Sentences with phrase «by sexual tension»

His work is sometimes dominated by the sexual tension between sex and church, the tension between the forbidden and the inevitable.

The movie is nearly engulfed by sexual tension; whenever any two characters of any gender combination are in a scene, the sense that it could result in some freaky - sneaky action always lingers.

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The Catechism of the Catholic Church warns that lust always threatens sexual love, also the love between husband and wife: «the union of man and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust and domination» (no. 400).

While Tertullian's disillusionment could be due to the rapid decline of Christian community life, which he traces back to moral laxity in the sphere of sexual behaviour, the decline, as he understood it, could also be due to a tension in the life of the community provoked by a more and more hierarchical understanding and ordering of life, which neglects the horizontal relationships, affecting the very texture of Christian communities.

Scriptwriters Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and John Logan are very daring in explicitly highlighting the sexual tension between Bond and his villain, Silva, played in a magnificently camp manner by Javier Bardem.

While moves like these can be manipulative, you know how to keep an attraction dynamic by interrupting lazy habits that can dull the sexual tension.

In a study done by University of Ohio Sociology Professor Dr. Andrea Baker, research found online dating sites facilitate the sharing of interests and beliefs expressed over an extended period of time, without the sexual tension of in - person encounters.

Buoyed by a winning cast, The Overnight unfolds a bit like a really, really long and drawn - out and kooky foreplay session, with the sexual tension between all parties rising nicely notch by notch with each passing scene.

And while most of that film centered on the sexual tension between a publishing heiress and the photographer sent to fetch her from an alien - ridden «infected zone,» the world its characters inhabited and their ultimate goal were both defined by a looming alien threat.

Add cameos by fellow directors Chabrol and Godard and you've got a perfect example of the French New Wave.A superb atmosphere of alienation and sexual / political tension provides much beret - scratching potential for film students, though others may feel its convoluted murder mystery don't amount to a hill of beans.Cockles And Muscles by Liese Spencer, Seducing Dr Lewis by Fiona Morrow and Paris Nous AppartientLarushka Ivan - Zadeh

An extended, affecting riff on Tennessee Williams» «A Streetcar Named Desire», Blue Jasmine tones down the melodramatics and sexual tensions to reposition its Blanche Dubois as a ruined New York socialite (Cate Blanchett) forced to rely on the kindness of her working - class sister (Sally Hawkins) when she is bankrupted by criminal husband Hal (Alec Baldwin).

Moments when Rachel kisses Philip and tell him to «go to bed like a good boy» infuse the drama with Oedipal tensions, which are not defused by more explicit instances of sexual passion that, tellingly, suggest far more pleasure for Philip than for Rachel.

Even from its origins as a plucky indie web series (back when people were watching plucky indie web series), Broad City was smashing the Bechdel Test by offering the world a stoner comedy duo without testosterone or sexual tension.

By the end of the hour, the series crackles with the sexual energy and tension between the two as they bicker and bump heads.

One by one, he charms Nicole Kidman, Kerstin Dunst, Elle Fanning and even the younger girls until the sexual tension builds into an event that ruins the hospitality.

But Del Toro and co-screenwriter Vanessa Taylor («Divergent,» «Hope Springs») have more to say, adding romantic and sexual tension between these two lonely characters divided by water but united by love.

Something about this film feels very clunky, as it moves into its second half it drops much of the sexual nature of its interesting but flawed opening and focuses instead on the actual nature of this heist, using a non-linear sequence that, whilst amusing enough, tends to sap almost all of the tension by virtue of its retrospective nature.

by Walter Chaw I love Stoker, Korean master Park Chan - wook's updating of Shadow of a Doubt that centres on «young Charlie's» sexual awakening and all the perverse tensions attending that moment in a brittle upper - middle - class Nashville.

Besides minor violence related to racial tensions, a handful of mild profanities, and a quick male - to - male kiss instigated by a long - haired player to quiet a teasing teammate (his sexual orientation is never determined), this movie will likely leave parents and teens positively impressed.

About the Romance: Pinkerton stories by Fanny West are romantic suspense with a sweet heat level: a kiss and some sexual tension may be included, but these are clean and wholesome stories.

Selena's award - winning Powerplay series was called «a superb mix of sexual and political tension» by Publisher's Weekly, and her debut indie romance, Hidden, won the Reader's Crown award for best contemporary romance.

The enemy is the sheer destructive force his appendage, Tyrone, unleashes every time he finds himself facing any sort of conflict, be they his own sexual tensions, the domineering mother he blames for his father's passing, or those inflicted by the class bully, Timothy.

@TheRealHennessy Tweet Painting, HBO, 2014, 14 × 11 in., acrylic and screenprint on canvas Sifting through these mediated tweets of status, conspicuous wealth and underlying sexual tension, greg.org was struck by the way social media differed from writing — that is, the way that tweets from self - promoting were always immediate, seductive and dazzling yet also fictional.

I shall argue that it also has to rediscover male artists, by revealing the sexual tensions within their work.

«Sexual Politics,» which featured work by artists like Barbara Kruger, Adrian Piper, and Mary Kelly, explored the tension between essentialist and constructionist approaches to art.

Inspired by a subset of Japanese manga cartoons known as Boys» Love, they depict homoerotic tableaux with varying degrees of sexual tension.

Feelings of sexual tension, as well as the confusion and ambiguity from real or imagined romantic undertones, are cited as one of the challenges of cross-sex friendships.2 However, many people either don't mind or even say this feature is a benefit of having cross-sex friendships.1 Research suggests this may be a function of personality — some people who are less traditional and more comfortable with ambiguity (not knowing exactly how a person feels or how they will act) are not bothered by a little sexual attraction within a platonic cross-sex friendship.

For example, managing a platonic friendship if one or both partners feels some sexual attraction (which is common) can be tricky because of the inevitable sexual tension (and a lot of these relationships are characterized by at least some degree of sexual attraction!)