It has everything - the tensive rivalry, mocking tone, cynical commentary, smug narration and all.
The heavy, tensive, aching pains are the main indication for its use.
He lives in the tensive interim between the present, when he concedes that ‘there is no justice’, and some undisclosed future time, when ‘at the last’ ‘there is a judgment’.
Gary Burge's essay examines the tensive relationship of John to historical record.
But art history with its Hegelian roots has long been multifaceted and tensive; its dissonance is its strength.
Putting the tensive principles of justice and mercy into practice moves us forward in the transformation of a world founded on injustice and lack of compassion.
The tensive play between the two metaphors ‘bride’ and ‘body’ works only because it was not outrageous for a nubile woman to be depersonified as a body.
Over time, this tensive, paradoxical understanding gave way to the very different image of childhood dominating high modernity: childhood as a time of innocence and unfolding, natural potentials.
The tensive, paradoxical image of childhood forged by the Reformers has much to teach mainline Protestantism.
This popular study considers the manner in which confessions of faith in the context of worship need the tensive force of controversial dialectic to refine and focus their impact on a wider Christian understanding.
Definition of tensive in US English:
tensive
adjectiveˈtensiv
Causing or expressing tension.
张力的；引起张力的
Example sentencesExamples
Putting the tensive principles of justice and mercy into practice moves us forward in the transformation of a world founded on injustice and lack of compassion.
He lives in the tensive interim between the present, when he concedes that ‘there is no justice’, and some undisclosed future time, when ‘at the last’ ‘there is a judgment’.
The tensive play between the two metaphors ‘bride’ and ‘body’ works only because it was not outrageous for a nubile woman to be depersonified as a body.
This popular study considers the manner in which confessions of faith in the context of worship need the tensive force of controversial dialectic to refine and focus their impact on a wider Christian understanding.
Gary Burge's essay examines the tensive relationship of John to historical record.
But art history with its Hegelian roots has long been multifaceted and tensive; its dissonance is its strength.
The heavy, tensive, aching pains are the main indication for its use.
It has everything - the tensive rivalry, mocking tone, cynical commentary, smug narration and all.
Over time, this tensive, paradoxical understanding gave way to the very different image of childhood dominating high modernity: childhood as a time of innocence and unfolding, natural potentials.
The tensive, paradoxical image of childhood forged by the Reformers has much to teach mainline Protestantism.