Word: tensions
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...When my boss is here, there's a tension that permeates everything. Your breath catches in your chest and just sticks there for the entire day-no heartburn or reflux medicine can remove the feeling! The man never recognizes anyone for a job well done, yet he never yells at anyone for screwing up. He rarely ever cracks a smile or laughs, but he doesn't yell. It's almost like he's a robot, an automaton that lives to sit in his office and go over minute details of things people will never see or read...
...above 30 before the Crimson was able finally to win by two. In the final minutes of the fourth game Harvard jumped out to several one-point leads, only to see ESU tie the score on the ensuing play. As a raucous home crowd cheered before every serve, any tension-filled point might have meant the difference between a Crimson victory and a decisive fifth game. “You have to tighten up because you don’t want to make a mistake, but you have so much energy going through your body that you want...
...male pas de deux towards the end of the performance provides the most dramatic and skillful interpretation. Mark Morris’s “Up and Down,” the best executed of the two world premieres, provides an impressive display of dynamic dancing and emotional tension through its skillful performers and innovative choreography. While modern and creative, it also remains firmly grounded in its classical ballet origins—making it the most technically difficult work of the night. Although the use of nonchalant exits—different groupings of 12 dancers simply walk offstage?...
...premise of direct talks is each side's recognition that the other has a legitimate (or, least, unavoidable) interest and role in shaping events in Iraq - and that the interests of both sides can be better served by coordinating their interventions. And in light of the mounting sectarian political tension, each side has good reason to establish channels of communication for crisis management...
...Council head, Ali Larijani, said Thursday that Iran had agreed to talk in response to a plea by its most powerful ally in Baghdad, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, leader of the largest party in the Shi'ite bloc. Hakim, caught in the maelstrom of his country's rising sectarian tension, certainly has an interest in achieving a measure of accord between his longtime backers in Tehran and the U.S.; he knows better than most that the survival of the political system which has handed him so much power still depends on the U.S. military presence...