This kind of urgency carries over to fiction, where a ticking clock a sense of time running out can make the pages seem to snap by with the speed of a second hand.
WSJ: Word Craft: Benjamin Percy, Author of Red Moon, on the Ticking Clock
The silence of the desert has its uses for the mystic, but what she experienced as a writer was that it destroys not only the sense of self, but also the foundation of narrative art a sense of time and memory.
His work would later take a more abstract turn, shimmering, like jewel boxes, and a little blurred, with a distorted sense of time and place and with mysterious, lonely figures.
With such disruptive devices as intercutting color and black-and-white footage, parodying silent-film antics, and inserting scenes of youths dancing the twist, Pasolini both affirms the classical grandeur of cinematic modernism and conveys his sense of a time out of joint.
Most of us know the reasons: It helps us regain a sense of control, it shakes up our sense of time in a good way, it acts as a kind of therapy, promoting flexible and imaginative thinking and stimulating new ideas, and it can expand our cultural horizons.
FORBES: You Don't Take All Your Vacation, But You Still Want More. Why?
What results most of the time is a sense of freedom, an airy lyricism that's never weighed down by the notion that careers or record sales hang in the balance.
"Part of what makes this compelling is not so much reading every tweet but just getting a real-time sense of how fast this is moving, " he said.
Being part of a group is a terrific way to make new friends, deepen existing friendships, have fun, create a sense of belonging, and spend time thinking about a subject that interests you.
FORBES: Have You Joined or Started a Happiness Project Group? If Not Do You Want To?
So the classic Kleiner venture paradoxically has more ambition in a shorter amount of time and a greater sense of urgency, which we share.
HTC's Drew Bamford is a long-time defender of the Sense UI, but in a fresh interview he's switched tactics and rushed headlong at the competition.
"It is very difficult to generate understanding and a sense of chronology in such abbreviated time periods, " says the report.
Her leg bones confirm that A. afarensis could walk upright, though her ape-like upper body and the arrangement of the semi-circular canals of her ears, which are the location of the sense of balance, suggest she also spent a lot of time climbing trees.
In his book The Highland Clearances, Prof Eric Richards said the resettling of large numbers of people in a relatively short space of time caused dislocation, "psychic wounds" and a "sense of wrong" that was passed down generations.
But when Warrington ran in a third try four minutes from half-time, it already looked a long way back for the Super League champions - and this time they had a justified sense of grievance at the award of the try.
Absent other circumstances, it allows the board to keep talent for a period of time and provides the executive director with a sense of job security.
FORBES: 5 Must-Haves in an Executive Director's Employment Agreement
If Perlow were a prudent person, she would have tested her remedies on small-time workaholics with a proper sense of shame about their always-on careers, such as professors, journalists, locksmiths or currency traders.
Furthermore, the absence of a time frame for transition would deny us any sense of urgency in working with the Afghan government.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama on the Way Forward in Afghanistan and Pakistan | The White House
In one sense, the activities are short-term in the sense of being about particular product at a particular time, but relational in the sense that the network itself is long lived.
FORBES: When Will US Firms Become Agile? Part 1: Virtual Agility
Kemp Hannon, the Long Islander who is chairman of the Senate Health Committee, said it doesn't make sense to loosen marijuana laws at a time of growing concern about illegal sales and abuse of prescription drugs.
They can be symbolic and inspirational, and bring some sense of normalcy during a disruptive time.
FORBES: Going Forward With NYC Marathon Would Have Been Moral Affront
"It is a long time in the sense of a click of a switch, but you are talking about every government service, " he said.
There was a tangible sense of relief at full-time at the Emirates after Fabregas, not for the first time, provided the spark that rescued the north Londoners from a tight spot.
But one gets the sense that he spends a lot of time in the elevator, starting many days in the new digital photo studio in the basement and then moving upstairs to sample production rooms and then the showrooms, which are divided by brand, gender and vibe.
We'd been hearing some pretty crazy things about the rumored Droid X2 for Verizon, only to have those expectations reigned in to a light refresh -- and in light of the Droid Bionic's upcoming launch, a deeply overhauled Droid X launching in roughly the same time frame never made a ton of sense in the first place.
ENGADGET: Motorola Droid X2 is a Droid X with a smaller microSD card? (updated)
An economist, or perhaps anyone with a bit of common sense, might argue this isn't such a great time to be putting the land on the market.
She credits Virginia Tech officials for responding this time with a "sense of urgency" and sharing information quickly, she said.
However, this time there is a sense of optimism among many in Turkey, says the BBC's James Reynolds, reporting from the PKK media briefing in northern Iraq.
The original church was ordered to be rebuilt by da Gama soon after his second return from India in 1503, at a time when his growing sense of self-importance was becoming a nuisance to the authorities.
"We as a country tend to lull ourselves into a false sense of security over the passage of time, " said Andy Lamprey, vice president of the security firm Andrews International and a former Los Angeles Police Department senior SWAT supervisor.
Americans have a strong sense of community, as 92 percent know someone they could rely on in a time of need.
应用推荐