Khaled Hosseini

In Afghan society, parents play a central role in the lives of their children; the parent-child relationship is fundamental to who you are and what you become and how you perceive yourself, and it is laden with contradictions, with tension, with anger, with love, with loathing, with angst.

Afghani Novelist

Stephen Graham Jones

In the 40 years since 'The Amityville Horror', dramatizations of those supposedly-real events have gotten loose enough - special-effects laden enough, star-power re-packaged enough - that the audience no longer trusts the dramatization's loyalty to the core story.

American Author

Lesley Manville

I got invited to what's called the Gifting Suite in Toronto. I had the day off, so I thought I'd go and see what's what. You come out laden with wonderful stuff. Apparently, if you go to the Oscars, you get given things like iPads. Not that I'm in it for the swag.

English Actress

Harriet Ann Jacobs

But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

American Writer

Stevie Nicks

I preferred not to be laden down with a big instrument. If you're behind a guitar, you get used to being behind a guitar, and you don't really perform because you can't. I wanted to be able to just hold on to the mike and sing.

American Musician

William Gurnall

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

English Author

Saint Augustine

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

Saint

Janet Suzman

Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.

South African Actress

Robert Reich

Too many young people graduate laden with debts that take years, if not decades, to pay off.

American Economist

Gad Saad

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

Canadian Scientist

Use 'laden' to describe objects that carry heavy physical weight.

Physical Weight

'Laden' can suggest a negative, burdensome presence, not just physical weight.

Negative Emotion

'Laden' is often used figuratively to describe being burdened by responsibilities or problems.

Figurative Context

Use 'laden' to stress the intensity of an emotion someone is carrying.

Emotional State

In literary contexts, 'laden' adds depth to descriptions of scenes or characters.

Literary Flair

'Laden' can convey subtle meanings, including weariness or a burden's impact.

Subtle Nuances

 When he wished to hear music, his ears filled with bewitching tones. When he hungered, golden plates appeared laden with fragrant food. He admired scenes of great beauty, and colors that he had no name for. All around him, the land and the people existed in a state of unmoving perfection.

The myth of Oisín and...

 marine life and ultimately to humans so now these particles that can be mistaken for food are not just a mechanical problem for efficacy we're trying to digest something they can't but it's also laden with some of these chemicals and if it gets into the digestive system

Care About the Ocean?...

 The yellow line is the safety line for human interactions, of course, I was standing knee deep in the river that is just laden with zinc, just one of the many heavy metals it was high. So, not a healthy river, but what's interesting is the oxygen level came back,

Chasing Rivers, Part 2:...

 we had the genesis of an ocean drone. Now, these are larger than they appear. They are about 15 feet high, 23 feet long, seven feet deep. Think of them as surface satellites. They're laden with an array of science-grade sensors that measure all key variables,

How a fleet of...

 example would be people fear kidnapping by strangers when the data supports kidnapping by relatives is much more common this is for children third personified risks are perceived to be greater than anonymous risks so bin Laden is scarier because he has a name

The security mirage -...

 in these seals sometimes it's their playful character other times their whiskery appearance those first seals found the coastal waters laden with riches literally swimming with food

Sea Bear Ancestors? PIPE...

 is the most famed of all Cambodia's temples it even appears on the nation's flag the temples are architectural masterpieces laden with artistic treasures like the

In Cambodia, a City of...

 mums have to juggle childcare with the important job of getting a mule and their chance comes just once a day the boats are returning laden with fish

10 Day Old Kitten Falls...

 but even this doesn't seem to be keeping the culprit out. So, he's called in some experts and they've set up an elaborate trap, laden with honey.

Honey-Trapping Bears PIPE...

 on its journey it gathers an abundance of life and becomes laden with sand and sediments which drift in its current