Sentences with phrase «get tense at»

I have some engineer friends who'd get tense at this sort of sloppy guesswork, but most of the rest of us are happy to trade a bit of precision for speed.

Not exact matches

We were starting to get really tense there at the end.

For everybody else, we've probably got a decent shot at getting one or two of those tense, spiteful, dramatic, thoroughly enjoyable England - on - England ties that used to come round regularly.

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It was looking like being a tense duel between those two, but then the two Toro Rossos got together at the hairpin, bringing out the safety car.

Hatcher helped Erstad simplify his swing and got him to wave the bat below his waist before the pitcher delivers, which keeps him from tensing at the plate.

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — On the heels of tense budget discussions at Niagara Falls City Hall, on Saturday, elected leaders not often seen together since the Seneca casino slot revenue controversy started got together for a holiday celebration.

On the heels of tense budget discussions at Niagara Falls City Hall, elected leaders not often seen together since the Seneca casino slot revenue controversy started — Niagara Falls Mayor Paul Dyster and Seneca President Todd Gates — got together for a holiday celebration.

-LSB-...] over the publication of the database has gotten so tense that the paper has reportedly hired armed guards to guard employees at two of its offices.

«Physicians and other personnel are not there for years at a time; they're going in for maybe six weeks or six months, into a very tense environment and making resource - allocation decisions, deciding who gets care and who doesn't: our soldiers versus friendly soldiers versus enemy combatants versus civilians, children.

As a result of political discussions at work this election season, at least 1 in 10 working Americans said they have felt tense or stressed out (17 percent), have been more cynical and negative at work (15 percent), have had more difficulty getting work done (10 percent), have been less productive at work (13 percent) and that their work quality has suffered (10 percent).

At issue is another tense moment in Bali, when Kevin Conrad, the representative of the island nation, chastised the United States for blocking a final deal, declaring that George W. Bush's administration should demonstrate leadership or «get out of the way.»

When you get through training the abdominal muscles while at first glance they look tense, but will lack real hardness and power.

Vaughn isn't the kind of comic actor you immediately and comfortably give yourself over to: He gets laughs by keeping us a little tense — there's something about him that makes us wonder if he's going to blow at any minute.

Of course, he also wants us on the edge of our seats in tense moments and maybe getting a little misty at others, but it's his use of utterly inappropriate humor in such a blatant manner — and to such good effect — that makes his films his films.

And now you can get a look at the film that clocks in at over three hours long as the first US trailer has arrived showcasing the story of a small hotel owner, his wife (and her sister) who are at odds with each other as the winter weather becomes more fierce, forcing everyone into an inescapable, tense environment from which they can't leave as long as the snow keeps up.

The spirit of a vicious child serial killer resurfaces in the nightmares of teens in modern - day and is responsible for their subsequent and shocking deaths in this tense, spooky thriller from who else, but Wes Craven (I'm actually not that familiar at all with his style, but since this is a horror film for the ages I figured I'd best get ahead and jump on the bandwagon as quick as possible to make up for lost time).

She is persuaded by her good friend Glory (McDormand, Something's Got ta Give) to become self - sufficient by taking a high paying job at the local iron mine, despite the fact that she knows the situation is tense thanks to new laws that prohibit discrimination of women from being allowed to work there.

At its core, the JJ - verse is still a dumb, loud vehicle for big - budget action set pieces and nonstop explosions, so it's unlikely we'll ever get a tense sci - fi drama with more talking than punching.

Sure, there are some tense moments and at the very least, I was gripped until the end to try and figure out how the girls were going to get out of this situation, but I have a feeling that this was nothing to do with the director or writer (let's just say Amber Heard isn't just trying to save the day, she's trying to save the whole movie.)

The picture's prologue, meanwhile, is economical and tense, and various touch - points along the way — including a sly indictment of the Amendment 2 whackos who proclaim, as one did at my screening, that the events depicted in the film are exactly the reason private citizens should own military weaponry — point to an accomplished director slumming to get work in the United States.

At Laguna Beach Animal Hospital, we understand that dogs and cats might not get along which can make for a tense waiting room.

We try not to reprimand the older dog when she does this, but sometimes i feel she snaps for no reason, she has never bitten the pup or anything, and she wouldn't let the pup sniff her at first at least now she still gets tense but she will allow it (unless the pup does sudden movements then she will growl).

But let's not fool ourselves, what we get is classic Metal Gear — up there with some of the best and most tense moments in the series — that also manages to feel new and fresh at the same time, moving the franchise forward in significant ways.

Learning when to tense up your grip and move quickly across obstacles is something you get better at the more time you spend with Noodle.

It's mildly frustrating occasionally — I can't count the number of times I got into a random encounter with trash mobs, auto - battled, missed at least once, and then had both enemies curb - stomp one of my demons — but it's made the game a lot more tense.

Even if the other person is tense at first, making an effort to tackle the problem head on will usually get the other person to communicate and work towards a solution.

Getting Tenses Wrong: If you currently work at a job, describe your responsibilities in the present tense (for example, «take»).

If you're working at a job currently, use the present tense so the recruiter gets a clear picture of what you're doing now.

I got a bit tense during the blow - dry at the end, as I'd parked in a two - hour zone and didn't fancy an additional $ 80 parking fine on top of a prohibitive hairdressing bill, so I let him off the hook on giving me the full treatment («no, no, damp is totally fine, really.