Word: tensioning
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...first place. People seek connection to fulfill basic needs of affiliation, but once this need is met interaction becomes excessive and burdensome. Each conversation, e-mail or phone call drains a bit of our energy and a piece of our day, even when socializing is free of tension or awkwardness...
...There was some tension,” he said of one particular rub up between Harvard tweed and newly christened Crimson Crazies. “But it was a good tension...
...taken by the military together with memories of the April 28 massacre create a deep distrust. "There is no sincerity," says Nidir. "There is a big gap between what is promised and what's implemented. If the government does live up to what it has promised, the violence and tension will be lessened." But so long as the ideology of global jihad continues to gain recruits in the south, neither iron nor velvet will soon bring peace to the region. "There are thousands of others like me out there," Abdullah Akoh the ustaz told TIME. "Almost every day someone gets...
Certainly, there should be room for friction, dissension and difference of opinion in an academic community—a University devoted to open and honest discourse is based on argument. And, certainly, one can expect some tension between a candidate and those who view him as a potential “spoiler” in an important election. But the kind of unimaginative and disrespectful proselytizing of the LaRouche supporters in question or the openly combative College Dems—not to mention Nader’s unimpressive and angry sensitivity to such taunting—is frustrating. The Forum...
...little humor went a long way in breaking the tension that built up around topics of heated debate like the war in Iraq and the upcoming election. In a culture of fear, Loeb stressed calm and steady conviction...