitalize a frayed historic neighborhood there. In Newport, a Contest in Which One-Man-One-Vote Was for Losers 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z But ethics have proved to be a flash point for the Trump administration, with Shaub pulled into the fray. How the U.S. ethics chief took on Trump and became a reluctant Washington hero 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z So Ms. Cinkle did what our current age of social media requires of those swept up in the viral undertow: she jumped into the fray with haste. Cultural Studies: No Stardom Until After Homework 2011-07-15T19:37:05Z The beat was lively, and Smith seemed unfazed by the poor resonance, but it was tough to hear her voice above the melodic fray. Alice Smith wows at Howard Theatre Even after 10 years, his own new life includes feelings of isolation, depression and what seems to be a fraying identity. Review: Your Arm Is a Canvas, in ‘As Far as Isolation Goes’ 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z He sent out 2,000 invitations to embassies, politicians and ordinary folk, and got hold of a frayed red carpet. Son of Babylon: 'I made it for my family, for Iraq' 2011-02-03T23:30:00Z His mutable features could switch from cherubic to lupine to gravely smouldering; his nerve endings felt exposed like frayed electrical wires. Gael García Bernal: 'The pandemic has taught me that I need something to say' 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Cliff Dwellers has a satirical corollary: on a washing line strung across the narrow street, the slum tenants have hung out their laundry, hoping for a breeze to stir the frayed and greying undergarments. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z A renewed appreciation for antiques was unleashed in the 1980s, when Washington took the lead in an “English country” decorating frenzy of carved mahogany secretaries, swagged chintz draperies, gently frayed Oriental rugs and dog paintings. The reign of beige: In a political town, design stays neutral 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z In moments like this, it’s clear that “The Bachelorette” has come to the same conclusion as “UnREAL”: The pretty picture is far less interesting than the frayed seams trying to hold it together. Lifetime’s ‘UnREAL’ Traces the Cracks in Reality TV’s Fourth Wall 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z Were you nervous that this show’s more depraved monarchs would fray your ties to Prince Charles? Elizabeth Hurley: I'm 'A Big Fan' of the British Monarchy 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z The University of Kentucky Wildcats fan faced a barrage of misogynist comments over the weekend after jumping into the March Madness fray –and wasted no time in publicly documenting the experience. Ashley Judd’s troll battle is all of ours 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z The wheels were worn and the outside was frayed. How travelers can add charity to their vacation itineraries 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z The witch tries to kill Abbie, and Crane jumps in the fray. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: 'Tempus Fugit' 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Now a grandfather, he has aged easily into the role of global-citizen humanist, lecturing on the role of artists and culture in a fraying society. Yo-Yo Ma Wants Bach to Save the World 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z This breach of tradition — Elizabeth never felt the need to give equal time to the prime minister’s opponents — raises alarm bells and ushers Charles into a fray he’s not ideally equipped to handle. Charles is king, Harry's in trouble and Kate's taking charge in Pasadena Playhouse's royal winner 'King Charles III' 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Carefully pull the frayed seam over the original seam line and pin in place. How to mend a ripped seam 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Kiki has carved a good life outside the social fray at school. So You’re Rivals? And You’re Fake-Dating? Classic. 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Well, I’m sort of in the fray with this super PAC I’m running. Just Asking: Carly Fiorina of Good360 For now, you can stroll from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street without interruption, 30 feet above the usual fray of horns, crowds and traffic jams. New York City Parks Worth Visiting 2010-03-29T22:00:00Z Tension builds as she forges ahead into the fray, becoming further entangled in the sketchy finance-world scene as a prosecutor played by Orange Is the New Black’s Alysia Reiner pokes around for dirt. These Are the Sundance Movies That Will Be Big in 2016 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Fin-de-Siècle Vienna” is itself a political work, a study of the dangers both of vicious populism and of high-minded retreats from the fray. The Schorske Century 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Observers are curious to see how local audiences will react to it while relations remain badly frayed between two nations still technically at war. Afghan, NKorean films on display at Asian festival 2012-10-03T09:46:04Z The anchor of the wives is Yolanda, a strong but frayed woman who is married to the brigade commander and who tries to play the same role on the home front. Television Review: ‘Married to the Army: Alaska,’ TV Series on OWN 2012-11-18T22:21:07Z Best of all, the episode opens with this exchange right over the titles, throwing viewers right in the fray like any good action show should do. Remembering Adam West: His Top 5 Greatest Moments as Batman 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z Unlike Lewis Thomas, who generally reflected from a serene height above the fray, Dr. Smith is writing in the horrifying grip of the here and now, of ventilators and personal protective equipment. Bach in My Heart, and My Heart in His Hands 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Instead, he lazily plucked the frayed strings of left-wing angst, even settling for easy name calling: “chicken-hearted Democrats,” “yuppies with clever brains and no minds.” ‘A Voice Still Heard,’ a Collection of Essays by Irving Howe 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z While imperfect, chaotic racial conflict rages in real time, but in mainstream pop, music and good intentions are a perfectly well-edited, wonderfully choreographed dance floating above the fray, one where even the flubs are intentional. Critic's Notebook: Taylor Swift's catchy, tone-deaf 'Shake It Off' 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Some of their hit shows are starting to fray at the edges. Will "Smash" splash or crash for NBC? 2012-02-02T13:32:30Z Mr. Broadhag also examines the machines themselves, looking for any rust, frayed cables, damaged pulleys or other signs of potential hazard. Safety Tips for Using Hotel Gym Equipment 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z The Screen Actors Guild waded into the awards season fray with its nominations Wednesday, which included a few surprises: SAG Nominees Include Viggo Mortensen and Other Surprises 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z When she was finished, I put my thumb over the spigot and the water frayed like a fountain, the mist glistening in the sunlight and landing on her black coat. How dogs rescued me from an eating disorder 2014-02-22T23:00:00Z They strengthen the connections between quality movies and the real world that were frayed by last year’s overly solemn and misanthropic lineup. Critic?s Notebook: Film Festival Gains Life From Reality 2010-09-28T23:03:00Z Within this environment, even macro-brands that have traditionally avoided stepping into the political fray have become enveloped within it. Trump's mugshot and "Dumb Donald": How beer labels are doubling as political discourse 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Wendy’s, whose spicy-chicken sandwich really is pretty great, especially if you order it with extra pickles, jumped into the fray to assert its own poultry dominance. The Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Is Here to Save America 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z As she discovers upon entering the fray, arguing politics with friends in Paris is no preparation for the rough and tumble of the real thing. | 'Let It Rain': Agn?s Jaoui?s Comedy of Manners 2010-06-17T23:28:00Z These aren't criticisms necessarily, more a measure of how closely Jones and Westropp are scrutinising the new pop masters and how keen they are to join the fray. New band of the day – No 1,299: Bluebell 2012-07-02T16:05:00Z Health problems, Mr. Hultberg’s alcoholism and a changing art world frayed the couple’s relationship, and they moved to Monhegan full time in the early 1980s, separating soon after. Out of Obscurity, Lynne Drexler’s Abstract Paintings Fetch Millions 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z Awards, "The Voice" is keeping its name in the buzz just as another competitor, ABC's "Rising Star," prepares to enter the singing fray. Join a live chat with 'The Voice' host Carson Daly on Wednesday 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z Photographed with a hip thrust forward to show off her Margiela apron dress and modishly frayed jeans, Lyn Slater projects a kind of swagger pretty rare among her peers. The Glamorous Grandmas of Instagram 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Twitter already went wild over The Interview when the controversial comedy was released online Christmas Eve, and now, stars James Franco and Seth Rogen are joining the fray. James Franco and Seth Rogen Live-Tweet 'The Interview' 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z His neighbor Brenda, a doctor played by Lake Bell, works to suture the fraying relationship in time to save their chances of making it in American baseball. Disney throws another feel-good pitch with 'Million Dollar Arm' 2014-05-13T16:55:23Z Though Thor claims he’s taking some “me time” he seems eager to return to the fray. Thor Will Fight an Armored Hulk in 'Thor: Ragnarok' 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z That film examines other aspects of the Marvel world without dragging the whole Avengers team into the fray. This Is How Minions Took Over the World 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z “Considering just how bad the news has been lately, the Cone Mills closing is easy to feel unfazed by — or, at least, to lose in the fray,” said Mr. Bennett of Well Spent. No Room for America Left in Those Jeans 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z Whipping cord is used to repair fraying ropes on a ship. Pop: Fiona Apple’s New Album, ‘The Idler Wheel’ 2012-05-30T12:00:00Z As touring began, relationships within the band frayed. How the Fleet Foxes Frontman Got Out to Get Back In 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z But it would be untrue to say the Clarke family has been untouched by the social schisms fraying the fabric of the culture. | 'The Talls': A 17-Year-Old Beanstalk From a Wholesome ?70s Family Is Eager to Go Far Out 2011-08-16T21:14:24Z Lathan's extraordinary lawyer slips right into the fray, and Brody wears with ease the slouchy leisure couture of a billionaire investor. "Succession" returns after two years, and the Roy family hasn't changed a bit 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z But once the music started, Mr. Ozawa threw himself physically into the fray, fiercely swooping and elegantly swaying, with only an occasional seated respite. Music: In Japan, a Frail Osawa Conducts Only One Tchaikovsky Movement 2010-09-06T22:51:00Z Other states, like Utah, refuse to step into the fray at all, preferring to leave sex education to parents. Watch John Oliver on Sex Education 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In recent years, as its carpets and upholstery frayed, it developed a sort of aging dowager appeal. Check In/Check Out: Hotel Review: Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul 2010-11-13T19:17:00Z The mystery threading the first season together may seem a bit frayed at points. Apple TV+'s new series is based on the real-life kid who scooped her local paper reporting a murder 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is stepping into the religious fray. The Costume Institute Takes On Catholicism 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Things have started to hurt, relationships are beginning to fray, and my kids are needing me less and less. Readers Share Their Favorite Books of 2022 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z In the east, meanwhile, the dragon queen Daenerys Targaryen shows signs of finally joining the fray after several seasons of dithering on the fringes. Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams Have Grown Up on ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Only Hendrix was almost too shy to appear and, when he did so, he retreated to the steps outside, where he met a young singer-songwriter too shy to enter the fray – Patti Smith. The London years 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z Many have long tried to stay above the fray of current events, and have a deep belief in the role the arts can play in bridging divides. Too Close to Putin? Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably. 2022-03-05T05:00:00Z Herb Press, 77, who designed the space, watched from the restaurant a few steps above the fray. All We Want to Do Is Watch Each Other Play Video Games 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z On I went, wilfully and stupidly ignorant, the fabric of my body fraying. 'I was weak, despairing, confused': did writing a novel make me ill? 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z His ponytail draped down his back like a frayed tassel. Could a mask maker’s quest to see the Dalai Lama bring about world peace? 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z From there it was all yearning and misgivings, fraying connections and regrets. Music Review: Frank Ocean at Terminal 5 2012-07-27T22:12:30Z Aiden, the older of the two, knows her history from reading one of his father’s books; but though Grace may be fraying from gruesome flashbacks and hideous dreams, it’s Aiden who’s by far the creepier. ‘The Lodge’ Review: Mommy Not-So-Dearest 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z 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 They oversee the display of a museum’s tribal artifacts and reshape accounts of the past, in many cases relying mainly on frayed strands of traumatically disrupted oral traditions. Critic’s Notebook: Oaxaca, Mexico, Shows History Unvarnished 2012-06-15T23:47:51Z With the list fraying in my pocket, I began tracking down these novels whenever I was in a used bookstore. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Gilliam returns to the fray with his first film since 2009's ill-starred The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, which had to be patched together following the death of its lead actor Heath Ledger. Venice film festival lineup sees Gilliam and Glazer back in from the cold 2013-07-25T10:47:59Z In 2020, even the most organic Montessori toy mom had to hand over the iPad for at least a little while each day to preserve her fraying sanity. In 2020, These Things Came Out on Top 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Jobs, marriages, reputations and people themselves go down in the fray. J.K. Rowling's The Casual Vacancy: We've Read It, Here's What We Thought 2012-09-27T05:01:21Z Typically an argument breaks out — or even a physical fray. Perspective | Here’s to the class-conflicted, workplace-inappropriate ‘Below Deck’ — TV’s ideal mental vacation 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The band employs an open-armed, open-door policy, welcoming anyone into the fray with working vocal cords, instruments, and/or fingers to play them with. Tonight I'm a rock'n'roll scribe: My stint in Sonic Youth, and other fun-packed fabrications 2010-04-08T14:10:00Z I squeezed my way in and climbed onto a stool to join the fray. Seeing the Whole of Antigua 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z If anxieties about possession and manliness continue to fray our national life, “Proving Up” proposes that here our troubles began. Review: An Opera Reaches the American Dream’s Brooding Heart 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z And as if that weren't enough needles, the young doctor shoots herself up with sedatives to calm her frayed nerves. Argentine thriller about ambulance doc at Cannes 2010-05-20T11:54:00Z Now, two major American institutions have joined the fray, and are sharing some of their stash. Theater to Stream: Lincoln Center Theater Joins the Fray 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z With his motorcycle jacket and frayed jeans, he cultivates a tough-guy persona. There’s Magic in the Air, if You Believe 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z “If fate was just a tapestry with a shifting design — some fraying skein that the gulls were tearing right this second — then Nal didn’t see why he couldn’t also find a loose thread, and pull.” ‘Vampires in the Lemon Grove’: the real lives of vampires, monsters and bullies 2013-02-28T00:07:34Z Through it all, the teacher-student relationship intensifies and eventually begins to fray. ‘Language Lessons’ Review: Who’s Zooming Who? 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z There she receives a fateful visit from her actress daughter, the glamorous, fraying Desirée. Elaine Stritch and Other Matrons of ?Night Music? 2010-07-23T02:12:00Z As she sees it, the key to the show’s devastating turn of events is the fraying of the bond between Evan, a teenager of profound anxieties, and Heidi, an overstressed single mother. Rachel Bay Jones in ‘Evan Hansen’: ‘You wake up some mornings, and your chest hurts’ 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The group remains steady if not sturdy, grounded and physical despite the constant fray. Live Jazz: 3 July Standouts, From Thumbscrew to Nabaté Isles 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z South Lake Tahoe is in the midst of a grand transformation, from a sort of frayed casinoland to a cleaned-up place worthy of the lake it’s on. Update: What’s New at Ski Areas? 2013-12-17T21:19:48Z At one point during “Long and Wasted Years,” I imagined his vocal chords as a frayed rope holding a broke-down engine. Bob Dylan opens three nights in Hollywood with grunts, grim themes 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z “It’s glorious and poignant that this veteran investigative reporter, who will forever be identified with Watergate, is wading back into the fray,” said Tim O’Brien, the Trump biographer and executive editor of Bloomberg View. Perspective | Reporter Carl Bernstein has seen it all, from Nixon to now. But nothing quite like Trump. 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z In the same way Johnson burned his early paintings, renouncing the most reliable route to a successful art career in mid-20th-century New York, he exited the fray of Manhattan. Ray Johnson’s Camera Was Disposable. The Photos Are Unforgettable. 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z Then, as abruptly as her temper frayed, her easy grace returned as she swept a crawling child into her arms and took a seat back in the shade. Deep in Vietnam, Exploring a Colossal Cave 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Certainly the most famous examples are from television, and on Tuesday Comedy Central joins the fray with a promising new series, “Key & Peele.” Critic?s Notebook: Harvard Sailing Team Breathes New Life Into Sketch Comedy 2012-01-30T21:58:14Z As the orchestra played the chortling opening theme, alive with woodwinds, Wang almost sneaked into the fray with a subtly lyrical rendering of the piano’s quizzical lines. Review: Carnegie Hall Reopens With a Blaze From Philadelphia 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z She was there with us in the fray, but held herself slightly apart as well. My Summer Waiting Tables at the Writers’ Retreat 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z “When I think specifically about the black-Jewish alliance and how many things it’s done for this country — in government, in the arts — that partnership is a little frayed,” he explained. It’s Thurgood Marshall to the Rescue in a New Thriller 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z She liked to wear frayed jean short shorts with no underwear. My twisted rehab sex life 2012-12-20T23:41:00Z Thugs from Missouri got in the fray, crossing the border to attack abolitionist settlers. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Retail Row Bellhaus, with its uptown prices and rarefied brands, and Daryl K, selling frayed chambray dresses against an aged backdrop of plywood and planks, would seem unlikely bedfellows. 10 Hot Spots of Summer 2010-07-01T00:36:00Z Most numbers are slowed down and set to harmonies that morph from quiet lyricism to frayed dissonances, with Mr. Sorey’s subtle percussion work adding a nervous sheen. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z They travel for work, or to tend to relationships that have been frayed or sundered by time and distance, doing their best to sustain family and social ties weakened by economic exigencies. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z The reference points were the button-downs of the 1940s and ’50s, when the Brooks Brothers shirt was firmly established as a crucial element of insouciant collegiate style, the more frayed the better. Brooks Brothers Revives the Preppiest Shirt Collar 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Even when communities such as Moses Lake work to fix things, even as we cheer them on, we must not be afraid to find frayed ends in tidy spaces. It could happen anywhere 2012-08-07T22:24:00Z And each year, it seems, more presenters and organizers are joining the fray. January Stages: In Your Seat but on Your Toes 2014-01-02T23:10:17Z I was having my own private anatomy lesson, three stories up: I could see muscle, tendons, frayed nerve bundles, veins. Severed 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Not only are these returns a drag for businesses, they harm friendships and fray family bonds. When cringeworthy gifts are worse than inconsiderate 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z We speak in May at a big, rented property in the suburbs of Cannes, Von Trier’s gated retreat from the festival fray. Lars von Trier on filmmaking and fear: ‘Sometimes, alcohol is the only thing that will help’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z In its earliest editions, “Chicago” focused almost entirely on matters of style, punctuation and typography, though starting with its 15th edition, “Chicago” finally joined the fray and included sections on grammar and usage. Who cares about hyphens, commas and capital letters? You should. 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Her connection to her mother remains frayed while she continues to sanctify Minh. What Is Love? For This Fractured Family, the Answer Is Not So Clear. 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Expensive expansions often lead to change at the top as trustees, their nerves frayed by delays and cost overruns, adjust to reality. Onwards and upwards 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The angry posts pushed the museum’s chief executive, Frank Bennett, to jump into the fray with a statement that encouraged tolerance. Now, even quilters are angry: How a social-justice design started a feud 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z Away from the tourist fray, these special spots are backwaters in the best sense of the word, each with its own genuine charm. Beyond the blockbusters: Discovering remote sites in Europe 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z But more than a few nerds jumped in that fray, as well as white supremacists. Nerds of the world, unite: The villains have weaponized “canon” — and it’s up to us to stop it 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z But the safety net for those returning home is frayed at best. Leaving Gun Towers and Barbed Wire for a Healing House 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z It was great, but there wasn't time for my twin passions of days off and sleeping, so I arrived here looking like a pale and frayed disease. Laura Solon: My Edinburgh 2010-08-16T21:45:00Z Gypsy, folk and psychedelic elements streak the fare, and when the feeling arises, horns and violin enter the fray. Pitchfork Day 1 wrap-up: Feist, Japandroids, Big K.R.I.T., rain 2012-07-14T05:09:00Z Past collaborator Ken Vandermark is also on the bill, so don’t be surprised if the saxophonist joins the fray at some point, 8 p.m. Greg Kot at SXSW: P.S. I Love You rules 2011-03-16T17:18:56Z Barely a week earlier, the Balmain designer, Olivier Rousteing, who was raised in provincial Bordeaux, added his voice and talents to the artistic fray with a show filtering Jackson’s style through a wacky Gallic lens. Staying in the (Fashion) Moment 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z There’s no action without reaction, so entering into the fray on this most volatile of issues is unlikely to proceed smoothly. Should I tell my friends their son probably has a drug problem? | Mariella Frostrup 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z One imagines that, with time, the intricate web linking the movies will get more frayed and insubstantial, and the new films will seem increasingly inessential. The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z They hummed with frailty and humor, fretting over drunken soldiers and praising the unwavering president of a fraying republic. Huntington Library sets out to decode thousands of Civil War telegrams hidden for a century: 'It's mind-boggling' 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z The fraying flag in the installation represents a sense of disillusionment with the country. After Reflected Fame, the Artist Karon Davis Steps Into Her Own Light 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z His younger brother, 12-year-old Romeo, is in the fashion fray too, recently making a splash in Burberry's 2014 Christmas ad campaign. Premium genes: Meet 9 celeb scions fashion brands are banking on 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Just add water, a tablespoon at a time, until the tortillas look smoother and less frayed when pressed. How to make the single most important element of a taco, at home 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Still, she somehow manages to seem above the fray. Review: Jennifer Lopez Back in the Bronx 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Sewell’s screen time is limited, but crucial, his wounded performance revealing a marriage fraying from the strain of Anthony’s condition. ‘The Father’ Review: A Capricious Mind 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z They remained above the fray, stoic referees rather than agitated players. ‘Scalia: A Court of One,’ by Bruce Allen Murphy 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z The pianist Hasaan Ibn Ali, who died in 1980, is widely respected among jazz musicians in Philadelphia for his frayed, locomotive style and his imaginative compositions, but he’s hardly known anywhere else. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z It’s got stagnant spots and moments when Mr. Johnson’s wit frays. Books of The Times: Wooing With Words in the Age of the Incredible Shrinking Message 2011-07-26T21:30:40Z “Renovation Realities” usually finds the couple whose darker dynamics and frayed nerves get the best of them. The guilty pleasures of DIY’s ‘Renovation Realities’ Expect his bullet-ridden T-shirts, shredded jeans, fraying shirt collars, dusky Hawaiian prints and new Oliver Peoples sunglasses, all interspersed with sleek tailoring, to sell up a storm. 2010-01-25T16:44:00Z Nevertheless, the return to the live fray will be welcomed by fans. My Bloody Valentine announce UK dates for March 2013 2012-12-06T12:54:09Z It’s more like an irreversible fraying of the bonds between two people who are entwined in a thousand small ways. The Rise of the 'Good Divorce' 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z Rudd cries pathetically, at the end of his fraying rope. Grace on Broadway: Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon in Motel Hell 2012-10-09T14:30:38Z He strolls through life wearing a frayed raffia hat, vintage shades, and classic Derby shoes that allow him to escape into his romantic world. Classic and fanciful both permeate Milan runways 2011-06-19T23:02:08Z The fun lasts a little way into the second episode, with Jonathan’s whereabouts uncertain, Grace’s nerves fraying and the shape of the mystery still unclear. ‘The Undoing’ Review: Murder, Actually 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z What that schism is, Marvel was mum, but it involves the fragile and frayed relationship between two of the best known X-Men, Cyclops and Wolverine. APNewsBreak: Marvel's Uncanny X-Men ending in Oct. 2011-06-09T07:06:11Z Then Cassandra Wilson joined the fray, murmuring bittersweet lyrics to “Gone to Far,” a stately art song. Henry Threadgill Festival at Harlem Stage 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z He is sensitive to electromagnetism—a syndrome that could be entirely psychosomatic—and wraps himself in a metallic space blanket when the signal is fraying his nerves most. The heartbreak of “Better Call Saul”: Season finale hints the series will be even more devastating than “Breaking Bad” 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z Quinn and Kieran, who goes by Coco, became walking, talking human beings who joined the fray and added a new level of buoyancy. Even after woman is gone, she remains her daughters’ guide Michael meanwhile, kept away from the fray between shots, hovering by the director’s chair and “scrubbing any footage that made him look scruffy or podgy.” Sorry, Wham! haters: The only thing wrong with ‘Last Christmas’ is how you’ve been listening to it 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z The ending, after the fray, is truly touching. Review: A Stirring Premiere at the Philharmonic, With Perfect Timing 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z As a frayed but still formidable death portent, Mary Ewald displays dazzling control over torrents of fractured, punning wordplay. 'The Skriker': where boundaries between us and the otherworldly are stretched 2012-10-26T18:34:21Z With its fraying rhythmic patterns and ruptured flow, “Prairie Burn” connects the rolling Midwestern landscapes of Ms. Rosenbloom’s youth with an air of turbulence and risk. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z She said this as she looked down at ground and picked at the fray of her nearly knee-high tube sock. Le Butcherette's Teri Suarez still angry, even without the pig's head 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z I can finally see how tired and scared and beautiful and young she is, how madly she is scrambling to hold her family together as it frays. "E.T." at 40: A personal reflection on the importance of a "closed story" 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z One wonders how the book would have turned out had Boot taken a few more steps back from the fray, to place his lifelong ideological commitments in a wider frame. Did Max Boot Turn His Back on the Republican Party, or Did the Party Turn Its Back on Him? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z And Rogan takes care to show the very real consequences of challenging societal and cultural institutions, most noticeably through fraying relationships with Maggie’s husband and teenage son. Review: ‘Now and Again’: A vibrant novel about the Iraq War and the homefront 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Whatever else he is, he becomes a wedge that rapidly changes the dynamic among the workers and frays their solidarity. ‘Intregalde’ Review: Oh, Be Good! 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z “Even then, he seemed very much above the fray,” said Norma Tilden, an English professor at Georgetown whom Mr. Mengestu named as a friend and mentor. A Novelist?s Voice, Both Exotic and Midwestern 2010-10-16T01:00:00Z U.S. hegemony, however frayed at the edges, continues to be taken for granted in ruling circles, and not only in Washington. An American century of carnage: Measuring violence in a single superpower world 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z He floats half-above the fray, in it, but good always for an ironic crack or slow burn in a tight place. James Garner dies: In 'Rockford Files,' he was a perfect fit 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z The show’s plot is set in motion when a philosophy grad student decides to enter the fray, with tongue in cheek and eyebrow raised. Theater: To Court Your Ex, Try a Reality Show 2013-07-12T17:55:09Z In the east, meanwhile, Daenerys Targaryen shows signs of finally joining the fray after several seasons of dithering on the fringes. Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams have grown up on ‘Game of Thrones’ 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z "El Sistema is far too important to subject to everyday political discourse and battles. It must remain above the fray," he writes. Gustavo Dudamel makes his case for keeping quiet on Venezuelan politics 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z Maybe it was our relative political stability that kept Americans from stepping into the fray. Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z I’m at my desk staring at my son’s wallet, a standard black leather model, overstuffed, misshapen and frayed, fringed with strands like a cowboy jacket. Please Take My Son’s Wallet 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Almost always, the fabrics were worn, stained or frayed; the jars would still be coated with food residue. From Forgotten Discards, a Wealth of Memories 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z These kids are picking at the frayed thread of acoustic roots music, breathing new life into 80-year-old standards. Young bands breathe new life into acoustic roots music at Northwest Folklife Festival 2010-05-29T03:55:00Z And the studio had thus entered the fray. News Analysis: Warner Brothers and Its Decades of Violent Films 2012-07-25T22:32:24Z Along with the slouchy pants, a sleeveless navy dress in that rough linen with a frayed hem just above the ankles summed up the mood, and why people buy the Phoebe script. Fashion Review: Céline, Comme des Garcons, Yohji Yamamoto, Junya Watanabe: Fashion Review 2012-10-01T01:35:05Z A real aristocrat is at home whether the damask is fraying or fresh. T Magazine: Ghosts of the Hudson Valley 2012-12-19T21:46:44Z Last year, Vicki Abeles’s documentary “Race to Nowhere” joined the fray. Motherlode Blog: Students need homework, but not all homework is what students need. 2012-02-03T17:39:31Z In a movie where almost everyone is rotten except for an innocent couple sucked into the fray, who really cares? | 'Point Blank': It?s Paris, and Everyone Is Rotten but the Man Chased by the Police 2011-07-28T22:30:10Z That safety net has mostly frayed in America and even England, where the tradition had a much longer and larger history. In Praise of Repertory Theater: Macbeth at the Matinee, Miller at Night 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Wallace displays family artwork there, keeping it above the fray. 5 smart details that upgraded Lorraine Wallace’s kitchen makeover 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Turn the edges of the patch under to produce an inverted hem and to prevent fraying. Todd Snyder on How to Add Patches to Your Jeans 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The pony-skin boots were trimmed with frayed organza, which appeared, too, as the surface of wispy dresses. Hermès: Gentle End to Hectic Week 2014-03-05T18:19:30Z Her marriage to Vyner produced three daughters but not the son required for orderly succession, so that was yet another reason for her to jump into the fray. Book review: ‘Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters,’ by Philip Eade Alas, the puppets get lost in transit, so the cardinals must jump into the fray to enact famous scenes from the Old and New Testaments. ‘The Cardinals’ at the Public Theater 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z This year, they enter the fray with the coveted Supporter’s Shield, which for the uninitiated, is a fancy protective undergarment. Warning: This headline very possibly could be fake 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z Engaged in a violent, merciless fray, My cat has successfully captured my sock. Style Invitational Week 1287: Oldies for newsies — a song parody contest 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z When there is just a dent, with no frayed bits of wood fiber showing, it’s often possible to plump up the fibers so they spring back to their original position, erasing the dent. How to repair a gouged wood floor 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Lévy is no more hopeful about the frayed transatlantic alliance between Europe and the United States, which is the subject of “Looking for Europe.” Bernard-Henri Lévy on Anti-Semitism, American Elections, and the Future of Europe 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Edges were left frayed, contrasting linings were revealed, and necklines were bare and exposed, all giving the impression that one was seeing more than they should. Bold looks at NY Fashion Week turn up the volume 2012-09-13T20:16:13Z But nerves have been extra frayed lately at Todd David Design. ‘Events’ Review: There’s Kool-Aid in the Water Cooler 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z By the time the authorities caught up with her, she was in ill health, living in a jumbled house stuffed full of sculptures and antiques — like some sort of frayed "Miss Havisham character," writes Amore. 'Art of the Con' paints revealing picture of scammed collectors 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Bill dives into the fray, making himself indispensable. Bill Cunningham: An Enigma in a Blue Sanitation Worker’s Jacket 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z And yet the show’s most important themes — migration, debt, fraying European unity and the historical antecedents of today’s populism and intolerance — are ones Athenians have reckoned with for years. Documenta 14, a German Art Show’s Greek Revival 2017-04-09T04:00:00Z Later, he seemed dismayed to note a barely detectable fray in the carpet by one of the terminals. A year and 1 million passengers later, Everett’s Paine Field airport has become a hit with travelers 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Small-plates are growing up, and one of the ways we know this is that some grown-ups are starting to enter the fray. Small Plates Grow Up 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z His emphasis is on bringing to life the intensity of the man he’s playing, and how frayed his life becomes because he excels at his job. "The Spy": Sacha Baron Cohen uses his identity-shifting talents in solid Netflix drama 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Paige’s once pristine, Sarah Brightman-like soprano may have coarsened and frayed, but in “Memory,” “Cry Me a River” and “As if We Never Said Goodbye,” she still belted like a trouper. Music Review: Elaine Paige at the Allen Room, Friendly and Confessional 2012-02-13T23:21:13Z He plays down his creative role, stressing the importance of working within the existing community fabric, even if it is torn and frayed. An Artist’s Mythic Rebellion for the Venice Biennale 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Accompanying that, of course, will be a federal budget even more frayed, potentially unable to help the rising tide of suffering soldiers. Addicted troops ignored 2012-09-18T18:32:00Z Literary scholars joined the fray, criticizing the club for deeming itself an arbiter of literary taste. It's not your grandma's Book of the Month Club 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z I sometimes use cookbooks that way, but for me, magazines are what I turn to when concentration is fraying and I’m reading for the sheer pleasure of passing my eyes over type. After a Hard Day’s Writing, Michael Pollan Likes to Unwind With a Novel 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z His voice loud but grainy and frayed, his rhythms imprecise and his portrayal more grumpy than impassioned, he did himself and his glorious career no honor here. ‘Il Trovatore’ and ‘Fierrabras’ at Salzburg Festival 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Country music star Billy Ray Cyrus soon jumped into the fray, lending his gritty sound to the tune that juxtaposes Western and cowboy-themed imagery to a trap-style beat. Wrangler fans slammed for brand boycott over Lil Nas X collaboration 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z When she swoops into her upper register, her occasionally claustrophobic songs about fraying relationships become almost operatic. Review: Angel Olsen's new album builds on her life's dramas 2014-02-17T16:40:00Z The past decade has seen the science-fiction world change as more international voices enthusiastically jumped into the fray. Review | The weird, the wacky, the underappreciated: A new look at science fiction and fantasy 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z His familial ties are frayed, and Nancy tugs on those threads out of interest, out of guilt, but also to reassert control when she feels exposed. ‘Good Luck to You, Leo Grande’ Review: Pleasure Principles 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z And in a country where even pop culture icons often attract ire from people with a certain political ideology, Mr. Trebek remained far outside the political fray. ‘Jeopardy!’ Fans Can’t Imagine the Show Without Alex Trebek 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Pieces made between 2004 and 2009 use frayed steel, wire and other industrial materials to evoke dangers either catastrophic or mundane. How are these things not like the others? 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Her job is outside the political fray, the calm eye of the hurricane that is the Trump administration. Can the new social secretary make the Trump White House more ‘presidential’? 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z The system of familial help was already fraying before the coronavirus. Coronavirus toll on Italy's elderly strains "nonni" safety net 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z They arrive at a time of significant social upheaval, in the world at large, but also within the industry itself, when its connective tissue is stretched and frayed. Perspective | Kerry James Marshall paints a masterful image of history and hope on the cover of Vogue 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Above the fray the gods look on with studied interest, rushing to the aid of their favorites when peril threatens. Theater Review: ?An Iliad? at New York Theater Workshop 2012-03-08T03:00:16Z 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 Every sound — a frayed guitar riff, a lurking bass line, confetti-shower piano, a rattlesnake drum roll — has a purpose and place and works in meticulous tandem with its surroundings. "Talking Heads: 77," released 40 years ago tomorrow 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z In the most gripping of these works, the plug is a dragon-like creature that breathes flame from fraying wires. Art Review: The 20th Anniversary of the Outsider Art Fair 2012-01-28T00:34:51Z But we are a long, long way from the day when a woman, even one who’s a world leader, isn’t denigrated and smeared whenever she ventures into the fray. Australia’s female prime minister gets bullied online 2012-10-08T15:39:00Z In laying bare the fraying, strangling, enveloping threads that tie people together, "Kin" isn't so much a song cycle as a dog-eared family album, full of revelatory images and telling details amid the prosaic scenes. Songwriter Rodney Crowell and poet Mary Karr play Triple Door 2012-06-14T20:49:03Z But as the ideas fly by, your patience may begin to fray. | 'I Am': ?I Am? by the Director Tom Shadyac 2011-03-18T06:03:02Z Pay no attention to the frayed and porous plot; pull on a loose thread, and the spell will unravel. Review: ‘Swiss Army Man’ Is a Buddy Movie in Which One Pal Is Dead 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Her mature, unselfish enthusiasm for his project and her devotion to his talent are being frayed by his failure. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The most noticeable signature is the unfinished edge: frayed lapels, raw hems. | Lanvin: At Lanvin, Pricey Designs for Society?s Decline 2010-08-10T20:57:00Z Academics often traffic in a tone of clear-eyed detachment, rising above the emotional fray. The Professor and the Adjunct 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z But a deeper disruption came with the announcement that Discovery and WarnerMedia plan to merge, adding yet another media behemoth with streaming services — Discovery+ and HBO Max — to the fray that began with Netflix. Networks rely on reboots, franchises amid streaming’s rise 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z He clocked countless childhood hours in his dad’s Beetle, the oily engine aroma wafting through the back seat’s frayed vinyl upholstery. Summer Salute to Charlie Parker 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Vidal entered the fray with an article suggesting there was "a logical progression" from Henry Miller to Mailer to Charles Manson. Gore Vidal, US writer and contrarian, dies aged 86 2012-08-01T06:41:08Z My younger sister, who in later years confessed she’d never felt a part of our family, stayed out of the fray. The sex-talking therapist I went to as a teen: “Do you want to learn how to be a woman, not a scared little girl?” 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Successful recovery initiatives are in progress, but Fodor’s recommends taking “the road less littered and enjoy a tropical vacay away from the fray.” Here’s where NOT to go in 2018 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z But he chose to get back in the fray. Perspective | Can Vince McMahon really share power with Ari Emanuel? 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z It made the band members appear craggy, frayed and ageless even when they were young acid freaks defining West Coast psychedelia and the new counterculture decades ago. Grateful Dead pays slack tribute to legacy 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z The students’ clean-cut button-down collars, flat-front khakis, and smooth Vitalis hair unravelled into T-shirts festooned with political slogans, frayed jeans, and unkempt locks. Stalking the Wild Madras Wearers of the Ivy League 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z She has to wade into the fray to regain control of the drama. Kristen Stewart: ‘It's not confusing if you’re bisexual. For me, it’s the opposite’ 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Nucky runs to the middle of the fray and yells for everyone to stop shooting. 'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Casualties of War 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Their relationship is frayed, and the tone shifts from light to dark. Lucinda Childs Gets Off the Floor in New Work for the Graham Company 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z Tempers fray and flare until the situation resembles a literal enactment of a line from William Butler Yeats: “Great hatred, little room.” Movie Review: ?Footnote,? a Satire and Family Drama by Joseph Cedar 2012-03-08T17:16:01Z That’s pretty much all that’s required to jump right back into the fray following the cartoon’s two and a half year absence. Smart Watch: “Better Call Saul,” “The Sinner” and more top TV picks of the week 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z But in standing above the fray, his work has gained in influence and importance. Brian O'Shaughnessy obituary 2010-07-14T17:13:00Z Some are, but that wiring frays as they age. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom’s faultfinding is ruining family gatherings 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Now the property of the local government, Donnafugata, with its peeling wallpaper and frayed rugs, is a nostalgic reminder of a society that once valued power and beauty in equal measure. Cultured Traveler: On a Road Trip in Sicily, Churches Everywhere 2013-05-31T18:22:52Z She sports a stylish bob, and on this day is wearing a sleeveless shift dress that appears both effortless and chic, with pieces of white cloth patched together and stitches and frayed ends showing. In Tokyo, a traditional neighborhood with a bohemian vibe While the men in question remain resolutely above the fray, it’s the rest of us who arbitrate, often with incomplete information, by way of voting with our feet, tweets or ticket-buying choices. Perspective | Movies have become their own form of justice, even when they don’t make it to the screen 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z One employee was pushed to the ground, while another was seen hopping over the counter to enter the fray. 7 Milwaukee Popeyes employees fired after chaotic brawl caught on camera 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z The video showed models in dresses whose cobwebbed bodices and fraying edges, accessorized with black rose petals and the odd tattoo, suggested not heterosexually coupled bliss but a small sorority of blasé Miss Havishams. The Latest Bridal Dress Collections Showed Few New Wrinkles 2014-04-18T21:15:29Z Bailey’s proud refusal to seem prim or judgmental blossoms into a troubling tendency to join the fray. In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z The rigid English class system is still in place, but it is fraying at the edges, as Rose witnesses firsthand when she tries to find a cook. Television Review: Like Old Times, Almost, In an English Household 2011-04-07T22:20:14Z “The urban fabric of Newark is pretty frayed,” he continued. Richard Meier Is Now Focusing on New Jersey Projects 2014-01-24T22:07:52Z The Genesis story fell apart and frayed the fabric of his Christian belief. Former Christian fundamentalist: Science robbed me of my faith 2013-09-09T00:00:00Z But health and professional tensions frayed their relationship. Padma Lakshmi Opens Up About Rushdie in Memoir 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Its songs primarily deal with the anxiety, frayed relationships and ennui that crop up in one’s mid-20s, a preoccupation that juxtaposes strikingly against such brash, self-assured music. Dude York’s personality shines through on new record 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z And the cord that connects my ancestors to God — the one I frayed — will be cut completely. The foreskin and the hindsight 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z If the lamp cord is frayed, replace it before the new socket goes in. How to repair the pull chain on a lamp 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z Competitor PG Tips soon jumped into the fray, also declaring their support for the movement. Tea brands voice support for Black Lives Matter, tell critics 'don't buy our tea' 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Next year’s Academy Awards ceremony — the 85th since 1929 — will be landing in a pool of angst about movies and what appears to be their fraying connection to the pop culture. Hollywood Seeks to Slow Cultural Shift to TV 2012-10-28T21:41:05Z “Falling Man” was mostly an intimate book, about relationships that were frayed and forged in the aftermath of the attacks. Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z A slight but ruggedly handsome man with a full head of blond hair, he looks like an overgrown fraternity brother, wearing a frayed, hunter-green polo shirt and black shawl-collar cardigan. A Book Agent?s Descent and Ascent From the Ashes 2010-05-28T22:45:00Z His fraying connection to reality is pronounced in this production, with Hoffman quick to anger and a hard edge emerging from his babbling. A deeply relevant 'Death of a Salesman' emerges 2012-03-16T05:31:08Z Director Rashid Masharawi steps into the fray, his cargo shorts and straw sun hat breaking the illusion created by the actors and production company at the set of feature-length film "Palestine Stereo". Drama meets daily life in Palestinian film 2012-07-23T11:16:24Z The pact between dragons, faeries and humans is fraying, and strong-willed Tess is at risk, as she and two friends flee a violent witch-hunter. Local Book: Cascadia's butterflies 2011-12-30T19:26:04Z Soon enough we were back in Arkham, where an inmate known as the “the frogman” was bludgeoning the singer, with Gordon dragged into the fray. 'Gotham' Recap: Gordon's New Gig Brings Same Old Hassles 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z So why does its only established campground allow for just 60 people per night — a limit that leads to an online booking fray every January? At Katmai National Park in Alaska, Bears Rule 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z And he also reminds readers who’s in charge: Lest they become accustomed to tidy finales, the later stories deliberately fray at the ends. A Debut Story Collection, Filled With Characters Humbled by Love 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Before jumping into the fray, weigh whether any discount that remains is sufficient compensation for your trouble. The Foreclosure Fallacy 2011-01-26T23:00:00Z Her plain-spoken, self-effacing portraits of modern life are pleasantly distorted but never so messy that the lyrics get lost in the fray. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Upon arriving home, Sepehri published a collection of his poetry with an essay about the relative merits of Eastern and Western philosophy, those tangled threads that fray at every end. Poetry and Politics in Iran 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The issue of how neighbors and communities cohere — or fray — has long been on the mind of French observers. How a French Artist Turned a Stay in North Carolina Into Conceptual Art 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z Hovering above the fray, cocooned in his New York gallery, was Alfred Stieglitz, modern photography’s “prophet and awakener,” with a Zeus-size ego and an arctic demeanor. Review: ‘Group f.64,’ by Mary Street Alinder celebrates photography’s revolutionaries 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z So is she ready to jump back into the "Housewives" fray? Camille Grammer has last laugh on "$#*! My Dad Says" 2011-02-17T13:06:39Z Four years into Islamist Hamas rule, cultural censors are fraying the already threadbare local movie industry. Gaza film-makers decry Hamas censorship 2011-07-28T08:46:56Z He made me a bracelet of woven cedar strips I wore until it frayed apart. Why I stopped dating the cop: Colin Kaepernick’s protest, the “liberal media” and the bunker mentality of police culture 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z By the time I was 12, sex comedies had come into the fray. Why I quit having sex for a year 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Bill Owens arrived early and found a lighting tower to shoot from, above the fray. The Chaos of Altamont and the Murder of Meredith Hunter 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Here’s the problem: By the time I get home at night, my nerves are frayed and I am snappish with everyone. Social Q’s: Social Questions 2012-06-15T19:26:41Z The musicians threw themselves into the fray, a bit stiffly at first and then with increasing suppleness. Orchestra presents first concert since founder George Shangrow's death 2010-10-11T19:33:00Z Tweed was frayed, appearing as dress bound by a corset, or as jacket and mini-skirt sets. Gucci unveils Adidas collab during Milan Fashion Week 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Lucy’s romantic interest Teiji, a Japanese photographer, enters the fray by joining the women on a weekend trip to Sado Island, where simmering flirtations lead to disastrous consequences. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Crown’ and ‘Man in the High Castle’ 2019-11-17T05:00:00Z At a time when political battles are being waged over running shoes, breakfast foods and car-sharing services, it was probably inevitable that a drink would be drawn into the fray. Is the cloying Fireball the official drink of D.C. Trump supporters? We investigate. 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z They frequently show little tears or fraying everywhere. Personal Best: Sports Injuries: Go to a Doctor or Tough It Out? 2010-03-30T19:35:00Z Literally rising above the fray shifted my focus. Telluride beyond the slopes: The Colorado town’s hidden assets by hot-air balloon 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z McDonald's has entered the fray during an already strange year, as the American fast-food company is now selling a burger made of Spam and topped with Oreo cookies Monday in China. Sen. Cruz chimes in after McDonald's introduces burger featuring Spam and Oreos 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z A woman wearing blue gloves painstakingly picks at the fringe of frayed paper scraps dangling from the perforated edges of a stack of ballots. The dark, crazy heart of Florida is on full display — again — at the election recount 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z But his brand of machismo has frayed — at least for a younger generation less interested in a narrow view of what it means to be a man. Vicente Fernández, the King of Machos and Heartbreak 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Brien and Mr. Bagheri will re-enter the fray, opening a bar next to Seasonal Pantry this winter. Heads Up: An Encore in Washington 2012-08-22T18:30:02Z Watching the men as they work, attend 12-step meetings and struggle to repair frayed familial bonds, she unearths moments of raw revelation that quietly highlight our shameful lack of effective help. Review: For These ‘Recovery Boys,’ Sobriety Is a Steep Climb 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z She is angsty, sombre, frayed, yet just a tiny bit fabulous. The top 10 gay movie cliches 2013-03-25T19:40:00Z It was one of several numbers in which Ms. O’Sullivan’s voice recalled the frayed scream of Janis Joplin. Review: Camille O’Sullivan, Proclaiming Ferocious Truths at Irish Arts 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z AM The Untold Battle Of Britain On 31 August 1940, 303 Squadron entered the fray just as the Battle of Britain entered its most critical phase. Disappearing Dad: Timeshift 2010-06-29T07:00:00Z Perhaps most impressive today is its uncannily prescient analysis of the fabled American dream as it frays around the edges in the 21st century. ‘Assassins,’ Sondheim and Weidman’s Musical, in London 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z In Mozart’s case published speculation began within a month of his death in 1791, and musicologists, physicians and medical scholars have regularly joined the fray ever since. After Mozart?s Death, an Endless Coda 2010-08-24T17:50:00Z Sidonie and other servants live in grim, bare rooms, with a borrowed clock her only ornament; she wears the same dress, elaborate but frayed and graying, every day. The look of 'Farewell, My Queen' is worth a look 2012-07-26T18:18:07Z Unless the cords are frayed, he said, there is no need to replace them. How to rebalance a love seat sunken on one side 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z In some respects, it’s a case study in how relationships fray when lives that once shared a parallel vision diverge. Did You Watch the ‘Power’ Season 3 Finale? Let’s Talk About It 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z As close as Demme’s camera gets to Neil — detailing whiskers, spittle, and the frayed threads of his hat — there are ways in which the seems to remain sealed off from the outside world. Neil Young: “I’m back in the same place” 2012-06-29T14:35:00Z As the younger child got older, he did fight back, and Isabel found herself with full-on brawls in her living room, and her own daughter caught in the fray. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary: When a Friend's Child Hits Yours 2011-12-16T18:41:05Z But bouncing from marginalization played for laughs to tender, emotion-driven moments frayed my nerves. Is Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ as Offensive as It Looks? Let’s Discuss 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Throughout a decade in which celebrity scandals were everywhere, Seacrest himself remained steadfastly above the fray. American Idol: Riveting despite itself 2012-05-24T11:51:00Z Emotions are fraying in everyday life; everyone is overreacting and overacting. The Brilliance and the Blahs of City Ballet. (And Then There’s Solange.) 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z As people age, it is common to see some fraying or partial tearing of tendons, which will show up on the detailed image produced by an MRI and may complicate the diagnosis. What is frozen shoulder? Symptoms, treatment and a possible pandemic connection. 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z This is a drama that boldly confronts the limits of an adult’s understanding of a troubled child and a frayed social network. ‘Gidion’s Knot’ a tangle of confrontation, tragedy 2014-04-03T20:45:37Z In “Katla,” estranged sisters, one of them dead, work at mending their frayed relationship; and in “The Returned,” a serial killer in a former life learns to rue and curb his lethal impulses. The Dead Get a Do-Over 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Like heavy-duty denim, all of his jackets are made with felled seams—two overlapping edges folded up so they don’t fray—and bar tacks, a tight zigzag stitch that’s almost as strong as a rivet. A Workwear Jacket Worthy of Drake and “Alien: Covenant” 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z And the contestants, who in the past were discouraged from using social media as their season aired, began joining the fray. A Take-Charge ‘Bachelorette’ Sends the Boys Home 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z I warily waded back into the fray, perusing the Times. How to Stay Sane as a Cartoonist in Trumpland 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z The velvet pulls at the seams, worn-out and frayed. Want to Feel Like a Russian Ballerina? Start With the Tutu 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Nerves started to fray, and insults were traded as staff members created two lines, one for men and the other for women. Release of Balmain x H&M Collection Creates Chaos in London 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The red plush seats were frayed and the popcorn had real butter, and the heroine bore a stunning resemblance to Debbie Stone, who he hadn't thought about for years. Dad always fell for the wrong women 2011-04-25T15:21:00Z Iron Man 3 will continue to dominate as plucky contenders enter the fray, hoping to grab some counterprogramming cash. Iron Man 3 smashes his way to the top at the UK box office 2013-05-02T10:43:39Z The move also buys time for other bidders to jump into the fray. Fox offer for Time Warner could bring out rival suitors 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The temptations of Sarah Ruhl’s “Passion Play” include cameos by Elizabeth I, Adolf Hitler and Ronald Reagan, each briefly swanning through with a stateliness that keeps them well above the fray. Backstage with Jesus and Hitler in Ruhl’s epic ‘Passion Play’ 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z “And when the marriage started to fray a bit and she had other ideas about herself and being independent, of course I was there, and I was still myself and those feelings came back.” Joel Grey’s Open Book 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z But now, Mrs. Wallace is back in the political fray on her own terms, with a debut novel named after the 18 acres on which the White House sits. What Change Could Look Like 2010-10-22T22:30:00Z And that skin is getting frayed, battered and damaged. Best science books of 2012 2012-11-29T15:05:01Z The final crop of films - including "Zero Dark Thirty," "Les Miserables," "Django Unchained" and "The Hobbit" - are just now entering the fray, so feel free to list anything we might have missed. The Carpetbagger: Reader Favorites in the Early Running 2012-11-30T21:35:11Z Other relationships frayed over the years as Fela endured prison and later suffered from AIDS. Finding Depth in Fela?s Women 2009-12-17T15:17:00Z A second show soon followed, this one of big, studiously bland abstract paintings that Mr. Hammons had shrouded in industrial tarps, frayed blankets and plastic sheeting. David Hammons Is Still Messing With What Art Means 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z In her 70s, Iris Murdoch began documenting the fraying of her memory in her journals. Dementia Patients Aren’t in Their ‘Perfect Mind.’ Then Again, Who Is? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z It’s a fray that M.I.A. is eager to plunge into, once again, on her fifth studio album, “AIM.” Review: M.I.A.’s Album ‘AIM’ Juggles Social Consciousness and Self-Assurance 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z The family begins each hymn verse together, but ends it on slightly different accents — a sign of frayed relations and disharmony. L.A. Opera's 'Dog Days' goes out with a bang, not a whimper 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, how many people who know better jumped into the fray to attack a 64-year-old woman who has the means to do whatever she wants, including facelifts? The unreasonable, degrading expectations imposed on stars' bodies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z In Lynn Nottage’s scorching play “Sweat,” the bonds among a group of working-class friends and family are frayed to the breaking point by the pressure of an eroding economic future. Review: The Jobs Are Gone in ‘Sweat.’ So Are People’s Hopes. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But enduring this frayed satire for these moments of pleasure is a deal only the most devoted Amis fans should accept. 'Lionel Asbo': from brothel to brawl and back in dystopian England 2012-09-13T20:25:05Z Sporting a frayed jacket, a dress shirt and a spectacular nest of jet-black hair, Mr. Thornton is initially cartoonish — a stunned Kramer from “Seinfeld” — but over time earns a certain gruff dignity. | 'Here and There': A City of Warehoused Souls 2010-05-14T00:17:00Z Directed by Jenna Worsham for Lesser America, this is an excursion into the depths of longing, examining the ties that bind too tightly and the connections that are dangerously frayed. Review: In ‘Agnes,’ Familial Ties Bound So Tightly They Fray 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z Once again, for the third year running, yours truly, the Carpetbagger, will help you navigate the fray, starting with Monday night’s Gotham Independent Film Awards. Oscars 2017: Presidential Politics and Hollywood’s Big Races 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z The uninterrupted format may have frayed his voice, and a stubborn nasality crept into his otherwise handsome, hearty sound, but the program nevertheless accumulated in power. Review: Davóne Tines Hones the Recital Form to a Fine Point 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Hachette fray and took aim at tech giant Amazon for hurting authors — including himself. Stephen Colbert escalates war with Amazon: “More people are getting screwed than in ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’” 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z I buy my Orientals used, with frayed edges to give off that worn look,” says Eddie Ross, a design blogger and editor at Better Homes & Gardens. Oriental rugs make a comeback, and they are not just for your grandparents’ house 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z She pulls herself up to her bedside table, toward the Restless Legs Cream perched atop her frayed Bible. Ailing, alone and 89. So how could Hilda Reynolds be joyous? 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z Sam, who is in his mid-20s but looks and acts like a junior high school Baldwin brother, cons Marshall into driving him to Long Island, ostensibly to mend their fraying friendship. | 'Ceremony': Here Comes the Bride, a Wedding Crasher in Pursuit 2011-04-07T20:48:34Z The work drags on in the blazing heat amid rising tensions and fraying tempers. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z When Hapsburg grandeur rubs up against a more relaxed Italian style and a higgledy-piggledy mix of ethnic elements joins the fray, the result — as Svevo would say — is original. In a Quiet Corner of Italy... Trieste 2011-04-29T19:35:37Z “She’ll notice if the lace has started to fray, and it will be replaced.” Knitting Up the Raveled Sleeves of Theatrical Cares 2011-06-24T15:53:55Z The clean lines and supple cuts were punctuated by threadbare, frayed hats and other accessories. Kim Jones takes Dior to dreamy wasteland where past, future coexist 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Getting stranded on the runway when your flight gets hit with last-minute delays is enough to fray the temper of even the most sanguine flier. Best delay ever? Hungry pilot buys pizza for entire plane 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Women have pleaded with men of action to spare the guilty or retreat from the fray. Oscars 2013: what the nominations say about America 2013-02-21T16:00:00Z MacDougall’s friends and family thought she was crazy, but she blindly jumped into the fray anyway. Review | Love your dog? (Of course you do!) Here are 9 new books to remind you why. 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z But over the past decade or so, the fabric of the organization has frayed. After Decades of Drinks and Laughs, Is It Last Call at the Friars Club? 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z Her perch mimics the novel’s bird’s-eye vantage, but also Eva’s drive, for better and worse, to vault above the fray. ‘Invincible Summer’: A book-club friendly novel for the season 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z Luckily, he was ready to jump into the fray, having performed Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes several times in 2012, most recently for a Juilliard graduate recital in December. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z Our champions entered the fray Making fast food for us at low pay. Style Invitational Week 1452: As the word turns 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z 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 The details are stunningly real—an old chandelier flickers with light, miniature trousers hang on a frayed clothesline, a tiny bird’s nest is burrowed in a charred cornice. An Artist’s Obsession with the Ruins of His Homeland 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z It's with these words – sung in a frayed, despondent sigh over minimal piano and distant drum splashes - that Bonnie "Prince" Billy, aka Will Oldham, can reduce me to a quivering wreck. Tracks of our tears: the songs that make G2 writers weep 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z Their pleasures include encountering Klee’s intimate art — with its frayed, mincing lines and blushing colors — in relatively intimate surroundings, and a chance to see several rarely exhibited works. Art in Review: Paul Klee: ‘The Bauhaus Years’ 2013-06-06T18:18:58Z So Ms. Poore-Ericson and her small party of textile artists, cutters and stitchers spent hundreds of hours rumpling, fraying, tearing, dying and overdying material. Clothes and Character: 'The Homesman' 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z Eastwood, in nearly half a century as a major filmmaker and even longer as an axiom of popular culture, has chronicled the fraying of that cloth, and also plucked at a thread or two. ‘Richard Jewell’ Review: The Wrong Man 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z “I am a child of immigrants. I know only the frayed facsimile of the world my parents grew up in.” How Francis Lam, son of immigrants, became the voice of America’s food culture 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Sam cons Marshall into driving him to Long Island, ostensibly to mend their fraying friendship. 'Ceremony': Not much pomp in this wedding-crasher 2011-04-28T20:07:26Z Friendships, too, prove to be illusions, as that between the girls fractures and frays, exposing the aching need at the center of each individual’s ambitions. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z But I too have employed it for its soothing properties – tuning in as a last ditch attempt to calm frayed nerves on long family car journeys. A week listening to ? Classic FM 2011-03-17T15:59:27Z But their relationship frayed, and once Def Jam bought out Roc-A-Fella and installed Jay Z as president, Dash became estranged from the company. Lee Daniels sued for $25m by hip-hop mogul Damon Dash 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Installments from their lives arrived each month or so, organized around such topics as housing, caregiving and the fraying social safety net. When Growing Old Is a Blessing 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Instead, it was a time of robust expansion, with two new entries from the biggest brands in the business, Frieze Seoul and Paris+ by Art Basel, entering the fray. In Its Second Outing, Paris+ by Art Basel Embraces Its Frenchness 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Josh, seizing grown-up responsibility for the first time in his life, slyly inserts himself into the fray. | 'Harvest': The Family That Stays Together Frays Together 2011-05-06T05:30:05Z What is the difference between “life” and “the fray of life”? Jamison seems to intuit a deeper and more mysterious link between mania and inspiration than she is finally able to penetrate or describe. How much did Robert Lowell's manic-depression affect his poetry? A new biography tries to find the answer 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z US pop star Meghan Trainor entered the fray in August after her image was used without her permission to urge Australians to vote against legalizing same-sex marriage. U.S. rapper to sing 'Same Love' to Australian rugby fans amid same-sex marriage vote 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Their loyalty to Mother Russia is sincere, but it wavers, frayed by Moscow’s abuses and by their own attachments to the country their children consider home. The TV Watch: ‘The Americans’ Returns, With New Secrets, on FX 2014-02-25T22:39:11Z Dine in colorful upscale “huts” away from the fray or sunbathe on the resort’s private beach. On an action-packed Bahamas vacation, off the beach and into high gear 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Today, the bedsheet ghost is an easy and economical Halloween costume made scarier with old sheets that are either frayed or running thin from frequent washes. Why do we wear bedsheets as a ghost costume? A closer look at its creepy, yet practical origins 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z And as more fine dining-trained chefs and operators enter the fray, the genre’s potential inches higher. ‘Rice Is Culture’ at FieldTrip in Harlem 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Based on found snapshots, their expressive brushwork and intimate scale throw us into the fray. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The procession circles a makeshift displacement camp where mothers are bathing their children in buckets of cloudy water in front of the layers of frayed faded tarp they call home. Port-au-Prince, city of survivors: Voices from Haiti, after the devastating 2010 earthquake 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z The art world firestorm surrounding David Wojnarowicz's film work "A Fire in My Belly" is now local, as a major Chicago museum has waded into the fray. Smithsonian censorship yields solidarity in Chicago 2010-12-18T23:25:00Z Noah always seemed eager to get above the fray and treated guests with deference and awe. Trevor Noah’s Optimism Set His Version of ‘The Daily Show’ Apart 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Some workers are hurt, others are at risk; glass breaks, tempers fray. ‘American Factory’ Review: The New Global Haves and Have-Nots 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z Her most unusual materials are lengths of shed snake skin, sometimes matched with clumps of frayed, burlap-like cloth that resembles human hair. Review | In the galleries: Depicting an energy of constant fluctuation and growth 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The 63-year-old author was wearing a frayed pink shirt, black pants and black boots. Literary Brooklyn Gets Its Leading Man 2012-06-22T20:21:18Z It doesn’t help her fraying psyche when she starts getting mysterious calls from “No Caller ID.” Recreational Adrenaline: Three Sizzling New Thrillers 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z He reached down to the frayed hem of his shorts and twisted a thread between his fingers. Planned Parenthood is a symbol. This is the reality of one Ohio clinic. 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Baldwin’s essays were dispatches from a viewpoint above the fray; not that he avoided conflict, but there was always a certain height to his essays. A grand theory of anti-blackness: The unflinching and profound terror in Ta-Nehisi Coates’ “Between The World and Me” 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z I decided, my patience at being single fraying by the day. Modern Love: A Dollar a Day, for Only 20 Years 2013-08-08T18:10:01Z Throughout, Hypatia insists her male students remain brothers in spirit, above the fray despite potentially volatile differences. 'Agora': Rachel Weisz shines as a heroine caught in an orbit of hate 2010-07-22T21:43:00Z As the social fabric frayed, loud noise levels and reckless driving of motorcycles and all-terrain vehicles raised alarm. "In the Heights" celebrates the resilience Washington Heights has used to fight the pandemic 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z But a new reading series, Bamboozled, is jumping into the fact-or-fiction fray. New L.A. reading series asks: Fact or fiction? 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z He sees death looming, but he’s still in the fray. Bob Dylan Still Bristles on ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Whenever a novelist wades into the critical fray, he is not only helping to explain and maintain literary standards, but also, in some important sense, defending the value of his vocation. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z While there is some truth to that, indie R&B's desire to play around with R&B's already frayed edges should be something to celebrate. Did gloomy hipsters ruin R&B in 2012? 2012-12-29T00:06:55Z It rippled and snapped, the edges sliced into strips, as if already fraying. Philippe Vergne leads preview of MOCA's fresh start: 3 new shows 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z That’s easy for the Baton Rouge rapper, whose bruising flows reach into his sullen past of crime, frayed relationships and bouts of depression. Kevin Gates gives first D.C.-area performance at the Fillmore Silver Spring As civil war breaks out, her loved ones are brought into the fray, particularly as Tamil militant groups form. 10 New Books Coming in January 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The Picasso brought $106.5 million at the end of an eight-minute-long contest in which four contenders were still taking part in the fray by the time bidding rose above $87 million. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z Issues to be settled: why is Lucifer balking at taking over for now-retired God, and how will he respond as a godless world frays at the edges. New this week: ‘Kate,’ ‘Come From Away’ and MTV’s VMAs 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z But the film falters as the story swells and churns, and real people like Representative Maxine Waters of California enter the fray in clips alongside fictionalized scenes meant to look like documentary footage. ‘Kill the Messenger,’ a Film About the Reporter Gary Webb 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z With Trump always asking for more, his relationship with the town frayed. Trump made Florida his official residence. He may have also made a legal mess. 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Bill, no doubt about it, was more adept at rolling with the punches, charming his way out of trouble, while Barack Obama’s special power was rising nobly above the fray. 'As guarded as Fort Knox': the inside story of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Still, the measured usage of audio clips over blurs of color swirling in water – some on frayed fabric, some liquid and ambiguous – anchor the production in a sense of steadily rising angst. Beyond sex trafficking and sashes, HBO's chilling NXIVM docuseries "The Vow" proves a cult's power 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Clearly, there’s enough raw material here for a book three times as long, but Allende’s graceful telling, although often breezy, never frays or grows superficial. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z This canvas expanse, with frayed rope along its edges, becomes a visual and conceptual centerpiece, continuously reconfigured. Review: He Needs Your Help. And She’s Trapped Under a Mound. 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z We’re stepping back into the fray, weary and leery, not the same people we were before we had masks and vaccine cards. Did the Pandemic Change Summer Reading for Good? I Hope So. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Her last version of the bash was in 2017, when she brought together A-list Washington for a night of friendship, patriotism and rising above the political fray. Buffy Cafritz and her lifelong quest to bring Washington together 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z Bud Light entered the culture war fray without picking a side and in trying to please everyone, the beer brand angered everyone. "Et tu, Chick-fil-a?": Far-right pundits turn on Chick-fil-A over diversity and equity initiative 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z Now headphone manufacturers such as Beats, which is owned by Apple, advertise the stance of being away from the fray as a key feature of their products. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z By the time the Civil War erupted, Irish men and women, many poor and marginalized, were deep in the fray. D.C. area monuments honor the Irish and others with ties to Emerald Isle 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The role the media plays in both shows is nearly identical, as is the frayed relationship between Carver and Ellie. The curious case of Broadchurch's US remake Gracepoint: why bother? 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z He didn’t sound marooned so much as cynically above the fray. Music Review: Tomahawk at the Best Buy Theater 2013-06-04T21:41:58Z Instead, a work like Mr. Nash’s “Presidential Suite” attempts to soar above the fray. Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Unlike Degas, who represented the world of dance and opera without entirely dismantling the theatrical illusion, Lautrec puts the viewer in the middle of the fray. Review | Yes, Toulouse-Lautrec was an alcoholic cabaret creature. But his art ranged far beyond the demimonde. 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z As the friends prepare separate defenses, trust frays and class divisions metastasize. ‘Read Receipts’ On: Two Dystopian Novels Predict the Surveillance State 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Allman, who had a liver transplant in June, brought a frayed, sometimes otherworldly tone to his bluesy “Floating Bridge,” about facing death. Music Review: Kindred Spirits, Young and Mature 2010-10-21T22:10:00Z But now international giants, historically deft at placating guests with stately buffets and fine, indeterminately European menus, are joining the fray. Can Food Tours Stray From the Beaten Path Without Ruining the Experience? 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z This was in the pandemic; we were all sort of frayed and flustered. Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z On the album she keeps her voice serene, musing at a distance from any emotional fray. Music Review: Frankie Rose at the Knitting Factory 2012-02-23T23:17:43Z He knew that it would take time for his readers to become accustomed to the new idiom: at first, the novel would leave them feeling frayed and disoriented. Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris by Graham Robb 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z Can he keep his beloved pet a secret, safe from the bloody fray? Review: ‘Wringer,’ a Musical Adaptation of Jerry Spinelli’s Book 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z There’s a funny wink to hyper-Romantic excess when a glockenspiel tinkles above the fray at the end of the finale. Two Coasts, Two Concertos: Adès and Adams Offer Piano Premieres 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z They enter the musical fray in Saturday night’s final. Eurovision Song Contest starts with first semifinal 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z I went with the goal of writing about the fraying relationship between the BPD and the black community, but every time I tried to put pen to paper, the task felt impossibly complex. “He shouldn’t be up there with Martin Luther King”: A mural of Freddie Gray with the civil rights leader provokes disgust, on my ride-along with the Baltimore Police 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z The frayed edges and aged canvas lend vintage charm. Wedding Goods We Love 2010-05-10T13:42:00Z This transition made Jolson feel as if he was being put out to pasture on the West Coast — not to mention his fraying marriage to Warner Bros.’s tap-dancing ingénue Ruby Keeler. Hollywood Star Gives Broadway a Much-Needed Boost. Sound Familiar? 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Season 3 will see Marcella sent back into the fray with a new identity, allowing her to embed with an infamous crime family. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘30 for 30’ and ‘Marcella’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z The right book might even act as a palliative to frayed nerves and serve as a welcome reminder that the whole world isn't made up of fawning lick-spittles and mad old flag-waving, cat-strangling women. 'The royal wedding of the century' ? the novel 2011-03-18T14:28:59Z But over time, relations with her ex, with whom she shares custody of two children, frayed. Joint Custody, From a Distance 2012-11-23T21:27:45Z Sometimes it takes an outsider’s eye to see beyond a familiar or frayed surface. Ben Brantley Answers Your London Theater Questions 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Brands that enter the fray aren’t so much “raising awareness” as they are jostling for their own messaging to be seen amid the rush of signals. The Trump Resistance Will Be Commercialized 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z He opted to stay out of the fray. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z At least two other men are then seen getting into the fray. Black Friday fights caught on video land shoppers on Santa's naughty list 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z Burton made use of McQueen's traditional wild animal prints, golden embroideries and frayed cuts. Burton remains faithful to McQueen in fashion debut 2010-10-05T21:41:00Z The second half is more frayed, with some glaring implausibilities. ‘The Midnight Sky’ Review: It’s the End of the World, in the Arctic 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z He sometimes stutters, which might be why he trained himself to keep his voice low, out of the fray. I have a hard time hearing men talk — literally 2022-05-21T04:00:00Z The radios often have their original frayed cloth cords. Antiques: Exploring the Art of Louisiana Furniture 2010-12-10T00:01:00Z Before they re-enter the fray she tells him she wants assurances that if she moves to actively assisting him, she'll be rewarded with a "very, very, very significant role" under his leadership. Wins, losses and regrets: It's all part of the game at this "Succession" tailgate party 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The atmosphere of airports, their sterilized but frayed utility, became the psychic landscape of my pain. Modern Love: In the Current of a Long-Distance Relationship 2011-03-17T22:05:05Z Thundercat’s genius lies in his ability to both reinvent that frayed calculus and combine it with a hilarious streak of absurdist postmodern irony and fluorescent intergalactic symphonies. Think there can’t be a jazz-funk fusion superstar in 2020? Then you don’t know Thundercat. 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z It’s a potpourri of experiments, balancing the frayed energy and funky sparring of his 1970s fusion records with layers of synthesizer and protean harmonic movement. What ‘Rubberband’ Reveals About Miles Davis’s Final Act 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Such is the state of credit card security, a continuing battle between card issuers and criminals who steal account numbers, with consumers caught in the fray. Practical Traveler: Advice on Using Credit Cards While Traveling Abroad 2010-08-24T23:40:00Z I think in both of those cases, those victims did not enter in to the fray of social media, but were swept up in other people's need to publicly humiliate. When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z CharityWorks appeared to float above the fray; the parties were, if anything, even more elaborate. The fabulous CharityWorks galas raised millions for good causes over the years. Then something changed. 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Despite her devotion She returned to the ocean and worried and fretted and frayed No one went back to see their eggs crack But Urtle could not stay away. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z I have to refurbish it every few years, since I do drive it around as a regular car, and eventually the sun fades it and the wind frays it. Art cars drive Fremont Fair fun 2011-06-16T19:00:10Z For her, she’s someone who also throws herself into the fray and had made it her life mission to help, even if that means risking her own life. Rosario Dawson on Being a Hero, Not a Love Interest, in Netflix's "Daredevil" 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z Lewis merely gives soloists some advice regarding what not to do, when entering the fray. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z And, away from the fray, the family is planning a private service in the author’s honor. Beyond ‘Wonka’: They Want Every Kid to Know Roald Dahl’s World 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z Yet in doing so, and in moving from Joyce to the fevered Frida Kahlo, the cosmic Georgia O’Keeffe, the grand Radclyffe Hall and the prim Eleanor Roosevelt, her original sexts-versus-letters argument begins to fray. At Under the Radar, Stories Unfold via Sexts, Tweets and Puppeteers 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Sunset Strip, with its real but fraying connections to the entertainment industry, was a perfect subject for Ruscha. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z “Though the film frays their friendship by having them argue about which one is the bigger success, ‘cuteness-wise,’ that’s easy to settle. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘The BFG’ and ‘Star’ 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z He maintains the sense of pop melody he brought to Fleetwood Mac, and he sings in an expressively frayed latter-day version of his old high tenor. Playlist : Music by Wild Flag, Lindsey Buckingham and the Raincoats 2011-09-10T00:08:45Z Bunting follows in a long tradition of English writers escaping up to the region where the land fractures and frays. Travel Books Take You There and Back 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z He’s attuned to every fluctuation in the room’s frequencies, the frayed wires of sibling rivalry, the cloying taste of parental concern. Review | What does a father most want for his children? James Wood’s novel shows us. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It wasn’t until April 1917 that this country finally jumped into the fray. Exhibit captures the poster art of World War I 2014-08-02T04:00:00Z The production takes place in a large living room that, as designed by David Zinn, exudes a cluttered, well-worn comfort, with its frayed rugs and ornately shaded lamps. Review: ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ Elevator Repair Service’s Take on Faulkner 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z After all, we exist in a culture where clothing factories pre-rip blue jeans to make them look “distressed” — like they’ve been worn and frayed through years of actual life experiences. From Hollywood’s illusion factory, some unexpected reality 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z A reasonable person might surmise that the entertainment industry's ostensible leftward tilt would preclude this from happening in the immediate future, what with all the frayed nerves and raw emotions. For the good of the nation, let's not normalize any Trump flunkies with primetime TV cameos 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z The color-washed paper forms, often with rough or frayed edges, dangle from the ceiling and drape along the floor like an overgrown yard, the organic sounds from his garden bringing the installation to life. On Craft & Folk Art Museum's golden anniversary, 'Paperworks' is a cutting-edge gift 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The synthesizer chords are frayed and quivery as her apologies tumble out — heartfelt but apparently too late. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Those exhausted by the partisan fray will be happy to hear that the politics of “Miss You Like Hell” are more implicit than explicit. 'Miss You Like Hell,' an immigration musical for the new Trump era 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z The narrator tries to put on a confident front but she’s fraying at the edges. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z Some elements burn up quickly; some keep fraying and hanging on. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Doing Your Own Dirty Work 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z The canvas appears to be rotting and fraying into a tangle of dead roots and leaves, with new blossoms erupting three-dimensionally from the surface. Art Blooms Alongside Nature in Riverside Park 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z And So It Goes may touch the frayed heartstrings of some older viewers, but it’s pretty bad — the failed attempt to Heimlich a venerable movie genre. REVIEW: Another Grumpy Old Man Finds Love in And So It Goes 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z This week, one of the film’s stars, Jessica Chastain, said she believed the film would be able to stay above the fray. Movie ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ stokes debate on CIA torture 2012-12-15T03:44:31Z She would press a badly frayed Victorian lace blouse to a sheet of paint to make a monoprint, revealing in detail both the damage and the repair. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The fur and frayed organza blurred the taut silhouette, but are even the extreme temperatures of the messed-up planet going to bring ice queen couture dresses onto the streets? Special Report: Fashion: Louis Vuitton in Full Fetish 2011-03-09T18:28:22Z Yet Nunziata keeps the fires lit in the kitchen; she makes fresh pasta every day; she cares for her child and tries to stay above the fray. An Operatic Italian Classic Gets a Fresh Translation 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Dilapidated buildings are covered in old graffiti and fraying posters. Deep cuts: how Sharp Objects offers up a radically dark view of women 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Olivia Tripp Morrow turns frayed women’s undergarments into wall sculptures; the one that most alters the garments treats pantyhose as vines suspended from a real tree branch. Review | In the galleries: An artist conjures images from oceans to a micro view of nature 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Kimmel used the opportunity to pull Matt Damon, his “nemesis,” back into the fray. Stephen Colbert Goes Live to Dissect Trump’s Address 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The left-wing journalist I. F. Stone joined the fray. The Debate to Use Atomic Bombs Against Japan 2020-08-03T04:00:00Z But when the cry recurs, at the top of the range, her voice frays a bit, in a way that ratchets up the emotion of the scene. Alex Ross on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson 2013-05-28T06:00:00Z Not long ago, she stunned loyalists with a loosey-goosey collection of long, frayed dresses, soft pajama-like pants and sandals lined with fur. | Slave No More 2014-02-06T16:00:26Z Mayo’s “Nerve Show,” as wacky as it is melancholic, straddles the time before the pandemic and the not-quite-after where we find ourselves now, an era of stuttering starts and stops and collectively frayed nerves. Review: A Choreographer’s of-the-Moment Brand of ‘Not Knowing’ 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But when punk hit, with its stripped-down sound and frenetic energy, an echo of early rock ’n’ roll, he joined the fray. Robert Gordon, Punk Rocker Turned Rockabilly Revivalist, Dies at 75 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z But then, right at her moment of triumph, UK photographer named Jason Sheldon leapt into the fray, Kanye-style, calling Swift a hypocrite for pitting her own business interests against those of working photographers. Taylor Swift, a Daenerys Targaryen for our time: Walking the fine line of perception between populist hero and ruthless power-player 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z In 1907 a spelunker named Aurel Stein discovered the frayed book and sent it to London, where well-intentioned conservators kept relining it with stiff modern papers. Antiques: Antiques Beach Reading (Yep, That?s Right) 2010-06-24T20:42:00Z In a tumultuous period for the audio industry, with millions of active shows swirling ever-changing platforms and business models, “Radiolab” has managed to stay above the fray. ‘Don’t Break It!’ The New Hosts of ‘Radiolab’ Remodel a Landmark 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “The Edge of the World,” told from a daughter’s perspective, and “You Are So Embarrassing,” narrated by a mother, show different but inevitable culminations of fraying mother-daughter bonds. Review | In ‘How to Pronounce Knife,’ stories of Lao immigrants reveal everyday moments of racism, classism, power and privilege 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z When Auggie and his white supremacist followers catch up to Peacemaker and begin to pummel him, Eagly proves that he's no mere pet by entering the fray. The making of Eagly, the "Peacemaker" scene-stealing, butt-kicking eagle whose hugs are miracles 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z When Aetna informed him he’d reached his insurance cap, he called out the company in an articulate, impassioned Twitter conversation that ultimately brought its CEO Mark T. Bertolini into the fray – and got him results. A crowdfunding role model dies 2013-03-26T15:42:00Z Wyeth’s miraculous rendering of the main body of the fluttering curtain disintegrates into mere streaks of white paint; it is not a representation of a fraying curtain, but a frayed representation of a curtain. Andrew Wyeth leaves viewers on the outside looking in His fraying connection to reality is partly traced through increasingly revealing flashbacks to a squalid, primal scene of abuse, and is depicted through silly-looking, sped-up action and the all-consuming whomp and buzz of his music. ‘Enter the Dangerous Mind’ Focuses on an Unstable Composer 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Daniels is nearly 50, and his instrument sounds a little frayed and dry. Two exquisite, artistic concerts hosted at the Kennedy Center on Sunday 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z This week’s story, “In the Act of Falling,” is told from the perspective of a woman whose life is fraying. This Week in Fiction: Danielle McLaughlin 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The two women wear frayed white gowns, like those a girl might wear on a big day, or a woman when giving birth. Dance Review: Donna Uchizono Company at New York Live Arts 2013-12-06T22:22:10Z When it was time for the Atlanta-rap-inspired “Babe Ruthless,” Haze instructed the crowd to mosh and jumped into the fray. Finally out of the woods, rapper Angel Haze puts on cathartic, uplifting show 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z The clothes were light in both construction and attitude, with a disintegrated quality to tweed jackets and frayed denim. Casting Elegant Shadows in Chanel's Garden 2010-10-05T14:27:00Z Mr. Costanzo’s attempt at rendering the fraying of minds and marital bonds draws on notions of hysteria that only shortchange his characters. Review: ‘Hungry Hearts,’ a Drama About Love and Obsession 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z But when the relationship frays, things fall apart, and “everybody looks bad.” Prestige Can?t Halt Downfall of Theater 2011-05-18T22:00:52Z There was no redemption in this story, no renunciation, only moments of pained self-recognition and an attempt to give coherence and meaning to the frayed strands of sensation and reflection that made up his days. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z But since humanity keeps getting attacked by snarling enemies called Deviants, the Eternals keep stepping into the fray, an interventionist habit that more strongly suggests that of the United States. ‘Eternals’ Review: When Super Franchises Walk the Earth! 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z She calls the 2005 film “Walk the Line,” which portrayed the fraying and snapping of that marriage, “an egregious oversimplification of our family’s private pain,” but doesn’t go into details. Books of The Times: Rosanne Cash Writes ?Composed: A Memoir? 2010-08-10T19:00:00Z Beyond the fray of who believes what and whether it means anything, there is a wider and perhaps more interesting question of whether we should expect any correlation at all between a/theism and intelligence. Christianity: a faith for the simple 2011-01-31T13:00:01Z But remember, these are antiquated representations, born a half-century ago, of the corrupt values of a fraying postwar British establishment. Review | The best of the Kennedy Center’s Broadway series? Game over, it’s ‘Tommy’! 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Legend also jumped into the fray, and he called on the first lady to intervene. Trump Insults Chrissy Teigen and John Legend, and They Fire Back 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Or “Your clothes are looking a little frayed around the edges.” Table For Three: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Nancy Pelosi: A Power Lunch, Times Two 2014-04-04T22:47:29Z Most of the new trailer centres on Luke, his continuing concerns over Rey’s burgeoning powers and his clear reticence to re-enter the fray after years of exile on Ahch-To. Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer – five things we learned, from Rey's dark side to annoying Porgs 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z She applied layers of burlap, which she frayed into loose string, “like the roots and trunks of trees or the veins in my hands.” | A Love Eternal 2014-04-09T13:00:01Z Find a piece of denim that is bigger than the frayed area and is close in colour to the garment. Forget fast fashion! Six ways to bring clothes back to life – from darning to stain removal 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z Too much about Eph’s righteous search, his regrets and his frayed family bonds. 'The Strain' recap: Beware of your loved ones 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z Shrum’s diagnosis of Biden’s mealy response: “I think he was told to stay above the fray, not go after any Democrats. But there’s a difference between an attack and a counterattack.” What should you look for in the Democratic debates? Ask the man who prepped Gore and Kerry. 2019-07-19T04:00:00Z In childhood, Tennessee and Rose enjoyed what their mother called a “wild intimacy,” but the bond frayed in adolescence as Rose’s behavior grew more erratic. Review: A Gothic Tennessee Williams Mash-Up in ‘Glass Guignol’ 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z On the left bank, a man wearing a frayed sweater-vest and a ski cap greeted me imploringly. In the Himalayas, Journeys of Faith and Flowers 2013-05-31T18:19:51Z In this case, cabinet doors were fraying, appliances were not up to par, and Wallace wanted more elbow room where her large family tends to gather informally. 5 smart details that upgraded Lorraine Wallace’s kitchen makeover 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z And this week, books jumped into the fray when Amazon announced a discount Kindle whose comparatively low price is financed, in part, by selling ads that appear on the device's screen saver. WWDDD: What would Don Draper do? 2011-04-13T17:30:00Z And with Mr. Crosby’s voice only a husk of its former self and Mr. Stills’s rougher delivery more frayed than ever, their harmonies were shaky. Music Review: Crosby, Stills and Nash With Jazz at Lincoln Center 2013-05-05T21:08:05Z Denim was extra-wide with pockets dropped down and patched on the side of the thigh, as if they’d slid around the leg; sliced, diced and frayed; or dark, traced in curvy orange stitching. It’s Telfar’s World. We’re Just Living in It. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z “These are frayed and fractured human beings,” she says of playing Beale, the charming society lady who lived in squalor at the end of her life. Essential Arts & Culture: Obama library architect chosen, the troubles at USC Roski, a key L.A. gallery closes 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z What unites these books is the authors’ alarm that the sheer volume of physical, digital and political “noise” is fraying our state of mind. Perspective | In a noisy world, books about silence are booming 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Novelist and essayist Laurens enters the adulatory fray with this volume, which is part historical chronicle, part artfully discursive personal response and part imaginative close reading of the sculpture’s past and present. Review | A fascinating look at the girl who inspired Degas’ ‘Little Dancer’ sculpture 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z If Abstract Expressionism is about the preciousness of the painter’s touch, Mr. Hammons’s arrangements of raddled plastics and frayed blankets are about the touch of ordinary bodies laboring, sweating, sleeping, trying to stay warm. Last Chance: The Upper East Side Goes Grungy 2011-03-01T21:43:48Z Away from the Basel fray, a local artist, Clara Varas, reflected on the two starkly different versions of her hometown, each of whose inhabitants think of themselves as the “real” Miamians. Masks Off, Wallets Out: Art Basel 2022 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The book’s heroes are a few obscure Kennedy staffers who dramatically overstep their bounds and, without their bosses’ knowledge, throw the Kennedy campaign directly into the fray. New & Noteworthy, From Jazz-Age Cairo to a Catholic Memoir 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z Breakfast may be an exponentially important meal, but for some, it often goes missed or skipped, lost in the fray of the morning hustle. Trader Joe's 10 best frozen breakfast items to add to your cart right now 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Budget cuts that have frayed the safety net and sky-high housing costs. Apple’s desolate neighbor: Inside Silicon Valley’s largest shantytown 2013-12-17T13:15:00Z Watch as the bonds between this group of friends begin to fray. ‘By the Time You Read This, I’ll Have Killed One of Your Husbands’ 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z Witchy in their crocheted tops, frayed cutoffs and muumuus, Charlie’s girls, as they were known, mind the ranch, thumb rides in the desert and offer themselves on no more than a whim to bewildered passers-by. Are Hippies the New Goths? 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z I felt about them the way I do about my children’s frayed old baby blankets. The Mirror: Jenny Allen, an Off Broadway Actress, on Gel Nail Polish 2012-03-15T22:17:07Z While the so-called "culture war" is itself largely overblown, the Bud Light controversy shows that if brands are going to enter the fray, they've eventually got to pick a side — or risk alienating both. Behind Ted Cruz's Bud Light vendetta 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Two other new releases, both wedding-themed comedies targeted at women, entered the fray in North America. 'Thor' and 'Fast Five' power box office sales 2011-05-08T18:01:00Z Breakfast at the cafe meant eating at a table in the lobby walkway, in the fray of the morning hubbub. A San Francisco Hotel Wired for a Tech Central Crowd 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z They are, however, steeped in the same frayed history and political unease. Cuba and Curiosity at the New York Film Festival 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z But as 30 days has turned into multiple months with no end in sight, their resolve is beginning to fray. For Cross-Border Couples, Plans to Reunite Are Still On Hold 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z The policy would put Joe’s Crab Shack “above the fray” in minimum wage debates, Mr. Blanchette said in a conference call last week, according to The Orange County Register. Joe’s Crab Shack to Test No-Tipping Policy 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The frayed edge of the quilted cotton coverlet is soft from 20 years of washing, and the air smells like the lavender lotion I just rubbed on my hands. Perspective | I drank every day. What kind of effect was it having on my kids? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z “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 With Vanessa Hudgens taking a break from seasonal fare, Lindsay Lohan steps into the fray. A Very Streaming Christmas 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The duct tape was so old it was frayed. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: My filthy car hit a tow truck. Did the punishment fit the grime? 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z Be nice, be civil, be discreet, be above the fray. Washington society and Team Trump: A year in, the fear and loathing is mutual 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z “Olympus”: the ruggedly handsome Gerard Butler, playing a deskbound Secret Service agent suddenly back in the fray. ‘White House Down’: Look, it’s ‘Fallen’ again 2013-06-27T01:47:00Z Telling the story of a jewelry store robbery gone sideways, Tarantino’s clever script skipped over the robbery itself entirely, focusing instead on the assembly of the crew and their frayed nerves at a meet-up afterward. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z In Schulman’s latest novel, a Silicon Valley family’s bonds are frayed by infidelities both virtual and actual, thanks to a start-up technology that allows “visits” to the lives that might have been. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Now the studio, its fortunes in decline and its edges fraying, is hoping to attract some less famous visitors when Cinecittà World, a new theme park dedicated to its golden era, opens on Thursday. Cinecittà World Theme Park Opens Thursday in Italy 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z China, busily building up its tech infrastructure as our own system frays, is willing to take surveillance and industrial espionage even further. The Problem Is in the Internet’s Bones 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z It’s also true that the dark parts were juicy and played to her capacity for making the most vivid music out of fraying psychological noise. I Love Gwyneth Paltrow. There. I Said It. 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Held’s voice is a little frayed, his top notes approximate, but he conveys tremendous warmth and emotion, and Wotan’s Farewell was, again, an emotional highlight. Review | Wolf Trap offers a fine ‘Ring’ lite 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Sometimes an air-clearing break is what you need to get back into the online dating fray. Why do I keep meeting men who have commitment issues? 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z James Morris sounded somewhat frayed but offered an effective portrayal of the frail Timur. Music Review: ‘Turandot’ Opens at Metropolitan Opera 2012-09-27T21:51:26Z Britain’s ambassador in Malaysia, Vicki Treadell, joined the fray, perhaps not surprisingly coming out diplomatically on the side of her hosts. MasterChef UK's 'crispy chicken' gripe leaves bad taste for Malaysians 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z Opera entered the fray earlier this year with 3D cinema screenings of Bizet's Carmen and Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia. Embracing 3D 2011-03-31T07:53:21Z Some of the strands fray, some turn into knots, some unravel in a hot, unearned rush. Just Another Nutty June Weekend in the Rockaways 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Among the more fascinating items on display in that show was a frayed wool jacket well aerated by moths. Nino Cerruti Gave Elegance a Good Name 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z As for the mainstream press, it cleared its throat, straightened its tie and dived into the fray with the rest of them. The Steve Jobs Backlash 2011-11-02T23:13:20Z And it has spawned a new pool of victims, as bourbon drinkers stuck at home with disposable income join the collecting fray, eager to show off their latest trophy. That $1,000 Bourbon You Bought May Be a Phony 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z And a group of cocktail dresses crafted from shimming silk threads that slowly started to fray with the movement of the body evoked a broken femininity that was intriguing. Special Report: Styles for All Seasons 2010-03-04T13:00:00Z But although Gaffigan has been in the running for a number of American posts, he has decided to step out of the fray for the time being. A Conductor Comes Into His Own in the Opera Pit 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z The skin's frayed and nowhere near its corresponding meat pieces. How to carve a turkey, according to knife experts 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z Despite all this, her millennial fans describe her as removed from the partisan fray. ‘The kids, they love Madeleine Albright’: How a veteran diplomat got turned into a millennial icon 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Also check for frayed stitches, which tend to start on the handles. 6 Embarrassing Office Wardrobe Malfunctions to Avoid 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z Later, as his advisors joined the fray, the response that we ultimately included in the story came to the fore: a blanket denial of all “non-consensual sex”, with little engagement on the specific allegations. The day I confronted Harvey Weinstein: ‘He said, 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z This second season explores the consequences of the Season 1 finale, which saw Kevin flee and Dan sent to the rubber room, their friendship frayed. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z Those contradictions have only multiplied, and the fantasy of an audience united in derision against unsmiling authority has tangled and frayed. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Here, a pulse, wit, beauty and a real sensibility have been slipped into the fray, alongside the clockwork guffaws, kabooms and splats. Chris Pratt Stars in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The page edges of a book on the American textile designer Sheila Hicks were hacked with a circular saw to evoke the fraying edges of her work. A Small Book on a Big Career 2010-08-08T15:30:00Z Observing evil, he enters the fray; if only it were so easy, in life, to steer conflict in the right direction. Review: Michelle Dorrance Happily Shares the Spotlight 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z After his mother died, Mr. Goldberg wanted to track down the identities of the women in the fraying photograph. This Life: In an Age of Lessening Privacy, Some Family Secrets Persist 2014-01-17T23:41:18Z They’re made of bottles, driftwood, chunks of plastic foam, lengths of frayed rope, bald tires, pieces of rusted iron, animal skulls and many other sorts of detritus. Mike Nelson: ‘Gang of Seven’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z “Haymaker,” the album’s title track, opened the set at a briskly swinging clip, but its melody — typically, for Mr. Preminger — floated unperturbed above the fray. Music Review: Noah Preminger at the Jazz Standard 2013-05-22T20:44:54Z Hoping for best actress attention for “Wild,” Reese Witherspoon seemed determined to be noticed, marching into the fray wearing hot pink. Oscars 2015: A Scrum for Votes at the Governors Awards 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z Sitman said the podcast has damaged some “already frayed” relationships with former mentors and friends. Two ‘Leftist Bros’ Dive Into Conservatism to ‘Know Your Enemy’ 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z Jaime, as he has been all season, is above the fray. “Game of Thrones” Season Finale: Women and Wildfire 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z And another train-station scene, seen both as a passage in Esposito's novel and in his life, has the faded, blurry quality of memory, of something held onto so tightly it's begun to fray. 'The Secret in Their Eyes': Argentine thriller muses on time and memory 2010-05-06T20:03:00Z Suburban mall staples,Gap and Aeropostale also recently joined the fray. Can Brooklyn gentrify the right way? 2012-07-17T20:58:00Z The script — which portrays an eventful season on Lake Erie in 1945, when the menfolk are away at war and families are feeling frayed — remains fairly clunky by Mr. Gurney’s standards. Review: ‘What I Did Last Summer,’ a Letter of Apology From an Ex-Teenager 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z A rare moment of delicacy and vulnerability develops as he tackles "Out Of My Hands" on his own for a few verses before his band joins in the fray. Dave Matthews Band Caravan music reviews 2011-07-08T05:00:00Z Tonight, Stark and Erin's own vigilante investigation into Luther draws his new girlfriend, Mary, into the fray, which leads to a ridiculous confrontation between Luther and Stark about just who is "the whirlwind". TV highlights 16/07/2013 2013-07-16T06:00:12Z But the zombie apocalypse "World War Z," which opens Friday, is Pitt's bold, long-gestating, big-budget effort to enter the franchise fray. Brad Pitt tries to build a better blockbuster 2013-06-19T15:04:10Z In the early days of Twitter, I jumped into the fray a few times myself. When the Cyberbully Is You 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Anthony’s critical sensibility, despite its harshness, helps her along, even as the stresses of their relationship distract her from school and fray her nerves. “The Souvenir,” Reviewed: Joanna Hogg’s Ambitious, Frustrating Autobiographical Drama 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z In 2005, Mennonite women living in a secluded colony in Bolivia reported waking up bleeding, with dirty fingerprints on their bodies and fraying rope around their wrists. In ‘Women Talking,’ Miriam Toews Ponders Punishment and Justice After Horrifying Crimes 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Few visible elements have changed since then, more perniciously, local businesses and the undergirding infrastructure is clearly fraying. Detroit: The Most Exciting City in America? 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z Tracks like “Drunk in Love” traffic in a strain of vaporwave soul that buzzes like frayed nerve endings. Beyoncé Reviewed: One of Pop Music’s Most Important Moments 2013-12-16T16:28:45Z But as the play turns more serious in the last third, finally revealing what happened in New York, the congruence of form and function begins to fray. Review: In ‘Today Is My Birthday,’ Love Is a Butt Dial 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z But his policies have hurt poor- and working-class Americans left behind by fraying social safety nets, ailing cities and failing schools; they are ever more likely to land in the state’s exploding prison system. The Story of California Told Through One Family 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z My camel had a mouth full of slobber, only a few teeth, a makeshift saddle with a pommel made of rebar and frayed rope stirrups. From Delhi to Kochi: A couple’s 23-day adventure in India 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Penny’s latest offers little in the way of a soothing balm for nerves frayed by months of isolation and quarantine. Review | Louise Penny’s latest mystery imagines a post-covid world. Things are still pretty complicated. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z Michael Frolik replaced Shaw in the Hawks' lineup and defenseman jumped into the fray as well in his first playoff game, after and split Games 1 and 2. Hawks' Hossa stretchered off ice after hit 2012-04-18T02:02:00Z Her husband traveled a good deal and their marriage frayed. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z In a touching attempt to repair their frayed bond and find a way to communicate with the comatose Henry, Franny visits his haunts and explores his musical tastes, using his journal as a guide. The neo-folk-tinged 'Song One' is tiresome in its preciousness 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z His live-in babysitter and his troubled mother both leave the family abruptly when he’s a child, and his father is eventually “conquered by his frayed nerves.” Review: Books by Amie Barrodale, Joy Williams, Hubert Mingarelli and Rikki Ducornet 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z At first the contest was between several online and phone bidders, but most dropped out when the man in the yellow cap entered the fray at $6,000. Hollywood auction draws devoted fans, rich collectors 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z The combination of Ms. Anderson and Mr. Diodore’s creaking strings and Kid Millions’s brash percussion is an interesting, calamitous fray. Pop & Rock Listings for April 22-28 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z After narrowly losing a by-election in Oldham, he returned to the journalistic fray as a war correspondent in South Africa for the Morning Post during the second Boer war of 1899-1902. Mr high-roller 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z She arrives at my apartment, tanned, in dusty work boots and always, always, some kind of frayed denim. The summer elixir my sister drinks on the hottest of days 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Specifically, it’s about working-class women at the frayed edges of a service economy, with no net to catch them if they lose their grip on the pole. Review: ‘P-Valley’ Has All the Right Moves 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z If the thread of the story is thus left somewhat frayed, well, narrative coherence was never the play’s top concern anyway. Seeing a New Disease but the Same Neglect in ‘Angels in America’ 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Complicating her busy life is the steady drumbeat in the tabloid press concerning her marriage to the star New York Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, with TMZ and The New York Post reporting on its fraying. Seafood and Dancing With La La Anthony 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Even when Savannah was in a more frayed state—Chewning recalls a largely run-down historic district, boarded-up buildings, and "no food scene to speak of"—the place was magically, seductively beautiful. Tour Savannah, Georgia 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z The screenplay does a reasonably good job of capturing the group dynamic of these backbiting astronauts, whose frayed nerves are exacerbated by a shared sense of futility. Movie Review: ‘The Last Days on Mars’ Was Adapted From ‘The Animators’ 2013-12-05T23:07:49Z Rather than playing the impartial voice for hire, she jumps right into the mischievous fray, making this already delightful dissection of the business of monkey business that much more infectious. Disneynature's 'Monkey Kingdom' swings with the best of them 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Then we plunged back into the fray to find another snack. Where to Find Bangkok’s Best Street Food While You Can 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z When Perry isn't slouching his way through cases he's doing what he can to keep his family's farm afloat even though the place wears its hard times like a frayed jacket. "Perry Mason" is a stylish, Depression-noir reboot that doesn't exceed its basic procedural roots 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z But, Dargis wrote, Pitt’s “soulful, nuanced performance — which becomes incrementally more externalized and visible, as if McBride were shedding a false face — holds the film together even when it starts to fray.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ and ‘We Need to Talk About Cosby’ 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Run your leaders between your lips to check the line for nicks and frays. Lake Chelan lake trout still on the bite, plus Roses Lake stocked with trout 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z This group’s frayed, four-chord guitar riffs and hoarse yelling nod reverently to the Strokes, the French Kicks and the Walkmen. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:01:49Z As Loman, Michael Laurence, a patrician type with a square jaw, draws a humane portrait of an entitled careerist fraying at the edges. | 'Horsedreams': ?Horsedreams,? at the Rattlestick Theater - Review 2011-11-18T03:02:40Z Bill Harris’s play finds B, a profoundly gifted black saxophonist, at ends as ragged as his fraying pinstripe suit. | 'Cool Blues': A Jazzman Encounters His Life and Death 2011-03-30T22:00:46Z The mature Julie, a divorced mother with a young son, Frédéric, is a frayed, defeated version of the same person who left Thomas and Patrick to fend for themselves. | 'I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive': ?I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive? - Review 2011-09-01T21:57:49Z “You’re suffocating me,” he tells his frayed mother, running off to the woods and the arms of a Palestinian volunteer militia. Movie Review: ‘When I Saw You’ Delivers a Child’s View of War 2014-01-14T22:59:17Z As Romney took the standard Republican line on the campaign trail that mandating contraceptive overage was a violation of religious freedom, Mormons stayed out of the fray. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z Victor, in turn, is played with a lot of physical dash and a crazed smile by James McAvoy, who all but hurls himself into the fray. Review: ‘Victor Frankenstein’ Recasts a Tale That Keeps On Giving 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Using a sewing machine, sew along the edges, or hand-stitch with needle and thread, to avoid the edges fraying. A DIY potting tarp to make indoor gardening mess-free 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The historically neat boundaries of denominationalism are fraying. Letters to the Editor 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z If my nerves are frayed, I take cold comfort in knowing I’m not alone. Dealing With Anxiety, Mental Illness and Grief 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z These are the questions that, like the fog that Mr. Kurzel keeps pumping into the fray, obscure the character and that only Mr. Fassbender’s exceptionally fine performance disperses. Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Starring Michael Fassbender, Awash in Gorgeous Carnage 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Memory also is at stake here, and that’s the most likely explanation for the strange Twitter hiccup in Ivanka’s efforts to stay above the fray. Perspective | The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z “Trying to stay out of the fray,” he texts. Can restaurants take a stand during inauguration without alienating Trump voters? 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z Bannon tries to analogize the scene to his own frayed relationship with Trump, but tries to spin it as a hopeful moment. “American Dharma” review: Errol Morris’ Steve Bannon doc is the most disturbing movie of th... 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z President Trump entered the fray, telling the FDA to act and imposing a temporary ban on any flavours that might appeal to young people. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z And WestJet promptly jumped opportunistically into the fray, alerting would-be travelers that “Credits with us are transferable to anyone of your choosing.” Airline rethinks its sexist policy after #SurnameGate goes viral 2014-01-02T21:06:00Z The writer-director Stephen Merchant plunges into the domestic fray straightway, opening with a peek at the Rock, a.k.a. ‘Fighting With My Family’ Review: They Body Slam You, Your Mum and Dad. Lovingly. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Schreiber was filming in the light-drenched penthouse of a loft building that overlooked rusting water towers, regal high rises, the Hudson’s frayed ribbon. ‘Ray Donovan’: New Coast, Same Wounds 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Even President Giorgio Napolitano was drawn into the fray after media speculated that he would miss the opening as a personal protest over the Wagner staging. La Scala inaugurates season with 'Lohengrin' 2012-12-07T11:41:08Z Mr. Simon observes the frayed bonds of this damaged family with a light touch where appropriate but also with honesty and compassion, making the climactic face-off between Bella and her mother all the more moving. Theater Review: ?Lost in Yonkers,? by Neil Simon, at Beckett Theater 2012-03-25T21:12:04Z Stay calm, stay empathic, and stay a bit above the fray. Perspective | A daughter’s failing friendships: How to help without helping too much? 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z It brings grappa into the fray, and that’s a spirit too far: the grappa, with its lighter-fuel force, runs roughshod over everything else. Tipsy Diaries: Summertime Is Bloody Mary Time at Local Restaurants 2010-07-08T21:56:00Z Her nerves are frayed, and Nora grabs her big chance to be annoying and devious in front of a live audience. TV highlights 25/05/2012 2012-05-24T19:00:02Z Now onstage, they seem electrified, their nerves raw and frayed, dazed to be in communion again — in other words, more like the rest of us than they’d dare to let on. Review: Sounds and Styles Playfully Collide in ‘Only an Octave Apart’ 2021-09-25T04:00:00Z This novel reminds us what it’s like navigating a foreign country: Connections feel frayed, self-doubt proliferates, the immigrant is never sure what is normal and what isn’t. In This Debut Novel, a Chinese Immigrant Keeps His Sleepwalking Sister’s Secrets 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z Dame Eileen Atkins, who co-created Upstairs, Downstairs with Marsh and will appear alongside her in the new series, joined the fray at the programme's launch at the British Film Institute in London yesterday. War declared as Upstairs, Downstairs creator fires volley at Downton Abbey 2010-12-16T19:48:42Z That will kick off a competitive Christmas race as “Mary Poppins Returns,” “Aquaman,” and “Bumblebee” enter the fray the following weekend. Box Office: 'Ralph Breaks the Internet' Narrowly Defeats 'Grinch'... 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z In his modest second-story office, just above the fray, this casually dapper man of 57 is crunching numbers with his attentive staff. It's no act: Scandiuzzi rejuvenates a prime Seattle theater 2012-04-10T22:15:23Z We drove north along paved roads with fraying concrete edges and took a two-day pit stop to safari in Liwonde National Park, staying in the dorms at the budget Liwonde Safari Camp. Is Rock Climbing the Future of Tourism in Malawi? 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z A few months later, he tried to rejoin the fray, meeting widespread ridicule, capped by a devastating David Letterman jibe: "In, out, in, out — isn't that what got him in trouble in the first place?" 'All the Truth Is Out' probes the repercussions of Gary Hart's affair 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z But in another way, this collection hovered above the fray. Lagerfeld Keeps Ahead 2010-09-23T15:43:00Z He is buoyant, loud and, if he sees something he likes — the purposefully frayed collar of a satin jacket or a distinctive hat — he touches it and compliments its owner. Patrick McMullan Snaps but Never Bites 2010-03-24T23:40:00Z The critics see the civic bonds that Lasch believed were fraying threatened anew by an epidemic of individualistic, self-seeking, and self-promoting behaviors especially evident among the young, the most narcissistic generation in history. Lay off Kim and Kanye! Why millennials actually aren’t “Generation Me” 2014-04-06T15:00:00Z Why would he think that after his successors improved upon his means of punching up the news that he could bring something even fresher to the fray? "The Problem with Jon Stewart" has a few issues, but nothing that a little tough love can't fix 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z She embodies a yearning to relax, to retire from the fray and take pleasure in just being alive. Review: ‘Flaming June’ Arrives in New York, Preceded by Its Reputation 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z For charquekan, beef is hung to dry for three days, then boiled and struck with a mallet until it frays. At Puerta del Sol, Beef and Potatoes Take Cues From Bolivia 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z “There is an artificial divide between natural history museums and all the other museums,” she said, because the natural history museums have considered their collections above the fray of politics. Dispute Over Java Man Raises a Question: Who Owns Prehistory? 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z And as the family moves from New Jersey to Arizona and then finally to California, the ties that bind begin to fray. In ‘The Fabelmans,’ Steven Spielberg Himself Is the Star 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s a return to the pop fray after multiple seasons as a coach on “The Voice” that made sure viewers didn’t forget her vocal mastery. Christina Aguilera Exults in Her Voice on ‘Liberation’ 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z Yet Davis intersperses “Consent” with fussy attempts at representing Springora’s fraying sense of self, as Matzneff creates a fictionalized version of her through his writing. In Paris, First-Person Trauma Jumps from Page to Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Naturally, all of this will snarl traffic and fray local nerves. This weekend, D.C. becomes a Coachella of Trump rallies, counter-protests and Juggalos 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z Wearing a frayed newsboy cap and threadbare brown corduroy jacket, Jonathan Ames stopped and pondered the maroon-colored shirt for a moment. Up Close: Same Old, Same Old 2010-10-20T20:59:00Z Upon arriving home, Sepehri published a collection of his poetry with an essay about the relative merits of Eastern and Western philosophy, those tangled that fray at every end. Poetry and Politics in Iran 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z If I'm New Here is a frayed monologue by a legend looking back on his life, then We're New Here is a dialogue across generations. Leader of the pack: Jamie xx 2011-02-26T00:03:00Z Even when Ruck is tossed into the fray, he’s more of an absentminded buffer than anything else. "Succession": a wealth of cruel humor 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z This truncated mini — with its dramatically dropped waist — appeared on several of Tuesday’s looks featuring a frayed deconstructed hem. Chanel caps Paris Fashion Week with swaths of iconic tweeds 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z All because of the vagaries of enlargement, it seems, the images almost appear to be pieced together from tiny pieces of fluttery, slightly fuzzy frayed cloth, like some kind of rag picker’s folk art. Art in Review: VIK MUNIZ: ?Pictures of Magazines 2? 2011-09-15T21:15:09Z So many patients are facing long waits for treatment, GP appointments and diagnostic tests that the NHS is "palpably fraying at the edges", the leader of Britain's doctors warns on Monday. Cash-strapped NHS is fraying at the edges, warns BMA chairman 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z The series is designed to fray the nerves; its director, Liz Garbus, sweetened the establishing shot of the Times building with the drubbing of a jackhammer. How “The Fourth Estate” Attempts to Capture the Still-In-Progress Story of America’s Debasement Under Trump 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z He is as profitably interested as ever in values, especially the places where loyalty, patriotism and affection rub together and fray. George Smiley and Other Old Friends Return in John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’ 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z A news cycle overrun with statistically unlikely horror stories is bad enough for an exhausted mother or father, frayed nerves and all. “What a horrible mother”: How a call from a “good samaritan” derailed these mothers’ lives 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z On Monday Roche's stepfather entered the fray to complain that she had cynically used a family tragedy in order to sell books. Charlotte Roche revisits mix of sex and controversy in new novel, Schossgebete 2011-08-16T14:23:35Z Mostly, she says, she tried to provide “the connective tissue” that seems to be fraying in civic life. A legendary Chicago newspaper columnist bids farewell — and wonders who will be left to tell her city’s tale 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z Plus, Baylart said, the producers weren’t at pains to put the contestants at ease when frayed nerves made for better television. Behind the scenes of reality TV: 'You're a little bit daft to apply' 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Here he details the shocks of shingles and back surgery, as well as the comprehensive low wheeze of a fraying body. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Few directors are better at carving into familial dysfunction than Noah Baumbach, whose “The Squid and the Whale” and “Margot at the Wedding” were searing portraits of fraying homes. What’s on TV Friday: ‘The Meyerowitz Stories’ and ‘It’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Goldhaber makes the most of potential complications at the pipeline site: a fraying belt, unexpected visitors, a bloody injury that might leave DNA. ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Different Kind of Oil Boom 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Guitar notes were frayed and smudged with electronic pedals, and voices blended together, too, Taylor singing indecipherable lyrics and harmonizing frequently with his drummer and guitarist. Concert review: CANT at the Triple Door 10/03/11 2011-10-04T17:21:06Z Throughout the year, older group members retire and new ones enter the fray, joining either the “A,” “K,” “B” or “4” group of 16. The Next Big Thing in Music: A 60-Member Band Chosen By Its Fans 2012-06-13T15:25:19Z About halfway through, the book's esoteric and populist aims begin to pull hard in opposite directions and the enterprise starts to fray. The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus - review 2012-06-07T07:00:02Z Mulder’s new conspiracy is just one of the many, many frayed threads wrapped throughout this episode. ‘The X-Files’ Season 10 Premiere: A Crazier Mulder Than Usual 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z Taken together, the three novels offer a portrait of a family—and a country—struggling to find its way amid the frayed politics of the war and its aftermath. A Daughter of Bangladeshi Revolutionaries Makes Sense of Life After War 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Sign of things to come … Seth MacFarlane will not be returning to the Oscars fray, he has revealed on Twitter. Seth MacFarlane confirms there will be no repeat of contentious Oscars turn 2013-02-27T12:51:17Z You may then want to run a zigzag stitch along the seam allowance to prevent further fraying. How to mend a ripped seam 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “They spoke of long marches and vast battles. They hummed with frailty and humor, fretting over drunken soldiers and praising the unwavering president of a fraying republic.” Essential Arts & Culture: Deciphering Civil War telegrams, summer of Shakespeare, a conductor's fiery performance 2016-08-20T04:00:00Z The cubes are not closed, but rather extend in projecting rods, like the frayed edges of fabric, suggesting the network might continue to grow. Serpentine Gallery becomes Serpen-Tron 2013-06-04T15:46:57Z If there’s a common thread, it is this: Stay above the fray. Perspective | Stuck with an annoying airline seatmate? Here’s what you can do about it. 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Then there are the frayed relationships among band members. The strange story of Grateful Dead’s path to the summer’s hottest ticket 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Its frayed canvas now dangles limply below its elaborate gold frame. Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The idyllic facade of a peaceful suburb begins to fray when an enigmatic artist and her daughter move to town. Washington Post paperback bestsellers 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Pitt’s soulful, nuanced performance — which becomes incrementally more externalized and visible, as if McBride were shedding a false face — holds the film together even when it starts to fray. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He himself cuts a reassuringly outdoorsy figure, from his wind-blown cheeks and fraying fleece down to his sturdy walking boots. Tim Pears's 'small acts of resistance' 2010-03-18T14:00:00Z DoCoMo’s competitors jumped into the fray, upping the ante with more and more complex versions: with color, better resolution, more variations, animations. How Emoji Got to the White House 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z She is dramatically compelling as always, but her singing was wildly inconsistent - strong and soulful at times, frayed and off-pitch at others. Review: Meyerbeer's rare 'Robert' staged in London 2012-12-13T11:21:08Z He's a character who sees the random, topsy-turvy madness of the universe and shrugs, takes a slug of booze and dives right into the fray knowing he'll figure out a way to triumph. Finally “Rick and Morty” is back with the inspiring nihilism we crave 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z Cause of Death: Terminal heroics by way of dashing into an overwhelming fray. On "Game of Thrones," all men must die. Who will fall at Winterfell? 2019-04-27T04:00:00Z Already the frayed edges are beginning to show. Skin hunger: touch saved me from unbearable loneliness. What will we become without it? 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Blame the increasingly frayed relationship between passenger and airline. Perspective | You’ll never believe what passengers steal from planes 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z In an interview Mr. Van Sant described “Promised Land” as a “simple learning film,” an earnest, Capraesque meditation on the conflicting dictates of stewardship, hardship economics and fraying community values. Matt Damon and John Krasinski on ‘Promised Land’ 2012-12-21T20:49:44Z From $77 million, four new bidders, sitting in the room or operating over the phone, jumped into the fray. Picasso Sells at Record Auction Price 2010-05-05T11:30:00Z Wrecked and hers — the home, the body, the frayed relationship with the town, country. When the ‘Change of Life’ Means It’s Time to Change Your Life 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Tonight, sandwiches from three West Coast eateries join the fray. TV Picks: 'Adam Richman's Best Sandwich in America' on Travel 2012-07-17T20:08:18Z Although it was Denk's festival, he remained above much of the messy fray he had set into motion along with the festival's artistic director, Thomas W. Morris. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z I run fine leaders through my lips to search for frays my old eyes can’t see. No chill on hot Lake Chelan mackinaw and rainbow trout fishing 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Williams throws his camera into this fray, with images that rove and dart, surge and whirl with a confrontational frankness. “Her Smell,” Reviewed: Alex Ross Perry’s Furious Portrait of an Unravelling Rock Star 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z He sometimes faced questions about his ties to Venezuelan leaders — he conducted at the funeral of President Hugo Chávez — but tried to remain above the political fray. Gustavo Dudamel, Star Maestro, to Leave L.A. for New York Philharmonic 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z There is her narrator, caring for a frayed seam in ways that she cannot care for herself. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z Despite the heavily-trafficked area, it manages to feel removed from the fray. Chasing Balzac: Uncovering the Intimate Belle Epoque Hotels of Paris 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Now you’re staring down several more weeks or months together, patience already frayed, tensions running high. Perspective | Six rom-coms that are perfect for quarantine, now that we’re in ‘Groundhog Day’ 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z |
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