Sentence examples for powerful tension from inspiring English sources

Wong's style, at its best, maintains a powerful tension between opposing tugs toward illustration and decoration.

There is a powerful tension in Tolstoy's work between persons and types, the particular and the general, freedom and laws.

A powerful tension often simmers beneath the surface of Chopin's aristocratic, elegant works, like the Prelude in D flat (Op. 28, No. 15).

Sonically, it combines elements from contrasting compartments of his career, hard crunches co-existing with synth-orchestral lushness, setting up a powerful tension.

In some of the more successful paintings, like "On the Move," there is a powerful tension between the swift, sweeping patterns and the instinctive desire to identify faces.

The Aristotelian influence resulted in the plays of Pierre Corneille and Jean Racine, tragedies of honour using classical themes, highly sophisticated theatrical instruments capable of searching deeply into character and motive, and capable of creating the powerful tension of a tightly controlled plot.

Renée Jolles, the violinist, and Mr. Sachs, at the piano, gave a powerful, tension-filled reading of Roberto Sierra's virtuosic Sonata (2010).

She has faced powerful tensions – and worse – with Bangladesh's apparel industry and government.

Suspense accumulates with each substitution, until at last the final and revelatory substitution bursts the pattern, achieving a climax and with it a release of powerful tensions.

The travails of its 13-year-long saga concentrated what seemed to be all the most powerful tensions and personalities of the country at large into our household.

The scene, which on paper is full of murky and powerful psychosexual tension, is staged, of course, with no whiff of sensuality.