The open shell of the ear is unusually large, tensing the rim.
CAIRO -- Two days after Secretary of State John Kerry made a controversial remark about the Egyptian military "restoring democracy" when it ousted the country's first popularly elected president, the comment has gone largely unchecked by official Washington, and looms large in a country tense from weeks of political wrangling and violence.
The city, known for its relative stoicism in the aftermath of a series of large earthquakes, was quietly tense as residents came to terms with the gravity of the day's incidents.
The workplace atmosphere at large factories was often tense because of resentment built up between management and labor unions throughout the 1930s.
In the chaotic aftermath, German police believed they were hunting as many as three shooters who were at large, leading to a tense, hours-long manhunt, triggering a city-wide lockdown.
They just couldn't pick the right place in the right time". Jazz fans weren't merely observing the game as much as inhaling it, standing for a large part of a tense fourth quarter and living up to much of the pregame fervor out here.
But introducing two large carnivores is always a tense and delicate procedure".
Already, the situation on the island is tense with the large cohort of Iranian refugees effectively excluded from the US resettlement deal by the presidential "travel ban".
But in an increasingly tense climate after large anti-Berlusconi demonstrations on Sunday, analysts said the judge's ruling made it nearly impossible for the prime minister to govern and all but guaranteed early national elections.
I was playing bridge one evening with a musician, a chemistry teacher, and a painter when, during a particularly tense hand, a large porcelain bowl that we kept on the piano suddenly shattered.
