Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.
The average session takes about one to two hours. It's totally amazing because when a person breathes, they go through one stage of relaxation after another, and every stage releases tension.
I've consciously taken on material that's a bit too much for me but not an overreach. The first movie, just about performances. 'The Town,' I learned how to work broader material, develop tension, direct bigger scenes, action sequences. 'Argo,' I experimented with film stock, widened the scope of my geography.
Between major countries, there certainly always are some common ground and points of tension.
In some units it may suppress the motor discharge altogether, in some it may merely slow the motor discharge thus lessening the wave frequency of the contraction and so the tension.
Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.
You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
I've become more relaxed. When I was younger, I had more erratic, nervous tension when I was working.
The media role in highlighting racial incidents only serves to exacerbate tension. We rarely write about racial harmony.
Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline.
I'm not the voice of reason; I'm more the guy using these offensive topics as fodder to raise tension in a joke.
The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.
So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
At the heart of every great movie is conflict. It's the same with a meeting. There should be conflict and tension.
The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.
I'm in my usual state up here in the commentary box: high tension, heart beating like a trip hammer, whatever that is.
Laughter can help relieve tension in even the heaviest of matters.
Louise Bonnet is a Los Angeles-based painter of round, fleshy, almost obscene shapes and people. But hers is a very clean, friendly cartoon world, so there's this tension between harmlessness and perversion that is totally unsettling.
Sedition involves sloganeering with incitement. It may be anti-national, but not a crime, unless you incite violence or communal tension.