Sentences with phrase «creative tension»

How to keep the conflict in any struggle for social justice and for giving love in creative tension?

The hem of the dress is cut at an angle, lower on the left side and higher on the right side, which achieves creative tension and an eye for detail.

Powerless, they bring a new type of creative tension into the conflicts between people and government.

This sense of distance and marginality had to be lived in creative tension with the real world.

In what sense can the community we seek become a community of communities» that can hold together unity and diversity in creative tension rather than in debilitating conflict?»

In the book, I write about coming to terms with the fact that the Bible is a text «teeming with conflict and contrast, brimming with paradox, held together by creative tension» (p. 189) and realizing that «maybe God wants us to have these discussions [about biblical interpretation] because faith isn't just about being right; it's about being a part of a community» (p. 194).

This inheritance now includes a post-revolutionary creative tension between highly conservative forces, on the one hand, notably the family and Church, and, on the other hand, the individual freed to resist by liberal political and economic innovations, as well as by a national tradition of critique and mockery.

He fears that the suggested changes in Christology will portend «the end of all meaningful religious and spiritual dialogue» and will result in a «sterile relativism, a monistic spiritual syncretism devoid of creative, truly pluralistic conflict and fruitful, truly creative tension.»

A smarter film about country music would cast the would - be cowpunk as a Jack White - type, somebody who would encourage the aging legend to reject Nashville values and make an all - out roots album (similar to Loretta Lynn's «Van Lear Rose», produced by The White Stripes frontman himself), which would add creative tension to the preexisting atmosphere of marital discord between Kelly and her commercially - minded husband.

The most inspired scenes take place away from the crowds, where the eternally adolescent rock stars stumble through creative tensions, girlfriend troubles, absurd touring mishaps, scraps with cynical record executives (Fran Drescher, whining with phony sincerity) and smarmy music promoters (an inspired Paul Shaffer cameo, pleading with the band, «Do me a favor, just kick my ass!»).

When the film — as it often does — puts Miss Travers in a room with screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and the music - and - lyrics team of brothers Richard and Robert Sherman (Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak), there's genuine creative tension on display.

«Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue.»

The title of the exhibition, Vita Duplex, underscores the intrinsic duality of his work, its continuous vacillation between reason and emotion, past and present, light and darkness, order and chaos — an inspiring creative tension.

With tricky political challenges ahead — the Oldham and Saddleworth by - election on 13 January; votes on control orders, the scrapping of which was a Lib Dem priority; the local and Scottish and Welsh elections; the referendum on the alternative vote in May — do they make a merit of creative tension and disagreement from now on, because it is impossible to cover up, or do they seek to put a lid on it?

Reston sees the role of the fourth estate as a prophetic one in creative tension with the politicians.

That is why paradoxes in Singapore are creative tensions rather than destructive ones, and result in positive rather than negative developments.

An unnamed source, who does business with Apple, told Bloomberg Businessweek in January that during Jobs's first leave of absence «the creative tension disappeared, replaced by a play - it - safe ethos.»

Their deep alignment around these focusing questions is your source of both creative tension and urgency.

For some people religious life and business practice are integrally related in a creative tension.

The idea of a creative tension between freedom of speech and the needs of the community, of a shared desire to serve the common good, is under attack.

The Assemblies of God will serve itself and the rest of Christendom best if it holds restorationism, with its counter-cultural themes, in creative tension with its desire to be part of the establishment.

Niebuhr, Branch says, touched King «on all his tender points from pacifism and race to sin,» and, though the two men apparently never met, King took from Niebuhr an appreciation of a creative tension between love and justice that would henceforth inform his politics.

Stay like a bird, sitting on the hot wire, holding the creative tension, but do not ground it in a bad way by thinking of it, by critiquing it, by analyzing it.

Many continental theologians are comfortable with what they might describe as a «creative tension», and it is true that both external activity and interior spiritual participation can happen at the same time.

Sometime ago, Julian Hartt suggested that the Christian person is a person living between the past and the future in the creative tension of the present.

To hear in it a call is to accept the creative tension between what is and what might yet be, between the life we live as human beings in this world and the life to which Jesus summons us — without supposing that it is possible to resolve the tension in a single act or single moment.

The distinctiveness of black theology is the bringing together of Martin and Malcolm in creative tension — their ideas about Christianity and justice and blackness and self.

He cites Paul Tillich and refers to «creative tension.»

(Creative Tension, p. 81) Now that statement is more than a choice bit of missiological doggerel.

(For «When everything is mission, nothing is mission,» Van Engen cites S. Neill, Creative Tension.

Labels — especially contradictory ones — serve to provide «creative tension», to help me and others to understand what my basis is.

They are not joined together as if in a static synthesis, but grow together in a creative tension known as the coincidence of opposites.3 Second, this process of sacred and profane moving dialectically into one another is an active and forward - moving impulse that directs and defines the course of history.

«Whatever occurred was a dustup that resulted in some creative tension,» Higgins said Thursday.

If not an equal, then at least a meaningful, actor in the creative tension between the executive and legislative branches?

Even so, delegates appeared split on whether Cox's support of Levy represented a shrewd move to introduce some creative tension into the party or a divisive blunder that could prompt some voters — notably those who went for Levy — to stay home in November.

«I'm proud of the creative tension we've asserted with this year's program,» said Fantastic Fest founder Tim League.

This is at the heart of what Sesame Workshop has done as an organization and it was interesting to be part of the creative tension creating a product that could make a difference and improve readiness in students even before they reach pre-K.

Getting that balance between the teacher - leadership role and the necessities of leadership and management is not an easy one but it is one within which that creative tension can be balanced by positive, respectful language, avoiding unnecessary confrontation when you're managing behaviour and also not easily buying into some of the behaviours that children exhibit — like sulking and pouting, argumentation and so on.

The creative tension between the autonomy that our expert teachers value so highly, and the common aspects of shared accountability that enables BASIS Curriculum Schools to maintain academic quality control across the network, is the nexus at the heart of our classroom learning culture.

I believe Peter Senge calls this «creative tension», a necessary component for a true learning organization.

Also the «creative tension» framework — I am shocked by how many times I've used that in very different places.