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Vaughn's face can sometimes look sweaty and almost heart-attack tense.
The Last of Us is visually arresting, mechanically solid, maturely written and by turns heart-rending, tense, unnerving and brutal.
Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker(written with screenwriter and journalist Mark Boal) is a heart-stopping, tense, at time, beautiful and touching movie about men in war, and one that puts the audience right in the action.
Mutsuko Fujii, of the Osaka education board, says she "listens with a tense heart" when Mr Hashimoto makes declarations about education.
Limbs and muscles and heart and mind tense as the fast, angry projectile rushes along its arc, a path you can almost picture in your mind's eye as you hold your breath and wonder where it will fall.
At the movie's harrowing heart is a tense, lacerating mother-daughter story featuring Tony Award winner, Victoria Clark, and Oscar nominated indie screen legend, Sally Kirkland baring her soul and her body, in a riveting, emotional tour de force.
But the same biologic responses that would give a person extra strength in dangerous situations can produce physical symptoms when facing ordinary stress: rapid heart rate, feeling tense, nervous or queasy, stomachache and having sweaty palms.
He pointed an arrow at her heart as she tensed the bow.
There are no conventionally tense, heart-pumping moments and, actually, no really explicit violence.
