But so, surely, do representations of the grimmer, thornier thickets of experience.
Instead, the move was a recognition that power-sharing at the top of Citigroup was failing badly and was a poor way to manage a complex, global corporation still experiencing thorny internal turf wars spawned by the merger.
Keep with it though, and you'll discover a wonderful tool that you can use to protect yourself when you experience a thorny situation in life.
A problem emerged: the FHFC has no experience in the thorny businesses of mortgage modification or housing counseling.
Akin's movies, like the works of a major novelist, tend to seek out those thorny, intractable areas of private experience where politics is never going to gain more than a crumbling foothold.
MAX J. SKIDMORE Overland Park, Kan., March 21 , 2012The Writer Responds Several excellent suggestions emerge from readers' letters, including comments about Oregon's experience with making thorny Medicaid spending decisions, the need to "take some hits" to rein in Medicare spending, and a desire to let the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute perform its job.
He also shared some of his own experiences with particularly thorny interviews, and how he approaches them: "Being prepared is a lot of the battle, but if being prepared means having a game plan, you have to be prepared to throw away your game plan".
What follows is, for Jack, a rude awakening, an especially thorny chapter in his passage from innocence to experience.
And Cocoanetics uses the example of Google's experience in Vienna to talk about the thorny issues surrounding transit data.
