Sentence examples for tense balance from inspiring English sources

Others, however, expressed apprehension, saying the police could aggravate an already tense balance.

It may be held in tense balance, aesthetics battling with a desire to push the boundaries of the acceptable.

All the clichés — "tightrope walker," "razor's edge," "laserlike intensity" — that critics employ to describe its tense balance between racy acidity and earthy substance seem apt.

The training and orientation programs run by these dedicated offices will have to negotiate a tense balance to avoid coming to blows.

I admired the tense balance of chile heat in a tartare of Wagyu skirt steak that I spooned into a warm flour tortilla for a do-it-yourself taco.

Indeed, when we think of Bergman's films, joy is not the first word that comes to mind: for most viewers, they call up an atmosphere of agitation, a tense balance between scrutiny and unknowing, a sense of the silence that rustles underneath personality.

That was Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which closed the programme in a welter of ear-splitting brass and reverberating timpani; the performance held the music's visceral and balletic sides in tense, thrilling balance.

We also rejected wines that lacked the tense sense of balance that energizes good sparkling wines.

The Blades will take a narrow one-goal advantage to Huish Park in the return leg on Monday after the teenage substitute McFadzean's deflected 46th-minute shot settled a tense and evenly balanced first leg at Bramall Lane.

In both matches, Williams sometimes looked tense, overwrought and off balance.

It has the same energy as screaming (we know this from Monster, Inc) so throughout the show I've tried to balance the tense moments with ones of pure comedy.