Sentence examples for tense blend from inspiring English sources
Yet Harry Ritz, like Berle and Lewis, is a performing fury: he gives the impression of punishing himself with comic exertion, with a tense blend of precision and wild expenditure of energy.
Especially ambitious was the band's 1985 release, Fables of the Reconstruction, a tense blend of R.E.M.'s ideas about folk rock and those of Joe Boyd, an American expatriate who worked in the 1960s with British artists such as Nick Drake and Fairport Convention.
But it works, despite the self-imposed restrictions, and even playing a very early build shows that he has managed to get a good blend of outright violence and tense stealth.
Several featuring Elizabeth Taylor during a movie shoot are particularly compelling, for they blend a famous face in an arrested, emotionally tense moment with a composition that sensitively weaves both action and light patterns.
A childhood friend compared him to "a tomcat, constantly tense and grumpy"; later in life he acquired the nickname Gniewosz, which blended his name with the Polish word for "anger".
The atmosphere was tense.
