Sentence examples for almost tense from inspiring English sources

There were times – not very long times, admittedly – when it was almost tense.

There's a fight in which Ethan dashes into the frame unexpectedly; a chase involving cars and motorcycles that, for a few rare and intermittent moments, delivers the thrill of high-speed open-road point-of-view shots; and an almost-tense bit of explosive trouble near the end.

This moment is almost unbearably tense.

The whole match was gripping, and the finish was almost unbearably tense.

"This is a great match, TMS is almost unbearably tense," says Martin Sinclair.

Before the shot both teams had failed to score for almost three tense minutes.

Student council elections in Lebanon have long been almost as tense as the real elections in Parliament.

Bolland and Bickell's goals ended this classic, almost unbearably tense series, in which three games went to overtime and every game was razor close.

APRIL 29, 4 P.M. -- "Act of Violence" (1949), Fred Zinneman's only film noir, an almost unbearably tense little movie with fine performances from Van Heflin, Robert Ryan and Mary Astor.

Das Boot: The Director's Cut (Wolfgang Petersen, 1981) 2.15am, FilmFour Petersen's account of a wartime U-boat crew hunting Allied shipping in the north Atlantic, based on a submariner's autobiography, is sweatily authentic and at times almost unbearably tense.

Several months separated the publication of the first and second volumes, and there was then a further delay, almost too tense to bear, before the fate of Frodo Baggins was disclosed in the third.