My partner agonized over whether he should go to work.
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The trio agonized over how to break it to Billy Dee.
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She agonized over every detail of her resume and cover letters.
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I agonized over every word and drove myself crazy with formatting.
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She recalled how other mothers agonized over the fate of their children.
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Mr. Daud agonized over whether to try to jump out a window.
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Informal survey: How many of you have agonized over your shampoo choice?
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I have agonized over the fear that my questions are too intrusive.
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At 17, she got pregnant, and I agonized over his lost youth.
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For six years, she and her family agonized over her husband's fate.
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Though she voted for Mr. Trump, she said agonized over the decision.
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Switching to Android in 2017 was a big decision, one I agonized over.
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Mr. Morriseau said he has agonized over Kyle's change of mind ever since.
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I agonized over it because I knew how important it was for us.
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Before having children, my wife and I agonized over the question of circumcision.
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Parenting is full of decisions, nearly all of which can be agonized over.
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As a high school freshman he agonized over his sexual orientation, he said.
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She didn't want Fanny to worry, but she agonized over keeping it secret.
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Vice President Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana, agonized over how to respond.
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The engineers at G.M. and Fanuc agonized over what color it should be.
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We've agonized over this, whether we should ever talk to the press again.
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They agonized over their crushes not even acknowledging their existence, whilst rocking chunky highlights.
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Kennedy said last week he was "really torn" as he agonized over the decision.
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The Dow plunged 25 points, or 25%, as investors agonized over the latest tariff threats.
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You can swallow up the seasons we agonized over in great heaves of binge-watches.
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He agonized over the words, trying to build personas by using nothing but his vocals.
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I sent out "save the date" cards last month, having agonized over the guest list.
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Every week it got harder to choose winners, and we agonized over crowning just one.
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Both teams agonized over numerous whistles as if something was truly riding on the outcome.
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What it felt like was a show that wanted to be enjoyed, not agonized over.
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Have you ever agonized over whether to tell individuals they have spinach in their teeth?
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If you've ever agonized over the choice between a taco or a burrito, we get it.
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I watched TV, sipped some coffee, chatted with my mom, and agonized over what to wear.
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"Our reporter and his editors agonized over the tone and content of the article," Lacey wrote.
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Do you remember the special plates you agonized over with your fiancé before you got married?
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With her eldest daughter, Naela, 26 at the time, Suhair agonized over the decision to flee.
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I chronicled the workers as they agonized over whether to train their replacements for extra pay.
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What may seem cavalier to you is most likely a decision that has been agonized over.
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" After Philbin, "She agonized over who would be the best partner for her in the long run.
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And the Navy really agonized over its no-pregnancy rule, because they worried women would get abortions.
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The table was covered in Pantone chips with subtle differences, and we agonized over the final selections.
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This is where he agonized over the writing of his novel "The Idiot," which I was rereading.
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It was published in February, and for the next few weeks, Mr. Escobar agonized over his decision.
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Brainin and Vongerichten also agonized over one particular decision: whether to put fluke crudo on the menu.
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Perhaps. I know members of my foreign policy team have agonized over Syria and its quarter-million dead.
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"It needed to mean something and he agonized over it, probably even more than Kim," said the pal.
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She agonized over what to say in the letter, wrote several drafts and sought input from her therapist.
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Every detail of the outfit has been agonized over and plotted out far in advance of the night.
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"It needed to mean something and he agonized over it, probably even more than Kim," said the pal.
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As she waited for Steven's relay race at a track meet, Ms. Rivera agonized over money and time.
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The boys agonized over whether to believe Britain's promise that it would accept its share of unaccompanied minors.
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He agonized over the accuracy of his inner ear, was not in fact certain he even possessed one.
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Hurdle said he agonized over whether to pitch to Diaz, but his counterpart said there really was no choice.
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Still others agonized over missing concerts of their favorite singers or South Korea's largest online game exhibition this week.
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But the creative team — Bloomberg, Horowitz, and Esmail, too — agonized over it, having "endless discussions" about each moment, Bloomberg said.
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Many of them didn't know what had happened to her, and Woo agonized over whether to tell them or not.
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Producers agonized over whether the show would reflect the author's singular experience or embrace a more contemporary New York sensibility.
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He agonized over cleaning his apartment, how long the cleaning would take, and how quickly it would get dirty again.
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Millions of people agonized over whether to stay and risk it, or leave and potentially spend weeks as storm refugees.
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On board the Petrel, during the first afternoon of the mission, Kraft agonized over how much to trust Greenslade's positions.
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Each day, I agonized over what to wear: The ritual of dressing up had gone from pleasurable to nerve-wracking.
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I agonized over health and travel insurance plans, and eventually opted for travel medical insurance designed for nomads, Safety Wing.
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Even some Republican senators agonized over the damage done by their vote to kill off another vehicle for bipartisan compromise.
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She agonized over the decision while watching others who'd come forward be torn apart by those bent on defending him.
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During her speech Tuesday, Ms. Park said she had "agonized over countless nights" over what was best for the country.
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President Jimmy Carter agonized over embassy workers held hostage by Iran for 444 days and sent an ill-fated rescue mission.
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I also agonized over the ROEG/GERARD/ANDREI situation for the longest time and sadly couldn't find a way around it.
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In the months after his death, public attention swelled and faded as Ms. Santee agonized over troubling details of his murder.
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Engineers agonized over presentation, particularly the way the home screen appears — one of the areas where the last generation took hits from critics.
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Antiques Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain lived on adjoining properties in Hartford, and they each agonized over decorating choices and related expenses.
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Her senior advisers agonized over whether she should address calls to reinstate Glass-Steagall, the post-Depression rules separating commercial and investment banking.
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But while columnists have agonized over the intricacies of the plaintiffs' arguments, the debate isn't so complicated in the eyes of the public.
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They, too, agonized over the decision but had already spent thousands and didn't want to hurt the small business vendors and their staffers.
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Those are good reasons for concern, but remember that for most of history humans agonized over something more elemental: Will my children survive?
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Mr. Spence and other Sonos executives said they had agonized over the decision to sue Google, largely because Google still underpins their business.
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I knew I wanted one, but I agonized over where to put it, what design would look best, and which artist to go with.
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She had a million opportunities to do so — like, say, the night before the battle, as everyone agonized over how hopeless Jon's plan was.
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Biden agonized over the decision for months during the late summer and early fall following the death of his son, Beau, from brain cancer.
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In lieu of information, the administration offered assurances that the president and his aides were deeply moral people who agonized over authorizing lethal force.
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Pressed to explain his views on the Russian village commune, Marx agonized over his response — his letter went through no fewer than four drafts.
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She told me that she had agonized over being on the opposite side of an issue as some of her friends and usual allies.
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When he committed to the field after college, he had agonized over his decision to give up his childhood dream of becoming a pediatrician.
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Elizabeth Warren is the "but" candidate of the Democratic primary: For more than a year, voters have agonized over her just as Crosby has.
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And as the world watches in helpless horror at the human carnage in Aleppo, Obama admitted he agonized over Syria more than any other issue.
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"We agonized over whether to accept the government's proposal," another Lotte official told Reuters on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.
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On a smaller scale, the campaign has agonized over the floor schedule, leaving speakers unsure about when they would take the dais at the arena.
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The group agonized over some patients, particularly Gaudence, a 14-year-old girl who weighed just 66 pounds — barely big enough for the available valves.
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In the final days, Mr. Rubio agonized over the smallest details, worrying aloud that too many volunteers were attending his events rather than working the phones.
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Between the death stares, Jedi-like hood wearing, and those large red circles all over his body, the most-decorated Olympian's every move has been agonized over.
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China is a major source of demand for U.S. farmers, who have agonized over the fate of key agriculture exports in the wake of the trade dispute.
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The Department found that during meditation he agonized over whether he should pursue his friend's wayward dreams or surrender to the care of his guardians and the government.
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Criticized by some Democrats for going too easy on the lawyers, Mr. Margolis said later that he agonized over that decision more than any other he had made.
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Spider-Man's pensive moments — when Peter agonized over sacrifices his alter ego had demanded of him, for example — echoed the psychological struggles in Mr. Ditko's earlier horror comics.
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But for Japan's Hideki Matsuyama, it perhaps got lost in translation that the tournament is not an official PGA Tour event and not meant to be agonized over.
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Mr. Gagnon and Mr. Hoey especially agonized over what figures to put at the center of the display, flanking the mannequin in a Gucci dress, Mr. Hoey said.
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You've agonized over picking the right video system for your home theater, dropped the money for it, and even hooked it up to your sweet surround sound audio setup.
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" Judd Hirsch, the actor's costar in Running on Empty agonized over his passing, saying, "I was witness to the greatness of a personality that never fully got to flourish.
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The recurring crowdfunding site agonized over a relatively small change in how it does business, and in doing so it's setting an example few other platforms live up to.
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Will Huffman, a 27 year old from Richmond, Virginia knew it was just an accident – he couldn't see out his front window- but still he agonized over what happened.
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Lewinsky says that while she "agonized" over her decision to take part in the documentary, its production forced her to face vestiges of grief and shame she'd left unexplored.
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Ms. Netrebko seemed at once a young woman, in helpless love with the enemy, and a captive princess, indignant and agonized over what to do to help her people.
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Stocking stuffers hold a special place in our holiday hearts because unlike that fully vetted gift list we agonized over, these goodies are actually surprising, useful, and fairly inexpensive.
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He agonized over a 1997 commando mission against the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in which three men were killed in an ambush, according to a 2002 profile.
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When the time came, we both agonized over whether we should move back to DC and leave our hometowns behind permanently — the biggest risk either of us had ever taken.
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The House lawmakers also dissected a two-week stretch in July during which administration officials agonized over Trump's decision to withhold military aid from Ukraine amid his call for investigations.
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I considered the fastest way to get my students into cover, or at least concealment, and agonized over how to keep dozens of 14-year-olds calm during an attack.
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I agonized over losing these friends, the girls who I'd shared trampolines with, who'd heard me sing along a little too loudly to Mandy Moore's part in A Walk to Remember.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - As century-old Wall Street brokerages have agonized over the fate of a major U.S. regulation on retirement advice, younger Silicon Valley counterparts have coolly shrugged their shoulders.
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Cuomo, the late former New York governor and father of Andrew Cuomo, famously agonized over whether to run for the Democratic nomination in the 1992 race before ultimately deciding not to.
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That history weighed heavily on parade organizers and other Irish-American leaders, who agonized over breaking with more than two centuries of tradition even as celebrations in other cities were scrapped.
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Sexual assault victims recounted their trauma, fathers poured out anxieties about unhealthy influences on their sons, and a distraught parent agonized over how to explain rape to a 22013-year-old.
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They agonized over whether to remain in the political system, providing such protection as they could to fellow reformists, or to take a more morally pure stand and resort to civil disobedience.
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I agonized over every feeding, dealt with immeasurable emotional and physical pain, and put so much pressure on myself that I managed to get mastitis not one, not two, but three times.
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On a few of those occasions, I agonized over my decisions because I knew the battlefield conditions were tough and confusing and the individual soldiers were subjected to extreme emotion and passion.
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Having agonized over last week's quarter-point move for so long and having laid out such a gradual tightening path, the suspicion is it's a decision they'd rather not have to make.
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"She agonized over whether she should call the detective for a while," explains PEOPLE Senior Editor Gillian Telling in an exclusive clip (above) from a PeopleTV special about what Balascio ultimately discovered.
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Tourists in rubber boots ate in flooded restaurants, or even frolicked in the streets, while locals agonized over the saltwater drenching of Venice's private gardens and inestimable treasures, like St. Mark's Basilica, above.
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Aunjanue Ellis, who played Nat Turner's mother, wrote in Ebony that she "agonized" over how Mr. Parker handled the fallout from the accusations and that she grieved for the accuser and her family.
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The Obama administration agonized over the issue but never approved the sale out of fear of escalating the conflict — despite entreaties from Carter, who served in several top Pentagon positions at the time.
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Infrastructure wrecked Countries like Mozambique and Bangladesh, whose low-lying, densely populated coastal towns and cities are on the front lines of climate change, have agonized over the issue of a warming planet.
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I agonized over most things, and it's been a progress — our sweatshirts and T-shirts changed from season one to season two, and we're always finessing stuff, even the basics like denim and whatnot.
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During a walking tour of Des Moines, Gillibrand agonized over what witty T-shirts to buy her two sons at RayGun, an iconic T-shirt and apparel store in the city's hip East Village.
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When you pay your bill, your balance is displayed in a circular graphic that will feel familiar to anyone who has agonized over closing their move, exercise, and stand rings in Apple's activity app.
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BEIRUT, Lebanon — As five warplanes circled on Monday, Marwan Habaq, trapped in a shrinking rebel-held enclave near Damascus, the Syrian capital, agonized over how best to reunite with his wife and infant daughter.
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" But the Brit, who comes from a country with much tighter gun-control laws, agonized over taking the part of the interplanetary vigilante, telling Esquire, "I had a clash of conscience with my character.
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As smartphone users agonized over which old-timey, film-esque Instagram filter to add to their photos, people also opted to buy hand-held cameras that could instantly print, just like Polaroids of old.
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At first, each time a trip loomed I agonized over what a burden Gus might be, what with the extra stops, the need to carry his food, the challenge of finding dog-friendly motels.
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Ms. Yates, like other senior government officials, was caught by surprise by the executive order and agonized over the weekend about how to respond, two Justice Department officials involved in the weekend deliberations said.
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But the risk of a Trump Presidency and more importantly, what it means for global trade, will almost certainly be privately debated and agonized over by leaders and diplomats here in Hangzhou in eastern China.
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His mother was a county chairwoman during Bill Clinton's 1980 run for governor here, fielding a call from Mr. Clinton after midnight on the evening of his defeat as he agonized over what went wrong.
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And for a team that had long agonized over how Ms. Warren's gender would affect how attacks from her would be perceived, the time for caution had passed and the moment for assertion had arrived.
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As the aides agonized over which words to feed into the teleprompter, they become so engrossed that a hot light set up next to the machine caused Mr. Bannon's Kuhl hiking pants to begin smoldering.
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You read that right: I went to a shop, bought a box of assorted cards, purchased some stamps, agonized over who to send them to, wrote them at home, and popped them in the mailbox.
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Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, founder of Darchei Noam yeshiva in Monsey in Rockland County, said that some parents considering admission to his school agonized over giving their children vaccines because they had heard they were dangerous.
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They agonized over whether art lovers would venture across the Charleroi canal into the heavily Muslim and immigrant neighborhood to view what it calls "culture 2.0" — art from subcultures such as tattooing, graffiti, surfing and skateboarding.
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When the Syrians skipped English lessons (Aboudi sometimes kept them awake at night) or missed an appointment for donated dental services (a misunderstanding), the sponsors agonized over what to say, debating on the messaging app Slack.
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Andrea Swift testified that her daughter had agonized over her own actions when the photo was being taken, including saying an almost automatic "thank you" to Mr. Mueller and his girlfriend after the photo was shot.
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She quickly became a major star in Japan but spent much of her free time trying to escape on backpacking trips to Europe and India, where she said she agonized over whether to stay in acting.
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Ever since the billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson acquired The Las Vegas Review-Journal last month, the newspaper's reporters and editors have agonized over whether their coverage of Mr. Adelson and his business interests would be compromised.
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Even the decision to cut loose an insignificant, frankly abysmal little comedy like Jury Duty was agonized over — before it would end up in the sale bin, that movie had to pass through any number of filters.
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LONDON — As the coronavirus epidemic gathered pace, Jaroslaw Bacdorf agonized over whether to stay in London, where he has lived and worked for eight years, or head back to Poland to join his wife, children and mother.
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Articles like this are as much about preparation as they are about the writing and, I'll tell ya, my editor and I agonized over which alcoholic beverage would be the funniest for me to fill a bong with.
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Last March, the comedy website CollegeHumor posted a video sketch in which a man agonized over his desire to eat the pods, which he compared to Gushers, the fruit snacks with a liquid center and chewy outer covering.
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This would-be Warren supporter was one of dozens of Iowa voters Power Up spoke with over the weekend, scattered across Iowa, who agonized over their final choice before casting their first votes in the 2020 presidential contest.
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Jump ahead to that first proper Puget Sound dive, a critical phase of training before becoming a certified tribal shellfish harvester, and it was only natural that Hozoji agonized over the thought of buckling once in actual open water.
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"We all discussed, pondered, prayed over, agonized over, debated — that went into our decision to ultimately grant the defendant life as opposed to asking a jury to sentence him to death," Mr. Weintraub said at a news conference Monday.
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While the sporting press agonized over each political development that emerged from FIFA's Zurich headquarters, hundreds if not thousands of soccer officials around the world were getting bribes and kickbacks for television and marketing rights with little, if any, scrutiny.
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But while Plum combined peak efficiency with astounding volume in her last college season, setting both season and career NCAA records for points scored, the San Antonio Stars, who had earned the top pick in September, agonized over their choice.
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If you've ever agonized over the wording in an email by rereading it four times before hitting send, and still didn't get a response, you might need to take a step back and brush up on your digital communication skills.
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Corker was the subject of a lengthy profile in The Washington Post this week in which he agonized over the question of whether he would again vote for Trump for president if he had the 2016 presidential election to do over.
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And while Mr. Corzine was a socially awkward mumbler who agonized over decisions, Mr. Murphy, who considered pursuing a career in musical theater, oozes affability, remembers the tiniest details about people he has met and quickly owns up to his missteps.
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When Ms. Swift's mother, Andrea Swift, took the stand during the trial, she testified that her daughter had agonized over the fact that she had said an almost automatic "thank you" to Mr. Mueller and his girlfriend after the photo shoot.
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Right at Home On a recent Sunday evening, I was glued to the T.V. as Janna and Jason, newlyweds in matching leather jackets, agonized over their decision: Would they buy the historic downtown Tudor or the sprawling house in the suburbs?
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In his later years, Mr. Acconci sometimes agonized over this situation, but he said he had no choice but to follow his interests where they took him — which was no less than an ambition to change the way people lived.
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Williamson's campaign told The Hill that both Williamson and her daughter are vaccinated and that the candidate supports mandatory measles vaccinations, though in the 2012 show uncovered by CNN's KFile she acknowledged having "agonized" over whether to vaccinate her children.
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From former President Jimmy Carter shopping at Dollar General to the $1.5 billion lottery jackpot, the second-largest in history, there was a lot to say about how people earned, saved, spent, approached, invested, agonized over and hoped to make money in 2018.
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The Northern Irishman had threatened to skip the Olympics as he agonized over representing Great Britain or Ireland in Brazil but after opting for the latter in 2014, the mosquito-borne disease may lead the four-times major winner to avoid the Games.
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The historic breach of Senate norms was met with shock on Capitol Hill: The Washington Post ran an in-depth one-on-one interview in which Booker explained how he agonized over the choice before deciding it was the right thing to do.
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In key battleground states, candidates and their advisers have agonized over how to deal with Trump, straining to find language that shows they respect the will of the Republican voters, while trying to shield themselves from the stain of his more controversial comments.
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In 1978, the New York Times ran an article about Bundy called "All-American Boy on Trial," in which the writer, Jon Nordheimer, agonized over Bundy's "Kennedy-esque" looks, wondering how someone who seemingly had it all could commit the crimes he did.
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A friend of mine, himself an Army Special Forces officer with numerous combat deployments, agonized over the massacre in Orlando: "People who say they need an AR for hunting or home defense often don't understand the weapon's ballistics or overpenetration," he said.
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As the most senior elected Republican — and the party leader who most publicly agonized over his endorsement of Mr. Trump — Mr. Ryan has for much of this year held outsize importance as the role model for how Republicans should deal with Mr. Trump.
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McIlroy, who is engaged to American Erica Stoll, took a long time to decide who he would represent in Rio and threatened to skip the Olympics as he agonized over his choice between Britain and Ireland before opting for the latter in 2014.
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It is studied relentlessly by economists and sociologists, picked apart by sales departments and marketing firms, opined on by authors and experts, and agonized over by everyone working in the world of consumer goods, from local coffee shop owners to retail chain CEOs.
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News Analysis WASHINGTON — While the world agonized over the huge nuclear test in North Korea this weekend, President Trump aimed his most pointed rhetorical fire not at the renegade regime in Pyongyang, but at America's closest partner in confronting the crisis: South Korea.
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With no other method to turn to, Congress established a partisan Electoral Commission to award an Electoral College majority to Hayes, and agonized over the creation of a procedural framework for resolving disputed elections for a decade — finally passing the Electoral Count Act in 1887.
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Unlike world number three Jordan Spieth, who said earlier in the day that he agonized over his decision to withdraw from the Olympics, McIlroy said he was fully comfortable with his choice to opt out of golf's Games comeback after a 112-year absence.
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I had forgotten the subject of the poem etched on its seat, about the pleasures of having friends and children, and the bench's material, which was a detail I had agonized over, and which I see now is closer to plastic than I had remembered.
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McChrystal, who recently called Trump immoral and dishonest, said he agonized over whether to publicly criticize the president but decided to after the president visited troops in Iraq over Christmas, an appearance that evoked a political rally as the president criticized Democrats on immigration policy.
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When the administration ended a program that allowed 59,000 Haitians to remain in the United States, she agonized over the decision "because she fought so hard to get the extension," said the source, who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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An ailing Illinois mother who said she gave her severely disabled 28-year-old daughter a lethal dose of drugs through her feeding tube because she agonized over who would care for the daughter if she died pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday, PEOPLE confirms.
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For example, the world's largest smartphone maker agonized over camera specs for its flagship Galaxy S7 until the last moment - ultimately defying industry convention by opting for fewer pixels in exchange for improved autofocus features and low-light performance, a move that contributed to early success.
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For decades bands have agonized over how warm to make this guitar hook, how harshly to play that power chord, which textural mesh would produce what relationship between which theoretical elements, to what degree should the whole thing be tipped over into an aleatory pile of noise.
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The brief scare surrounding the well-being of the firebrand performer unfolded after a series of Facebook posts in recent days in which she agonized over her 12-year-old son, whom she said had been left in the custody of child welfare authorities in Ireland.
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No matter what gift you buy for Mother's Day, everyone's presents probably have one thing in common: they were agonized over by you and your family; and were the subject of much discussion, budgeting, and group-texting before being purchased and wrapped with anticipation and hope that they'd land.
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"Refugees already undergo the strictest security screenings of anybody coming into the U.S." When Amina left Kenya the first time, she agonized over the decision to leave Mohamed behind but ultimately decided that relocating to the U.S. would be best for both of them in the long term.
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" The newspaper maintained that the story did not intend to "normalize" white nationalist views by giving Hovater a platform, but to reveal how such hateful views have become "far more normal" in the U.S. "Our reporter and his editors agonized over the tone and content of the article.
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But in Act IV, when the good-intentioned friar gives Juliette a potion that will make her appear dead to her family until Roméo can rescue her, Ms. Damrau summoned weighty vocal power and tragic intensity as she agonized over what to do, then forced herself to drink.
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Isolationists As the country agonized over whether to join the fighting in Europe during World War II, a group of law students at Yale — including Gerald Ford, a future president; Potter Stewart, a future Supreme Court justice; and R. Sargent Shriver, a future director of the Peace Corps — formed a group called America First.
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I asked for ... There's one small part of the book — and New York Magazine excerpted that part, it's the middle New York Times chapter — which has some pages where I kind of agonized over this, but where I write in the first person about some of the troubles I had as executive editor and my firing.
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He and his associates have agonized over everything: the texture of the wood tables (like peach fuzz), the shade of gray of the poured granite floor, the bike rack (a substitute for valet parking), the sunken floor behind the bar that places the bartender at eye level with seated customers, and the layout of the kitchen.
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With the confirmation vote approaching—as Senators Heidi Heitkamp, of North Dakota, and Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, two other red-state Democrats who are up for reëlection, publicly agonized over their votes on Kavanaugh, and a third, Joe Donnelly, of Indiana, announced that he was voting no because of Ford's testimony—McCaskill said nothing at all about the Court.
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Walker Evans contributed a preface to the 1960 reissue of "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men," the study of poor tenant farmers in Alabama, originally published in 1941; "Walker" crops up a number of times in James Agee's text, but a formal separation is maintained between the tenderly austere photographs of families and their homes — printed at the beginning — and the 400 pages of Agee's highly wrought, much-agonized-over text.
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In a new interview with the Guardian Guide which, at one point, takes place in a locked bathroom in a desperate bid for some privacy (and feels weirdly perfect considering SZA's extremely relatable girl persona), SZA divulged how the record that she'd agonized over ended up finally making its way into the world: According to the piece, one day her hard drive with all those songs in it just disappeared from the studio safe.
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Instead the French are focused on their country's failures: its dispatch under Vichy of Jews to their deaths, its painful colonial past in Algeria, its faltering attempts to integrate one of Europe's largest Muslim communities, its vulnerability to terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice, its expensive and sometimes rigid welfare state, its ambiguous relationship to global capitalism, its fraying model of "laïcité" (or secularism) designed to subsume religious difference in the values of the French republic — all are endlessly agonized over.
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