Sentence examples for gathered tensions from inspiring English sources

As more people gathered, tensions rose.

Where Monk achieved so much by implication, with relatively open harmonies and easy tempos that gathered tension simply by his stating a little-adorned melody, Mr. Corea is fascinated by speed, ornament and fireworks.

When a diplomatic crisis broke out this year between Ecuador and Venezuela, on one side, and Colombia on the other, regional leaders gathered to defuse tensions.

In Marseille, for instance, Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders who belong to a forum set up in 1991 when the Persian Gulf war caused similar tensions gathered once more to discuss the new attacks.

Its power depended on tension gathered and released.

In the middle of the movement, a frightening tension gathered, and the climactic diminished-seventh chords turned almost expressionistically ugly.

Tension gathered in his chest like it did before a big game.

Many storefront windows bear signs asking patrons to keep it down — evidence of tensions between those gathered for a party and those trying to sleep.

He also provides several reasons why Syria is "not Iraq," and how now his hawkishness is based on reality: This time we really can hurt the terrorists gathered there, really can calm tensions in the region, and so on.

Dwayne is the movie's magnet for tension; he has gathered all of it, which often seems to pull his shoulders up to neck level.

Anarchists and syndicalists from around the world gathered to sort out the tension between the two ideologies, but no decisive agreement was reached.