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No boy-girl love scene today could be quite as fraught with emotion as these lovers' first kiss.

Kent's work on Florentine kinship as minimizing "the degree to which kinship was fraught with ambiguities" (7).

the merest touch can be fraught with meaning and dangerous power.

As a human enterprise, "doing God's will" is invariably subject to error because it is fraught with both humble intent and righteous indignation.

emphatic on the margins I of the pond have begun to dissolve/into flakes of airborne down." The story culminates in a raft trip down the "Rough Green." a tributary to the Ohio River, a trip fraught with freezing cold, the loss of a hand and a man's death.

Yet the work is fraught with a sense of the fragility of human endeavor, functioning as a metaphor for painting itself--an activity always balanced precariously between achievement and collapse.

In the earliest of the videos shown here, Power, 1999, the fraught relationship between father and daughter is alluded to in the single, visually dense activity of a boxing match acted out by a professional fighter and Tykka herself.

This is a timeless portrayal of the fraught inner world of a bright, sensitive 16-year-old boy.

The blur that spreads across Evening Comes, 2001, has a palpability that gets under one's skin, fraught as it is with the poignancy and anxiety--and ironically, the intangibility--of memory.

Since the '80s, when she co-published the magazine Artfan-- she later founded the Artclub Wien and, more recently, participated in the collective editing of the feminist art journal Die weisse Blatt (The white page)--Bilda's theme has been the "production of a (counter-) public." Her comic strips, drawings, and topical paintings about feminism involve a fraught play with the relationship of word to image, splicing relatively long text passages into narrative sequences of images.

McNab strives to represent spaces fraught with invisible dangers, and minds battling fear and isolation, without traducing her subjects' dignity and privacy.

Then Burgi, founding director of the Kunsthalle Zurich, reversed his fortunes, landing the director's chair at the Kunstmuseum Basel in another fraught changing of the guard that pitted longtime board member and Basel philanthropist Maja Oeri against city officials.

His work ex poses aspects of a young man's bumpy emotional terrain, fraught with fears of loss and rejection but resorting to humor as a means of deflection.

Fraught with niggling riddles, coyly tucked-away mysteries, and sly, silent enigmas, Herrera's work refuses to yield any easy interpretations or answers.

Barak's tenure as prime minister was fraught with failures, but putting down the Arab citizens' short-lived rebellion was not one of them.