Sentences with phrase «less fraught»

And if you make it until the kids reach four or five, it gets easier — when sleeping patterns, school and child - care arrangements become less fraught.

The introduction of no - fault divorce often provided a less fraught atmosphere for a parting of the ways.

We have looked at what firms are, or are not doing; whether there are ways to make the process of retirement more effective and less fraught; and how firms and partners address the divergence of interests that retirement from equity brings.

Other artists in the show offer more subtle, nuanced objects and images, while remaining just as strongly tethered to a set of meanings and contexts no less fraught with hard truths.

And yet, we barely recall them, much less the fraught and violent past of the American struggle for working rights.

Kate Fowle, the chief curator at Garage, cited less fraught motivations.

As one follows the course of the exhibition, the paintings become increasingly dry, cartoonish, and less fraught with (as Greenberg had it) terribilità.

In a position where a publishing deal is on the table, having an agent makes the contract negotiation less fraught, especially for an inexperienced author.

Rooney knows this community extremely well, ministers to it regularly, and thus can give us a POV that might make Ms. Patchett wish she'd jumped into less fraught topics, like politics and religion:

DESIR: I think that there's something to be said for seeing something played out in a fictional setting that makes it less fraught for a teenager than doing research on it.

At Bridge, we've found this frame to be helpful — less ideological, less fraught, more practical.

If You Need Convincing: This film is directed by James Wan (Furious 7) and had a much less fraught production than Justice League, in which Momoa still seemed to be having quite a lot of fun with the role.

A related, if vastly less fraught, vision of a female consciousness achieving autonomy was offered by Spike Jonze's stunning 2013 film Her.

Based on Andy Weir's diary - form novel, «The Martian» serves as a less fraught (if also less visually arresting) bookend to Alfonso Cuaron's «Gravity.»

In a less fraught era, there would be more movies like this.

Dates in the daytime can be a lot less fraught with unnecessary tension than their night time counterparts.

Part of the reason may be that Mr. Hawkins lacks Ms. Teachout's vibrant personality, but a bigger factor may be that a union's going against Mr. Cuomo in September was less fraught with risk than bucking him now.

Not exact matches

To put this in less emotionally fraught terms — is a vegetarian someone who doesn't eat meat or someone who says he doesn't eat meat, but does anyway?

Instead, I think the big issue for women (and much less so for men) is their lack of confidence in their ability to fulfill their life - goals, which is why marriage, family, and the extremely fraught issues of sexuality loom so large in our cultural politics.

I.D.C. conference leader Jeff Klein cut a deal earlier this year to align his conference with the mainline Democrats in the next session, but the deal is less than ironclad and the relationship between members of the I.D.C and mainline Democrats is fraught.

In some ways, attacking short - lived pollutants promises to be less politically fraught than the debate over CO2 emissions.

Other groups are trying to help people with post-traumatic stress disorder replace a memory with another that is less emotionally fraught.

Here our knowledge is far murkier and less certain, the neuroscience of personality being a fraught and fledgling field.

Less Is More, More is Less: In his second feature film, photographer - turned - director Anton Corbijn tries his best to match Clooney's hostile stillness with distance of his own, but his attempts at visual nuance inadvertently come off as conspicuous filmmaking choices overly fraught with meaning.

Other TIFF films focused on times in American politics that were similarly fraught, even if their contemporary resonance is less clear.

Together the three sections, irrelevantly uneven in quality, make bold statements: the legalization of abortion has made it no less controversial; the decision to abort is fraught with as many complexities as the decision to bear the child; all men are pigs (hey, I agree); etc..

This forces protagonist Poppy (Anna Kendrick) and Justin Timberlake's less - than - optimistic Branch to embark on a quest to bring their abducted comrades home, with the journey, naturally, fraught with obstacles and complications along the way.

Charter schools, and philanthropies that support them, should also consider targeting new, less politically fraught, areas for growth and cultivating a more diverse supply of charter school models.

While measuring scholarly excellence is somewhat less contentious than is the case of evaluating teaching effectiveness, it is nonetheless fraught.

Requiring school uniforms may be less legally fraught than implementing a school dress code.

For all its beauty and splendour, South Africa is a country fraught with crime, from the less serious crimes like muggings and pick - pocketing to serious crimes like housebreaking, hijacking and more.

Needless to say, playing classic games on anything less than original hardware is fraught with limitations and soon enough, most of us find the need to revert back to a decades - old game console in order to play without compromises.

His playful inventiveness acts as a flashback to youthful fantasies fraught with appendageal obsessions and a reveling in cartoon gore and guts... his art conjures memories of a less media driven existence, while providing twisted amusement.»

With this exhibition opening less than two weeks before the already fraught spectacle of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, works like these channel the corruption and despair, the crumbling nostalgia, and the specters of disease, that are, despite their ominous undertones and overtones, inexhaustible sources of life as we know it now.

Such is the case with this retrospective show that too often favors the currently best - selling survivors of a fraught era over many now less well - known on - the - ground players.

Hershman Leeson's unusual film focuses less on the political impact of Bruguera's provocative performances than on the relationship between the manipulative tactics of the Cuban government and the fraught psychic underpinnings of the artist's decisions made throughout her practice.

The funniest - looking figures, however, are less Popeye than R. Crumb's bearded Mr. Natural, fraught with anxiety, swearing, sweating, and questioning every feeling and thought.

Other companies use less cringe - inducing starters like vegetable oil, but the Danish company says pig urine, fraught with health hazards and high disposal costs unless processed, is a better environmental solution.»»

However, this approach is fraught with «correlation without a cause» error; it's unclear how or if the heat caused this mortality, or whether some indirect correlation, eg if EMS services burdened by an extreme event being less available was a cause.

Our progress is no less terrible and fraught with peril than that of an unlighted vessel through a moonless night and a sea covered with icebergs.

The provision for retirement at 75 in Canada's Constitution Act, 1867 (s. 99 (2) looks prescient, though one can see that with the fixed US election cycle, institutionalizing such a system in the US would be fraught with peril — anyone whose birthyear fell on a presidential election year would be less likely to be appointed than someone in the following year, but for those into the issue, here are the leads: TERM LIMITS FOR THE SUPREME COURT: Life Tenure Reconsidered, WHEN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES REFUSE TO RETIRE: Why We Need More Media Coverage, And A Constitutional Amendment and Politicized Departure from the United States Supreme Court

Bitcoin Core developer Eric Lombrozo recaps a fraught year in bitcoin development, one that he believes could give way to a less contentious 2017.