Sentence examples for note of tension from inspiring English sources

The dispute over the bears injects one more note of tension into a region already fraught with problems.

Even if the most obvious note of tension is the issue of why it's happening in the first place.

Again there was a genuine note of tension in the air as throughout the afternoon this fun, louche, hard-edged Mediterranean port city was the stage for some vicious moments of premeditated violence.

Other tiny and unlucky factors piled up before the officer's death: Officer Breitkopf's rifle had been pointed in the worst possible direction; a small-bore dispute with a neighbor contributed another note of tension to an already taut situation.

However, a note of tension crept in when Hamilton was asked if he was expecting a fair fight - a reference to the two incidents in Monaco and Belgium this year.

The mood is big city, with flashes of madcap mischief, craziness and devilry on the part of Rabbit and (especially) Rogue; the Rag Couple, sometimes ballroomy, have notes of tension and dispute.

The rest of the Arab world, he warns, is taking note of the tension between friends.

Make a note of the tension number (if your machine has one) and the thread used.

And, with some reason, that's unlikely to change any time soon, even as the American press begins to take more note of the tensions along Russia's borders.

While it is certainly possible to find a single overall theological picture emerging from across Ibn Gabirol's work, it is at least worth noting a degree of tension between a range of different and sometimes seemingly conflicting ideas.

Further, Siskel noted, "the level of tension in the film is palpable because we can't figure out how Arnold is going to terminate the Terminator".