Sentences with phrase «tug of»

The rights to my first four novels had reverted to me and I felt the tug of adventure again.

I would think you would want to give away up to the first hook in your story — the first place where the reader feels the tug of «what happens next?»

I am in the Tug of War hub contest for just this weekend.

He wanted some answers, an explanation, or at least a chance to ponder the great mysteries, before it was too late - love and death, the meaning and purpose of human existence, moments of vision, the voice of God, the manifest indifference of the material universe to injustice and suffering, the insanity of war, the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.

In the tug of war between atoms and bits, how much does it take to sway you one way or another?

The Tug of War by David Rambo, performed by Matthew Arkin, Hugo Armstrong, Seamus Dever, Matthew Floyd Miller, James Morrison, David Selby, Rich Sommer, Josh Stamberg, Nick Toren, John Vickery, and Jules Willcox, published by LA Theatre Works

She did her best to ignore the quick and instinctive tug of resentment, and tried to focus on the equally quick and instinctive tug of love.

A novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.

It was disconcerting, even without the tug of racism, which Morales was conscious of trying to resist.

The tug of the receding wave was about to pull the infant away.

(I still kind of miss tug of war.)

The two car makers from Germany, BMW and Audi are in a tug of war for the top slot in the luxury car segment in India.

Reviews: * Plenty of adult - sized room in both seating rows; more cargo capacity than most rivals; rear seatbacks fold flat at the tug of a lever; appealing roster of tech and safety features.

33/27 Highway / City MPG ** Reviews: * Plenty of adult - sized room in both seating rows; more cargo capacity than most rivals; rear seatbacks fold flat at the tug of a lever; appealing roster of tech and safety features.

The suspension is stiff, as it should be for having the capabilities to move a house off its foundation with a mere tug of a tow strap.

The rear seats, meanwhile, fold completely flat with the tug of a single lever.

As long as gasoline stays below $ 2.50 a gallon — it's currently $ 2.15 a gallon for regular, says AAA — there's less incentive to downsize for better mpg unless you feel the tug of the environment and climate change.

Gear changes are shuffled transparently in full auto mode, though a quick tug of a paddle shifter will spur whip - crack reaction speeds when desired.

Reviews: * Exceptional fuel economy compared to other crossovers; plenty of adult - sized room in both seating rows; more cargo capacity than most rivals; rear seatbacks fold flat at the tug of a lever; appealing roster of tech and safety features.

The light third - row seat backs easily fold flat with the tug of a couple of fabric straps, liberating up to 1,557 litres.

Tumble & slide rear seats that flip out of the way with the tug of a lever make accessing that space easy when you need to load bulky items into its rear hatch.

Lowering the spring - loaded, auto - folding rear seatbacks with a tug of the trunk - mounted levers reveals 70.9 cubic feet of maximum space, which is one of the top figures in the segment.

PLEASE CALL FOR YOUR TEST DRIVE TODAY!!!!! Reviews: * Exceptional fuel economy compared to other crossovers; plenty of adult - sized room in both seating rows; more cargo capacity than most rivals; rear seatbacks fold flat at the tug of a lever; appealing roster of tech and safety features.

The steering stayed straight and refused to get into a tug of war with the driver when going over a serious potholes.

-- Like you, we've often wondered which vehicle would win in a tug of war: a Land Rover Defender, or a diesel Ram truck.

I'd never driven a car able to transition from sub-7sec 0 - 60mph zero - emissions silence to sub-6sec 0 - 100mph V8 violence in a blink, a car that could excite quite so many hairs on the back of my neck or corner so swiftly I could feel the tug of gravity on my cheek.

You can actually feel the tug of war between McLaren (and Gordon Murray) and Mercedes in the dynamic behaviour, which may score curiosity points (and can be defined as «character»), but it makes for an unusual beast.

If you run the YouTube channel Tax the Rich, there's only one acceptable answer: tug of war.

The Enclave's hatchback whips itself open with a tug of its handle.

The combination of furious sound and the incessant tug of gravity during full - bore acceleration is absolutely addicting, as is the ease with which big speed can be achieved.

So ever since then, it's really been a personal and political and ethical tug of war.

The Legislature has been in a tug of war over how the administration adjusts the aid formula under the School Funding Reform Act, as permitted under the law.

The curriculum tug of war between proponents of STEM programs and those who advocate for STEAM is in full force.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

Tug of War The comments also reveal a power struggle over who in the states should control their Race to the Top applications and reform plans.

House Republicans are continuing their tug of war with the Department of Education over special education dollars and prison inmates.

What about the tug of war over priorities, competing moralities?»

But the contests on May 1 and 2 are taking place at a time of renewed interest in the role that the councils play in the city's long - standing tug of war over control of its schools.

School systems need to heed this warning and take pains to protect innovative competency - based approaches from the tug of status - quo pressures and performance measures.

Corey is very good at math, but it had become a tug of war.

For example, bell schedules, grading policies, academic department structures, fixed sense of course scope and sequence, and familiarity with whole - group instruction may all be exerting the tug of status quo bias.

Tug of War in the Middle East.

In «Tug of War» (Research, Fall 2003), James B. Murphy argues that «the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.»

At the same time, Nichol's willingness to let his film happen — to let things build, to make us travel alongside Curtis step by deliberate step — is hypnotically engaging, pulling us into the film with the heavy, irrefutable tug of the tide.

Disaster awaits, along with an uncomfortable tug of sentimentality.

It works like a traditional side - scrolling platformer with the addition of combat, but the combat plays a significant role in this game of tug of war.

The core gameplay involves tapping specific buttons to the rhythm of unfamiliar pop tunes in order to build up chains and influence a tug of war meter that determines how successful your food dishes are.

Their epic pub crawl is full of absurd humor and rapid - fire dialogue but also has something to say about the dangerous tug of nostalgia.

Whether it's Don Lope de Aguirre or Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald or Timothy Treadwell or Dieter Dengler, and whether the film is fiction, documentary, or adaptation, Herzog remains committed to an exploration of the powerful, charismatic personality, and its tug of war with the world.

(The others, released by rappers, tend to muddle the sound, suggesting a tug of war between the aggression of the original idea and the impulse to become more mainstream.)