Written with self-belief and gusto, it is a pacy read, constructed with a crisp control of tension and narrative drive.
I'd call Zootropolis the week's best thriller if that didn't sound like an undue slight to French director Alice Winocour's very fine Disorder (Soda, 15), a crisp, close-shaved tension exercise starring Matthias Schoenaerts in the mode that suits him best – brutish brooder with something behind the eyes – as a PTSD-affected soldier turned bodyguard to Diane Kruger's endangered trophy wife.
This privileging of individual thinking, she tells me, was what led to tension between Crisp and the gay establishment.
It's been that way since they met, as children, so the tension, the crisp, is familiar but over time one would have hoped for a certain elasticity, a kind of give that has never emerged.
Roush opined that the shift from space travel to horseback was "jarring", but that once he got used to this, he found the characters cleverly conceived, and the writing a crisp balance of action, tension and humor.
Crisp 2006: 120–122) is that they are in tension with doxastic arguments for hedonism (and with epistemic arguments, on which see below), because they counsel caution or even skepticism about the epistemic credentials of our hedonism-related beliefs.
Not only were they not crisp, as promised on the menu, but the meat had lost its tension and its taste.
Mr. Zacharias performed as conductor and soloist, eliciting crisp and transparent textures from the orchestra, with sharply etched phrases and an underlying tension in the strings adding dramatic scope.
Today, my mind was tension, tension, tension".
