fractiously

It fractiously frees you to love them as one of your own.

"I haven't had any terms from you," John said fractiously.

The science category is perhaps the most problematic of any in the fractiously variegated magazine market.

She ran a hand fractiously through the bright tumble of her chestnut curls.

The child kicked off her sheet fractiously.

It was all, thought Odin fractiously, too much for someone at his time of life, which was extremely advanced, but not in any particular direction.

A laser show,' said Random fractiously.

"It'll be my fault," Ellen said fractiously.

"Connecticut may be too fractiously parochial to do it as a state," wrote Mr. Slosberg.

Hannett and the group had worked together fractiously caused by the producer's unorthodox techniques and the band's (especially Sumner's) desire to co-produce.

He said in an e-mail message that although a majority favored the redefinition many other ideas were blooming and contending so fractiously that he despaired of ever reaching general agreement.

Mr. Usmonov's dramas are those of the post-Soviet era, but life in Central Asia has for centuries been a mingling of peoples and cultures, sometimes harmoniously, other times fractiously.

Complicating matters further, ecclesiastical control of both church buildings is fractiously shared by representatives of most major pre-Reformation Christian sects, from the Eastern Rite churches to the Holy See itself, each with proprietary claims.

The other main characters were Bernard Woolley (played rather fractiously by Chris Larkin) and Claire Sutton (Zoe Telford), the latter with a more prominent role than Hacker's special advisor in the original series.

If you answered "d," you understand why a decade after WKHK-FM stopped playing country music, changed its call letters to WLTW and switched to softer-sounding rock tunes, it has become one of the most popular stations in a fractiously combative radio market.

As it sweeps on, through Greece and Rome, dark ages and renaissance, world empire and industrial revolution, towards this present century of war and destruction, it succeeds in suggesting that, against all the odds, there may still be some basis for the political and economic union now intensively, if fractiously, under discussion.