It can evoke tension, relaxation, laughter, tears.
Without ever addressing matters of op-ed debate, he evokes tensions between convention and law, and between private practice and public scrutiny, that are intrinsically political.
The rest is covered by a generic field of sensuously brushed, subtly modulated color evoking tension between cosmic space and the raw materialism of paint.
Here his themes are equally effective, with a haunting D minor 7th underpinning a recurrent atmospheric motif; guitars, banjos and fiddles evoking tension, longing and loss while brooding orchestrations glower moodily.
But whereas Beatty often devised such steps to evoke urban tensions, Mr. Benjamin used them for their inherent kinetic excitement.
Mr. Rickson said they wanted to evoke the tension of being a radical theater in a fashionable neighborhood.
The three movements of "Foreign Bodies" (2001) use unlikely juxtapositions to evoke the tension of foreignness -- Mr. Salonen's permanent state, as he explains it, having lived away from his country for 20 years.
Bullfighting was translated into dancing by means of crescendos of footwork evoking the tensions of combat and gestures for the upper body recalling a matador's passes.
And without dwelling on anti-Semitism, it evokes the tensions between Jews and Gentiles, which explode into vandalism, arson and looting after a strike imperils the miners' precarious existence and they take out their resentment on the local Jewish merchants.
Fig. 1 a Examples of isometric twitch contraction curves (left panel ) and electrically evoked tetanic tension and voluntary muscle tension development (right pane l) showing how the parameters of the mechanical responses of muscle contraction were subsequently calculated.
