Now we have the great Chick-fil-A imbroglio, in which mayors and an alderman in several American cities threatened to prevent the delicious chicken chain from opening new outlets because its Christian president told an interviewer that he supports "the biblical definition of the family unit".
He could enjoy being out of the Canberra crucible in full geopolitical flight, happy in summit mode, and he could enjoy the spectre of Sam Dastyari's imbroglio, an opposition imbroglio, rather than an imbroglio of his own – a moment of pure refreshment.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the case, including police, legal and underworld figures, have told Guardian Australia the origin of the brawl lay in an imbroglio involving Teamo, a former prizefighter called Jason Trouchet and a woman romantically linked to both men.
The Massachusetts Legislature today repealed the state's Clean Elections Law, which has provoked political squabbling, court battles, a car auction and an imbroglio over state office furniture after voters approved it overwhelmingly in 1998.
Typically, the plays are based on an improbable incident evolving into an imbroglio that brings out the folly and frailty of the characters.
VENEZUELA'S lawmen scored a rare coup last week and landed their country in an imbroglio that involves its two most important allies.Centre of the row was a Colombian drug lord, Justo Pastor Perafan, captured last week by the national guard near San Cristobal, not far from the Colombian border.
Andrew Lack's record company, a 50-50 joint venture between the Sony and Bertelsmann media conglomerates, is embroiled in an imbroglio over the patch, which apparently introduces a vulnerability that malicious hackers could hijack to win control of a computer.
Or maybe our attempts to get at the truth of an imbroglio, like that involving Farrow and Allen, reflect a frustrated aspiration to retrieve some kind of shared, collective truth, period.
However, an imbroglio over the mooted role of performance director and a return for the World Cup winning coach Sir Clive Woodward leads to the sacking of Steele and chaos at board level.
David Calder plays Charles, the northern bloke's dad, a pompous fellow who (very improbably) inveigles Jennifer Jason Leigh into sex - an imbroglio that ends in disaster.
"It was an imbroglio," Thirlwell writes of Haffner among the clothes hangers.
