English dialects in Ireland and of Irish literature internationally, the influence of Irish and Irish English on the broader English language has been modest. You might wonder why, given Ireland and Great Britain’s geographical, social, and political (though fraught, i.e., colonialist) closeness...
To take on Godot now is to tackle two major hurdles from the outset (yes, out of several hundred, but bear with me). Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023 Gun research has long been a discipline fraught with hurdles. Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023 He’s been...
And preserving a species throughbioengineeringis a fraught, messy process, one that calls into question the sophistication of current reproduction techniques and the merits of meddling with nature. — Damon Casarez,Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2021 ...
Feedback is the return message from the receiver to the sender. It is feedback that enables the sender to know whether the message was received successfully or not. Therefore it is essential to the communication process. This process, though very common, is fraught with potential breakdown at ...
“Awesome,” I said, in that peculiar way, I knew, our generation had of finding that everything either “sucked” or was “awesome.” We usedawesomethe way the British usedbrilliant: for anything at all. Perhaps, as with the British, it was a kind of antidepressant: inflated rhetoric ...
It’s also linguistically rich; in this and the next post I’ll note two words that caught my eye. First up is gentle, in a supernatural sense not widely known or used. Here’s McGlinchey: I always heard you should never strike a cow with a holly stick. Holly and hazel are two ...
Under the surface, both unions suffered from a growing anti-unionclimate. — Peter Labuza,The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Mar. 2022 Amazon countered with the full force of its anti-unionapparatus. — New York Times, 2 Apr. 2022 The deal does not include non-unionemployees and state legislators....
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When a Quran goes up in flames during the shoot, the Arab extras on set are outraged, resulting in a set fraught with tension. Ed Meza, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024 But amid a year of strikes, tension simmered in industries that weren’t backed by strong unions and found themselves back at...