Sentences with phrase «sexual tension on»

the first half is spirited, open; the sexual tension on the surface.

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The restrictions placed on copulation, combined with the sexual tensions in human interactions, result in our sexual energies being redirected into other activities that generally have a sensual nature, such as art, music, sports, and theater.

Many of us believe our male partners don't care about our sexual fulfillment, or that enjoying sex isn't worth the tension it would place on your relationship to bring up what isn't working.

The parasympathetic nervous system, on the other hand, promotes deep relaxation and improves bodily functions, including digestion and sexual arousal, and releases muscular tension.

Growing up, I had many erotic dreams with women and had several close girl friends I had crushes on and felt sexual tension with.

When sexual tension is taken out of the equation, we are forced to engage in a relationship strictly based on our core values of trust, communication, and integrity.

And while most of that film centered on the sexual tension between a publishing heiress and the photographer sent to fetch her from an alien - ridden «infected zone,» the world its characters inhabited and their ultimate goal were both defined by a looming alien threat.

Rather than holing up at Hogwarts, Harry, Hermione, and Ron spend the majority of the movie on the run, and the sexual tension that builds among the three of them recalls — in a good way — the hothouse adolescent passions of the Twilight movies.

More urgent matters took priority, though, with features screened on topics as current as gun control (Surviving Sandy Hook), the war on drugs (Cartel Land), sexual abuse on university campuses (The Hunting Ground), economic disparity (The Divide), racial tension (3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets), and climate change and its continued denial (Merchants of Doubt).

As the trio flees across the Greek islands and on to Istanbul, the tension ratchets up, along with the underlying sexual implications.

There's a criminal plot involving a monopoly on Tungsten and German investors who may be Nazi criminals in hiding (apart from a headline reading «German Surrenders,» there's no mention of the war) but the drama revolves around the sexual tension and vicious punishments they inflict on one another.

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).

As Pope Francis talks about the horrific crime of child sexual abuse and the necessity of holding accountable guilty priests and complicit bishops, viewers may think of the still - unfolding crisis in Chile, regarding which the Pope has acknowledged «grave errors» on his part, but the film leaves viewers to wrestle with such tensions on their own.

Something about this film feels very clunky, as it moves into its second half it drops much of the sexual nature of its interesting but flawed opening and focuses instead on the actual nature of this heist, using a non-linear sequence that, whilst amusing enough, tends to sap almost all of the tension by virtue of its retrospective nature.

Marrying off these two is a risky proposition for a tale that hinges on sexual tension, but no worries because this is no ordinary husband and wife.

Whereas that film focused more on the couple's budding sexual tension than any tangible extraterrestrial threat, Green and co-writer Jay Basu hew closer to the formula seen in pics like «Independence Day» and «Battle: Los Angeles,» in which U.S. troops are sent to deal with the aliens, albeit indirectly.

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.

Until the last section, wherein Kath crushes on a new guy and dumps Michael, the story tension revolves solely around the whens, wheres, and hows of the young couple's sexual experiences.

This is a video of a number of authors on the subject of sex in books: Erica Jong on writing about sex as a way of finding answers, Lawrence Block on the definition of erotica, Patricia Gaffney on historical romances, Suzanne Forster on the importance of sexual tension, and Eileen... more >

Non sequitor here, but there was mention of sexual tension between Fang and Vanille, and there's definitely some tarzan - jane business going on here.

There was still the sexual tension, but it was much more subdued as we focused on Sazh's relationship with his son and Vanille's guilt at being the catalyst for their woes.

@TheRealHennessy Tweet Painting, HBO, 2014, 14 × 11 in., acrylic and screenprint on canvas Sifting through these mediated tweets of status, conspicuous wealth and underlying sexual tension, greg.org was struck by the way social media differed from writing — that is, the way that tweets from self - promoting were always immediate, seductive and dazzling yet also fictional.

A selection of works from the past two years goes on view in Zurich, including the first photograph from her 1995 four - part Five Revolutionary Seconds, in which interiors shot with a 360 - degree panoramic lens serve as the backdrop for tableaux fraught with psychological and sexual tension.

«I was interested in mythology, and I was interested in movement,» Hadzi remarked on his years in Rome, «I was attempting through formal methods to exaggerate sexual tension or apprehension.

The artist, who currently lives and works in Amsterdam, tends to focus on figures and portraits through drawings and watercolours, often strongly marked with sexual tension and ambiguity.

Kara Walker's instantly recognizable cut - paper silhouettes are visually striking and charged with racial, sexual, and historical tension, commenting on slavery, the Black American experience, and women's place in society.

Nor is it fair, I think, to say that the defending narrative discourages discussions as to the legal and ethical constraints on how a lawyer can advance her client's interest in a sexual assault trial — after all, the tension between advance your clients interests and your ethical and legal obligations is always a hot topic for lawyers in general and criminal lawyers in particular.

We don't realize that seeing sex as a «drive» makes us focus on relieving sexual tensions rather than wanting our partner.