Sentence examples for creating a tension from inspiring English sources

The slow ticking of time is old age's exhaustive song, creating a tension that never goes away.

The arrival is subdued and simple, creating a tension between the savanna and the city that is continually renewed, and around which the whole series will be structured.

The nostalgic tug of the homeland — Henry Roth's Austria, Jhumpa Lahiri's India — counters the beckoning excitements of the adopted country, creating a tension that keeps the apparatus moving.

Eighteenth-century composers, for example, played with the relationship between dissonance and consonance, dissonance creating a tension which is then released, to gratifying effect, by a consonance.

This is creating a tension between those responsible for secondary revenue streams and those fighting to improve the viewing experience and retain ratings.

The rock star Deborah Harry, however, gives a pitch-perfect performance, creating a tension between soul and surface that is never merely glib (1 00).

These actin fibers anchor to a central actin-myosin network, creating a tension-based plane of cytoskeleton across the apical surface of the sheet.

"They create a tension within the space.

This creates a tension within the mind.

"It's created a tension in the community," he said.

This created a tension that has yet to be resolved".