Sentence examples for mixture of tense from inspiring English sources

Mr. Auteuil's Sade, with his mixture of tense, coiled civility and ferocious willfulness, has almost nothing in common with the histrionic madman played by Geoffrey Rush in "Quills".

The atmosphere was a mixture of the tense and triumphal as the teams came out to a torrent of golden ticker tape raining down from the stands.

These two opposing perspectives have led to a tense mixture of politics and aesthetics, reflected in recent books reinterpreting beauty.

When my friend J. R. talks about her driving phobia, I hear a tense mixture of humor and embarrassment in her voice.

But in the decade from 1969 to 1978 it produced a homegrown pop: a tense mixture of electric guitars, imported late-60's soul and funk, modal Arab-flavored melodies and voices that veered between the tightly ornamented phrases of Arab music and the exultance of soul singing.

A sequence-of-tenses problem.

After the past-tense "said," sequence-of-tense rules require "had been continuing" or "was continuing".

After two days of tense politicking, Vice Pres.

Weeks of tense wrangling followed.

In the lobby, a thrum of tense murmuring began.

I had braced myself for crowds of tense shoppers.