Sentences with phrase «tense atmosphere in»

Facebook employees have described a tense atmosphere in which some joked about selling their stock in the company before it took another dip.

Foiling low - bar expectations, War for the Planet of the Apes takes advantage of its built - in name recognition to create a gloomy, tense atmosphere in which nothing is guaranteed and anything is possible.

Screenwriter turned director Gilroy (Freejack, The Bourne Legacy) crafts a tense atmosphere in this contemporary film noir, and gives Gyllenhaal the opportunity to deliver what may be his most forceful, compelling performance yet.

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In the tense atmosphere of the city council meeting the night of the vote, Presbyterian minister Paul Miller acknowledged that emotions were running high but told the overflow crowd he spoke from «deep pastoral concern»; he then read a prepared statement signed by 18 members of the clergy who decried «the recent efforts to single out a given group... and to seek to castigate them as being unworthy and unfit to belong to our community.»

The atmosphere in the operating theatre was tense; the staff knew the prognosis but remained professional.

The atmosphere at matches is tense and despite this, Ozil continues to produce consistency in his attacking contribution.

I'm sure it will be played in a tense atmosphere and if this line moves to a Pk I will take some of the Sunderland side as their need is greater but at the current line I lean towards Newcastle.

The tensed atmosphere therefore made the protesting students to overpower security agents at the entrance of the state secretariat, which housed the office of the Governor, which was barricaded for hours, halting movement in and out of the secretariat.

Regardless, all this work — wheel spinning in an increasingly tense atmosphere at the Capitol — for no pay will only make for an increasingly contentious 2017 for Albany.

In spite of the increasingly tense atmosphere, Colizzi and Massimo Amicosante, another HIV researcher at Tor Vergata University, continued to visit Libya.

More traditional in terms of atmosphere and plot, Drug War nevertheless features a tense, unstoppable momentum, a morally ambiguous protagonist and hugely involving action scenes.

if you are loyal to James Newton Howard's sense for tense, ambient suspense in a heavily electronic realm, unnerving textures yielding to dissonant orchestral crashes after every few minutes of stewing, synthetic atmosphere.

The new and older material fit seemlessly together, with both delivered in a present tense context, with Yorke channelling issues from his personal life to bring further emotional gravity to the atmosphere of the album.

Embodying the iconic gameplay elements of exploration and tense atmosphere that first coined «survival horror» some twenty years ago, Resident Evil 7 biohazard delivers a disturbingly realistic experience that will define the next era in horror entertainment.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Helming Phillips is director Paul Greengrass, a master in building tense atmospheres on the screen.

The frequently electrifying atmosphere proves instrumental in compensating for a plot that admittedly doesn't hold up to close scrutiny, as Cavayé, working from a script cowritten with Guillaume Lemans, peppers the narrative with a number of strikingly conceived and executed action set pieces - including an impressively tense foot chase through a busy subway station.

There's little doubt that The X Files: I Want to Believe fares best in its initial stretch, as the movie boasts an impressively tense and exciting opening that gives way to an engaging first act - with the film's watchable atmosphere perpetuated (and heightened) by Chris Carter's sporadically lush directorial choices and by Duchovny and Anderson's predictably stellar work.

Founded in 2008, Bloober's portfolio includes narrative driven horror titles Observer and Layers of Fear — focusing on creating a tense atmosphere and mature, visceral subject matter.

Imbuing the film with his trademark tense atmosphere, mood - breaking absurdist humor, and taut suspense thriller flair, the South Korean auteur broke out globally in a huge way and revitalized the prosaic genre.

Peter Li, HSI's China policy specialist, led the rescue operation, and said: «The police presence is heavy in Yulin right now, and the atmosphere is very tense, so this was not an easy rescue.

In the first hour the game does rely on cinematics far too much for its own good, but they serve the story so well in building up the tense and heavy atmosphere that it's easy to forgive thiIn the first hour the game does rely on cinematics far too much for its own good, but they serve the story so well in building up the tense and heavy atmosphere that it's easy to forgive thiin building up the tense and heavy atmosphere that it's easy to forgive this.

In Metro 2033 this made journeys to the surface world a tense and terrifying experience as you were constantly on the edge of running out of filters and thus succumbing to the deadly atmosphere.

There's a palpable sense of dread when playing as a thug because you know that out there in the shadows somewhere Batman is waiting for you, creating a tense atmosphere as you shuffle around the map trying to get on with things while keeping a wary eye out for the merest hint of a cape.

«In the end, I think the atmosphere and pacing were the main reasons why the game was successful in being quite tense.&raquIn the end, I think the atmosphere and pacing were the main reasons why the game was successful in being quite tense.&raquin being quite tense.»

While Housemarque have monopolised the arcade shooter market, Alienation toned this down to bring a more measured, more tense shooter to PlayStation and it has atmosphere in spades.

Hunt: Showdown will deliver match - based gameplay which will mesh PVP and PVE elements in order to create a tense atmosphere for players.

As with TimeSplitters 2, the cutscenes were a learning process, but the game succeeded in creating a freaky, tense atmosphere.

The latest entry in the series, Revelations, again tries to evoke the chilling atmosphere and tense encounters that propelled the series to fame in the nineties, but does it manage to finally bring the series back to the fans or is it just another nail in the coffin for survival horror?

The intense battles of the world war 2 era games are relocated to the sand - blasted alleyways of a middle - eastern dictatorship, with tense spec - ops raids that reign in the action to brief bursts of gunplay, relying on atmosphere and deftly - weaved scripts to keep the player invested.

You then let it sit in a horrifying and oppressive atmosphere for awhile, seasoning with tense moments of stress, mind - numbing fear, and the prerequisite fighting for your life to suit your taste.

At the same time, the tense dark «never safe» atmosphere is still core here and will have players plugging in the night light for safe measure after playing.

So while they weren't featured as main stage events and enjoyed the large pot bonuses that some other games may have enjoyed, they were also streamed through Twitch channels and many players had the opportunity to compete against each other in the tense but fun atmosphere of EVO.

Dead Man's Journey — a PT-esque horror with looping corridors, tense atmosphere and plenty of jump scares, in which you play a recently deceased man who has committed a terrible sin.

Instead of strong violence and shock, or a tense atmosphere through the unseen, Cao Fei's Haze and Fog examines people up close, slowly and in detail.

Though the atmosphere is far less tense in Santa Monica, as a black man Bradford still feels a certain kind of suspicion from the police there and another kind of suspicion from the people who live in the area.

This judge articulates the purpose of his humour as putting the court participants «at ease» in the tense, formal atmosphere of the court.

Mix together tense co-workers in a party atmosphere with a splash of vermouth, and you've likely served up a liabili - tini.