Sentence examples for devoid of tension from inspiring English sources

The final miles were not completely devoid of tension for Wiggins.

Alas, his musical side, which occupies an equally central role in the novel, is comparatively devoid of tension.

Here, his jumpy camera and occasionally arresting widescreen compositions are pleasing yet devoid of tension or surprise.

Tracy Silverman handled the countrified solo fiddling well enough, but the work was almost devoid of tension.

Sporting Lisbon were outclassed here, and consigned to the Europa League in the process, by a rejigged lineup who flourished in a tie devoid of tension.

For them the last day was delightfully devoid of tension as Jonathan Trott and Ian Bell dutifully settled in before helping themselves to some Test runs which, in Bell's case, were overdue.

Devoid of the tension of a title decider, it is still the game in the Argentine football calendar that gets the juices flowing.

Many analysts see the shifts in language as further evidence that the market for executive pay is largely devoid of the tension inherent in most negotiations.

But the first night, after our initial treatments, I found Bonne and Lilla engrossed in conversation as if they'd known each other for years, their faces glowing and miraculously devoid of earlier tension.

Given a plot so devoid of narrative tension, Wilson's staging consists of his trademark hieratic gestures and lurid lighting enlivening a series of static setpieces which amount more to a quasi-religious knees-up than an enlightening, involving piece of theatre.

This first novel is "devoid of the delicious tension that infuses books like 'Pride and Prejudice,' " Maggie Galehouse wrote in these pages last year.