Sentence examples for fine tension between from inspiring English sources
The soft bodies squeezed into the rectangular box create a fine tension between the organic and the geometric, and between the container and the contained.
In paintings made by overlapping wide horizontal and vertical bands, there's a fine tension between the satiny physicality of the paint and the illusion of woven fabric.
Sainsbury's 2014 Taste the Difference Sancerre, £13, is a quality example of the appellation from the excellent producer Florian Mollet, an elegant dry white with smoky aromatics and a fine tension between sweet fruit and pithy grapefruit freshness.
I would like to see if it can help us understand the fine-scale tensions between cooperation and dishonesty in human affairs.
His finest efforts embody this tension, between who we are and who we wish we were, between promise and despair.
This was the contradiction at the heart of "compassionate conservatism," and it helps explain the tension between the president's fine words about, say, helping those hurt by Hurricane Katrina, and his actions.
The fine imposed on Credit Suisse comes at a time of heightened tension between the United States and Iran.
A chrome barbed-wire motif that Mr. Wang used around the ankle of a boot, for example, would become a fine string bow elsewhere on an outfit, like a belt, creating a tension between edge and beauty.
In his 1950 novella A Woman of Means, regarded by many as his finest work, a young narrator recalls his wealthy stepmother's nervous collapse and reveals the tension between her city ways and his father's rural values.
Watching Anthony Page's fine revival, which boasts glowing performances by David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf, another thought struck me: what also grips us is the tension between O'Neill's tight classical structure and the surging contradictions of family life.
Perhaps the oldest way to resolve the tension between conservation targets and human interests is the so called 'Yellowstone model' or 'fences and fines' approach.
