Sentences with phrase «tension of a broken world»

So we live in the tension of a broken world that is awaiting renewal.

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As the Church, we believe we live at the edge of the eschatological horizon, meaning we are a people who live in a tension between what we preach and the broken world around us.
Ironically, the scariest parts of this genuinely scary film are its quietest, and the formal innovation of the minimalistic and claustrophobic sound design — necessary to represent a world where breaking the silence will kill you — is what makes A Quiet Place stand out from standard horror fare usually committed more to jump scares than to skillfully calibrating a rising feeling of tension.
Their heroes, such as they are, end up locked in an ideological opposition that somehow echoes a deeper, more pervasive tension in American life: the parasitic rivalry between Daniel Day - Lewis's monomaniacal capitalist and Paul Dano's maliciously self - denying man of the cloth in the 19th - century California landscape of There Will Be Blood (07); the uneasy mentorship that Philip Seymour Hoffman's charismatic cult leader develops with Joaquin Phoenix's broken - down vet as they move through the strange, suspended vision of Fifties America in The Master (12); and now, in Anderson's newest film Inherent Vice, the antagonistic buddy romance that emerges between a pothead PI and a shell - shocked, crew - cut detective as each navigates the splintered world of Los Angeles in the early, paranoid Seventies.
Quantum Break weaves the cinematic action of intense gameplay with the tension and drama of scripted television, creating a world where each has a direct impact on the other.
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