Sentence examples for tense account from inspiring English sources

The cellist David Finckel, the pianist Jeffrey Kahane and the violinist Cho-Liang Lin gave a burningly tense account of the movement, uneasy and taut.

The nastiest, hardest and most disturbing scenes you'll see this year are probably those that open Zero Dark Thirty, Kathryn Bigelow's dogged and unremittingly tense account of the decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden.

Troy doesn't figure in the action until almost halfway through A LILY OF THE FIELD (Atlantic Monthly, $24), which until that point reads as an unbearably tense account of two musicians whose lives and careers are shattered in the aftermath of the Anschluss.

Escobar Paradise Lost Writer/director Andrea Di Stafano shines a light on the psychopathic behavior of Columbia drug lord Pablo Escobar (Benicio del Toro) in this fairly dramatic and tense accounting of a U.S. young man (Josh Hutcherson, The Hunger Games) who falls in love with Escobar's favorite niece and plays into the demon's hands.

It's not that classic third-person, past-tense account that you get in novels, or particularly biographies or autobiographies, with hindsight shaping everything.

But Summers has his own stories to tell in this airy present-tense account of his life and career: a six-month stay in a British orphanage; a rock 'n' roll apprenticeship, crossing paths with the likes of Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix; and a tour of duty in the psychedelic act Dantalian's Chariot, whose single "Madman Running Through the Fields" is deservedly enshrined in the "Nuggets II" box set.

But vivid as the first-person, present-tense account of the production (the camp being burned down by troops in the midst of a border war and crew members cutting off their feet after snakebites, etc) surely is, one of the most striking aspects about the book is the apparent weight it gives to Herzog's stay prior to the shoot with none other than Francis Ford Coppola.

A neat, clean structure alternates between sections written in the present tense, as Roy's heart races at the thought of getting his hands on Betty's assets, and past-tense accounts of key scenes from the lives of the trickster and his associates.

"The Emperor" was followed in 1985 by what many believe to be Kapuscinski's masterpiece, "Shah of Shahs" (originally published in 1982), a short, tense, fragmentary account of the 1979 Iranian revolution.

Bloody Sunday, his stripped-down account of the 1972 Northern Ireland shootings, and United 93, his tense chronicle of the 9/11 plane hijacking, brought him acclaim and awards.

Officer Phillip Kidd, who arrived on the scene just as the shooting took place, backed up Tensing's account, and so did Weibel, writing that, "Looking at Officer Tensing's uniform, I could see that the back of his pants and shirt looked as if it had been dragged over a rough surface".