Sentences with phrase «uneasy tension»

"Uneasy tension" refers to a feeling of discomfort or nervousness that arises due to an uncertain or potentially tense situation. Full definition
Maybe it's both at once, and what better explanation for existence can there be than one of extreme contradictions held in uneasy tension?
A religion brooks no rivals, but destroys or converts or lives in uneasy tension with different ways of understanding human life and destiny.
One moment Isaac's Nathan can be filling the audience with a sense of uneasy tension before quickly lightening the mood and filling it with laughter.
That is to say the elements of a production environment are obsessively scrutinized and the sound mixing, editing, creating and recording are twisted to a maddening level, the sound of Giallo echoes, reverberates and mixes all throughout Berberian Sound Studio and the screams and foul sound effects create an extremely uneasy tension and horror that only the mind can depict.
The decorative and the theatrical are here in some kind of uneasy tension with any intimacy with the subject's character.»
This disruption does not entail Shylock's romantic transmogrification into a tragic hero; in fact, it is his stubborn villainy that generates the uneasy tension that runs through the drama.
One of the running themes inside the book is an uneasy tension between the Anglophones (the English) and the Francophones (the French).
Nothing in the movie embodies this uneasy tension more than Gosling, whose performance as the formidably intimacy - averse Lars (who literally screams when touched by the supremely patient physician / psychologist played by Patricia Clarkson) is one - half thrift - shop geek joke and one - half twitchy study in terrified child - man.
His graceless chemistry with all cast mates creates an uneasy tension in every frame, though his scene with a marvelous Vanessa Redgrave is particularly intriguing.
This book also embodies an uneasy tension involved in listening to students: Is it the job of the adult to «interpret» students» words in order to make students» commentary more accessible to adults, or should the ideas, experiences, opinions and knowledge of students be unfettered?
Although Bloodborne's decimated city may not be the most pleasant world to be immersed in, it's undeniable that nothing on PS4 holds an uneasy tension quite like the streets of Yharnam.
Almanza Pereda perceives his sculptural environments as exacerbating viewers» feelings of anxiety triggered by possibly unsafe spaces; as he contends, the «hope [is] to give the viewer an uneasy tension... it is through this tension that the installation ceases to be static.»
Viewed by many as an alternative national anthem, it alludes to the uneasy tensions fundamental to our vision of this nation filled with promise and peril, possibilities and letdowns.
There is an uneasy tension, but an undeniable fascination, in looking at drawings that represent someone else's turn - ons.
It is the interface between nature and the toxic footprint of mankind that creates the uneasy tension expressed in Ghenie's work.
Embedded in the saturated colours and glossy surfaces that characterise Rachel Howard's work, the dire figures set up an uneasy tension between the subject matter and the vibrant physicality of colour, surface and layered depth.
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