Sentences with phrase «kind of tension in»

As her voice falters, there is a different kind of tension in the room.....

It's a dynamic process that creates a kind of tension in the work that would be difficult to achieve if I instructed every single part.

It's a loss up front, but Collins said he had found that by offering free content, you create a kind of tension in users» minds that ultimately results in their opting - in to the company's list to see what else is available.

Not exact matches

For months, South Korean President Moon Jae - in has sought North Korea's participation in the hopes it will ease tensions between the still officially warring nations and prevent the kind of violent incidents which have plagued previous major events hosted by the South.

Beyond being an incredible song, its chorus became a rallying cry of protesters in the United States — «a kind of comfort that people of color and other oppressed communities desperately need all too often: the hope — the feeling — that despite tensions in this country growing worse and worse, in the long run, we're all gon» be all right,» as Slate culture writer Aisha Harris put it.

I watched the tension flee from their faces as I described what amounted to the least common denominator of church involvement — the kind of behavior in God's people to which I had accommodated myself years earlier.

You say, we have all these teachings and society has moved away from these teachings in all kinds of ways; and this creates this incredible tension between New Testament sexual ethics and the way we all live now.

Value is related to change as a kind of dynamic element or tension in human life.

To risk a generalization even more reckless than those I have already made: from the time of the pre-Socratics, all the great speculative and moral systems of the pagan world were, in varying degrees, confined to this totality, to either its innermost mechanisms or outermost boundaries; rarely did any of them catch even a glimpse of what might lie beyond such a world; and none could conceive of reality except as a kind of strife between order and disorder, within which a sacrificial economy held all forces in tension.

Sanneh says «syncretism represents the unresolved, unassimilated and tension - filled mixing of Christian ideas with local custom and ritual, and that scarcely results in the kind of fulfilling change signaled by conversion and church membership.

Not every trace of tension, however, can be assuaged without sacrificing some of the power of Bergson's account of creativity As proposed at the outset, such tensions are unavoidable in a view that affirms the idea that creativity advances knowledge, a tradition, and all intelligible process by generating new intelligible outcomes, new forms or kinds that were unpredictable.

Because of their belief in this gospel of reconciliation and their experience of its power, Christians can never accept, as the only kind of existence open to nations, a state of perpetual tension leading to «inevitable» war.

Even the earlier gospel writers like Mark live in a kind of tension between what Jesus was in the days of his flesh and what he was for the church.

Youthful and adolescent masturbation certainly is not wicked; in older persons it will very likely be harmless, in the absence of other kinds of sexual activity and as a means of relieving physical sexual tension.

The American university aims at a kind of rational autonomy and sees an education in reason as identical to an education in morality; however, it no longer draws upon the reflections of those Enlightenment thinkers on the great tension between moral authority and rational self - sufficiency.

So in the gospel a new kind of tension is stressed, in which it is the entire complex of sacrificial violence — both the «good» peace it brings and the bad violence it uses — that becomes the bad thing.

Frye suggests that religious discourse invites both these kinds of meaning, that it encourages both a closed reading and an open horizon of broader meanings, and that it functions effectively only when these two forces are held in tension.

There was some kind of positive karma, a release of tension,» said Donahue, a Southern California native, in case you couldn't tell.

The hardest kind of separation anxiety comes when there is some kind of tension or trauma in the household.

When children can't sleep through the night (and there are no health or developmental issues such as a fever or a growth spurt), the cause is most likely some kind of emotional tension or stress that bubbles up in the child's mind during sleep.

This kind of feature is also used with the Cozy Bump in order to cradle the growing belly in a tilted manner, thus reducing pressure and tension on the spine and the posterior and uterine area that is often caused by the downward pull of gravity.

Tough also explores research suggesting once they're in school, many low - income students often find themselves in a kind of «tension and conflict» feedback loop with teachers that's hard to overcome.

The babies also got massages which I kind of though was bullshit: What do they have going on that is causing stress and tension in their muscles?

«This is the kind of step that can only increase tension in the region rather than lead to greater peace, and obviously from that point of view it's something that we deplore it.»

The heart of the drama lies in the tensions and occasional affections between the Tory and Labour whips, with stand - out performances by Philip Glenister as Walter, a burly Labour bruiser with a kind heart, and Charles Edwards as the honest posho, Jack — «can't anyone in the North sit properly?»

«So, I really feel that in this case the mayor's remarks were inappropriate... We are not going to raise the tension... of a dangerous situation with any kind of rhetoric, and certainly those who are not responsible — it's not their jurisdiction here — as a caution to them, they may not understand how serious this situation is.»

But human - rights organizations need clear and simple data that they can easily communicate, which results in a «kind of tension,» Bromley says: «They don't want you doing a lot of calculus and giving them a very mathematical answer.

Earlier studies demonstrated that mindfulness - based therapy could ease chronic pain, so researchers at the University of Canberra and elsewhere in Australia investigated whether a brief version of this approach would help people with chronic tension — type headaches (the most common kind).

«We think it's a nice case study for this kind of political tension stemming from climate change,» study author William Colgan, a glaciologist at York University in Toronto, said.

This is the kind of tone in the muscles you want with no tension at all.

Keeping the legs out of the movement ensures all the work stays in the appropriate muscle groups — keeping those pecs under constant tension to help build the kind of shredded mass this NPC champ is known for.

This kind of squat is simple to perform, by bending the knees to squat down until a tension is felt in the thighs.

When I recognize my tendency to hold tension in my glute med on my right side I can work with that kind of awareness.

And to make up for that lack of actual tension, co-writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer sprinkle in heavy doses of the kind of things people only say in movies («Jefferson just rolled over in his grave,» for example).

DaCosta directs in a modest, slice - of - life style, which only heightens the tension of events on screen - this is the kind of movie you lean forward to hear, and before you know it, you're overwhelmed.

But no movie can maintain that kind of momentum, and while the earlier scenes of Hook's frightened negotiation of streets which may harbour saviours or killers maintain a certain tension, the plot loses focus a little when he finds refuge in the flat of a former doctor and his daughter, and the story turns its attention to the political motivations behind the hunt for the fugitive by both the British army and the IRA.

In recent years Demon / Dark Souls is the series that has really nailed a similar kind of tension, but a survival horror game it is not.

Released: April 7 Cast: Adrian Titieni, Maria - Victoria Dragus, Lia Bugnar, Mălina Manovici Director: Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) Why it's great: This Romanian morality tale brims with such tension that the constant vibrations of a troubled man's cell phone provide the kind of jump scares you'd find in The Conjuring.

Things look like they're setting up for an epic opening battle, the kind we've seen in most of the MCU movies, but right as the tension rises and their behemoth alien opposition arrives to the party, the focus instead narrows in on little Baby Groot, who kicks on the tunes and starts grooving.

Verbinksi has spent much of the past decade with big - budget fare like the Oscar - winning «Rango» and the «Pirates of the Caribbean» franchise, but let's not forget he brought expert tension to «The Ring» back in 2002, and here's hoping «A Cure For Wellness» is a return to that kind of character - based intensity.

The artificial - looking framings have a certain tension to them and a sense of the absurd that perfectly echoes the slight awkwardness of everyday life, in which several things of different kinds are always going on at the same time.

There's a collective energy amongst the group that affords Spotlight much of its profundity and their natural portrayals effortlessly absorb, a notable lack of melodramatic tension between key players resulting in a kind of harmonious interaction between spectator and creator that's rarely been seen this or any other year.

Irish actress Saoirse Ronan («The Lovely Bones,» «Hannah») plays Daisy, an American girl sent to live with her cousins in the English countryside, at a time when tensions are high, the military is assuming control and some kind of apocalypse may be lurking around the corner.

Nevertheless, at least for the first hour or so, this war film from Peter Berg (Battleship, Hancock) is gripping in its tension, with a kind of harrowing set - up that rings of a certain authenticity that makes the peril the men face truly nightmarish.

The flashback structure gives extra shape not only to his character, but also to the fim's structure — it preserves a kind of symmetry in the narrative that would be unbalanced if the stuff at Monaco were appended as a coda, though it also defuses what could have been a source of tension in the body of the film, namely the question of whether Sol would make it out of the camp alive.

Tensions, meanwhile, are brewing between the Germans and the natives, and Meinhard seems like the kind of man who will play a crucial role in any battle that comes.

Very dialogue driven, in a Kevin Smith or Whit Stillman kind of way, Justin Simien's Dear White People mines the ever present racial tension in the United States for laughs.

However, in scenes between Heck and Antonina there isn't the tension you'd expect from this kind of scenario; the common «scary Nazi is attracted to heroic Jewish sympathiser».

He said something to the effect that what he wanted to do was slowly build the dread and the tension, rather than explode to 11 in the opening moments and fail to be able to register that kind of suspense for the rest of the film.

It's hard to watch — and Nolan takes pains to confuse our allegiances in ways that suggest a very British class tension (Borden and ace engineer Cutter (Michael Caine) share a Cockney brogue while Angier, a Yank, is cut from different cloth), a certain nationalism, and, in the figure of Nikolai Tesla (David Bowie) at play mad - scientist - like in a mythical Colorado Springs, a clearly delineated duel between magic and the notion that technology before its time is a kind of witchcraft.