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One is icing and simmering, which are great stalling tactics that offer a kind of holding pattern that emphasizes the undefined nature of a relationship but at the same time gives you enough of a comforting consistency and enough freedom of the undefined boundaries.
This is a masterful piece of film-making, with many themes simmering and occasionally boiling over in this warts and all study of the poet's bohemian, self-indulgent wartime years that span the aerial bombardments of London and the outward tranquillity of a Welsh coastal retreat - the borderlines between friendship, lust and love, dedication to art and experience versus practical concerns, jealousy, rivalry, cowardice and egotism versus heroism and self-sacrifice and more.
Cooking over a burning fire, the meat simmering is actually from Charlie's wife, Teddi!
However, Peter Sellers' genius still shines through with his portrayal of Nayland Smith, with echoes of sadness, tragedy, and strength simmering through a stoic facade; it's a performance I place on par with Peter Cushing's portrayal of Van Helsing but done in a tenth of the cumulative screen time of all Cushing's "Dracula" movies.
The cold, prim, proper, neglected wife has passion simmering that could boil over at any minute - given the right setting.
Moreover, Jackson tosses in occasional "what the hell?" unexpected oddball moments: Denise gives Johnny a rubdown in a scene that's simmering with incestuous undertones and in one especially startling sequence a creepy pedophile assaults a little girl in a bathroom.
Either way, she's a well-coiffed void on the screen, with nothing simmering under the surface.
On the military side, simmering tensions between two officers are frustrating combat strategy.
In Europe, a similar debate about the political accountability of European central banks has been simmering since before the ECB was even established.
Indeed, in the industries and regions hit hardest by import competition, years of simmering discontent have now boiled over, fueling support for populists promising to roll back globalization.
These problems were simmering beneath the surface of autocratic repression for decades.
For decades, open conflict and simmering hostility have been punctuated by periods of short-lived bonhomie.
One hopes that Asia takes a similar tack – before simmering anger over historical humiliations boils over.
Simmering tensions have been fueled largely by the lengthy “re-education” campaigns imposed on the Tibetans, who are forced to renounce publicly their spiritual leader and profess patriotism and loyalty to China.
A revanchist Russia, chaos in the Middle East, and simmering tensions in the South China Sea are all symptoms of a system that is beginning to fray.
The refugee crisis, terrorist attacks, and the lingering effects of the global economic crisis are all providing fuel for simmering nativist sentiment.
In the process of reaching this decision, however, several long simmering issues have come to the fore.
For all the reported cases, many more are simmering beneath the surface of public scrutiny.
Given that international law is crucial to protect smaller states by keeping major powers in check, the immediate question is what happens when simmering tensions with China’s Asian neighbors– and with the US – finally boil over.
Farther east, a border war between Burma and Bangladesh is simmering.
But one can easily imagine that they, like us, would prefer to land in a prosperous region in which countries pursue mutually beneficial cooperation, rather than in a zone of simmering conflicts where competing territorial and historical claims have thwarted the inhabitants’ vast potential.
Nothing fades as quickly as the glow of an election victory, and the German idyll will soon be disturbed by harsh reality – the European Union’s simmering crisis, Syria, Iran, and energy policy.
Or are we being governed by a pathology of fear, fed by events such as the recent London bombings, that is holding down long-term interest rates thereby covering up a host of simmering problems?
If they ever calm down, interest rates will shoot up, and that could well bring the global economy’s simmering imbalances to a raging boil.
But similar tensions between economic integration and local politics have long been simmering.
After years of simmering conflicts, clashes broke out in 2003 between rival ethnic and political groups, and between Darfur rebels and the national government, which in turn has supported brutal militias in “scorched earth” policies, leading to massive death and displacement.
Nonetheless, tension is simmering beneath the surface.
Otherwise, simmering trade frictions could suddenly throw globalization sharply into reverse.
In 1913, simmering imperial tensions in the Balkans seemed to have subsided, and yet 1914 marked the start of the Great War.
As a result, weapons and fighters moved into Mali, giving the country’s simmering insurgency the necessary tools to launch a violent campaign against innocent civilians – with the potential to reignite the civil war that ravaged the area in 1990-1996.