Sentence examples for quiet tensions from inspiring English sources

Upon learning of the attack on the cabdriver, some Muslim groups called for political and religious leaders to quiet tensions.

Shaw, whose family is from South Boston but who was raised in the suburb of Brookline and attended a prestigious private school, has straddled social realms; the Greater Boston of "SMILF" is neither the élite liberal enclave that some people fear it is nor the Irish-Catholic gangland of Hollywood's imagination, but a city full of quiet tensions.

A quiet tension prevailed downtown.

Yet Mr. Gilbert maintained such quiet tension that the quizzical music ensnared you.

The cameras capture the adrenalin charge of the emergency room, but also the quiet tension of patients making decisions using information they can't possibly comprehend.

West spends nearly half the film building a quiet tension as he focuses on the tragic, would-be babysitter Samantha Hughes (as played by Jocelin Donahue) as she runs through her typical day-to-day life.

When asked if she's having fun riding in limousines or appearing on talk shows, Laura tends to say no, and a quiet tension between her and her husband is evident in many scenes.

He bought the serious classical 19th-century Fang sculptures, including a shimmering black figure of a seated man, a magnificent study of quiet tension from its brooding face to its taut thighs.

Then, suddenly, when he opens his beautiful eyes, he is pierced by the world: Only sometimes when the pupil's film soundlessly opens… then one image fills and glides through the quiet tension of the limbs into the heart and ceases and is still.

A reorientation of focus to upstream health-related determinants nurtured a quiet tension and scientific divide with regard to how disease pathogenesis and pathophysiology could best be investigated and understood.

It's a highly internalized journey, one of quiet tension and spare choices.