Even though I am in the final, fraught stages of my statistics Ph.D., I found taking part in the masterclass to be an extremely interesting and worthwhile experience.
After fascinating, tense and often fraught racing, stage five should be one for the sprinters to contest the first mass bunch finish as the Tour reaches the scene of one of the bloodiest battles in history and rolls into Amiens, the capital of the Somme.
What separates the First Night Nervers from the Permanently Stage Fraught is how they recover.
For golf, it proved that the 12 best golfers in Europe can match the 12 best Americans on equal terms on a global stage fraught with emotion, pressure and passion and still part as friendly competitors.
For, while their albums have won over the British by cleverly amalgamating retro southern boogie and fraught alternative rock, on stage Kings of Leon are essentially a bar band.
It sets the stage for fraught negotiations with lawmakers who want to spread education money more widely, to serve all districts with disadvantaged students.
United, with two first-half goals in 10 games, tend to begin too timidly, which serves to make the closing stages more fraught affairs.
