Sentences with phrase «of creating tension»

Either we don't know how to address our concerns skillfully or we are afraid of creating tension and upset.

Despite the controversy, Arneson continued to use ordinary objects as a way of creating tension between the mundane and the traumatic.

In March / April 1961, the Knoedler gallery in New York produced Symbols, an exhibition of Callery works; it included Composition, The Letter S. Christian Zervos, writing in the catalogue and making an argument for Callery as an artist equally in thrall to «reality, sign and technique,» noted that «For Callery the sign has the same power as a living model of creating tension in the depths of the unconscious, of provoking unexpected stimulations, of containing a host of formal combinations.»

Just as Goblet of Fire did a good job of creating tension through infighting between Harry and his friends, so this film manages to unsettle our feelings of safety by removing all aspects of Hogwarts we have learnt to take for granted.

Lace, knitwear, denim or whatever you prefer is a great way of creating some tension in an outfit.

Speaking on Nhyira FM in Kumasi, the traditional leader accused the DCE, of creating tension between the youth and officials of the mining company, which has links with Ibrahim Mahama.

Not exact matches

«The further militarization of outposts will only serve to raise tensions and create greater distrust among claimants.»

In an age of racial tension and discrimination, next generation leaders will embrace diversity; welcome differing opinions, ideas, and expressions; and create an open environment that promotes mutual understanding, where people come together for a greater good.

Citing a website called EurActiv, the story cautions, «The movement of the United States to bring nuclear weapons in Romania could create new tensions with Russia.»

Another assesses a couple who coasted on chemistry until their lack of ground rules created tensions once the demands of child - rearing came into play.

While it can create undue tension within friendships for one party to always pick up the bill, it's sometimes expected of family members.

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.

They found one, who quickly reorganized the department, creating systems to improve communication between the coders and the executive team and keeping everyone calm and focused amid the tension of the crash.

«They have created a lot of tension between founders and their earlier investors, when they say, «take our giant wad of money or we will give it to your competition,»» said one VC.

He has been critical of social media companies for creating addictive products that inflame cultural tensions.

If this happens, to the extent that more countries with a wider range of political goals and institutions join the system created by the Bretton Woods conference, and to the extent that geopolitical tensions rise in Eurasia, it seems to me that the flat or mildly upward sloping line that represents the benefits to the US of the global trading system and the steep upward sloping line that represents the costs, if they haven't already crossed, must cross soon.

Even if you have an interesting story to tell, most investors won't want to go through the brain damage of doing a «down round,» which creates tension between them and early investors.

Sure, the stakes are high — and the tension may feel even higher — but ignoring incompetence or bad behavior only creates alienation and a culture of mistrust.

Moves to new algorithms in hopes of stopping ASIC mining have also created a lot of tension between mining rig manufacturers and cryptocurrency project teams.

On their latest, Kick Up the Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose, this six - piece ensemble creates its own dynamic tension with a compelling mix of fairly common components: uneasy electronic atmospherics, swirling psychedelia, explosive guitar rock and Oasis - homage vocals.

The idea that people might have convictions correlative to their worship of God that would create a deep tension between that worship and America is not considered.

Investment for return (as Rodney Stark relates in The Victory of Reason) largely occurred against the grain of Church teaching, the Spanish Scholastics being largely ignored, and it was Calvin's application of biblical law to trade and commerce that created the competitive tension under which a millennium of misapplication and resultant economic suppression could begin to be corrected.

The criticism (Akin's remarks) is creating major tensions between the mainstream Republican Party and a key part of its base days before the GOP's convention is set to open in Tampa, Florida.

We became prisoners of our neighborhood due demonstrations, we became prisoners at our cities due the Tensions created by the extreme oppositions «socialists & islamists» what a combination they make that warns of a war between them soonest they finish the task of over throwing the ruling party...!

Paradoxically, a commitment to more formal content creates another tension, as faculty members struggle to balance modes of learning from reading and discussion and the sort of theological reflection on practice and experience that the new program seeks to inculcate.

«I understand that the writers want to create tension and resolve it, but they push it to a spot where if you haven't read Genesis, you wouldn't know whether Noah is really a man of faith or not.»

Maybe it is a rationalization, but it creates a lack of tension in my mind about that potential conflict.

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.

The poem creates some of its drama from the tension that exists between the narrator's view of events (in Inferno often represented by Virgil's interpretive remarks) and that of the protagonist.

The efforts of the denomination to prevent this, led and goaded by its evangelicals, are creating tensions that may lead to schism.

Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.»

Even in its constricting format, however, each item encourages the member to construct a small story of his or her life, imagining the tension created by a particular crisis and then resolving it by subsequent explanation chosen from among the several alternatives.

No accredited theological school in North America escapes the probably unresolvable tension created within its common life by trying to assimilate itself simultaneously to both models of excellence and their inconsistent demands.

The law and commandments of God are revealed through these common created structures of existence and function apart from and in tension with the special revelation of God in the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The cultural emphasis on the value of the individual has created a tension in contemporary domestic life.

This provided Chad (and now his readers) with the opportunity for thoughtful introspection regarding the emotional hold that sports can have on our lives and the tension this can create for people of faith.

For the rest of us, the tensions that creates may be the most useful thing about them.»

Conversely, if the pattern of behavior increases interpersonal tension and creates feelings of anxiety for the infant, the personification of «bad me» surfaces.

If we rush to solve a problem, the solution will need to be something ready - made or quickly put together, and will most likely be a project of the ego; but if we sustain the tension created by two worlds colliding, an unexpected solution will emerge eventually from the opening to soul that tension creates.

Doing so created lots of tension.

But self - centeredness is overwhelmingly probable because the tension between man's freedom and his finitude creates a situation of temptation.

Guérékoyamé - Gbangou has played a key role in the efforts to quell interreligious tension, including helping to create an interreligious platform which includes the president of the Islamic Community in CAR and the Catholic archbishop of Bangui.

Needless to say, he was prescient in this regard, and his advice seems just as relevant as ever, with the rise to power of a very liberal American president who has wrought unprecedented tensions and created feelings of unprecedented distance between the United States and the state of Israel.

Maybe it will show me, when I burn that sage and light those candles of joy, hope, love and peace, that I belong to those who wait, who sit in the tension, who do not always know the way except to ask the created world to show them.

But that these concerns would reappear in fresh and vigorous power, not only in the midst of a modern scientific and industrial culture but as a conscious and relevant reaction to the tensions and dilemmas created by that culture — that was not at all expected.

A tension is thus created between confession of faith and narration of things seen, at the heart of which is renewed the ever present tension between the judgment of the judge, who decides without having seen, and the narration of the witness who has seen.

As to this history, it is less the experience of the change of everything than the tension created by the expectation of a fulfillment; history is itself hope of history, for each fulfillment is perceived as confirmation, pledge, and repetition of the promise.

That tension arises from the fact that Christianity has always conceived this created world as essentially good, and yet it has always looked beyond this world to a consummation of life in a new order as man's true end.

The record of what Jesus said (and what Jesus didn't say) has created a long - standing tension that can not be easily dismissed.

I took a chance (and yes, I ticked off a lot of people — I'm still being burned in effigy across the Internet for it), I made some mistakes with it (absolutely), and I made a mess (the blog crashed, it was uncomfortable, the post created tension).