Sentence examples for explosive tension from inspiring English sources

"It has none of the explosive tension of O. J".

It was too diffuse, too slow and self-indulgent, the final contest lacked real explosive tension.

The confusion today, at a moment of potentially explosive tension, highlighted the sometimes tetchy stalemate that has grown up between fledgling Iraqi leaders and their American sponsors in the six weeks since the interim government was formed.

But it also doubled down on what it's best at — creating narrative and explosive tension over a long show.

Michod has a facility for building moments of explosive tension, when it's unclear to the characters who knows how much about what.

By projecting her personal fears and anxieties onto the landscape, Bedford creates an intense juxtaposition of restrained drawing technique and gestural bursts of paint that add an explosive tension to the work.

Moreover, wardens and prison guards believe such programs lower the explosive tensions in prison.

The activity reflects the potentially explosive tensions that have arisen from Croatia's onslaught in western Slavonia.

It is asserting its diplomatic power across Asia and around the world, but struggling to contain explosive tensions at home.

Ries paints a picture of a world in 2020 with "explosive tensions" between a rich, globalised group of countries and transnational corporations, and those left behind.

After all, I said, the development of any emerging economy was bound to produce serious inequalities between educated and not-so-educated people, which in turn could produce explosive tensions.