birth pangs

"I started having birth pangs pretty much as we started leaving Carlisle," she said.

Colin adds that despite the franchise's birth pangs, there was a sense within the original team that they were on to something.

Among "birth pangs," a "hollow" and "a vacancy," "The Rabbit Catcher" includes objects that resemble umbilical cords.

Lemon writes that we may be seeing “the death throes of White supremacy in concert with the birth pangs of racial renaissance.”

His knack for conveying compositional struggle ingeniously reflects his theme — a nation’s birth pangs.