Sentence examples for tangible tension from inspiring English sources

Lovely touch!" But there is tangible tension beneath the bonhomie.

Even more disconcerting was the tangible tension between the protesters and the police.

But the laid-back atmosphere of the beach community has vanished, replaced by a tangible tension each time a jet thunders by.

What is important for them to understand is how we managed to stay safe throughout the 1980s, a time of tangible tension between East and West before Reagan and Gorbachev "tore down that wall".

Julie Walters is brilliant, too, as Marie Finchley, with only the tangible tension in the muscles of her face and the occasional wobble in her voice betraying the profound pain she is experiencing.

The writer David Lodge, in his recent memoirs, describes a comedy revue at the Birmingham Repertory theatre on 22 November 1963, that was overwhelmed by breaking news of the assassination of John F Kennedy; and I remember the tangible tension during an opera that was going on while Princess Diana's sensational Panorama interview was being broadcast on BBC1 in 1995.

There are also less tangible tensions.

I mean, a bunch of buff, oiled-up guys admiring each other's contorted, veiny bodies is essentially a Tom of Finland artwork realised in flesh and tangible sexual tension.

A more tangible source of tension between the Orthodox and their more secular neighbors is the growing number of shtiebels, private houses that serve as synagogues.

The debate about the role of the writer, which we might have hoped Rushdie to lead, was brought to life: it could not be more visible, even tangible, in the tension between these two powerful and very different personalities.

The sexual tension: tangible.