By sheer force of will, Peacock extricates herself from her fractious family and goes away to college.

The family of football, often fractious, congregates as one.

The meeting, which included everyone except Joe Jackson, the father, and Randy, one of the six brothers, was a rare show of unity for the famously fractious family.

As in any big, fractious family, there are numerous schisms and cliques in this often insular art form, which continues to battle for turf under the wider umbrella of dance.

His genius in war and diplomacy had gathered the fractious families, clans, and tribes of the Andorayan fjords and islands under one banner for the first time since Neche's Reach.

The piece suggests an hour or so spent with a fractious yet enduringly serene family of dancers.

In the great fight scene, which Jerome Robbins turned into a gang rumble in "West Side Story," Miss Martinez Medrano stages a dancing duel between the fractious families.

In this quasi-biblical ethos, David Ben-Gurion looms as the country's omniscient patriarch who becomes increasingly frustrated trying to control his quarrelsome sons in a bright but fractious family.

Over the fractious family.

Her father had been the glue in a fractious family, and his death had scattered them.