Sentence examples for into tense from inspiring English sources

He used the higher reaches of the instrument for commentary, often delving into tense quarter-tones.

Later that week, as protests escalated into tense confrontations, Young got between the police and the crowds, pleading for peace.

On Tuesday, Rankin was repeatedly drawn into tense exchanges during aggressive cross-examination by Morales, the lead prosecutor.

Inexorably the strands coalesce into tense, swelling sustained orchestra harmonies and restless bursts of chords and quasi-crazed figures in the piano.

I liked Du Yun's "When a Tiger Meets a Rosa Rugosa," whose serene opening turns frenetically aggressive before retreating back into tense quiet.

The best solution for people going into tense situations is simply to leave their phones behind, said Hanni Fakhoury, a staff lawyer with the foundation.

Cocchiarella's interest in the philosophy of time had initially been aroused by Reichenbach's work on space and time but it was his acquaintance with Prior's Time and Modality that swept him into tense-logical research.

You can trick your mind into tensing up your vocal folds.

WASHINGTON — President Obama's latest cabinet-level nominees are running into deep resistance in the Senate, pitching Democrats and Republicans into another tense standoff over White House appointments.

(I was fourteen then and often dragooned into this tense task).

The United States defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, walked into a tense Afghanistan on Wednesday morning.