Three minutes later Matthaeus was cautioned for a crude tackle on Maradona and in the next instant the tension which had been building up in Argentina's play was eased by their first goal.
What a surfing photographer like LeRoy Grannis wants is to freeze the moment at an instant of maximum tension: the towering wave just before it crashes from a sheer glassy green wall into frothy chaos; the surfer, an escape artist, scooting along just ahead of the angry white water that threatens to engulf him and take him down.
That instant-crackle sexual tension the show thrives on driven to the wind.
To use children in malefic stories is the instant way of creating tension.
Court filings of e-mails, text messages and instant messages show that there was tension between the two students.
At that instant, he added, he felt the tension release from his body, as if pushed out by the deafening roar of the home crowd.
Bill says he won't call on her again, so all that sexual tension is wasted in an instant.
If it took a couple of minutes for the performance really to get into top gear, after that the tension never slackened for an instant, and the force of the originality of Les Noces struck like a thunderbolt.
Both the tension in vivo and the instant stretch-back ratio increased during the expansion, but fell almost to control values after four weeks' maintaining period.
Given that the room was filled with as diverse a cross section of Americana as possible, and that tension filled it from the instant her first racial slur was shouted, anything could have happened.
