Sentence examples for high tense from inspiring English sources

What I respect so much is that her kids play at a high, tense, focused level.

Suyá men, for example, sing shout songs in a high, tense voice, but they use a deep, resonant vocal style to perform unison songs.

While Cajun music's stronghold is around Lafayette, about 130 miles west of New Orleans, its two-step beat and high, tense vocal style have made their way into American music like country and New Orleans rhythm and blues.

Her shoulders are high, even tense, but her spine — one of the wonders of the dance world — is powerfully supple.

[Page B4.] The three investigators who first spoke to him also testified at the hearing, and while each version varied in details, all remembered the moment as high and tense drama.

At high speeds, tense isn't good.

Most will have played in high-profile, tense matches before and so shouldn't be fazed by the demands of the play-offs and what is at stake in them.

Students with high test anxiety feel tense in evaluative situations [ 21, 22] and commonly obtain poorer test scores and grades [ 23– 25].

Southeast Asian vocal performance like that of a great deal of non-Western art music is characterized by tense, high, often nasal voice production; this is one of many alternatives explored by the more experimental 20th-century Western composers and performers.

Yet it has already been passed by the House, and President Bush, who advocated its enactment in his State of the Union address, can be expected to sign it quickly into law, prompting another round of legal challenges likely to culminate in another tense high court showdown.

Results showed that low scorers in these tests were generally relaxed, carefree, and outgoing while high scorers were tense, fearful, and shy.