The recovery of the bodies — many of which were mangled and dismembered during the plane's explosion and ground impact — from the war zone has been fraught with tensions ranging from the farcical to the heartbreaking, and now many bodies appear to be uncounted for.
But bolder real estate projects and any investment in businesses within Opportunity Zones are still fraught with too many questions.
The Simpsons is a more fraught matter and there's time zone constraints, but it gets done.
The path to the security council's agreement on a safe zone for Syrians is fraught with obstacles, headed by the reluctance of Russia and China, Syria's most important allies.
I had no idea being a journalist in a non-military zone could be this fraught with danger.
Still, even if all the parts are agreed upon in the meetings, which are bound to be fraught, the fundamental imbalances in the euro zone between north and south and between surplus countries and debtor ones will not go away.
The politics of euro zone bailouts could become more fraught in Berlin, where Mrs. Merkel's Bavarian sister party and her ailing Free Democratic partners are flirting with euro skepticism in advance of elections set for 2013.
And yet, the plight of central banking, in this fraught moment of income inequality, a euro-zone collapse, global imbalances, tectonic shifts and political polarization, is a rich subject.
But at its best, this production has the fraught urgency of a dispatch from a war zone.
Drivers heading to either Tel Aviv or Jerusalem speed across the unmarked armistice lines along the main highway, slicing through several miles of West Bank territory and designated stretches of buffer zone, oblivious to the area's fraught history.
