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So you just get a bigger and bigger ball of whatever that is mixed with your tears on your eye until eventually, the ball becomes so big that the surface tension takes it across the bridge of your nose like a tiny little waterfall and goes "goosh" into your other eye, and now I was completely blind outside the spaceship.
So this tension between gay rights and civil rights started to bubble up once again, and I was lucky enough to capture how some people were making the connection between the movements this time.
So in this new design, the ground will erupt, and it will talk about this tension that sits below.
In that first reunion, it was very awkward and tense moments, and to lessen the tension, we decided to go for a walk.
During the many months of heart infections and kidney infections after my fall, at the very edge of survival, Simone and I faced the fundamental question: How do you resolve the tension between acceptance and hope?
The realists have managed to resolve the tension between acceptance and hope by running them in parallel.
The tension was building.
Over-the-counter drugs like Midol even claim to treat PMS symptoms like tension and irritability, even though they only contain a diuretic, a pain reliever and caffeine.
Now, far be it from me to argue with the magical powers of caffeine, but I don't think reducing tension is one of them.
Their parenting always sought to reconcile the tension between having my siblings and I understand the realities of the world, while ensuring that we never accepted the status quo as inevitable.
This is the tension the women calling me were feeling.
And then Pearl Harbor happens, and as if his life wasn't difficult enough, now the race relations have really ratcheted up, and then the Japanese-American internment camps are quickly created, and there's lots of tension and horrible stuff as he's still trying to solve this murder.
And I thought this was so obvious that it had to have been done a zillion times, and so I did a Google image search, and I couldn't find another book cover that looked quite like this, and so this is really what solved the problem, and graphically it's more interesting and creates a bigger tension between the idea of a certain kind of sunrise coming up over L.A. and America.
Bucky Fuller said that tension is the great integrity, and he was right.
The shops are closed, the pub's gone, the playground's pretty desolate and never used, and inside Ella's house, the tension is palpable and the noise levels are deafening.
A pretty strong feeling comes with that, so we now are beginning to feel the tension in the scene.
Once again, adding dramatic tension to the scene.
You feel tremendous tension and the suspense of knowing that someone will jump out and be scary, but you just don't know when.
That tension is dramatic irony: you know something more than the characters in the film.
From there, confusion and misunderstanding occur, and the tension builds.
This isn't the same tension as the horror film since it is probably pretty funny as the character tries to figure out the whos and the whats, but it serves as a great example of the tension and suspense of dramatic irony.
This tension or suspense in both genres drives the story and keeps the plot progressing.
The audience wants, no, needs, to see the tension of the dramatic irony broken either by the scary person jumping out of the shadows or by someone finally revealing someone's true identity and clearing up the confusion.
Researchers have linked poor posture to scoliosis, tension headaches, and back pain, though it isn't the exclusive cause of any of them.
As if all that weren't enough, chronic stress has even more ways it can sabotage your health, including acne, hair loss, sexual dysfunction, headaches, muscle tension, difficulty concentrating, fatigue, and irritability.
At this point, your arm muscles alone won't be able to generate enough tension to pull it open, so your brain appeals to other muscles for help.
In contrast, exposing the muscle to a high-degree of tension, especially while the muscle is lengthening, also called an eccentric contraction, generates effective conditions for new growth.
This statement sent shockwaves through the Western world, heightening the tension between the Soviet Union and the US who were in the thick of the Cold War.
These two principles are fundamentally in tension.
Recognizing this tension allows us to decide where we want to strike that balance.
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