Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.
Women often have a fraught relationship with their mothers, even though that's the most important relationship in their lives.
The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.
The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread.
With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
All choices are fraught with peril, but inaction is the most perilous of all.
The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system.
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell Of saddest thought.
Was there anything quite so painful, so fraught with the possibilities of hurt, as gift giving within a family?
While some of my closest friends were jocks, it seemed that they spoke a different language with each other. Joining in their conversation was fraught with risk.
Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs.
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.
I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.
If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.
There was a time when I could have slept with his friend Briffa, for instance. Around him the air was always fraught with possibilities.
A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul.