Sentence examples for striking tension from inspiring English sources

Especially seen in profile from across the water, Liberty's shoulder and raised arm project a striking tension.

Her physicality, especially above the waist, demonstrates striking tension (sometimes), remarkable angularity (often), but also complex fluidity, as she plays with separate physical impulses at any one time.

Good theater has to trump these advantages by creating striking tensions between the human and the fake.

Conflict takes many shapes in this memoir, but the most striking is the tension between modernity and tradition in the Gulf states.

The most striking instances of emotional tension are in film and video works.

Barack was the supreme master of communicating a brilliant vision, but he was a practitioner of realism, advocating a cautious approach based on reaching out, arriving at compromises and striking deals to reduce tension.

Timotheus Tomicek is a young photographer from Vienna whose striking images explore the tension between motion and stillness.

One of the most striking metaphors for the tension within "Yeezus," the new album from rapper Kanye West, arrives nearly 25 minutes in during a song called "I'm in It".

What's striking is the high-wire tension Eggers maintains.

But the tension is especially striking at Whole Foods, which prides itself on social consciousness.

Ms. Gainsbourg, with her lean body, haughty carriage and air of compressed tension, is almost as striking a figure in "The Tree" as she was playing a demonic wife in Lars von Trier's "Antichrist".