"raw tension" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling of intense nervousness or uneasiness, typically in a situation of heightened emotional or physical tension. For example, "The raw tension in the conference room was palpable."
Even if Mubarak has no political future, his release is expected to intensify raw tension between the military-backed interim government and the revolutionary youth.
The narrative drive of this white-knuckle story owes everything to the raw tension between virtuous Danny and evil Evan, whose violent rages make him "a force of nature".
Although in this tableau she was the nominee and not the opposition witness — and although there was little of the raw tension and none of the unhinged free-for-all that characterized the earlier proceedings — there were unmistakable echoes.
Yet what is more likely, I ask: politicians directing the murders of a sitting congresswoman and a federal judge for the purpose of furthering gun control, or politicians expectedly feeding off moments of raw tension?
For one thing it's just too damn long, with so much repetition, and the raw tension of being stalked by a single, incredible, invincible evil dissipated rather quickly once it became apparent that, wouldn't you know it, that double-mawed menace wasn't operating alone.
For one thing it's just too damn long, with so much repetition, and the raw tension of being stalked by a single, incredible, invincible evil dissipated rather once it became apparent that, wouldn't you know it, that double-mawed menace wasn't operating alone.
The killing tore at already raw tensions between the police and the city's minority communities.
Spencer's events have exacerbated the same raw tensions that have led to clashes between far-left and far-right extremists at other events across the country.
The pointed exchange, which has not previously been reported, captures the raw tensions around the fractured Democratic coalition in Albany that threaten to dog Mr. Cuomo as he looks to his 2018 re-election, and possibly beyond.
Bushfires, too, are fodder to show both a combustible society – with its raw tensions between Indigenous people and settlers, between "respectable" femaleness and the virile, ready thump of rugged manliness – and an explosive topography.
America's rapid social changes -- seen directly in Obama's face -- pique raw tensions over political, social, and economic power.
