Sentences with phrase «fraught moment»

The phrase "fraught moment" refers to a time or situation that is filled with tension, anxiety, or difficulty. Full definition
'' [I] n his fine new novel Wiley Cash breathes fresh life into the subject while also offering insight into a particularly fraught moment in US history.
The revelations come at a particularly fraught moment for tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter, which are already under scrutiny for facilitating Russia - backed propaganda in the run up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
At the most fraught moments, he stays calm and continues to joke about breaking Russian cosmonaut Anatoly Solovyev's space - walk record.
Which is not to suggest that the films unveiled over 10 days in Park City, Utah, were somehow disappointing, or not up to the challenge of speaking to our politically fraught moment.
Had you ferried to Randall Island past the Black Lives Matter flag that Adam Pendleton had planted at the once - designated «Negro Point» and alongside Hank Willis Thomas's hand - embroidered «bars and stars» lives - lost - to gun - violence riff on the American flag, you might have anticipated a political take on this socially fraught moment.
What history — including the career of Agnes Macphail — can tell us about this fraught moment for women in politics
It had its fraught moments of course, not only for Owen Smith and me, and I hope we don't make a habit of it.
But the attack on Moore could also have oversize political fallout, because it arrives at a fraught moment in the argument about what's necessary to keep the city safe.
If there are moments early on in which the film seems unfocused in its wide - ranging approach to capturing the fraught moment in American history, the perspective soon tightens to one specific location for many of the film's 143 minutes: the Algiers Motel.
To see Vicuña's work in this fraught moment is particularly profound.
Despite being composed of discarded photographs, Bien Hoa resonates as a pivotal description of a fraught moment in United States history.
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