Sentences with phrase «of class tension»

An early, intense two - hander between Richardson and Martin instantly crystallizes the undercurrent of class tension that runs beneath the civilized sniping; Gorman spends the opening act with the affect of a man who's actually a pile of badgers in a trench coat, effortlessly angling the comedic bent into the darkness as the bodies pile up.

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Stiglitz told us that this decades - old debate about how to balance the creation of short - term and long - term value is recently gaining new life in the US because of the venomous class class tensions and ugly politics arising out of income inequality, and because people in positions of power are looking at the big picture and realizing that something has to change.

At a hearing on Thursday, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen asked if there was a «tension or inconsistency» for Uber to argue that every single one of its drivers is an independent contractor, yet to also argue that the legal issues in the case are so specific to each driver that it can't be decided as a class action.

A combination of rising inflation and interest rates, global trade tensions and emerging skepticism toward the tech sector pushed most asset classes into negative territory year - to - date.

Beginning the year at around $ 997, bitcoin experienced abrupt volatility in the last quarter as the currency witnessed immense buying interest in the wake of escalating tensions in the Middle East and East Asia, pushing investors to look at the virtual currency from the perspective of an alternate asset class with barely any accountability.

And to do this let us begin by climbing up till we tower over the trees which now hide the forest from us; in other words let us forget for a moment the details of the economic crises, the political tensions, the class - struggles which block out our horizon, and let us climb high enough to gain an inclusive and impartial view of the whole process of hominization11 as it has advanced during the last fifty or sixty years.

As even this brief description of the debate indicates, the demand for reparations raises issues that can not be resolved entirely by courts or legislators — issues involving relationships and tensions between groups divided by ethnicity and class.

They liked their work for the most part, but were «up to their ears» in discipline problems, staff tensions, criticisms from parents, and feelings of being sucked dry by the enormous needs of oversized classes.

In London the violent death in prison of Hunne had left tensions unresolved; Londoners felt that same resentment about the numerous members of the privileged class of pensioned Massing priests, and even more about their easy living superiors, which Luther and his contemporaries had felt in Eisenach, Erfurt and Wittenberg.

The tension between black churchmen and the women's movement, then, seems to represent the defensive perspective of the black, middle - class, patriarchal church.

And if you fancy stretching your legs as well as your mind, breaking a sweat can be great to release any tension or stress so take advantage of our free boxercise classes — or grab the girls and get down to our women - only swimming sessions.

Led by Marisa Fujinaka and Cordelia Herman, the class offers women in all stages of pregnancy an opportunity to strengthen, lengthen, relieve tension and prepare their minds and bodies for labor and delivery.

If you order Fitness model, you will get BOB handlebar console and a fitness kit that includes a Stroller Strides exercise manual, two exercise tubes of different tension, and coupons for a week of free Stroller Strides classes.

Our Family Yoga Slow Flow class guides you through a sequence of gentle slow - flowing poses designed to help relieve stress and tension in the body.

This 60 minute class will focus on strengthening the pelvic floor and abdominal muscles as well as other areas of the body (neck, shoulders, back) that now feel the tension of caring for a new baby.

This way of operating means differences of opinion will be reported and classed as tensions and fall - outs.

And it's this tension between north and south, left and right, Lowry's working class subjects and the lofty reflections of London's art world that has unfortunately come to define the opening of this exhibition.

Developed in consultation with foreign ministries, defense and education officials, and the International Committee of the Red Cross, among other groups, it stipulates that countries agree to assist victims of attacks on schools; help to keep classes running; investigate violent incidents; promote «conflict - sensitive» education policies to lessen tension among diverse social or ethnic groups; and implement various other measures.

In mbg's newest class, Acupressure 101: Relieve Back Pain, Reduce Headache Tension & Calm Your Anxiety, Paige introduces you to the ancient Chinese medicine practice of acupressure, teaching you how to relieve pain and tension on your own, as well as learning meditation and visualization techniques to feel like the best version of yoTension & Calm Your Anxiety, Paige introduces you to the ancient Chinese medicine practice of acupressure, teaching you how to relieve pain and tension on your own, as well as learning meditation and visualization techniques to feel like the best version of yotension on your own, as well as learning meditation and visualization techniques to feel like the best version of yourself.

At 360 Fitness Club, we offer SMRT CORE FLUSH classes that will definitely help you reduce pain and tension in your muscles, restore your muscle length, and will provide your muscles an optimum joint range of motion.

There is a lot of movement on and around the machine as well as adjusting the spring tension so would also recommend arriving early to the class to see if you can get a walk through or simply observing the class before you.

Each class will consist of a reclining pose sequence designed to restore the nervous system and help release deeply held tension from the body and mind.

Many of us carry tension in our necks and when we go to a yoga class we hope to come out with our necks feeling better.

This class is especially popular after a long day of work, when you feel the need to release tension and restore your energy.

That is why in a yoga class we usually include forward bends, back bends, side bends, twists and axial extension postures to encourage balanced distribution of tension along myofascial meridians.

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A class of medications used to relieve nervousness, tension, and other psychological symptoms.

He can barely hide his anger at Ira & Christine's presence, as well as Ira's apparent wealth (unfortunately this is the beginning and end of the film exploring class tensions between the two couples), making his presence add a slight amount of unease to some scenes.

The filmmaker never pulls us into the twists and turns of her main character's mind, and she tiptoes around, rather than tackles, her ideas about class envy, the performative nature of identity and the tension between truth and happiness.

And Manohla Dargis of The N.Y. Times claims Farhadi's script is «far too busy — the movie is crammed with characters and underexplored themes, including class tensions, nativism and ugly attitudes toward migrant workers — but he's exceptionally deft at mining the spaces that open up between people, particularly during a crisis.»

«Jumping the Broom» combines tried - and - true oil - water class tensions with the challenges of modern romance and family, then adds some African - American flavors.

Whether it's the ingenuity of Seth's fate, the AMAZING flash - forward that details how young Joe turns into old Joe (which is a master class in visual storytelling), or the tension when one of the hired guns (Garret Dillahunt) of Joe's former employer (Jeff Daniels) catches up to him, you're never ahead of Johnson's storytelling.

Vanaja (Unrated) Class - conscious melodrama, set in Southern India, revolves around the tensions which arise after a 14 year - old fisherman's daughter (Mamatha Bukhya) takes a live - in position working for a woman from a higher caste (Urmila Dammanagari) in order to pursue her dream of studying Kuchipudi dancing.

An extended, affecting riff on Tennessee Williams» «A Streetcar Named Desire», Blue Jasmine tones down the melodramatics and sexual tensions to reposition its Blanche Dubois as a ruined New York socialite (Cate Blanchett) forced to rely on the kindness of her working - class sister (Sally Hawkins) when she is bankrupted by criminal husband Hal (Alec Baldwin).

The turnaround of the attitudes of the class seems too pat and expedient for believability, and many of the events of the film strike me as heavily embellished for the purposes of dramatic tension.

The stakes escalate, tensions rise, and it all ends with probably the single best expression of the current state of manhood in the lower - middle - class United States circa 2013.

In many ways, the notion of truth was what drew both Cruz and Bardem to Farhadi, the Iranian director whose last three films include two Oscar winners in the Best Foreign Language Film category: 2011's «A Separation» and 2015's «The Salesman,» both studies of families stretched to the breaking point by secrets and class and societal tensions.

Working here with a great, unpredictable screenplay from Taylor Sheridan, Villeneuve conducts a master class of constant suspense, one that ratchets up the tension just as the audience thinks it can grow comfortable.

It probes with humor, warmth and depth all of the following: a volatile mother - daughter relationship, the financial strains of college, high school theater, the navigation and pursuit of authentic friendship, the navigation and pursuit of one's authentic self, class conflict, sexual tension, the special angst of the early aughts.

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.

The story deals with the co-dependence between friends and how that disintegrates with the tensions of class and lineage — note how this topic seems fairly similar to another debut film from a famous television impresario who revealed himself to be completely tone deaf to cinematic storytelling.

The plot tracks Maud's gradual association with and then involvement in the suffrage cause, but it fails to acknowledge well - known class tensions within the movement, for example: Maud being cautioned by Gleeson's policeman character seems to be the only acknowledgement of her position as a working - class woman within the movement, and the potential implications.

«McDonagh's attempts to translate the working - class Irish clichés of his previous writing into America's history of tension between white and black men is more than horribly misguided, it's distasteful,» Madison writes in his piece, later noting that «whether it be through malice or ignorance, McDonagh's attempts to script the black experience in America are often fumbling and backward and full of outdated tropes.»

The first, dread - and tension - inducing scene practically functions as a master - class in tone - setting and world - building on a modest budget, achieved through a relatively straightforward combination of visual composition, natural lighting, and production design and not exposition (e.g., dialogue, voiceover narration).

The film introduces us to its protagonist Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) and establishes a clear line of tension between his role as First Officer, and Captain George Pollard Jr. (Benjamin Walker), whose position stems purely from class rather than skill.

by Walter Chaw I love Stoker, Korean master Park Chan - wook's updating of Shadow of a Doubt that centres on «young Charlie's» sexual awakening and all the perverse tensions attending that moment in a brittle upper - middle - class Nashville.

Claire Denis's debut feature, Chocolate (1988), took on the legacy of French colonialism in the West African country of Cameroon through the eyes of a young French woman recalling her childhood growing up in the tensions of race, class and dislocation.

This thematic territory of cultural mistrust via miscommunication should be a generous playground for a humane writer's writer like Sayles, but his usual anthropological ear and eye for class tension and social custom have mystifyingly deserted him here — halfway through the film, my note - taking devolved into simple transcription of the multiple howlers in the dialogue.

The exchange is a master class in creating tension and in the effectiveness of simple storytelling: All viewers need to understand what's going on is the sound of the spoon on the teacup, the shot of Chris's tear - stained face, and the bleak, formless look of the Sunken Place itself.

But these are some of the film's strongest sequences, as Martinez drops his near - feral menace to reveal what drives him, and Abvincula offers a class - clown approach to life that eases the tension of what they're doing together, and the desperation that pushed them into such dangerous work.