Sentence examples for actually tense from inspiring English sources

This terrific film is actually tense, twisty and brilliant.

I'm actually tense and afraid for these characters again.

The king actually is a threat to Cromwell since he's so damn volatile and we actually tense up when he's out of favor and tense up even more when he's back in favor and inevitably handed some unpleasant or seemingly impossible task.

"Actually, I'm really, really tense," he replied, though without losing the remote air that he had maintained throughout the afternoon's labors.

Really tense.

I used to enjoy going to museums very much because it was a place where … I'm not sure I would use the word meditation, because when I am focused on something I am actually quite tense.

Shortly after that, Mr. Attenborough in "Cry Freedom" transformed what was actually a tense and difficult relationship between the black and white anti-apartheid activists Steve Biko and Donald Woods into a dreamy ideological alliance that never took place.

It's not actually a past tense; that, too, is a subjunctive, correctly used here.

I used to actually get so tense and nervous before I taught class that I would throw up beforehand.

SO: It was actually a very tense argument from what I understand, but it was actually a very productive one.

Imagine the calm before that big fight in Football Factory, but actually scary and tense and like something terrible could happen at any moment, plunging the whole scene into a terrifying display of human fists and testosterone-flaunting.