Sentences with phrase «when building tension»

Hooking the audience and keeping them interested is a delicate balance when building tension in a thriller like this.

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When I'm laughing with my team, it's breaking the tension and building transparency and vulnerability.

When you stuff your feelings, they quickly build into the uncomfortable sensations of tension, stress and anxiety.

The tension builds and builds and just when we think Esther is going to make her request, she invites the King and Haman to another banquet.

Arsenal had the best of them but not by much and the tension of extra time was just building to a peak when Reading's keeper fumbled an Alexis near post shot and it crept in.

Alan will talk about the build up to game in Belfast around the time when there was plenty of tension in the north.

Sources said lawmakers were looking at a proposal to help reduce the tensions that exist when a charter school moves into a building already housing a traditional public school.

Mr. de Blasio, who renamed the Manhattan Municipal Building for Mr. Dinkins and unveiled a plaque for him at a ceremony beneath its ornate archway, once worked for the one - term mayor, who served at a time when crime and racial tensions roiled the city.

The friction between the plates creates tension that builds up, and is then released when the plates slip, creating earthquakes.

If patients can learn to think and act differently when tension builds, they may be able to stop the urge before it starts.

When the government of Ethiopia finishes building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2017 or 2018, it will not only have built the largest hydroelectric power - generation plant in Africa, but also stirred up tensions among African nations, and indelibly altered a river that itself has guided millennia of human history in the region.

Think about a bow and arrow... the farther back you pull the bow and the more tension your build, the farther that bow will fly in the other direction when you inevitably let go!

Though the research is currently limited to animals only, scientists have been able to significantly increase muscle building when muscles have been placed under loaded stretches - presumably by creating additional muscle damage and by stimulating the same gene pathways switched on by the tension of muscle contraction.

When people leave the tension in their body to build up it compounds on itself and starts to become very aggravating to the nervous system causing all sorts of different problems.

I think there was so much great tension that built up from that cat - and - mouse chase that made it all that more exciting when we finally met.

A ride for two also speaks volumes about how the date mutual the date is and can serve as a way to break any tension that builds when bikers first meet.

In most cases, married people looking for affairs will have a lot of sexual tension built up, and when they finally get to find someone it is pretty amazing.

The guy who gets really close to you and then has to retreat and disappear when he needs time for the tension in the rubber band to build up again.

Though it's never clear why she doesn't just go to the police when things turn nasty, the tension builds nicely throughout, with a superbly tense finale that avoids most of the cliché traps other recent thrillers fall into.

There's nothing that scary here, but there's some good tension built up and the zombie kids, while you can probably take one at a time, when they swarm you then they become viable threats, at least for what the film is trying to accomplish.

We don't really have a sense of what's going to happen next, but when something does happen, the film builds in intensity and tension.

The amount of tension that builds during this sequence is enough to drive anybody to the edge of their seat, but when those beads of sweat begin to slide down Hunt's glasses, the feeling that they're all going to make it out alive precipitates.

These two films arrive at a crucial time for Europe and the US, when once again border tensions are building and misguided leaders scapegoat minorities to feed resentments.

It is the nature of the beast that any filmmaking team doing this sort of movie (particularly in modern times unless you are Guy Maddin) has to be fully committed to such a thing to make it work, green screens and CGI would likely undermine things, but when done right, few genres have such built in potential for white knuckle tension.

When the killer is finally revealed, I felt distinctly underwhelmed, not because it was expected, but because the movie doesn't do enough to build up tension and interest in the outcome.

It becomes clear pretty fast that this family are the owners of the empty tent at Ian and Sam's campsite, and the tension begins to build when rough, crude buddies German (Aaron Pedersen) and Chook (Aaron Glenane) come staggering into the film, «DANGER» practically written across their foreheads in big red letters.

Some fans have complained about the deliberate pace of this show when the gang sought temporary refuge at the farm and prison, but the tension built during these lulls always led to a bigger payoff when all hell inevitably broke loose.

When they're caught the action, scenes manage to be both brilliant choreographed and drenched in the tension that Berg builds.

At just 90 minutes, A Quiet Place is brisk, but it's also patient; this is one of those monster movies that builds tension from the absence of the monster, at least until the full - bore, unbroken set - piece of the second half, when all the stillness and pregnant pauses give way to an extended riff on the best scenes in Jurassic Park.

That heat takes a while to build up, but not in the tension - filled way that ace horror directors like to slow - burn their audience with drips of suspense before gunning everything into full - throttle when the final act comes.

This error in judgment on the part of the producers proves to be fatal, as Alves is clearly in over his head when it comes to the subtleties of building adequate tension, terror, or even simple presentation.

However, when a movie builds its entire tension from fear of what might be outside, revealing what's beyond the door can make or break a film's credibility.

The scarab beetles are definitely the most menacing of the creatures, rendered magnificently, and when you see Imhotep's face appear in a giant sandstorm, Sommers actually does manage to approach that sense of awe that could have worked a certain magic if the rest of the film had built up any manner of tension.

When it realizes it's got to do more than just build tension, it falls apart.

The tension builds, then breaks when they reach San Francisco.

And even within individual scenes, it seems as if the Coens already know every trick in the book when it comes to building, sustaining and then amplifying on - screen tension.

It's hard to build any narrative tension when we're aware of who's waiting in the wings.

He has an innate ability to build tension, and when he takes it all the way into pure horror, it's easy for viewers to be right there with him, as terrified as his characters are.

Instead of focusing on the rather desultory love story, more tension might have arisen from showing how de Barra came by the unlikely engineering and building skills she demonstrates, and how she broke into this profession when such things were unheard of for a woman, not least one who has been a wife and mother.

When the action set pieces do arrive, they are often well - crafted affairs that build tension without relying on endless destruction.

He's the only thing that keeps the movie afloat, because although the first half builds some nice tension as David infiltrates the Peterson's family dynamic, all of that hard work is wasted in the final act when it devolves into a silly B - movie that favors violence over subtlety, falling victim to the typical slasher film conventions with some incredibly strange and odd - placed moments of humor.

There can be a lot of stress and tension in a school building - felt by both staff and students alike - so when the leader smiles, and sends out positivity, everyone receives an indirect message that «it is going to be OK.»

When the two school types share a school building — arrangements known as «co-locations» — the tensions can boil over.

Tension builds as some start to question Rory's competency, and intensifies when Pia impulsively begins an intimate relationship with Rory.

The music is very atmospheric, and can really build up the tension when you are exploring the island.

Clusterpuck 99 is at its best when straddling the line of «next goal wins,» and it builds and releases that tension as thrillingly as any other type of title in the genre.

You'd probably enjoy this super-mysterious, tension - building, beautifully illustrated trailer better if I hadn't just told you it's for a Batman game, because the entire trailer keeps it secret that all of its statements refer to Gotham and Bruce Wayne until the very end, when the Bat insignia appears.

The horror aspects will grind on your nerves and the limited vision is great for chases, immense combat situations and builds up tension when you simply open a door.

In fact, the first time I noticed Hotline Miami's tension between thematic unease and its gameplay was watching a group of students play an early build when it was shown at Gamescom.

A tension is built up with the expectancy of a burst yet not knowing which one and when it will.