Call me crazy, but it seems that a little more empathy for our partners in life, work and play would go a long way to ease every day tension.
How can it control every single group, every single person?" Tension also remained acute within Israel.
With every swing, and every miss, the tension mounted, mostly because no one in attendance believed that a scoreless game could last much longer.
They also perceive, in the precordial region, and in the form of anxiety and tremulous tension, every desire and every sexual encounter that occurs in their vicinity; therefore, even though they are usually chaste, they enter into a state of vivid agitation during the season of love.
Baengnyeng receives intense news coverage every time tensions flare up between the two Koreas — during the North's nuclear test last year or when the two navies fought bloody skirmishes in 1999 and 2002, and again during a naval clash last November.
So it was just a tremendous amount of tension every time we went out the gate".
"It has become an allegory for nearly every strain of tension in American life," Ginia Bellafante wrote in The Times last August.
"Humanity faces many threats but none - none - is greater than climate change, which magnifies every hazard and tension of our existence," he said.
Of course you'd never replicate that tension every time, but it seems a more reasonable gimmick, as far as gimmicks go.
Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho lives again, still twitching its way from frame to frame with agonising slowness, ratcheting the strangeness as it isolates every second's tension.
