If I knew I had a particularly fraught telephone call awaiting me, I would sit for just a few minutes, connect to my meditative center, and then turn to the phone call.
A fraught phone call from his pregnant daughter Lucy (Winward) let him know she was being held hostage and warned him to bring the prisoner to Manchester's Canal Street or face the consequences.
He was writing at a moment of great intellectual interest in the difference between what we today (referring to a similarly fraught cultural debate) call "nature vs. nurture," and what the Greeks thought of as the tension between physis, "nature," and nomos, "custom" or "law" or "convention".
(Remember: Wages and salaries pay full freight, while ownership income gets a reduced rate). Determining "reasonable compensation" is a judgment call fraught with controversy.
Meyers explored all the times Trump definitely hasn't won during his first month in office — from Michael Flynn's resignation as national security adviser and the federal appeals court shutting down his controversial travel ban to his fraught first telephone call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Andy Puzder pulling himself from consideration for labor secretary.
In a move that the publication called "fraught with peril," Frazier decided to fight the claims in court rather than negotiate a quick settlement.
But neither did I throw out the letter, nor put it in a safe and specific place — a file, perhaps, called "Fraught Exchanges With Neighbors".
In the process, the relationship between France and Germany has become fraught and mistrustful, calling into question the future of the project of European integration.
The runup to its release has been understandably fraught; Young Thug has called it a mixtape, as if to play down expectations.
But neither did I throw out the letter, nor put it in a safe and specific place a file, perhaps, called "Fraught Exchanges With Neighbors". Instead, I stuffed it in some random nook among the pleasant, warm chaos of the apartment, which is filled with tiny blue alarm clocks in many forms.
