Sentences with phrase «just build tension»

When it realizes it's got to do more than just build tension, it falls apart.

In particular, if our way of exercising is aggressive, pushing, forcing, we'll just build tension and carry it through the rest of our lives.

Not exact matches

Unlike some works of true - crime literature, which play up plot elements to build the story's tension, Serial isn't just simply recounting the events surrounding a murder.

The tension builds and builds and just when we think Esther is going to make her request, she invites the King and Haman to another banquet.

Arsenal had the best of them but not by much and the tension of extra time was just building to a peak when Reading's keeper fumbled an Alexis near post shot and it crept in.

You'll be able to use more resistance than just plain bodyweight because the tension of your bodyweight is more focused on one side at at time, making this exercise more effective for building muscle mass.

• Expect movement with this active practice, not just stretching • • Breath acts as an anchor to movement as you to flow from one pose to the next • Build confidence, increase, strength and flexibility • Release tension and stress in the body and mind • Safely explore your limits and learn any necessary modifications •

I'm not saying if you only did this exercise, you would build a big lump of muscle just in your inner chest... what I'm saying is you can put focused tension on muscle fibers in a specific location or orientation even though you're NOT excluding the other fibers of that muscle.

Many people just can't lift their body weight and more can only do it a few times, rendering this a pretty ineffective muscle builder simply because the amount of time you're back muscles are under tension is so small you can't build enough volume to damage the muscle and get optimal growth.

Sexual tension can make or break a budding relationship; sometimes letting it build up adds to the intrigue, and sometimes you just won't know how to connect with someone until you've had a good roll in the hay together.

Don't look at this opportunity just as a way to get rid of the sexual tension that built inside you, but also as a way to improve your skills in the bedroom and become a better lover for the person that will really be important for you.

Though it's never clear why she doesn't just go to the police when things turn nasty, the tension builds nicely throughout, with a superbly tense finale that avoids most of the cliché traps other recent thrillers fall into.

The characters are interesting, the sports scenes actually build tension for the forthcoming final game, and some of these shots are just priceless.

The «tension» build ups are just plan boring.

The story of The Departed may be something we've heard and seen before, but in this incarnation Scorsese carefully plots the back story and builds up the tension in a very methodical manner — just like squeezing out a well - fed shit.

Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

I love how they used the musical score to build tension just like The Dark Knight!

Ryan Engle's slack screenplay tries to build in further tension through a ludicrous conceit that gives the bad guys just 90 minutes to carry out their plan (hey, that's almost the exact length of this movie!)

Rather than using a timer to build tension and pressure, enemies and scenarios have been designed to do just that.

The film builds to this tension - filled finale between Sister Aloysius and Father Flynn, but instead of any real resolution, all the audience gets is the same push - and - pull discussion they just heard 20 minutes ago.

At just 90 minutes, A Quiet Place is brisk, but it's also patient; this is one of those monster movies that builds tension from the absence of the monster, at least until the full - bore, unbroken set - piece of the second half, when all the stillness and pregnant pauses give way to an extended riff on the best scenes in Jurassic Park.

The usual arguments about building tension and audience immersion just won't wash.

Half - Blood Prince is a well - crafted adaptation with stunning visual effects but it's ultimately just padding to build up the tension for Potter's grand finale.

Cruise can hang off as many buildings and planes as he wants, but the first Mission: Impossible got just as much tension lowering him from a ceiling and putting in a handful of restrictions.

There is no slow build of tension and suspense — it's just evil, evil, evil from the first scene.

Just as he builds the characters, Krasinski ratchets up the tension as silently as the characters communicate.

For «The Weather Man» succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture — it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed - down expectations beaten into us by lesser films.

From this whipsmart opening, Whedon builds to a brutal second act that mercilessly piles on the hurt, with each character — even Scarlett — given some really bad business to deal with in an extended mid-air action sequence of such sustained and wrung - out tension that it has the unintended effect of rendering the final showdown just a little limp by comparison.

It's a bit higher volume than most trailers but it works just being low enough for you to hear the dialogue and high enough that you can feel the tension building with the trailer as you can imagine the movie will do throughout.

Yet it still doesn't detract from the masterful tension that builds as Pennywise, who's first glimpsed as just a pair of glowing eyes, steps out from the darkness to lure Georgie inside, his gibbering circus barking — including a truly sinister pronunciation of «Take it» — rendering Pennywise's actual bite somewhat anticlimactic.

Creating tension that ebbs and flows, he slowly builds the dramatic narrative to a resounding crescendo, and he makes the quieter scenes that follow just as compelling.

Slaughter is an expert at creating atmosphere and building tension and can make the reader feel uncomfortable in just a few skilful paragraphs.

Deftly weaving in details about the Italo - Ethiopian War in 1935, she traces the stunning story of Teo and Emilia, not related by blood but as good as brother and sister, who came to live in Ethiopia in 1930, just as tensions begin to build between the free African nation and the Italians occupying neighboring Eritrea and Somaliland.

Just like a movie editor shapes a sequence, to build tension to a climax, a book editor does it by changing tempo with words and sentence and paragraph length.

One confrontation with Ryan's thugs features a dialogue between Elizabeth and Booker that helps build tension and genuine sympathy for Elizabeth's struggle, highlighting just how good the writing for this series can get.

Swapping characters and building defenses are both quite fiddly and adding the tension that comes with tower defense meant that a lot of the time I just lost control of the situation.

You'd probably enjoy this super-mysterious, tension - building, beautifully illustrated trailer better if I hadn't just told you it's for a Batman game, because the entire trailer keeps it secret that all of its statements refer to Gotham and Bruce Wayne until the very end, when the Bat insignia appears.

«We have no shortage of games that utilise blazingly intense set - pieces to build tension and momentum, but fewer titles that really make you feel a part of the universe rather than just an observer of events.

Making the player move slowly doesn't build tension, it just annoys you.

Maybe I just need to rewatch the film, but I didn't have a firm grasp on the backstory between the American trappers and the Arikara (a.k.a. the Rees) and I think it would have helped build more of the tension to know more about the lost daughter and her relation to the Americans.

There is a tension building up inside which just doesn't calm down and taking mock interview services helps in preparing one for their interview and get a feel of the real situation much before it happens.

Then the tension just builds and builds into an explosion of emotion.