It's a compelling premise: that you can get more done at work, better understand your co-workers, and generally like your life more if you take
some of the tension out of the string.
«It takes a lot
of tension out of the process,» Pao said.
Director Jodie Foster squeezes every drop
of tension out of the nervy standoff between Lee and Jack O'Connell's blue - collar bomber, constantly upping the stakes with each new bit of information.
You took a lot
of the tension out of writing an ebook.
This removes much
of the tension out of the movie, and almost goes directly against the prior teaser where we see a chained up Batman becoming genuinely scared by an approaching Superman who rips off his mask and, somehow, eyeshadow.
It takes almost
all of the tension out of hiding from the enemy — you just slink a few feet away from the body, usually behind a corner, and wait it out.
Not exact matches
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.
American Airlines rerouted three flights
out of more than 6,000 a day amid
tensions between the U.S. and Russia.
It may help you work
out knotty ideas or even ease the
tension of a particularly sensitive conversation - Steve Jobs famously had his most important discussions on his feet.
He has his own way
of doing business... There's a lot
of tension on air... After 10 hour days and 10 days
of shooting, you really feel like you want to knock this motherf * cker
out.»
Two years later it was kicked
out of Malaysia because
of racial
tension — the city state was mainly ethnic Chinese, the peninsula dominated by Malays — and the antagonism
of many senior politicians in Kuala Lumpur toward Lee, whom they considered headstrong and unpredictable.
«The overhang
of daily political
tensions and nonsense coming
out of the White House is causing people to become more nervous, but that doesn't change the fundamentals
of the market,» Kresh said.
Last week's escalating
tensions with North Korea rattled markets
out of a summer lull.
The Trump administration is considering backing
out of the 2015 nuclear accord, which would reignite
tensions between the two countries.
«If you think
of the organization as a giant ball
of yarn — you can plan
out how to untangle it — or everyone can draw
out their own
tension.
Kennedy's 1962 missive was borne
out of national pride, fueled in large part by latent Cold War - era
tensions between national governments.
The result has been a massive flow
of capital
out of the US, the EU, and Japan and into China, millions
of unemployed manufacturing workers, and growing trade
tensions.
Oil prices dropped sharply despite ongoing
tensions in the Middle East, with the regime
of longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi recapturing lost ground from rebels and Saudi Arabian troops entering Bahrain to help
out the embattled rulers.
it's true that great art is birthed
out of tension, then it's not at all surprising that Two Tongues came together.
But
out of all the
tension a rock solid friendship has emerged.
Reasonable and responsible action emerges
out of the
tension between these two equally dangerous presuppositions.
And it seems to me that it's being turned into this kind
of norm that just gets you
out of this
tension.
We want Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream Speech, not his letter from a Birmingham jail, where he calls
out the white moderate, «who prefers a negative peace which is the absence
of tension to a positive peace which is the presence
of justice.»
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.
not letting down, but a... more
of a kind
of straightening
out without
tension if that means anything.8
Arising
out of a process
of differentiation from transcendent order, the idea
of society stands, from the very moment
of its birth, in a dialectical
tension with the concept
of the individual.
Today the
tension within the business community has been greatly reduced since those businesses that depended on protection have generally collapsed or moved
out of the country.
Subtle distress signals such as a catch in the voice, a slip
of the tongue,
tension in a marriage relationship, or a change in the pattern
of church participation can often be picked up if the minister has his psychological antenna
out to catch these cries for help.
On the other side
of that situation, masturbation chosen
out of frustration and expediency would push him further away from his spouse, compounding relational
tension and making loving each other and God a further hill to climb in an already exhausted and exhausting situation.
The
tension I have in mind is generated by (i) this process
of temporally ordered actual occasions articulating his vision
of the metaphysical ultimatum — atomism — and (ii) the complex product
of this process which he so obviously cherished as an organic interconnectedness — the web
of interrelations which comprise a world so badly misunderstood by the science Whitehead himself prehended from
out of his immediate past.
An intelligent and fair «minded overview
of how Catholic laity» from Dorothy Day and Mario Cuomo to the lesser known» understand the living
out of their faith, concluding with the recognition
of tensions between affirming lay vocations and church authority.
some church people get rid
of the embarrassingly high notes and eliminate all dramatic
tension and dissonance, making Muzak
out of the symphony.
However these details may be interpreted, the broader context in which Whitehead worked them
out for himself must have been one
of considerable
tension.
Direction is that primeval
tension of a human soul which moves it to choose and to realize this and no other
out of the infinity
of possibilities.
Read loses sight
of Buber's concept
of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual
tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode
of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration
of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left
out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium
of the teacher's «sense
of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»
But what
of the fact earlier pointed
out that classifying is an impersonal process and, hence, in
tension with democratic ideals?
Just as in conversation the
tension between the meaning which the word I use has for me and that which it has for my partner can prove itself fruitful and lead to a deeper personal understanding, so
out of the
tension between the image
of a person and the existing person a genuine understanding can arise.
How Jesus thought about the sad story comes
out in another saying
of his which would seem to belong to the same situation
of acute
tension, though its tone is more that
of regret than
of denunciation:
Jesus looked into the future and saw the rising
tension of his day culminating in the destruction and desolation
of the people and the land he loved; like the prophets
of old, he foresaw the doom
of judgment meted
out, not on the heathen only but upon his own nation, its leaders, its people, its temple.
The Christian community is diverse, and so there will always be
tension, but I'm beginning to think that maybe I'm not as
out of step with my faith community as I once thought; maybe there's still hope that things will change.]
The weighting
of concern, the attitude toward the neighbor, the valuation
of possessions and power, all arise
out of the perception which is in
tension with the acknowledgment
of God's superior reality.
There's plenty
of tension here, and more if we consider Peter's speech in Acts 4, where he seems interested in keeping strays
out of the fold («There is salvation in no one else») and 1 John 3:16 - 24, which picks up on the theme
of the One who lays down his life
of his own accord and then sees an outrageous connection between Jesus» action and our own: «We ought to lay down our lives for one another.»
We may confidently follow Christ
out of that bifurcated
tension where, with one foot in heaven and one foot on earth, we are torn apart like the wishbone after a Thanksgiving dinner.
Out of his moral
tension, he proposed a vague populism and a quietistic «sort
of Buddhism,» as Gide called it, that tries to love all things without facing the fact that we can only love particulars.
Most prefer the easy way
out of the moral
tension caused by this contradiction and settle with one
of two simplistic positions: either G - d is not responsible, because He doesn't exist or He is powerless; or the victims were not innocents because they deserved punishment.
Arising
out of what I have said, the diagram at the end
of this chapter represents the state
of tension which has come to exist more or less consciously in every human heart as a result
of the seeming conflict between the modern forward impulse (OX), induced in us all by the newly - born force
of trans - hominization, and the traditional upward impulse
of religious worship (OY).
Those calling attention to systemic injustice are accused
of inciting
tensions rather than simply calling them
out.
Jesus made no effort to resolve this
tension — the
tension arising inevitably
out of a recognition, on the one hand,
of our moral weakness and wrongness, and, on the other,
out of a vision
of God's perfect will — by qualifying and softening that will.
Just as he denies in the speech that there are any potential
tensions between our ideals and the practical demands
of ensuring our security in an often less than ideal world, he simply rejects that there are any moral or political complexities born
of out technological innovation that might justify some measure
of political prudence, or even the admonishment
of science.
The ways in which this task could be carried
out, and the interesting metaphysical revisions and alternatives to which it would lead regarding the central doctrines
of process metaphysics, has constituted an interesting discussion and dialectical
tension between Ford and Nobo over the years, to which many
of the rest
of us have attended with the greatest interest.