Sentence examples for gathering tension from inspiring English sources
All usually prepare for it with a long passage of gathering tension.
What is good about the play is the way Stephens combines individual portraits with gathering tension.
Or he circuits the stage with a cumulative momentum that — by seeming to ignore the gathering tension in the music's harmony — suggests he is charging unwittingly toward calamity.
Perhaps a gathering tension contributed to the extraordinarily abrasive nature of the race-off for gold, a machismo of sailing conducted amid intimidatory posturing on both sides.
Patterns were set up, and then the band built almost conspiratorial crescendos down below, while her voice hovered as if untouched by the gathering tension until she finally let it sweep her up.
The portentous brasses and timpani lend a gathering tension that is released only in the final utterance, "Grant us peace".
The film, playing at Anthology Film Archives in the East Village as the Museum of Modern Art pays tribute to Mr. Tarr with a retrospective, unfolds with grave majesty in empty nighttime streets under bleak wintry skies in an impoverished, unnamed Eastern European town where gathering tensions fed by rumor and intensified by the arrival of a strange, metaphorical circus are nearing explosion.
The gathering tensions exploded into open fury on Oct. 27 when Mr. Chen's new prime minister announced that the government would halt building of Taiwan's fourth nuclear power plant, a $5 billion project that has divided the island for years.
The latter, like the new film, was a richly researched exercise in tension, gathering to a head in the hours of darkness, and it was fortified, rather than hindered, by its equivocation in regard to torture; as you followed Navy seals in their task the elimination of Osama bin Laden you felt a squirm of disquiet about the tactics that had led to this exhilarating quest.
"She is telling herself, 'I'm not going to let this woman pass her stress on to me.' " Ms. Price, in contrast, wore her tension showily, gathering it around her like a cloak as she swept from the restaurant toward a waiting limousine.
The local chiefs have been gathering to try to ease tensions and to find a way to feed the hungry.
