What I respect so much is that her kids play at a high, tense, focused level.
If you notice a part of your body that is tense, focus on relaxing the muscles there before moving on to the next part.
While her peers like Mr. Swanberg and Ms. Dunham are known for movies about inchoate 20-somethings fumbling around for love and a purpose in life, Ms. Seimetz created something very different: brutal and tense, focused on two doomed people whose sense of possibility never really extends past the cramped dimensions of their overheated car.
AN OLYMPIC alpine skier is poised at the starting gate, tense, focussed and unsmiling.
She is alert, tense, focused at all times, and different from her subordinate friends, who treat their gang obligation as if it were an after-school job -- better-paying but no less annoying than the burger griddle.
One of the earliest pictures in the show is a double portrait of Brewster's father and stepmother, Ruth Avery Brewster: the father broad-faced, affable and distracted; the mother tense, focused, gazing straight out at the viewer.
The burkini row is only the start of what promises to be a tense electoral season focussing on national identity issues and Islam's place in France.
I like the fact that when the rhythm gets more intense (eg around 2.25), Astaire lowers his focus and adopts a tense runner's crouch, much as Glover does.
It requires your full attention, focus and care; a tense masseur or masseuse is not going to promote a romantic feel!
Not since Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost 25 years ago have two team-mates been locked in such a tense fight, with only themselves as each other's focus.
But it is precisely its leanness and the tight focus of its storytelling that make it such a tense thriller.
