The city is tense, with daily rumors of a military crackdown.
A short man whose graceful body is tense with anxiety, he gazes beseechingly heavenward.
Yes, the situation is tense, with angry, marginalized, Islamists threatening their army-backed opponents with violent reprisals if the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, is not restored.
Ms. Pourfar's young Gabrielle is tense with yearning but also wary of committing herself to an affair with the affable young Gabriel, haunted as she is by the shadows of the past.
One of the greatest novels about the process of "becoming" (as opposed to "being") a nation, especially after the colonising powers have departed, it is tense with a taut hyper-awareness and knowledge of every nuance, subtext, context and history of the various mix of peoples in the unnamed Central African country where the book is located.
His films' precise visual and dramatic construction reflects that self-imposed rigor, which is why his terse style has nothing easy-going about it: on the contrary, it is tense with the repression of an erotic energy which, if that severe formal structure were to be punctured, would explode on-screen with a Sadean terror.
