The phrase "a hidden tension" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an underlying conflict or unease that is not immediately apparent in a situation or relationship.
Example: "As the discussion progressed, it became clear that there was a hidden tension between the two colleagues that needed to be addressed."
Alternatives: "an underlying conflict" or "a concealed strain".
Remote stretches of the border, such as east of Eagle Pass, have an uneasy desolation where hidden tensions seem to ride the ever-blowing winds.
With 45 Years, he examines the hidden tensions in an apparently happy heterosexual marriage.
With "Art," a comedy in which arguments over an all-white painting expose the hidden tensions among three longtime male friends, Ms. Reza had to wait through 18 months of full houses in Paris to awaken interest abroad.
The world Bach depicts, with merciless objectivity, is a muted horizon of false expectations and hidden tensions, where lonely outsiders perform defunct rituals and uncertain transactions.
In Spain, the summer of 1981 was taut & anxious, for the year had brought to the surface many hidden tensions.
MS. JONES agreed to let a reporter follow her on two reconnaissance outings to look for new characters and to do what she does: explore the hidden tensions and weirdnesses that make New York City the global theater that it is.
Not least because the hidden tensions of the office were often played out by proxy, thanks to the Tatler menagerie: the travel editor's Pekingese dogs, Bubble and Petal, who were forever getting into fights with Jane's terrier.
Meanwhile, financial sanctions by America over dollar counterfeiting and money-laundering is squeezing a regime that has relied on such activities.So the posturing if it does not represent the outward effects of hidden tensions within the regime, which are always possible looks most like an attempt to grab America's attention and strengthen North Korea's hand.
Previously hidden tensions between Pyongyang and its only ally were also exposed by China's then vice-foreign minister in a meeting in April 2009 with a US embassy official after North Korea blasted a three-stage rocket over Japan into the Pacific.
The movie never reaches much of a dramatic climax, but there are many surprises on the way to nowhere, and Mills's refusal to rush brings out the humor and the hidden tensions in material that, in more impatient hands, might have been conventionally winsome.
