The phrase
"fraught relationship" means that two or more people have a difficult, tense, or strained connection with each other.
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The fact is, while the term «office wife» has seen a revival, these sorts of
fraught relationships between men and women have always been present in the workplace.
The governor also took aim at reporters and political observers who have written about the sometimes
fraught relationship between him and his father.
That Lovelace focuses almost exclusively on Lovelace's
increasingly fraught relationship with Traynor (Peter Sarsgaard) is understandable, but by omitting certain key details of their subject's life before and after this bleak period, directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman settle for a titillating, exploitative snapshot instead of a fully rounded portrait.
«Lady Bird» is a coming - of - age story about a teenager living in Sacramento
whose fraught relationship with her mother provides the spine to her year fumbling toward some kind of self - reckoning.
Facebook has always had a
somewhat fraught relationship with the news: Many users seem to think of the social network as just a place where they can see a friend's baby or dog photos, but research shows a growing number of people also get their news there.
For Cameron, the result worsens his
already fraught relationship with his own party, especially backbenchers uncomfortable with the coalition.
The
additionally fraught relationships between the protagonists seem to correlate with the fragmentation of the global metropolis: speedy shots of Barcelona now render the city all the more hostile and discomforting, and the utopia has generally become a dystopia.17
But as he immerses himself in a strange new world of masculine ideals, including vocal lessons, warrior weekends and hunting, he realizes all roads lead back to his
own fraught relationship with his father.
Arkansas native Levon Helm, the drummer for The Band, danced his last waltz on the same day that North Carolina writer Doris Betts, whose fiercely humorous and quietly elegant prose
captured fraught relationships, headed west into the sharp teeth of death.
Chevalier takes us directly inside Mary Anning's mind, using intimate first - person confessions to construct a vision of how the junior scientist grew up, and to illustrate just
how fraught her relationship with nineteenth - century science really was.
The news isn't just a big deal for Nintendo fans in China, but for Nintendo itself: Game companies have a
notoriously fraught relationship with the Chinese market.
Written and directed by Kelley in 2000, this one - act melodrama explores the
psychologically fraught relationship between two men as it unfolds in a room centered around a gas stove.
The
traditionally fraught relationship between male artist and female model is evoked by video documentation of Yves Klein's mise en scène, Anthropométrie de l'époque bleue (Anthropometry of the Blue Period, 1960), which shows the artist directing female extras to execute imprints of their nude bodies.
Watershed explores the
increasingly fraught relationship between humankind and the environment, giving photographic aid to a concern that has reached global significance in recent years.
The 92 - year - old Angela Lansbury plays Aunt March, a battleaxe of a woman
whose fraught relationship with the family seems to come from her disdain for her nephew's impracticality.
Since the infancy of cinema, when moviegoers would watch in disbelief as two - dimensional images leapt into life, painting and film have enjoyed a fruitful if
sometimes fraught relationship.
As with so much else in the increasingly
fraught relationship between the US and Mexico, one of America's biggest trading partners, it may have come down to President Trump and the controversial things he says — or, in this case, declined to say.
In
a fraught relationship in the workplace, Dattner and Dahl recommend we «step back and dial down the emotion that [we're] feeling — by systematically reflecting on the wide range of possible influences on [a boss or co-worker's] behaviour.»
Big tech companies have had
a fraught relationship with intelligence agencies in recent years, with prior revelations of surveillance programs leading to efforts to reassure consumers that their devices are safe from snoops.
In 1987, Fisher published her first novel «Postcards from the Edge,» a semi-autobiographical book that drew on her real - life battles with drug addiction, bipolar disorder and
her fraught relationship with her mother.
Ryan's
fraught relationship with Trump worsened after the release two weeks ago of a 2005 recording that showed Trump bragging about groping women.
Sundararajan, author of the book The Sharing Economy, said the company's
fraught relationship with its contracted drivers hasn't exactly helped.
Europe certainly has plenty on its plate — from the current migrant crisis to negotiating
its fraught relationship with Russia — at the moment which has given it an opportunity to show the world how it handles a situation.
The repeated fights over the Air Force oath highlight
the fraught relationship between faith groups and military service.
Recent news has brought renewed attention to the often -
fraught relationships between LGBT youth, their parents, and their faith communities.
The «T» has thus had
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Placuit Deo also tells us something about Francis's
fraught relationship with Cardinal Müller.
The most enjoyable chapter of the book covers
the fraught relationship between the existential atheists Albert Camus and Jean Paul Sartre.
The last person to seriously get on the wrong side of the paper, for example, was Jose Mourinho, who endured an increasingly
fraught relationship with the media during his final season with the club.
Critics say the seemingly uncontroversial bill would allow republican campaigners a chance to unsettle constitutional arrangements in Commonwealth countries and present new difficulties in the monarchy's
fraught relationship with the Catholic Church.
Cuomo has a «
fraught relationship» with the gay community and plays «catch - up» on LGBT issues, says ESPA founder Libby Post.
Contrary to
their fraught relationship with the public broadcaster, the far - right has strong ties to tabloid Kronen Zeitung.
Naturally, this has escalated things between the mayor and the governor, who already have something of
a fraught relationship.
He's had significant friction with Schneiderman, although they've had a much more cooperative relationship in the past 18 month,
a fraught relationship with DiNapoli since Cuomo was attorney general and a dizzyingly difficult relationship with de Blasio.
Were it not for the disarray in the Labour Party and the unpopularity of the Lib Dems,
the fraught relationship between backbench Conservative MPs and the Leader would be significantly worse and the number of letters sent to Graham Brady would be rapidly approaching 46.
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