The original had a much
more tense feel thanks to the atmosphere and music.
XCOM 2 doubles down on this nature, creating
a more tense feeling of balancing multiple spinning plates, deciding which ones are worth keeping, and which can be sacrificed, before adding even more plates to the balancing act.
Not exact matches
If family life has
felt angry and
tense, your home may well become a
more fun place to live for everybody.
He
feels tense and even
more disconnected.
I think I've been
feeling tense around setting the limits and he picks up on that, so
feeling more clear in myself will hopefully help.
The
more oxygen you get, the less
tense, short of breath, and anxious you
feel.So the next time you
feel stressed, take a minute to slow down and breathe deeply:
Preti and his colleagues have found that extracts of male underarm odors can not only influence female physiology, altering levels of a hormone involved in regulating the menstrual cycle, but also make women
feel more relaxed and less
tense.
The extract alsoseemed to put women at ease: Recipients reported
feeling more relaxedand less
tense than they did without the extracts, even though theprocedure required a hospital stay and repeated bloodlettings.
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).
By
tensing all these muscle groups, it makes the Central Nervous System (CNS)
feel safe and you'll generate
more power.
You will wake up
more relaxed and
feel less
tense throughout your day.
You may be aware that when you're
feeling particularly stressed, your muscles
tense, your breathing becomes a bit
more rapid and shallow, and your heart races.
Whereas if I just
tense my hands slightly, I can begin to
feel that familiar sensation of tension radiating back and forth from my core and torso out to the bar and back in,
feeling more stable, stronger in the movement, and having less stress in the shoulders.
My neck and shoulders
feel less
tense and
more comfortable.
Try to pull up at a steady controlled, rate until the bar hits your lower pecs, now
tense those lats until they
feel about to pullout from your armpits, squeeze harder and lower slowly (This is a wicked movement and made easier though in this case,
more productive, if the bar is slanted 45 degrees downward at the point where you grip it).
The awesome thing about Sneaky Sneaky is that it is perfectly tuned to have you using a mixture of all those forms of gameplay, and it
feels faster and
more tense than your average strategy game.
There are some wonderfully
tense scenes early on, and it does a good job of hitting all the usual beats without
feeling too familiar, but «The Infiltrator» would be a lot
more engaging if it was afforded the time to explore its story, as well as the players involved, in greater detail.
Even knowing where this story ends, by using hand close - ups during
tenser moments and making
more intimate shot choices overall, Affleck puts you in the mix right alongside the six, letting you
feel the revolutionaries bear down on you, too.
It's the same in every Lego game, but somehow I
feel it
more acutely in the middle of what should be a
tense dogfight.
Anderson does a remarkable job of covering up the fact that his story lacks real substance, using tricks such as a constantly moving camera and an increasingly - intrusive score to make things
feel a lot
more tense than they actually are.
But it mixes those classic features with a first - person perspective, a compact map and game length, and
more surprises to make for an experience that
feels fresh,
tense, and powered - down compared to the direction of the last few RE titles.
So says Jim Bennett (Mark Wahlberg) in The Gambler, an intermittently
tense thriller that doesn't
feel all... read
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By contrast, negative teacher - student relations seem to undermine students» confidence and lead to greater anxiety: On average across countries, students are about 62 per cent
more likely to get very
tense when they study, and about 31 per cent
more likely to
feel anxious before a test if they perceive that their teacher thinks they are less smart than they really are.
«Students are about 62 %
more likely to get very
tense when they study, and about 31 %
more likely to
feel anxious before a test if they perceive that their teacher thinks they are less smart than they really are.»
Toggle the JCW through to Sport mode and you can
feel it
tense up — the steering weights up, the dampers become firmer and exhaust note
more raucous.
Do you
feel more or less sympathetic than if it had been in the present
tense?
The
more tense the pets are the
more the will
feel upset and
feel increased pain from simple things like injections.
If you're talking about genres outside of horror then music can make you cry or it can make you
feel a little
more tense or excited, but with horror stuff you put the music in, or audio in general, and the movie goes from scary to down right terrifying.
As a game that paints itself as a daring and
tense escape from a deadly regime death
feels like a very mild inconvenience and nothing
more.
It's a
more forgiving style that makes it a much easier game to play using a controller and
more welcoming for general racing fans, but some of the
tense, on - the - edge
feeling of DiRT Rally gets sacrificed as a result.
In the dust, as you might expect, the vision range is severely curtailed, making everything
feel more tense as you attempt to sneak about without attracting too much attention.
The narrative is
tense and emotional, and whilst I will admit it doesn't quite have the tearjerking hooks of a game like The Last of Us, the
feeling is found
more in the melancholy scope of the grand adventure to deliver your Mother's ashes, and, most importantly, the character development of Kratos and Atreus.
In encounters with the undead, one bite instantly kills you, so even lone zombies can pose a threat if you're not on your guard, making for a beautifully
tense experience that demands cautious play ahead of Call of Duty style running and gunning, though it has to be said that some deaths can
feel a bit cheap, particularly later in the game once exploding zombies (these are however fortunately relatively rare) are thrown into the equation, whilst the
more crowded fights can
feel a bit too demanding for the somewhat awkward combat on occasion.
The game's soundtrack is a hit and miss and tends to fall a bit short, with a few soundtracks that are great, such as boss battles or other
more tense moments, while the remaining soundtrack it almost
feels like it's just there and doesn't add anything to the overall experience.
It absolutely
feels like every change made to every aspect of XCOM 2 is in service of making it a
more random,
more tense experience, while lessening the frustration of constantly
feeling like you're at the whim of a dice roll.
Dead Space does feature a boss fight that
feels more more in line with its focus on
tense action and quick - thinking in its encounter with the Hunter.
The best level is a
tense and action - filled infiltration of a sprawling base disguised as the enemy, but too many sections elsewhere give the player any width to work with, and
more than a couple of scenarios
feel overly familiar, even by COD standards.
Looting guns, armor, bandages and much
more still has a
tense feeling as you never know who is going to sneak up behind you and end the match for you.
It's an ingenious touch, making an already
tense trial all the
more frantic when you
feel like you're a biking god, only to be outclassed by a fellow friend speeding past obliterating your record.
I found yet
more in the game's multiplayer: replacing the game's slightly wonky AI with real humans makes for ludicrously
tense matches, even if a few tactics — mortar spam, particularly —
feel entirely too effective for their own good.
However, the immersiveness the Rift offers in completely engulfing you in this cockpit perspective really makes the game
feel more engaging and
tense.
AL: Your older paintings
felt like past or future
tense and your new paintings seem to deal
more with present
tense - in the act of something.
Riley discusses his work and process noting: «I really strive to not have the paintings
feel like just compositional games... and maybe in that sense they're talking a little bit
more about the life around the artist and the life that we're living right now - present
tense - and the art being a by - product of that and not so much the art being made in this cloistered place away from life but in with life.»
But it's
tense, and it
feels like it will only become
more unpleasant, in a good way.
Ryman is a four - time exhibitor at the Venice Biennale: 1976, 1978, 1980, and
more recently, the 2007 exhibition Think with the Senses,
Feel with the Mind: Art in the Present
Tense.
Non-human inhabitants may be a bit
more difficult — both dogs and cats can
feel threatened when you introduce a new cat, and if you don't introduce them carefully, you may end up with a very
tense household.
However, the immersiveness the Rift offers in completely engulfing you in this cockpit perspective really makes the game
feel more engaging and
tense.
This produces some seriously
tense moments, but arena fights never
feel like they offer much
more than quick thrills.
Questions and statements like these from well - meaning friends and family can leave you
feeling more tense and judged than you already
felt.
88 % reported
feeling sadder than before the war, 87 % reported being
more worried and 62 % reported
feeling more tense.