Word: tensioning
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Laborites scathingly declared that Britain had been humiliated by a "tinpot dictator" and a "two-bit Mussolini." Critics blamed the government for misjudging Argentine intentions and for failing to keep a British naval squadron "over the horizon" from the Falklands during times of tension, to discourage adventurism in Buenos Aires...
...York Review of Books-type essay fears Huntington's work "has actually helped provoke the confrontation it predicts... The clash of civilizations theory is not just intellectually provocative: it fuels xenophobia and paranoia both in the West and in the Islamic world." Instead, she says, the tension is within Islam itself. "The failure to resolve that tension peacefully and rationally threatens to degenerate into a collision course of values spilling into a clash between Islam and the West...
...professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Guerín is one of the most significant figures in Catalan cinema today. Guerín’s films can be described as “environment documentaries,” which capture a character, his surroundings, and the tension that exists between the two. “En la ciudad de Sylvia,” the first movie presented, is composed of the rich sights and sounds of the title character’s city. Guerín filmed the city’s inhabitants, as opposed to filling...
Pundits make similar mistakes when they're trying to explain non-presidential elections. Why do voters ticket-split, choosing a President from one party and a Representative or Senator from another? Perhaps it's a clever way to preserve the creative tension of divided government, check the excesses of any one party and send a veiled warning to everyone in Washington that it's time for a little bipartisanship. Or perhaps people simply choose the candidates they like. Campaign managers overthink things too. Consider the time wasted in war rooms parsing the molecular difference between, say, "Ready for Change...
...This scheme of representation is where it gets tricky. The inherent tension in a representative democracy is, Should our elected leaders vote according to their judgment-or their constituency? Political theorists have debated this for two centuries. These days, you generally hear candidates say we should choose them for their judgment; they don't say, Vote for me, and I'll vote the way you tell me to. "I don't listen to polls," candidates boast, but polls are the way the people speak to their officials-and if you simply substitute the words the people for the word polls...