Sentence examples for fraught friendship from inspiring English sources

Theirs was a fraught friendship and collaboration.

Having done for his job, Dexter's drink-addled selfishness also threatens his increasingly fraught friendship with Emma.

"Mosquita y Mari," an unassuming indie jewel, resists all of the clichés that its story of the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls invites.

And when Quirk and his supposed lover, Marion, meet for drinks, to talk over his shattered marriage and their own fraught friendship, this is what they have to say: " 'You think we were afraid of each ­other?' " 'We were afraid of ourselves.' " 'Who's writing this dialogue?' I said.

(Dargis) ★ 'Mosquita y Mari' (No rating, 1 25, in English and Spanish) This unassuming indie jewel of a movie resists all the clichés that its story — the fraught friendship between two 15-year-old girls growing up in a Mexican-American neighborhood of Los Angeles — invites.

Using maps, weather reports and calendars, as well as scientific procedures to establish precisely what works were painted in Arles and when, Douglas W. Druick and Peter Kort Zegers bring some of van Gogh's clarifying yellow light to both the fraught friendship and the extraordinary paintings it inspired.

But family ties are often more fraught than friendships.

Freud and Bacon had an intense friendship, fraught with rivalry yet also, it is said, sexually charged.

Remaining were girls who were exclusively and explicitly about "the best time of their lives," with sunset-BBQ cheering, deeply fraught breakups, and friendship fights.

Their friendship was fraught.

Neil Maskell and Michael Smiley give very good performances in the lead roles of Jay and Gal, two men who are best mates and professional colleagues, though their friendship is fraught, to say the least.