The tone of the production was inspired by the tension of war: in an interview with The Guardian, Still commented, "The closest humans come to feeling like rabbits is under war conditions ... We've tried to capture that anxiety".
To be sure, there have been a few testy moments between Washington and Jerusalem during the tension of war, but they shouldn't be confused, not for a moment, with the strength of this enduring, unique, and mutually beneficial relationship.
The tensions of war are crackling round the Levant.
Ms. Grime was heard from again on Monday evening, this time in "Everybody Sang" (2010), an orchestral score in which contrasting layers — sober string and woodwind writing alongside glittering percussion and brass — evoked a moment inspired by a Siegfried Sassoon poem, in which soldiers momentarily escape the tensions of war by singing.
Obama may feel he can slide through the next nine months with ever-tightening sanctions and a strategy of tension short of war, but the government of Israel is attempting to force the pace with increasingly hyperbolic predictions.
It seems that Sontag too was waiting, like Saravejo, for a new identity to emerge out of the tension of the warring opposites.
No such reunion has been held in the past three years, and a revival of the highly emotional program would be another step toward a thaw on the divided Korean Peninsula after months of tension and threats of war.
The tensions of the war have lurked beneath the surface of the country's politics ever since, boiling over in 2013, when students and bloggers organized massive protests, calling for the harshest possible sentences for convicted war criminals.
Over the last decade, Taipei's push toward independence and Beijing's rhetorical bullying and real military buildup — including 1,000 missiles pointed at the island — fanned tensions and fears of war.
There is often tension in this tug-of-war but we not only expect it, we encourage it.
At least "Fail-Safe," which this network broadcast live last April, was built around the tension of potential nuclear war, the action taking place in real time.
