The phrase "hidden tension" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a feeling of unease or animosity that may be present but not readily apparent or visible. For example: "There was a hidden tension in the room that only became apparent when tempers flared."
From behind a wax museum face with slits for eyes, Duvall holds your attention by playing Stalin as secretive and inscrutable, a plausible take on a man described by one of his biographers, Isaac Deutscher, as hiding tension and anguish behind a "mask of unruffled calmness". The calmness here on occasion gives way to fits of boorishness and rage.
As barely hidden internal tensions at the BBC burst into the open, a Newsnight reporter, Liz MacKean, told a BBC Panorama programme due to be broadcast on Monday that she believed Rippon would not support the nearly prepared film.
It was hard not to reflect on the hotbed of racial, political, and ideological tension hidden in Tempe, a suburb arguably like any other suburb in Australia.
The upbeat rhetoric, however, hid real tensions about how an expanding community would work and what its aims should be.
Rowling's novel, first published in 2012, centres around a seemingly bucolic English country village where pleasant appearances hide simmering tensions and rivalries.
Set in the picturesque English village of Pagford, the story follows the life of a town where pleasant and idyllic appearances hide simmering tensions and rivalries.
Collective responsibility might only hide private tensions, but at least it provides public space to keep the fragile show on the road.
All the overblown reciprocal compliments could not hide evident tensions — over Iran and Israel-Palestine and how the two are linked.
In an article written for a German financial newspaper, the president of the French Senate's European Affairs Commission says, "It's useless to try to hide the tensions between France and Germany".
