A story of progress, fitful progress, incomplete progress, but progress.
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The result, political analysts said, is a fitful conservative effort.
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The glimpse is always frustratingly partial, fitful, with great gaps.
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Admittedly, it's been a fitful journey rather than a steady march.
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I shower, go to bed, and fall into a fitful sleep.
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The results have been fitful, most obviously in the Middle East.
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Work to strengthen the union's external borders has been fitful at best.
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His childhood was Dickensian, his schooling fitful and he was often sick.
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Turkey has proven at best a fitful ally against the Islamic State.
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An atmospheric, mysterious first movement is followed by a fitful, squirrely second.
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My sleep was fitful that evening, between the fever, headache and nausea.
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Ideological debate, it seems, evolves in a fitful relationship with personal experience.
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That night, I drifted into a fitful sleep, but Margot stayed up.
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Finally, just after the sun came up, Ryan fell into a fitful sleep.
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Though halting and fitful, the path leads in only one direction over time.
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A minority turn to crime or end up fighting in Libya's fitful conflict.
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His funds dwindled, his sleep turned fitful, and he started rationing his food.
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Gregory tells her that she's becoming forgetful and fitful, acting in irregular ways.
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Their efforts have been fitful at best, but already they risk being outdated.
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In recent decades European interest in Latin America, and vice versa, has been fitful.
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The maneuvers have the potential to cause further delays in an already fitful prosecution.
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There are memorials that seek to honor this country's fitful march toward civil rights.
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Shannon is already in tears of fitful emotion from the rom-com video preamble.
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As long as it's in place, international observers say, Cuba's development will remain fitful.
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So he has taken a few fitful steps to improve relations with prominent residents.
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They have not slept much, and the sleep they have had has been fitful.
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I can see her falling into a fitful sleep in her hot-pink sneakers.
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This reaction, for me, has been painful, causing me many nights of fitful sleep.
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Yet it's climb from there back toward pre-Lehman levels was fitful and slow.
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Does a character need to have fitful visions of the future after a snakebite?
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Paulus's staging — and especially the yearning, fitful choreography by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui — helps too.
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Italy has managed only a fitful recovery from the financial crisis that began in 2008.
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No matter how fitful a sleeper you may be, this mattress (literally) has your back.
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In Mr. Aucoin's pulsing, fitful score, the orchestra simmers with rattling ostinatos and darting lines.
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And mostly, it finds itself translating with only fitful successes, and rarely adding anything new.
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The president suggested that he was carefully watching the fitful effort to oust Mr. Maduro.
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After a fitful start, the weekend tournament now draws more than 30,000 fans per day.
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The music goes through fitful episodes, with percolating riffs, pummeling percussion and gratingly dissonant clusters.
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The landscape in and around Port-au-Prince provides a record of his fitful accomplishments.
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The tune "Chocolat-Citron," studded with fitful syncopations, suggested a caffeinated response to the Bad Plus.
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The Michael Strange Foundation sprang from Charles Strange's own fitful journey as a Gold Star father.
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In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, high winds and heavy rains gave Sherry Key a fitful night&aposs sleep.
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Nothing seems sure in Egypt today, except that there's bound to be more fitful change ahead.
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That wondering went on for the next 203 years—wistful, fitful, sometimes angry, hungry for more.
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"She was fitful and couldn't really tell you if she'd been awake or asleep," Vallabh said.
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He was running on fumes, getting only two or three fitful hours of sleep each night.
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This is solid setup for what turned out to be a fitful final stretch of episodes.
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Mr. Guaidó's installation of new diplomats across much of Latin America has had a fitful start.
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A fitful loosening and tightening followed – 10 journalists and media executives were imprisoned in 2014, for example.
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In part, persistent shortfalls in school budgets reflect the depth of the recession and the fitful recovery.
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Around this point a piano soloist (here Tomoko Mukaiyama) enters, playing fitful strands of steely high chords.
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A fitful beat, a few piano chords and some strings — pizzicato and sustained — drift in and out.
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You can only hope that Olympic and perhaps Ernst & Young officials had some fitful nights of sleep.
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For the next three years the two men, unlikely partners, made the bloody, fitful slog to Appomattox.
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An absurdist rocker turned corporate analyst: Hall seems to have traced the fitful arcs of his verses.
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I only had two beers and a whiskey last night, before five hours of fitful and erratic sleep.
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Corruption allegations have tainted his entourage, reforms have been fitful and price rises have eaten into living standards.
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After a day of preparations, they fell into a fitful sleep to the sound of loud, gusting winds.
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This fitful watching is caused, at least in part, by the informational clutter that accompanies every baseball telecast.
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Despite its fitful performance on the economy, the BJP remains robustly Hindu nationalist, which plays well among many voters.
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In a weird way (maybe the result of doing fitful but consistent meditation), I was aware I was hallucinating.
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But the response has been slow and fitful at best, even though measures that would help are well-known.
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The big picture is that the oil market has been gradually rebalancing since 20173 but progress has been fitful.
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The Chinese government's fitful embrace of free-market policies for its currency and financial assets is also complicating matters.
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The pestilient little virus must run its course, leaving my precious child with another restless night of fitful sleep.
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But progress is fitful, depending on the rock being drilled through and whether it will need some artificial strengthening.
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Progress has been fitful in educating and mobilizing elected officials to address climate-related threats to health and safety.
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The fact is human progress is fitful, sporadic, irrational, and insufficient because that's just the way human beings are.
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They ended with an intense performance of Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 9, completed in 1964, a fitful, brooding work.
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Bloomberg also revamped aspects of New York's transportation and de Blasio has made fitful efforts to change housing policy.
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Every morning I wake after a fitful sleep and feel around my bed for the pager to call my caregiver.
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There is only us -- imperfect people working to form a more perfect union and making fitful progress with each generation.
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It eventually died a slow, fitful death in 2015 with none of the market disruption it was meant to bring.
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North Korea is on the cusp of the largest step yet in its budding, fitful engagement with the outside world.
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There was a fitful attempt to write a biography of Frederick Douglass, and a dutiful visit to the Soviet Union.
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That is as true for the players — fitful and reluctant in the opening stages — as it is for the fans.
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The Afghan government was excluded from the talks, which ended after seven fitful days with a sense of fading optimism.
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Mr. Dudamel kept the scattered choral declamation and fitful orchestral stretches in sync, while making the episode seem utterly spontaneous.
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Beyond fitful attempts to fix flaws, wary state officials have begun conferring more closely with federal and private election specialists.
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The production is never more affecting than when the erotic chemistry that first brought them together flickers into fitful flame.
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" And: "Beauty is momentary in the mind— / The fitful tracing of a portal; / But in the flesh it is immortal.
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But in France fitful stabs at liberalisation that began in the mid-1990s were defeated or watered down by the left.
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With deGrom's return on Sunday, the Mets will try to continue synchronizing their rotation after a fitful start to the season.
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Fitful government attempts to tighten credit regulations have merely shifted the flow of debt to new targets, most recently mortgage loans.
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That said, the show's manic satirical tone yields uneven returns, and the premise takes somewhat fitful advantage of its futuristic setting.
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At 17, Malachy Tallack woke from fitful sleep at his home in Lerwick, Shetland's capital, and peered out at the harbor.
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Years of deflation and fitful growth punctuated by recessions ended the expectations of pay raises as unions focused on preserving jobs.
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In a fitful and contentious year, it is perhaps no surprise that this year there were more bad grades than good.
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The stammering rhythms and fitful guitar-work play off one another throughout the album, often joining in bursts of unrestrained rage.
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Her shape-shifting vocals — deceptively optimistic overall, despite some dips into near-Gregorian moony nadirs — capture an easy intimacy and fitful mind.
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Incremental progress, however fitful, was made for the next century, but epidemics of crack, HIV and urban violence threatened to reverse it.
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In Say's time, as nowadays, the world economy combined strong technological progress with fitful demand, spurts of innovation with bouts of austerity.
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This thorough integration is all the more impressive when you think of how awkward and fitful most of Mr. McPherson's dialogue sounds.
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Given the current national conversation about sexual consent, it is scarcely surprising that the laughter this encounter elicits is fitful and uneasy.
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It had been a tense few days leading up until this point, and Green had managed only a few hours' fitful sleep.
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The Trump at the center of this mystery melodrama is mostly a phantom, a fitful gust of pique and an offstage rumble.
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If she would just turn these fitful baby steps into full-length strides, she might finally undo him and set us free.
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Maybe it would soothe a fitful baby, or give your dog some company while you leave her alone to go grocery shopping.
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Their arrival has been slow and fitful, the problematic female character apparently being a harder sell, a harder creative leap or both.
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It has been a fitful process, troubled by bureaucracy and political maneuvering in a county where a majority voted for President Trump.
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"It takes time for your body to become accustomed to a new bed, which can lead to fitful sleep," Mr. Hughes said.
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Nor, seeing his fitful approach, did one turn back to flip the window latch for the lifeform nearly breaking himself on glass.
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Picker hopes this eclipse will instead start a conversation about what it means have a grid that's heavily reliant on fitful natural resources.
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After years of falling prices and fitful growth, Japan's nominal GDP was roughly the same in 2015 as it was 20 years earlier.
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It's a fitful amalgam of bouncy and slack laughs mixed in with some blasts of pure physical comedy and loads of yammering heads.
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Somehow he instead became the tour's first multiple winner of the wraparound season with a closing three-under 69 in a fitful wind.
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Interaction among all them all is fitful, graceless and sometimes potentially violent, as if the rules for social behavior have been long forgotten.
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The underlying beat is slow enough to make room for fitful, asymmetrical vocal lines, while backup vocals arrive to multiply the second guesses.
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It comes together incrementally and sometimes haphazardly, in a fitful and imperfect process of discovery, the way every story and every city does.
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This fitful Australian import, which opened on Sunday night at the Barrymore Theater, chronicles the bad behavior at one ill-fated birthday celebration.
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Mr. Drake played commandingly, including a piano solo depicting the consummation of this impulsive love — fitful music of hurtling chords and steely harmonies.
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At times the state would fight back, making a few arrests in fitful efforts to roll back the changes, but never for long.
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" His doctor, John Martyn Harlow, wrote that, "He is fitful, irreverent, indulging at times in the grossest profanity, which was not previously his custom.
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Ghosts, goblins, and a new season of Stranger Things have returned from their fitful slumber, and the haunted tour industry is in full swing.
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That's the main lure for "The Mountain Between Us," an old-fashioned star vehicle that seeks to thaw frozen hearts with only fitful success.
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One mother, whose nickname is Nan, has barely moved from her chair since arriving five days ago, occasionally slipping into a fitful half-sleep.
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It is here that one Leonard Vole (Jack McMullen), a young man of puppyish handsomeness and fitful employment, is on trial for his life.
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The Vietnam War, the explosion of white backlash and ghetto violence, and the fitful collapse of the New Deal coalition receive extremely short shrift.
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As Congress returns this week from its summer recess, Washington and its press corps are stirring from what has been a fitful August slumber.
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New Yorkers, blessed with easy access to Carnegie Hall, have long been able to keep at least fitful track of Europe's finest symphony orchestras.
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In a performance that conveyed the alternately mysterious, ruminative, celestial and fitful elements of this restless score, the symphony proved a fitting memorial piece.
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In addition, because Mr. Trump is so hated abroad, his fitful embrace of human rights is most likely only to further tarnish the cause.
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Since crude oil prices plunged in 2014 in the face of oversupply, deals have been fitful, with large players such as Schlumberger and Technip TECF.
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Trump started off in a hole, and after making only a few fitful efforts to climb out of it, he proceeded to dig himself deeper.
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Self-pitying or smug, jaunty or crestfallen, callous or contrite, the movie's fitful tone is fully yoked to Joaquin Phoenix's sodden-to-sober lead performance.
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Occasionally a deadpan drollness, reminiscent of George Saunders, flickers in the prose, hinting at a possible interest in doing gothicky Americana, but that's also fitful.
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Comedy, an entertainment zone notoriously dominated by the male point of view, has opened up in the decades since "Kids," but progress has been fitful.
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But the question of America's fitful, ill-defined and often self-serving foreign policies holds dangers that go far beyond even Russia's most expansionist ambitions.
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After a decade of fitful talks, nearly 22015 countries agreed early Saturday morning in Rwanda to the most important near-term global warming agreement ever devised.
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"Stride," unfolding in a series of fitful episodes — thickets of glassy strings, declamatory brass and contrapuntal juxtapositions that evoke Charles Ives — is both solemn and celebratory.
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It had been a fitful regular season, with no dominating teams and with a crowd of contenders leapfrogging one another at the top of the rankings.
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The argument is a typical symptom of an almost uniquely liberal disease: the idea that history itself is on an inexorable — albeit fitful — trajectory toward progress.
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Masters got it with his water bottle, and, with the tent flaps slapping around in the wind, we settled down to a night of fitful sleep.
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After a fitful night of sleep, she opened a Google document, set the columns, wrote a disclaimer, and sent it to about eight close female friends.
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After a fitful start, an emergency pay system appears to have ended the need for managers to dip into their own bank accounts to help employees.
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The move by Riyadh threatens not only to reshape the politics of the region, but to undermine this tiny nation's fitful economy and delicate political balance.
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France is roughly where Germany was at the beginning of the 2000s, and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, has begun his own, albeit fitful, reform drive.
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But the older woman's expiration is fitful and protracted, a fact that Mitsuki, her mother's principal caregiver, takes as a cruel rebuke and act of sabotage.
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Following a reserved and fitful start, the show delivered some of the political punch Washington and Los Angeles — and everyone in between — had been girding for.
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Mike Pence of Indiana, a conservative Christian, as his running mate after a long and fitful series of deliberations, including a last-minute appeal by Gov.
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Before Trump, one major trajectory of the 21st-century Republican Party was a series of fitful efforts to expand the party's outreach to people of color.
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At the close of summer, I happily returned to my young-people's life in New York and resumed my eye-rolling at fitful babies on the subway.
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Despite the hard work, rescuers&apos progress was fitful at best, with no guarantee the water will soon recede with months left in Thailand&aposs rainy season.
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The winter purge resulted in a true washout in many areas of the market, and the recovery by the majority of stocks has remained underway, if fitful.
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We might regard the installation as an allegory of historical understanding and misapprehension, the way our fitful perception of historical fact is filtered through a glass, darkly.
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A week later came better news: after more than two years of fitful exploratory talks, the second rebel group, the ELN, is to start formal peace negotiations.
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"It's a destiny-changing decision and obviously it's one I'm profoundly sad about," said Mr. Blair, who had his own struggles with Britain's fitful relationship with Europe.
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The death of Shimon Peres removed a last link to the very founding of Israel and conjured decades of growing military power and fitful strivings for peace.
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Liberal ideologues and progressive labor unions joined African Americans in pushing for a civil rights agenda, and Southern white supremacists began fitful efforts to bolt the Democratic Party.
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The government's fitful commitment to the restructuring of the economy and reform of its financial markets has produced a high level of anxiety in the global investment community.
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The fitful movement of the boundary seems to be driven mostly by Russia's desire to align what it sees as a state border with this old Soviet map.
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As the 2016 election raged to a close, the nation, whose fitful years of post-Civil War expansion the children's book series had documented, was splitting apart again.
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He managed a fitful sleep before Angela arrived in the morning with porridge and half of a papaya, whose black seeds she scooped and flung outside his door.
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There are long monologues, especially from Mr. Butler, to fitful laughter; antlers suspended from on high; and, as you might expect, a stag head worn by actors at times.
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It is an arena where innovation has been slow and fitful—surpisingly so, perhaps, given peoples' perennial need for clothes and luggage and their attachment to modesty and warmth.
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Even for a president known for contradicting himself, Mr. Trump's divergent statements were particularly head-spinning and underscored his fitful responses to the report issued by the special counsel.
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The problem Mr. Trump poses for the rest of the constitutional system is not that he is too strong and overbearing, but that he is too weak and fitful.
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After weeks of fitful grumblings about the long-shot maneuvers that might obstruct Mr. Trump's path to the White House, the proceedings on Friday appeared to close the book.
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While Kentucky has held its own in the national conversation over men's basketball, it has been a fitful ride the last 20 years for the rest of the conference.
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By the early '70s, he had succeeded Leonard Bernstein as music director of the New York Philharmonic, an appointment that startled the music world and led to a fitful tenure.
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For the low price of $3 million, the man with the long arms and awkward game helped drag this flawed, fitful club to the best postseason showing in its history.
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In the first hour of this less-than-classic Clásico, Barcelona was on top, even though Messi flickered, Suárez fluffed a chance from seven yards out, and Neymar was fitful.
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Finally feeling comfortable at the plate after a fitful opening month, Headley said he had not been pleased to hear from Girardi on Saturday that he would have Sunday off.
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His path was unlikely and fitful, hampered by legal troubles and quarrels with his longtime mentor, but bolstered by his prodigious work output and the amplifying power of the internet.
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And in brief, fitful moments throughout the first three episodes, it really does get at some interesting things about adult friendships, male bonding rituals, and the burden of mental illness.
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RUSSONELLO The solitude is palpable in "Lonesome Pine": in its sparse handful of guitar notes, in the fitful rustle of its brushed snare drum and in the age-old imagery.
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This can cut both ways, especially on issues like immigration where his fitful threats to close the southern border may cast him as more of a crisis instigator than mitigator.
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If history is any guide, the transition to wireless charging will be fitful, as chargers, devices, and standards evolve in tandem, technologies improve and get cheaper, and consumers get acclimated.
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They had two children and lived in Liverpool's bohemian district, while Davies taught art (his students included the young John Lennon) and Bainbridge made a fitful start at writing fiction.
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At the same time, the fitful and at times rhetorically muddled transition from the known (Obamacare) to the unknown ("something terrific") has risked throwing the health care industry into turmoil.
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For decades, there have been fitful negotiations between Washington and Brussels on trade liberalization, but they have always run up against the protectionism of France and some southern European states.
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Iraq is beset by political infighting, corruption, a growing fiscal crisis and the Shiite Muslim-led government's fitful efforts to reconcile with aggrieved minority Sunnis, the bedrock of Islamic State support.
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For a veteran of the Age of Aquarius, the side-effects of recreational drugs—the frequent toilet trips; the grimy feeling on the skin; the fitful sleep later on—were familiar.
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As both the Italian and the American hedgehogs know, public attention is often fitful, imperfectly formed, ignorant of the science or reasoning behind policies and projects -- and increasingly suspicious of authority.
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The Trump Presidency represents a rebellion against liberalism itself—an angry assault on the advances of groups of people who have experienced profound, if fitful, empowerment over the past half century.
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Some days I wake up, bleary-eyed from a fitful sleep, and check what's trending on Twitter just to see what terrible things happened overnight and shock myself out of bed.
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Baghdad has had success in pushing back the militants in recent months and has pledged to retake the northern city of Mosul later this year, but progress has often been fitful.
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As in the letters, Lowell's guilt makes fitful appearances in his poems: I waste hours writing in and writing out a line, as if listening to conscience were telling the truth.
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Haiti has made only a fitful recovery from the quake, which all but destroyed the national government and left hundreds of thousands homeless, and ensuing disasters have deepened the country's misery.
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But the only insight I've received from my eye problems is into how unclearly we see everything, even ourselves, and how fitful are our illusions of control […] All hail the vanishing point.
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As Erie natters on in an eager, fitful string of clichés, bringing to mind the sort of garrulous salesman you'd normally cross the street to avoid, Mr. Whitaker quietly breaks your heart.
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But I didn't focus on why until the next day when, after a fitful night, I awoke exhausted, did another long walk and swim, and cycled to an appointment four miles away.
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Eight years after my initial diagnosis with a panic disorder, I have made a kind of fitful progress towards peace, managing my condition, more or less, with medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy.
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The yen has swung wildly since late 2012, when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power promoting easy-money "Abenomics" policies to boost Japan from two decades of deflation and fitful growth.
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They find love, after a fashion, though she seems a fitful presence, and it would have been no surprise to learn, late in the film, that he had imagined her all along.
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But the crying continues — throughout Joanna's fitful days and onto the couple's 30-hour flight to Australia, where Alistair is fighting his former wife (Asher Keddie) for custody of their teenage daughter.
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Golf is not the only activity that the administration keeps under wraps in Florida, where Mr. Trump is still making a fitful transition from the proprietor of a private club to president.
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Some of her posts have been flagged as misinformation, as part of Facebook's fitful efforts to stem the tide of fake news on their platform, but others, for whatever reason, are not.
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Iraq is beset by political infighting, corruption, a growing fiscal crisis and the Shi'ite Muslim-led government's fitful efforts to seek reconciliation with aggrieved minority Sunnis, the bedrock of Islamic State support.
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In a fitful burst of dramatic recitative, Idomeneo, washed up on shore, describes the pledge he made to Neptune: If the god saves him, Idomeneo will sacrifice the first man he encounters.
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But he'll prove that assurance wrong, and when he does — in Christa Scott-Reed's fitful production in the Acorn Theater at Theater Row — the forced sundering of their bond will genuinely sting.
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The European Commission's 1,000-page reform seeks to meet goals on cutting emissions and adapt Europe's grid to digital technologies and fitful wind and solar power that is transforming industry and challenging utilities.
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WASHINGTON — After decades of mistrust and fitful reconciliation efforts, India and the United States made a turn toward cooperation on Tuesday, and Donald J. Trump can claim at least some of the credit.
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Clinton's memoir radiates with fury at the forces and the figures ranged against her, but it is also salted with self-searching, grief, bitterness, and fitful attempts to channel and contain that fury.
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Coming out of The Lighthouse feels like waking from a fitful sleep filled with dreams that feel somehow significant, even if you're not sure what they mean or how they all fit together.
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After fitful negotiations spanning nearly two years, Gazprom moved a step closer on Monday to resolving a longstanding dispute with European antitrust regulators critical of the company's dominance in regional natural gas markets.
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Light arrives, instead, in fitful bursts out of the great dark void in which the audience initially finds itself in this more than clever production, conceived and directed by Halory Goerger and Antoine Defoort.
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LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Manufacturers across Asia and Europe showed few signs of returning to health in August, as demand remained fitful at best, although British factories bucked the global trend, surveys showed on Thursday.
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The point is, these bands had the power to put our intense, hormone-addled, fitful feelings into poetry when we couldn't even tell you what the fuck we were crying about half the time.
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Experts point with anxiety to Iraq's unrelenting political infighting, corruption, a growing fiscal crisis and the Shiite Muslim-led government's fitful efforts to reconcile with aggrieved minority Sunnis, the bedrock of Islamic State support.
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Both sides, at a signing ceremony in a hotel on the outskirts of Oslo, hailed the ceasefire deal and measures to step up negotiations as a breakthrough after 30 years of fitful peace talks.
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Originally entitled "Sayyidat al-Qamr" ("Ladies of the Moon"), the novel circles between Abdallah's fitful, high-altitude dozing and the equally restless history of his ancestral home, the fictional desert village of al-Awafi.
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That perfectly reasonable possibility seems to be the catalyst for Alex Roe's revival at Metropolitan Playhouse — a regrettably fitful, stilted staging that muffles most of the humor and humanity of this creaky, peculiar play.
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It was Kentucky's fourth consecutive win — a run that grew to five in a row with a rout of Missouri on Tuesday — but the fitful play of his young players again left Calipari exasperated.
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His speech, once effusive and rapid, was hesitant and fitful; the words emerged with a sudden, surprising force, as if he were spitting out pips of food that had been put into his mouth.
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It's a track with a fitful beat and bass line, an amiably asymmetrical melody and puffs of electronic chords that refuse, in the end, to settle on just what key the song is in.
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After a fitful night of sleep at the hospital — because when you know Death is standing at the doorway waiting for your baby, you don't sleep well — I got up to use the bathroom.
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The Clinton campaign on Saturday sought to capitalize on the fitful vice presidential roll out, releasing a web video mocking the billionaire for being indecisive despite running a campaign based on his decision-making skills.
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Mr. Opsvik sets up a theme alone, and the others join the party in fitful turns: brushes on a snare drum, a spidery phrase on the fretboard, a honk and a cluck on tenor saxophone.
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Britain's anxiety over this estrangement is fitful: some want Trump to stay out of the country; some are more anxious about losing the "special relationship"; others just want May to save what can be saved.
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Although defeated in 1865, this dark strain was never destroyed; indeed, if the Confederacy lost the Civil War, Meacham remarks, in important ways it won the peace following the white South's fitful overthrow of Reconstruction.
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Ottawa, Canada (CNN)In one bizarre, unguarded moment at a private fundraiser in Missouri, Donald Trump showed why months of trade negotiations between Canada, Mexico and the United States have been fitful, frustrating, and fruitless.
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After a fitful first night's sleep (jet lag, wine and altitude are an evil combination), I thought it a good idea to loosen up with a practice run before meeting up with the mountain guide.
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The third song, which recalls when "there was no time for music," becomes fitful and dense, with slinky woodwinds and treading bass lines, though Mr. Abrahamsen seldom deploys the entire orchestra at once in this work.
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Few of the Israelis and Palestinians who have been immersed for years in the fitful and frustrating peace process, such as it is, could recall ever meeting Mr. Kushner, and many were hurrying to learn more.
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The score saves the best for last when Kynaston, now daring to play Othello, and Margaret, as Desdemona, shock the audience with the raw realism of their acting, qualities captured in Mr. Floyd's pungent, fitful music.
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The Silicon Valley actor and standup comedian penned an essay for The Hollywood Reporter about his fitful relationship with Ahmed, who became a household name with the HBO show The Night Of. It began with Four Lions.
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George W. Bush, who on meeting Mr Putin professed to have looked into his soul and to have liked what he saw, later oscillated between symbolic protests against the Kremlin's depredations and fitful efforts to ignore them.
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Having no sodas, Brierly said he woke up fitful in the middle of the night and decided that if he couldn't drink a soda in real life, he'd program a five-level game about drinking soda instead.
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In four June starts, Teheran is 33-23 with a 20 ERA, a number that is skewed by a fitful start on June 20.86 which saw him give up seven runs in five innings against the Reds.
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All this along a sickly body of sluggish, often fetid water that despite years of fitful improvements (the herons and striped bass are back again) still seems like the last place a person might want to live.
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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration's long and fitful effort to wind down the Guantánamo Bay wartime prison came to a close on Thursday with an announcement that it had transferred four more men out of the detention complex.
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The prince has gone in search of Rusalka, and finds her: Now, finally, the two have a real love duet, impassioned, fitful music, sung here with burnished sound and wrenching beauty by Ms. Opolais and Mr. Jovanovich.
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The United States has essentially paid hundreds of millions of dollars in rent for its base, where it stages fitful attempts to degrade al-Shabab in neighboring Somalia, but has done little else to develop the country.
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Beyond her one-on-one conversation with the writer, Jackie discusses morality with a minister (John Hurt) and debates Jack's legacy with brother-in-law Bobby (Peter Sarsgaard, waging his own fitful battle with the famed Kennedy accent).
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Adding to the difficulty of stabilizing freed areas are Iraq's unrelenting political infighting, corruption, a growing fiscal crisis and the Shiite Muslim-led government's fitful efforts to reconcile with aggrieved minority Sunnis, the bedrock of Islamic State support.
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If his records of a decade ago are like the fitful prose of a skilled linguist grappling with an esoteric syntax, these latest works have the grace and drama of a master poet or playwright at his peak.
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"Blackbird," which took the Olivier Award in London for best new play in 2007, is an immensely powerful work that only occasionally maximizes its potential in the fitful production that opened on Thursday night at the Belasco Theater.
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And our penchant for herbal ales that use neither hops, barley, nor commercial yeast will send your local homebrewing supplier on a fitful rant, muttering about the need for chemical cleansers and the horror of sour-tasting ales.
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Japan's manufacturing supply chain, linking small firms like Nagumo to Japan's industrial giants and consumers worldwide, is the China-reliant core of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to lift Japan out of decades of deflation and fitful growth.
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Two days of fitful talks at the Group of 20 gathering in the Argentine capital appeared only to raise the odds that the friction will intensify as Mr. Trump threatens more tariffs and other countries vow to retaliate.
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But he had mostly a fitful turn at both — NBC was moving past its "Must See TV" days and was headed toward a slump, and shortly after he arrived at Fox the ratings for "American Idol" started collapsing.
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WASHINGTON — After seven years of fitful declines, the federal budget deficit is projected to swell again, adding nearly $24 trillion to the federal debt over the next 21 years, according to projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
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Russia and Turkey have swerved in recent months from outright hostility to working more closely in a diplomatic effort aimed at resolving the conflict, after fitful and repeated failures led by the United Nations and the United States.
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After a fitful, three-year rate hiking cycle, the U.S. central bank was forced to shift gears late last year and is now lowering borrowing costs, joined by 19 other central banks whose collective policy easing emphasizes the point.
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During Brexit, the Lords have taken on outsized importance, demanding fundamental and worthwhile changes to the government's fitful efforts to negotiate Britain's departure from the EU. Farcical by-elections can only undermine an undemocratic yet still effective second chamber.
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Asia's factories showed few signs of returning to health in August, as torpid activity in the region's biggest economies, China and Japan, suggested world demand remained fitful at best even as global policymakers scrambled to restore momentum.
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Leaders in both China and South Korea worry that Mr. Obama's visit to Japan's deepest wound could be taken by the Japanese as an endpoint to their country's fitful efforts to come to grips with their own wartime atrocities.
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It's not just that every voice is different—that pitch and blend can vary disastrously, that memory is fitful and sight-reading uncertain, that there are too many sopranos and not enough basses—but that we hear things differently.
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CreditCreditArnd Wiegmann/Reuters It was a year of fitful but undeniable progress for women in sports as they ascended to places in the executive suite, in the commentary booth and on the awards podium they had never reached before.
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The second part of Grann's subtitle nods to the fitful investigation into the killings and their role in shaping the modern F.B.I. In the 1920s, law enforcement was typically conducted by a patchwork of sheriffs, private detectives and vigilantes.
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Wrangling Trump's erratic messaging Trump's fitful messaging strategy has also defied conventional political wisdom, which suggests candidates should home in on a core message and hit issues that will resonate locally -- something Trump's team of South Carolina operatives struggled to do.
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MIKE RABON St. Paul To the Editor: "For Gays Across America, a Massacre Punctuates Fitful Gains" (front page, June 13) reported that F.B.I. statistics show that 18.6 percent of the "single-bias hate crimes" committed in 2015 were against L.G.B.T. people.
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Its dysfunction has been on display in its fitful handling of the Greek debt and refugee crises, its bureaucracy is pathetically slow to recognize or correct its failings and it often acts like an out-of-touch and undemocratic elite.
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This doesn't at all mean the bull market is over, but the upside to the old highs and perhaps beyond would likely be a more fitful "brute force" advance rather than the elegant choreography of the "no pullbacks" 2017 rally.
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Considering the injustice and cruelties inflicted by autocratic governments, and how corruptible human nature can be, the problem-solving our system does make possible, the fitful progress it produces, and the liberty and justice it preserves, is a magnificent achievement.
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Then he returns home where, before starting on the laundry, dishes, vacuuming, and dinner preparation, he fires up his computer to conduct what's left of a job search — he had worked in digital and online marketing — that has become increasingly fitful.
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There have been fitful efforts to improve the uptake of empirical studies of medical practices by doctors — one seemingly promising initiative being the "Choosing Wisely" campaign, launched in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation in partnership with Consumer Reports.
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There have been fitful efforts to improve the uptake of empirical studies of medical practices by doctors — one seemingly promising initiative being the "Choosing Wisely"campaign, launched in 2012 by the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation in partnership with Consumer Reports.
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump embarked on one of the rituals of the American presidency on Thursday, meeting in New York with the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, as he continued his fitful adjustment to the protocols of high-level diplomacy.
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This kind of work is confidential, so I can't reveal his name, but can say that for the previous few hours, I'd been chasing the 20-something from Canada around the grounds of Costa Rica's Envision Festival, trying to contain his fitful behavior.
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Their fitful attempts to reconcile grow a bit melodramatic by the end of the film, which was directed by Jim O'Hanlon and written by Leon F. Butler, though Mr. Elba has plenty of gratuitous opportunities to show off his well-toned body.
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WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday told members of Congress that it had offered to substantially sweeten a decade-long military aid package for Israel, the latest turn in months of fitful negotiations that have proceeded despite deep divisions over the Iran nuclear deal.
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Democratic and Republican leaders on Wednesday renewed their fitful efforts to impose greater order on a freewheeling presidential race and to bring to heel a pair of political renegades, Senator Bernie Sanders and Donald J. Trump, whose upstart campaigns have roiled the political establishment.
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But after weeks of fitful efforts to sell a job that for decades people have plotted to get, no one has jumped at the chance to become President Trump's new press secretary, leaving the president — at least for now — with his beleaguered frontman, Sean Spicer.
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That is why, as 1,500 more American troops are deployed to the Middle East and the Trump administration makes fitful threats of military action, it is not good enough to act based on testimony at the United Nations Security Council, whether by John Bolton or someone else.
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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted Thursday on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a set of long-running corruption cases, throwing his political future into doubt and heightening the uncertainty and chaos surrounding Israel's fitful, yearlong struggle to choose its next leader.
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" Glover, the restless polymath who launched his career as a writer on the TV show "30 Rock" and eventually made a fitful migration to the world of hip-hop, was expressing a timeworn sentiment that falls into the same category as "I don't even own a television.
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Whether the telling of a story, even in fragments, continues to serve Malick's needs is open to question, and to find fault with his narratives may be beside the point; he's more of a naturalist by now, paying no more than fitful attention to the human.
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The story shifts back to her cell, where her mother (the formidable mezzo-soprano Guang Yang) seems to appear and sings a fitful monologue about ghosts that haunt: the parents and siblings she left in Vietnam, horrific memories of war, the ancient ancestors she feels she's betrayed.
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Season seven's other big story — in which Alexandria, Hilltop, and the Kingdom form a fitful alliance to take down Negan (King Ezekiel isn't in yet, but you know he will be) — is slightly better, if only because we haven't seen a million other versions of it in past seasons.
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The moment was a turning point for the rapid and fitful negotiations over the stimulus measure, which came together over a handful of frenzied days on Capitol Hill, as global markets convulsed with worry and lawmakers scrambled to agree before Covid-2600 could infect their ranks and cripple Congress.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump welcomed President Shavkat Mirziyoyev of Uzbekistan to the White House on Wednesday, calling the visit a "great honor" as he worked to begin what aides described as a new era of partnership with a country that is making its first fitful turns away from authoritarianism.
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Mr. Dercon's short, fitful tenure at the former East Berlin theater was doomed for many reasons, including hostility from the public and politicians to the Belgian director's approach of transforming an ensemble theater, with a full-time staff of over 200, into a festival venue for visiting performers.
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The candidates themselves have made fitful or flawed efforts to garner mainstream Democratic support: A number of lawmakers open to endorsing Mr. Biden said he did little to reach out to them for most of the campaign, letting weeks or months go by without any contact from him or his aides.
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And while this plan has met with resistance, some of it captured on a viral video of a meeting of angry parents at another District 3 school, chroniclers of the city's fitful desegregation efforts see a growing recognition across demographic lines that segregation is a problem that needs to, and can be, addressed.
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Despite all the hardship and chaos, despite living under the dangers of Putin's Russia (and adjacent to what's become Trump's America), Pussy Riot and its leading light will still be out there on the front lines of rebellion well after the reality TV nightmare that is this current presidential election had faded into fitful memory.
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The European trips are intended not only to further the administration's foreign policy goals but to highlight — in the midst of what by then will be a heated presidential contest — how well the United States is doing compared with Europe, which has been mired for years in a fitful economic recovery and swamped by a refugee crisis.
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In sanctioning modest profits and sometimes fitful growth, the new owners of The Scene will earn the privilege of uncovering conflicts of interest that public servants would prefer to keep hidden, demanding access to public records the public doesn't yet know are theirs, helping people who are enduring injustice, and championing people who are quietly making a difference.
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With coronavirus now present in 55 countries, infecting almost 84,000 and killing nearly 3,000, the Trump administration's fitful, uncoordinated response is raising questions, particularly among public health and security experts who note that just last year, the intelligence community and the White House flagged the need to prepare for the disruptive risk of a major disease outbreak.
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Under the circumstances, it's no wonder that our world has witnessed, in virtually every single country, both rich and poor, authoritarian or relatively free, a fitful, sometimes futile series of democratic revolts and protests, when crowds of ordinary people unite to demand a fairer share of the common wealth—and to claim for themselves a larger share in more truly democratic institutions.
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The measures, announced following the end of a two-day policy meeting, mean the Fed's gradual and sometimes fitful efforts to return monetary policy to a more normal footing will stop well short of what was foreseen in late 21.9 when the central bank first moved rates from the near-zero level adopted in response to the 2007-2009 financial crisis and recession.
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The measures, announced following the end of a two-day policy meeting, mean the Fed's gradual and sometimes fitful efforts to return monetary policy to a more normal footing will stop well short of what was foreseen in late 23.7 when the central bank first moved rates from the near-zero level adopted in response to the 21.8-21.9 financial crisis and recession.
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The more-or-less-good vibes continue in nonfiction, with Paul Mendes-Flohr's consideration of the great religious philosopher Martin Buber; Oliver Sacks's vivacious final essays; Sheri Berman's cleareyed analysis of European democracy and its fitful gains; and a look back at the 2008 financial crisis by the economists who did most to save us from the brink of disaster.
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