Sentence examples similar to tense faced from inspiring English sources

India and Pakistan have fought three wars and still have a tense face-off over disputed boundaries.

People in the audience dress formally and smile with tense faces.

I saw my own pale tense face twenty years ago, and I spoke and no doubt I said the wrong thing.

Behind the scenes, the Fed will now signal to each bank whether it can proceed with new payout plans, potentially creating a tense face-off with regulators.

Since last year, Japanese and Chinese patrol ships have been engaged in a tense face-off near the Senkaku islands, uninhabited islets that China calls the Diaoyus.

No matter how lively the chatter at the table has been, a hush descends, and tense faces regard the slick, itemized printout in their midst with unfeigned awe.

We see by her concentration that she loves her craft, and by her set, tense face that she is angry and scared.

From his first encounter with Russian authority — a tense face-off with a boyish-looking border guard at Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow — he peels away Russia's stolid veneer to reveal the quirkiness and humanity beneath.

The series wraps with a close shot of Ari's tense face as he considers whether he can persuade his newly reconciled wife to give up her dolce vita dream so he can follow his.

Amid the shootouts, surveillance operations and tense face-to-faces with bad guys, there are also long, often dialogue-free montages with the stylised cinematography and free-floating logic of high-end music videos.

No longer was this a tense face-off between the US government and protesters who want Washington to relinquish control of thousands of square miles across several western states so it can be used more freely by cattle ranchers.