"We have never been for building tension and polarisation.
They are, for example, extremely adept at building tension.
The music was still blaring, building tension perfectly, as the bucking of the airplane got worse.
He's a master of building tension, and resolves everything organically and elegantly.
In a subsequent game between Chile and Italy in Santiago, he replaced the scheduled referee because of building tension.
Built around a divorcing couple, but ranging far wider, it's a web of social taboos, domestic clashes and building tension.
Building tension with tiny details, this highly effective chiller never wavers in its commitment to tingling creepiness over bludgeoning horror.
Mr. Perrotta cuts quickly and cinematically between these story lines, deftly building tension as he immerses us in the characters' daily lives.
At the end of an elegant two-hour concert that showcased Mr. Jamal's capacity for building tension within tight spaces, it was bewilderingly easy to feel unfulfilled.
She concluded with Liszt's version of Isolde's "Liebestod" from Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde," slowly building tension in the opening measures and increasing to a simmering climax.
In "Tristan und Isolde" Wagner tested the boundaries of tonality, building tension with harmonic suspensions, tritones and an arc of unresolved cadences that spans the entire opera.
