Sentence examples for rather fraught from inspiring English sources

Since then, America's involvement in the region has become a rather fraught question.

It has, after seven years of rather fraught Olympic preparation, been an extraordinarily golden six days.

How important was it to have him as such a staunch ally during this rather fraught creative process?

As the presenters continue with a gun at their heads, it quickly becomes clear that their relationship is rather fraught.

During the rather fraught Commons debate on food banks yesterday there was the odd plea for MPs to "stop using food banks as a political football".

Mistaken for an ordinary stick, the jogging Stick Man is chased by a dog in a park and begins a series of rather fraught adventures.

College life these days looks rather less fraught.

The cortège was pious, rather than fraught with tension, with Stavelot monks carrying the shrines of Remaclus and Babolene with other reliquaries and the monks of Malmedy with reliquaries of Quirinus, Just, Peter and Philip joined by parishioners from Lierneux with the relics of Symmetrus.

Their departure marks the latest stage in the Shins – or rather Mercer's – fraught progress from the faintly rackety alt-rock band of 2001 debut album Oh, Inverted World to a mainstream concern.

But the trip also seems designed to signal a new start in a fraught relationship rather than an ambitious effort to revive a stalled peace process.

As a director Samuel Fuller placed his political convictions front and center in his films, and yet his work is also fraught — or rather, animated — by contradictions and moral paradoxes.