A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear load...ed with innuendo and fraught with implications.... Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes a word will start it, like Hands and feet, sun and gloves. The way... Is fraught with danger, you say, and I Notice the word "fraught"....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a quite remarkable fact that the great religions of the most civilized peoples are more deeply fraught with sadness than the... simpler beliefs of earlier societies. This certainly does not mean that the current of pessimism is eventually to submerge the other, but it proves that it does not lose ground and that it does not seem destined to disappear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the... games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values--or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be--to be through her son, to live through her son.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long before your child sets foot in his dorm, you'll begin the transition to college-style parent. It's a transition fraught with ...misgivings and exuberance, with self-doubt and bursts of confidence, with joyful letting go and tearful hanging on. And in case you think these refer only to your child's feelings, they don't. These [emotions] besiege just about every parent along about second semester of junior year in high school. That's when the reality sets in that your child--not someone else's this time--will be going off to college.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He leadeth me O blessed thought, O words with heavenly comfort fraught,... Whate'er I do, where'er I be, Still 'tis God's hand that leadeth me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of th...e newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have become unsure of the rules and unsure of our roles. Parenting, like brain surgery, is now all-consuming, fraught with anxi...ety, worry, and self-doubt. We have allowed what used to be simple and natural to become bewildering and intimidating.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,... Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the fraught bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »