Sentence examples for nice tension from inspiring English sources

There is often a nice tension between the physicality and some of the more cerebral aspects of your characters.

He has a marvellous sense of the real and of the unreal, and his best work keeps these elements in nice tension — a balancing of different vitalities.

It wasn't quite clear which elements in the apartment accrued to which spouse, though there was a nice tension going between the black and the red.

That's a nice tension: you end up with jokes that are so much better than if you could just do anything.

"There's nice tension in the second verse, but tension is activity that draws away from her voice, so we have to lose it".

(The name change made things worse. Pan Am evoked the glamour of 1960s air travel; MetLife makes you think of life insurance and car crashes). The tower's chiseled concrete exterior does create a nice tension with Warren & Wetmore's 1929 Helmsley Building.

Examples are ornate pulls on a minimalist cabinet, or the opposite, like a streamlined handle on a carved wood door, which, Mr. Harris said, has "really nice creative tension".

"I was surprised because normally our fans are nice but the tension was high and that's maybe why they went mad.

The story plays out with a nice mix of tension, ache and humor, much of the last provided by Gene Burke as a spunky grandpa and Elizabeth Rogers and Richard Springle as a well-off couple who stumble in and create an incongruous domestic disturbance.

"The ballad -- which contrasts the symmetrical and the asymmetrical, the even and the odd, voice and silence -- creates a nice kind of tension that drives the language, as in "The Glory Trail" by Charles Badger Clark.

As the couple left, my husband tried to say something nice to diffuse the tension.