Sentences with phrase «of creative tension»

Some painters today take advantage of the creative tension inherent in a need to paint, while facing down antagonizing forces that suggest otherwise.

But, when understood properly, the EM's introduction of creative tension can be a source of originality and, though seemingly less structured than the Agile Strategist's methodical arguments, is an important form of critical thinking about the way forward.

This is at the heart of what Sesame Workshop has done as an organization and it was interesting to be part of the creative tension creating a product that could make a difference and improve readiness in students even before they reach pre-K.

«I'm proud of the creative tension we've asserted with this year's program,» said Fantastic Fest founder Tim League.

Powerless, they bring a new type of creative tension into the conflicts between people and government.

Niebuhr, Branch says, touched King «on all his tender points from pacifism and race to sin,» and, though the two men apparently never met, King took from Niebuhr an appreciation of a creative tension between love and justice that would henceforth inform his politics.

The idea of a creative tension between freedom of speech and the needs of the community, of a shared desire to serve the common good, is under attack.

Their deep alignment around these focusing questions is your source of both creative tension and urgency.

Not exact matches

An unnamed source, who does business with Apple, told Bloomberg Businessweek in January that during Jobs's first leave of absence «the creative tension disappeared, replaced by a play - it - safe ethos.»

The student riots, although politically sterile, broke the creative French tension between tradition and revolution in favor of revolution.

Today, living the Christian life is thought of as a being - at - work in history — not past but future history; as a creative tension toward the future, the history that is still to be traversed.

The change that has come about in theologies that partake of creative and emergent evolution can be described in this way: since mechanism is no longer the base of their evolutionary thinking, idealism is no longer essential as a strategy of thought in resolving the tension between science and faith.

Finally, Thomas Altizer expresses this tension between man's creative subjectivity and a transcendent reality: «Once the Christian has been liberated from all attachment to a celestial and transcendent Lord, and has died in Christ to the primordial reality of God, then he can say triumphantly: God is dead!

The Assemblies of God will serve itself and the rest of Christendom best if it holds restorationism, with its counter-cultural themes, in creative tension with its desire to be part of the establishment.

I am contending that religious qualities of experience are acquired, if at all, only by an individual who has borne within solitariness the relational matrix of existence, achieving a creative tension between the contrasts of life without permitting fixation on either pole to turn the contrast into an irreconcilable opposite.

We could illustrate from stories like Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins that are apocalyptic in the narrow sense; these would raise the question, as old as Hebrew prophecy, of the paradoxical tension between threat of inevitable destruction and summons to new, creative action.

Following Buber, he redefines education as the creative conquest of freedom through tension and responsibility.

This sense of distance and marginality had to be lived in creative tension with the real world.

Therefore we sometimes choose to think it possible that God likes racial tension, that it is part of his creative plan.

He fears that the suggested changes in Christology will portend «the end of all meaningful religious and spiritual dialogue» and will result in a «sterile relativism, a monistic spiritual syncretism devoid of creative, truly pluralistic conflict and fruitful, truly creative tension.»

Many others are what she calls «spiritual entrepreneurs,» seeking creative ways to work with the tensions between science and faith outside the constraints of traditional religion.....

Sometime ago, Julian Hartt suggested that the Christian person is a person living between the past and the future in the creative tension of the present.

Henri Bergson's view of creative change exhibits tensions between conceptual and supra - conceptual assumptions about the nature of cognition and reality.

I should add that if I am off the mark in suggesting such common ground, then I recommend that Peirce's account brings into focus more sharply what the central tension must be in any metaphysics of creative evolution.

It seems to me that such tensions are inescapable in any attempt to give an account of creative activity.

«It is to trust that the outcome of allowing the tension of the old and the new to be felt can be a creative synthesis which can not be predetermined or planned» (LL 131).

The distinctiveness of black theology is the bringing together of Martin and Malcolm in creative tension — their ideas about Christianity and justice and blackness and self.

Even Richard Rorty, who is not a great religious mind, thinks that the success of liberal democracies lies in the creative tensions between «the agents of love» and «the agents of justice,» explained more or less in this way.

Thus a tension, indeed a chasm, opens up in the relation between reason and imagination, for the latter is only partly dependent upon the determinate concepts and rules of the understanding, it is itself «a creative force and source of reflexivity.»

(Creative Tension, p. 81) Now that statement is more than a choice bit of missiological doggerel.

She adds it is one thing to educate people, but in order to help promote changes that are sustainable it is critical to look at the triggers and provide creative, practical tools such as food demonstrations, the introduction of 10 - minute tension tamers, and using smartphones to set alarms as reminders for earlier bedtime.

The hem of the dress is cut at an angle, lower on the left side and higher on the right side, which achieves creative tension and an eye for detail.

A smarter film about country music would cast the would - be cowpunk as a Jack White - type, somebody who would encourage the aging legend to reject Nashville values and make an all - out roots album (similar to Loretta Lynn's «Van Lear Rose», produced by The White Stripes frontman himself), which would add creative tension to the preexisting atmosphere of marital discord between Kelly and her commercially - minded husband.

Although there are some reminders of tensions and disagreements, it is an altogether friendly affair in which the still - existing rancour between key players is barely discernible and, through judicious editing, the issues of creative authorship are delicately handled.

With a script by Chris Terrio, adapted from a 2007 Wired article by Joshuah Bearman, the film certainly seems to take some creative licenses to ratchet up the tension — were people really so close to not answering a crucial phone call, was the timing of the escape climax really so harrowingly tight — but we believe in its earnest depiction of real - ish events nonetheless.

The creative script by writer Andrew Niccol was punched up by director Peter Weir, creating a nearly seamless story and a perfect blend of comedic aspects coupled with mounting tension and drama.

With amazing ambiance, a slow, high - tension pace, and even a decent use of the DualShock 4 and PlayStation Camera, The Creative Assembly has delivered a gem of a movie - based game, a feat that is seldom seen in this industry.

Hearkening back to the creative wild days of 1970s American cinema, Mackenzie's direction strikes a perfect balance between the relaxed atmosphere and eccentricity of the West Texas setting and the tension and desperation of the characters; his long takes put viewers in the moment and never feel ostentatious.

When the film — as it often does — puts Miss Travers in a room with screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford) and the music - and - lyrics team of brothers Richard and Robert Sherman (Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak), there's genuine creative tension on display.

«Fist Fight» is so ineptly assembled, shoddy - looking and devoid of comic tension or creative lunacy — like a movie comprised of outtakes — that you half - expect the filmmakers not even to deliver a fist fight.

Combine that tension with a beautifully disconcerting score (courtesy of one Giona Ostinelli), a starkly creative visual style (both in production design and cinematography), and, perhaps best of all, a freaky sense of ongoing unpredictability, and the result is a cool, brutal, and confidently satisfying indie thriller.

Getting that balance between the teacher - leadership role and the necessities of leadership and management is not an easy one but it is one within which that creative tension can be balanced by positive, respectful language, avoiding unnecessary confrontation when you're managing behaviour and also not easily buying into some of the behaviours that children exhibit — like sulking and pouting, argumentation and so on.

So, my colleagues and I put a lot of thought into what we call «the language of behaviour management» and «the language of discipline» so that we can get that reasonably creative tension between leadership and relationship established in those critical first few weeks.

A series of resources that aims to develop writing skills for English Language papers 1 and 2 as well as creative writing practice for tension.

He points to a growing literature on how humor reduces stress and tension in the classroom, improves retention of information, and promotes creative understanding.

At least 8 lessons worth of resources to support the teaching of creative writing (narrative and descriptive) and take stimulus from the following texts / events: - Castaway - The London riots - The Edge These resources provide opportunities to: - Describe using the senses - watch clips from Castaway and use as a stimulus for own writing - up level vocabulary - identify figurative and use in own writing - develop characterisation - develop narrative structure - assess against GCSE criteria - create tension and suspense

The creative tension between the autonomy that our expert teachers value so highly, and the common aspects of shared accountability that enables BASIS Curriculum Schools to maintain academic quality control across the network, is the nexus at the heart of our classroom learning culture.

Consider this nugget from his 2006 report, in which he discusses the creative tension between his outlook and that of his partner Steinberg: â $ œOne of us thinks the sky is falling and the dollar on the edge of debasement.

My best friend and colleague, Dr. Kim Bloomer plays some creative games with her dogs indoors — one of them is the howling game — noisy but fun and it helps her dogs to release tension and relax.

«The game is quite different from anything out there, and it tries to really capture the subtlety, tension, and drama of espionage, as opposed to the industry's usual blow - stuff - up take on spy games,» he says and thinks «it's an incredible time for indie games, with «AAA indie games» like Braid, Castle Crashers, World of Goo, and many others lighting the way towards complete creative control and artistic independence for small, innovative, and highly polished games.»