Sentence examples for extraordinary tension from inspiring English sources

The timing is particularly awkward, in a summer of extraordinary tension with North Korea and Iran.

The violence unfolded on a day of extraordinary tension across Iran.

The lead characters – Joel and Ellie – are convincingly human and there are moments of extraordinary tension and wonder.

The extraordinary tension between Reagan and Thatcher is set out in Downing Street files released under the 30-year rule.

If he takes the job, Mr. Qurei will become prime minister at a moment of extraordinary tension between the adversaries.

The distinction of the Seventh can be heard right at the beginning, in the extraordinary tension of those rapid figures in the introduction.

In his Medea, Robertson has most obviously drawn from the well the extraordinary tensions that animate the dialogue between the estranged Jason and Medea.

Cumings suggests that "a civil conflict purely among Koreans might have resolved the extraordinary tensions generated by colonialism, national division and foreign intervention" — a resolution that would almost surely have ended with mass murder and a ruthless totalitarian state stretching across all of Korea.

Doubt, worry, faith and sacrifice boil up with extraordinary cinematic tension.

And in Mr. Coltrane's searching improvisation, there was an extraordinary emotional tension, along with a spirit of surrender.

Only with "Diving Into the Wreck" and "The Dream of a Common Language" (1978) does the extraordinary stylistic tension of her most accomplished poems emerge.