Sentence examples for it's riven from inspiring English sources

It's riven with absurdities, of course, both large and small: the leather blouson that Hunt wears for a disguise is nicked from a washing-line.

After he studied film in Belgium, people told him he was mad to try to make movies in DRC – it has no acting schools, no film-making infrastructure, and it's riven by conflict.

Alexis Petridis Fleetwood Mac Big Love I heard this covered by the much-tipped Clare Maguire at a gig the other night, and was reminded of how brilliant soft rock can be when it's riven with real neediness.

But there's a side to child labor that is not only complicated, it's riven with paradox.

From the moment of its founding it was riven with conflict: agrarian vs. rural, patrician vs. plebian, Old World loyalists vs. New World iconoclasts, Indian vs. settler, German vs. French, slave vs. freeman.

Pulling was a classic British sitcom in that it was riven with self-loathing, and its situation – the gap between its characters' desire to pull and their capacity to do so – inherently fraught and fruitful.

Syria entered Lebanon in the late 1970s, when it was riven by a multi-sided civil war between its rival Christian, Shia Muslim and Sunni Muslim communities, with Lebanon-based Palestinian militants and an Israeli invasion further complicating the picture.

It was riven with destructive impulses.

It is riven by social, economic, ideological and regional divisions.

Only the Democrat Party offers vociferous opposition, and it is riven by internal disputes.

For a number of reasons (which economists understand pretty well), it is riven with problems.