The riven and flawed nature of his achievement is a mirror of the riven and flawed nature of music in modern times.
They are content with portraying a fragmented world riven with contradictions and violence.
Representations always exist within contexts riven by competition.
Given the state's record of fraud and violence, some worried that the result would be a party riven by conflict and disorder.
All of these take place in a political culture riven by tensions about the nation, national identity, cosmopolitanism, internationalism and multiculturalism.
Even the grammar of this legislative creation reflects the ambivalence with which it was riven from the beginning.
From the start, the leadership of the venture was riven by conflict and personal jealousies.
Coudenhove's world-view was riven with dichotomies and contradictions which prevented him from reaching an overall synthesis and encouraged exclusiveness.
