Sentences with phrase «uncomfortable tension»

As conflicts ramp up during the core episode, uncomfortable tension pervades.

For most thoughtful adherents of religion in America, holidays like Independence Day present an uncomfortable tension, perhaps especially so for Christians.

When we truly view each other as brothers and sisters we will be so anxious to grant mercy and offer support of one another even through times of hard discipline and uncomfortable tension.

Festinger called this cognitive dissonance, or the uncomfortable tension that comes from holding two conflicting thoughts simultaneously.

In «When Facts Backfire» [Skeptic], Michael Shermer discusses cognitive dissonance — in which holding two incongruous thoughts at the same time creates an uncomfortable tension, prompting people to spin - doctor facts to reduce it — and the backfire effect — in which corrections to an erroneous idea that conflict with a person's worldview or self - concept cause that person to embrace the error even more.

One of Julie's patients (Justin Kirk) starts describing his fantasies that involve her during sessions and even Julie's teenage daughter Kolt's (India Ennenga) scenes with a much older Italian tutor have an uncomfortable tension present.

Kudos to the extras involved for adding to the uncomfortable tension felt throughout.

This strategy also defuses the uncomfortable tension that surrounds difficult conversations.

It's an uncomfortable tension, but a realistic one.

She fell silent, he said nothing, and the uncomfortable tension of an unexpected standoff rose for ten long seconds until she broke it.

Bikini Beach was designed as a critique of the uncomfortable tension between sex and violence in games.

They are sometimes a little challenging to look at, After - images and simultaneous contrast create sensations of movement, flashes and flickers of light, illusions of depth and space, uncomfortable tensions.

Ryan brings his deeply contemplative demeanor and ability to over-intellectualize, while Brian brings his cynical humor and uncomfortable tension to the work.

Treading too close to the internal lives of others, Frances Stark offers viewers the uncomfortable tension of too much information besides our candid voyeurism.