Sentence examples for a tense man from inspiring English sources

He was older than Paolo had realized, a tense man with a bright-orange Mohawk razored straight up the middle of his head.

Pankaj Sampath was a tense man at the turn of the last decade.

He knew that I would never make it as a past-tense man in a world set to the future.

He is a tense, discontented man, with a highly developed sense of irony.

A small self-portrait shows the painter as a tense young man, beset by doubts.

He said that parts of the neighborhood around the university were a tense "no man's land".

Exhibiting perfect timing, Mr. Berends has his camera on a tense young man at the moment the baby's first cry is heard.

Without a security force, aid workers say, their organizations will not be able to travel between Kabul and Kandahar, cutting off a vast stretch of the country from help and making it a tense no man's land.

It was fascinating to drive right up to the Israel-Syria border, a tense no man's land patrolled by United Nations troops.

Kennedy, the tanned, handsome, relaxed man in the dark suit, did well that night; Nixon, the sweating, pasty, tense man in the ill-fitting light suit, did not.

We get less sense, however, of the tense man who chain-smoked and was capable of red-faced displays of rage in private, but had the steely discipline to avoid the public tantrums that so damaged his predecessor, Harry Truman.