Dozens of people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds responded, describing fraught encounters with strangers, friends, co-workers and relatives.
Despite a bleak year that even she described as "fraught with sorrow," the encounter seemed to be pro-Martha.
He would no longer participate in a system that he described as "fraught with arbitrariness, discrimination, caprice and mistake".
Governor Ryan, a Republican who supports capital punishment, cited the exoneration of 13 death row inmates since Illinois re-adopted the death penalty in 1977 and said he would permit no more executions until a study of a system he described as "fraught with error" was completed.
24 The relationship between dentists and low-income clients has been described as fraught with therapeutic, relationship, financial, personal and systemic failures.
In describing the fraught relationship between law and truth, Dow laments the fact that when it comes to the law, "the facts matter, but the story matters more".
Like Binoche's Rebecca, Huppert's Isabelle also has a Don McCullin-esque attitude towards the moral quandaries of her job, articulately describing the fraught responsibilities of someone whose art and livelihood are based upon recording and selling the tragedy of others.
Harrison is particularly revealing as she describes her fraught transactions with dailiness -- freezing at the prospect of shopping for furniture to establish her own household; unnerved by conversations with her 5-year-old daughter about sex and death.
Thus if a moment was fraught with emotion, it could just as well have been described as emotion-fraught or in time as emotionally fraught, signaling the implied object in the adverb.
Ms. Yokoshi — who has nearly 70 videotapes documenting this extraordinary, at times fraught, encounter — described it as her most intensely difficult but rewarding project.
