Buy on AmazonBookshopNew and Selected Storiesby Cristina Rivera Garza, translated from the Spanish by Sarah BookerLisa DillmanFrancisca González AriasAlex Ross (Dorothy)FictionThe primary tension in Rivera Garza’s fiction is between the unruly intensities of sexual desire and the political disciplining of the body, and it’s at its most concentrated in this latest translation of the Mexican-born writer’s work.
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For example, after sitting for a while, some simple shoulder rolls and neck rotations can alleviate some of the tension in those muscles, helping to avoid or reduce the accumulation of muscle knots.
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Based on a real “60 Minutes” segment and a Vanity Fair article about it, “The Insider” is the high-tension tale of CBS producer Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) trying to get former tobacco industry executive Jeffrey Wigand (Russell Crowe) to go on the record as threats begin and the walls seem to close in.
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Everything from thread tension to speed and even the colour of the LED touchscreen can be adjusted and tinkered with – which is fantastic.
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Imagineers hoped that the tension between the comforts of our voyage and the grunginess of our port of call would enhance the exotic appeal of Batuu.
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Is there an impulse to explore dramatic tension with her?I don’t want The Sex Lives of College Girls to be something it’s not.
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Fazakerley tells me that while doing more sets or reps could help you hit your goals as you ‘damage your muscles more and therefore encourage more muscle growth’, time under tension can be a solid alternative strategy.
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These achieve isometric tension at the top of the lift and must work hard throughout the entire movement.
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Between Paddy Pimblett and Conor McGregor, Ireland I suppose, and any professional surfer you can think of, who wins? The World Surf League very much tried to re-imagine pre-bout tension during the latest Final’s Day, there on Lower Trestles famed cobbled stone, but it was an objective disaster.
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Some might regret the loss of the subjective tension of the overall fields, but in it Orozco pushes to full resolution, in organic form, a mode of attention he’s long pursued.
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This keeps the tension high the entire time.
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Fires and heat waves in the Similipal Biosphere Reserve in India in early 2021 threatened the livelihoods of local Indigenous beekeepers, adding tension to an already fraught economic situation.
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The high-stakes tension is relentless.
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Voices are allowed to waver off key for a moment before finding their way to perfect harmony - a strange and asynchronous choice that adds a delicious tension to the song as it builds, giving it the feeling of a proper duet.
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If I had, would I have noticed the bulge?“Don’t worry,” he says, apparently reading the tension on my face.
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A convenient control dial lets users adjust the upper tension to avoid loose stitches or fabric puckering.
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So it’s the tension between Carrie Kat’s approach, which is slow and incremental, and Alice’s approach, which grows to be kind of like, burn it all down.
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The newbie star suggested, however, that the cast will still “have moments” – which is assumedly a reference to drama and tension – but added, “I think we’re all looking for something different.
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“But you can create more competitive tension in these markets and more openings for mix-and-match technologies.
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It creates tension and a sense of unease.
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The scene are rapid-fire and every one is an emotional gut-punch of feeling, ranging from heart-break to elation and to that moment when you just want to scream in a pillow because the sexual tension is unbearable.
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Much of the tension comes from the inheritance the men received from their parents, who each in turn abandoned the two boys.
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You can feel the tension that is created by these conversations, and the power of them remains in their quiet nature.
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Four years after the World Cup in Russia, there is tension between the government and soccer fans.
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Hope arrives in the form of the businessman Javier (Cliff Curtis), who is looking to buy her father’s land, and Kusijanović adeptly dials up the tension as Julija flirts with Javier in an effort to be whisked away from her provincial existence.
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Marx argued social change is driven by the tension created within an existing social order through technological and organisational innovations in production.
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No matter how familiar, the movie remains such an exquisitely timed exercise in tension and release that a packed screening at the Somerville Theatre this past April was louder than a roller-coaster.
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Decades later, it was resurrected for Fleetwood Mac’s reunion concert, ‘The Dance,” and was a highlight of the show (the video of that performance is incredible and you can still see the tension between the ex-couple).
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This will keep your abs under tension for the entire duration of the exercise.
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For the Hawks, this issue is a microcosm of tension that exists among Young, McMillan and the locker room.
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In her introduction to “The Vegan Chinese Kitchen” (Clarkson Potter), Hannah Che chronicles her journey of adopting a vegan diet in college and the tension that arose when confronted with the seafood- and meat-centric diet of her parents, immigrants from China.
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The tension has put the Mali operation, Germany's biggest and most dangerous after Afghanistan, in a tight spot.
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There's been no great controversy or tension that's been overcome.
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These scenes are uncomfortable to watch, given the gap in knowledge between the audience and the oblivious characters, which helps heighten the tension during confrontations, and the final, over-the-top, bombastic fight scene that simply takes the cake.
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The tension Patel brings out in Jeevan grounds the whole show.
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Here, physical therapists lay out the key benefits of adding mobility exercises to your routine and demonstrate specific moves to relieve tension in any joint.
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a physical, chemical, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension and may be involved in causing some diseases
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I guess the point was that there was a perceived increase in tension between humans and mutants, and this was Ororo and the team’s hope of dealing with it before things got out of hand — or anymore out of hand.
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Poor alignment and mobility in the thoracic spine and pelvic region results in decreased function, limited breathing capacity, excess tension, and therefore more intra-abdominal pressure, which can contribute to or worsen conditions like diastasis recti, pelvic floor dysfunction, and prolapse (10, 11, 12, 13).
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Though Ab-Soul interpolates Chief Keef’s “Love Sosa” and Nas’ “The Cross” on consecutive songs, little of the natural tension one would expect to flow from Soul’s omnivore streak makes it onto the record.
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Before their first tryst, Connie grabs his hand and brings it to her face with reckless abandon, the lines on Corrin’s face releasing tension as though this is the first time she’s been able to breathe in months.
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However, a rise would potentially create tension for the current Government, as many people resist the idea of working for longer.
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To a point, there’s an appealing tension in their on-screen abstinence, in the way they always come close to fully physically committing themselves to each other.
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With landowner and church taxes on the rise, the people of Tassing are far from happy, and this tension is woven throughout the game's rich story that spans 25 years of European medieval history.
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Thankfully, The Inspection is a well-written film, and he carries most of the emotional tension between French and Laws through his magnifying, and yet absolutely terrifying portrayal of the drill sergeant.
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When Senator Richard Shelby and I visited before the midterms, we talked about former President donald trump and the tension between mr trump and some within his own party.
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Yet, it never sacrifices the tension of the thriller to make its point.
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