But a basic tension between the idea of seriousness and the idea of entertainment rears its head.
In particular, there is a basic tension between the two main elements of the conservative view: Christian ethical values and the free enterprise system.
There was a basic tension between the kodjabashis, or notables, of the Peloponnese, who were anxious to ensure that they retained the privileged status they had held under the Ottomans, and the military element, associated with such klephtic leaders as Theodoros Kolokotronis, who sought recognition in terms of political power for their contribution to the war effort.
Women's situation is thus marked by a basic tension between transcendence and immanence; as self-conscious human beings, they are capable of transcendence, but they are compelled into immanence by cultural and social conditions that deny them that transcendence (see Beauvoir, chapter 21).
But what remains is a basic tension between the rights of company and passenger that hasn't changed much at all.
Certainly, a number of respondents observed that there was a potential basic tension between the Foundation's close involvement in the research and policy processes and speculated about the extent to which this might influence scientific proceedings.
Beneath these immediate conflicts, generally pitting liberals against traditional faiths, is a more basic tension between two understandings of religious freedom.
You chose the metaphor of "A long walk" as the title of your survey, but this essentially fails to capture the basic tension between Wahhabi conservatism and the modern world in Saudi Arabia.
This basic tension between pattern and purpose is the foundation of all language games, which play against the player's instinctive urge to intuit the rules beneath the text.
For the past four decades that basic tension between artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation — A.I. versus I.A. — has been at the heart of progress in computing science as the field has produced a series of ever more powerful technologies that are transforming the world.
Meanwhile, Labour has no plan to resolve the basic tension between northern seats worried about migration and London seats worried about lack of migration, nor the tension between all of their MPs voting Remain and most of their constituencies voting Leave.
