Sentence examples for generate a tension from inspiring English sources

It's the actors here who generate a tension that doesn't exist in the script-particularly Hecht.

Opposing qualities of hand and brain generate a tension that distinguishes Malevich from his Western counterpart, Piet Mondrian.

This situation can generate a tension with respect to the traditional pattern of partnership, characterized by female educational hypergamy, and hence leading to the education-specific mating squeeze.

"The movements generate a tension between the planned and the accidental, with each new variation opening up possibilities for interpretation.

This is not a new situation and it has generated a tension particularly within Labour for many years – it was known as the "standards v structures" debate.

Working outside the classroom, immersed in a professional and/or everyday setting, generates a tension which results in a kind of learning experience, which, for certain disciplines, is more complete and engaged than the "simulated" knowledge provided within an academic environment.

This situation generates a tension between the advantage (to the pathogen) of increased ability to attack crop hosts, but the potential disadvantage (when there are trade-offs) of a reduced ability to persist on wild hosts (which can represent an important refuge in the off season).

Free-living eukaryotic cells lacking a cell wall, such as amoebas, usually counteract turgor pressure by means of cortical actin cytoskeleton that generates a tension-resistant actomyosin cortex directly underlying the plasma membrane (Stockem et al., 1982).

The back-and-forth scenes of emergency colloquies in the Kremlin and the White House, in which the hawks and doves on both sides (the Russians are subtitled) frantically press their agendas, generate a crackling tension.

And, apart from a climactic chase the cast merely wrestles with much dialogue to compound the plot's implausibilities.As has been noted, director Joseph M. Newman and his technicians generate a mounting tension as the happy Ruth Bowman turns to a terrified bride when her handsome spouse fails to turn up at a shipboard rendezvous; as each happenstance seemingly points to dementia.

The local variations in the solvent concentration may generate a surface tension gradient.