Sentence examples for creating tense from inspiring English sources

Grey also points out that overbearing people thrive on conflict and enjoy the control they derive from creating tense and combative situations, so simply ignoring them is the best defense.

It is therefore not surprising that film references to camps were mostly conceived in the form of flashbacks, creating tense dramatic moments, but nevertheless keeping this harsh reality in a different time frame from the "real time" of the plot.

In the U.S., the war has created tense disagreement, dividing left and right, young and old.

Working in shabby, closed spaces, Nolan created tense and powerful passages.

Mr. Szabo creates tense scenarios that involve throwing silverware and plates (the ear-splitting act occurs during the song "Ohio" by the band Over the Rhine), but the characters' constant mood swings grow tedious.

The series, which will be screened by BBC2 next year, features McTeer as the head of MI6, in a production written and directed by Hugo Blick, who created tense conspiracy drama The Shadow Line.

McTeer - twice up for an Academy Award for her performances in Albert Nobbs and Tumbleweeds - will portray the head of MI6 in the production written and directed by Hugo Blick, who created tense conspiracy drama The Shadow Line.

But he said the recent deadly shootings of five officers in Dallas and three in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, have created tense relations and that releasing the footage was "in everyone's best interest".

This permeability between the different locales allows him to create tense moments (and becomes crucial to discovering just how Rose will manage to save the day), but it requires the reader to imagine two worlds simultaneously — which can be difficult when the fantasy expands and contracts from the size of a fingernail to the astronomical dimensions of a solar system.

Hamilton and Ross create tense emotions.

There are plenty of examples of mergers around the country since the 1980s that have increased tuition, failed to reduce the costs of running colleges and universities, and created tense standoffs between administrators and faculty members, students and alumni.