Sentences with phrase «little tense»

>> Thursday got a little tense — I was VERY cross about some stupid remarks made in Fairfax publications about domestic violence being 50 % the female partner's fault.

Terwelp says sometimes it's necessary to take a more direct approach, such as: «You know, this is getting a little tense... How about those Packers?»

Even typing this note makes me a little tense.

A little tense?

However, if things are a little tense, try a comedy or action flick.

Most people tend to feel a little tense and nervous before leaving for their place of destination.

For instance, any time I engage with my watch now I feel a little tense because I feel like I'm fighting with the thing instead of using it.

Communication breakdowns can always be laughed off, but it's when the technology quite literally breaks down where things can start to get a little tense.

I introduced two elder males (ages 12 and 13) a few years ago, who ended up being great companions together for the next couple years; they were a little tense the first day, especially the established - resident dog, Cody, who had been attacked a month or so earlier by a foster I'd taken in who was very uptight and not a good match for us at all; that dog had gone back into his rescuer's home.

If the thought of taking your cat to the vet makes you a little tense, here are some tips to make your next visit less stressful for both of you:

And although it is extremely violent and more than a little tense, the whole thing turns out to be an absolute joy to watch.

«He he tends to be a little tense, a little volatile, but everybody in the group really relies on his technical skills,» Kathleen Kennedy says.

No, but one time he reconnected with his friend Dom, from his old neighborhood back home in Queens, and it was a little tense for like three whole days.

There isn't any nasty violence or blood but the laughs tend to fall away as some scenarios get a little tense which felt a bit out of place.

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.

I was a little tense leading up to my big photo shoot the other day, but have since been upbeat and happy.

but Daniel hasn't even started his... needless to say, he's been a little tense lately!

«The meeting was lively, but it was also a little tense,» Yablonovitch says.

He was adorable, a little tense, excited, and just....

It seemed a little tense early and Cazorla somehow managed to sky our first chance of the game, but as the news came in that Bayern Munich had raced into a 3 - 0 lead against Olympiakos the Gunners just knew that they had to keep their part of the bargain.

Per mentioned the fact it's a little tense in the dressing room and I recall Lauren saying after the Chelsea game we picked some players in front of others and you can see by the Sanchez story not all is rosy.

We had several weeks that were a little tense around here.

But, somehow, her voice crackling over the radio makes those eery moments just a little tenser, a little scarier.

Not exact matches

It comes as little surprise then that Saudi Arabia and Iran — apart from the tense regional archrivalry — are reportedly at odds over where to go next with the OPEC deal, and how high an oil price the cartel should target.

And wishing may be little more than the fantasizing of a future whose shape is determined exclusively by what I (first person singular) would like now (present tense).

His facial nerves don't seem to work on the course, but he was certainly tense up on the greens and gripping his putter a little tighter.

Obviously, the fight between Mercedes and Ferrari is incredibly close and immensely tense, as proved at the Spanish GP, so every little helps in the battle for F1 victory in 2017.

Wenger HAS leant from mistakes in the past, and evidence has shown we are not great at closing a game out with al our strike force still on the pitch - so although it was a little ugly, and tense the 3 points matter the most!

Just after half, you could tell the Gym's atmosphere got just a little bit more tense, which I had thought was impossible.

It's true that «lay» is the past tense of «lie,» so that if you're speaking about the past, you would say, «Yesterday I lay down for a little while,» and, «I laid [put or placed] the baby down for her nap.»

Moms would go crazy if they didn't have a little «me» time to unwind when things got tense.

His blood pressure rises, his muscles become tense, and stress hormones flood his little body.

Re: only crying with daddy - my LO did this for a little while and we realized that daddy was just very tense and nervous and once he relaxed and settled then LO settled too.

Your little one can sense when you are tense or upset

This is tense and a little confusing.

That timeline, which jolted days of tense waiting with a sudden flurry of activity, left little time to digest the main points before lawmakers were corralled for votes.

For viewers, who know that some of the gun's chambers contain bullets, «there are very tense moments» when the boy points the gun at his mother and a little girl in the supermarket, she says.

The whole day I walked around, tensing at each movement little bambino made, wondering if it was a contraction.

She told DeGeneres she was «holding my teeth, maybe a little too tense,» and made a clenching motion to demonstrate.

When they do, you slide a little bit further into the splits until they tense up again and then you've guessed it!

When the hand is tensed, there will be little or no movement across this joint, but you will feel the muscles straining against the pull.

-- tensed at the waist with the belt, — wrapped around the neck as a scarf, — flowing loosely, it will look a little bit like a long cardigan.

Knowing the difference is key to feeling a little less tense.

I swear, I was so tense watching this that I was clutching my seat and even crying a little.

If it's all a little too crowded with characters, Branagh's pacy direction keeps the story zip along to a conclusion that's tense even if you remember whodunnit.

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.

Despite Ben Kingsley's sly interpretation of the tight - lipped Papa Rudy, who asks Petit to pay for each one of the trade secrets he reveals, there is little dramatic weight to what is supposedly a tense teacher - pupil relationship.

There's nothing scary (a couple of slightly gory parts) nothing tense, just a little too boring.

Variety describes the film as «white - knuckle tense» and «unexpectedly comedic,» but The Guardian disagrees, finding very little «levity» in the film.

Narrating the story in an immediate present tense, and dominating every scene, Morton plays Iris as a little girl summoned prematurely into adulthood, with only a child's conception of how grown - ups dress, behave and interact — and with a sexuality that is far from fully formed.