The negotiations appeared extremely tense and highly combustible amid simmering hostility between Putin on the one hand and Merkel and Poroshenko on the other.
The negotiations appeared extremely tense and highly combustible, with simmering hostility between Putin on the one hand and Merkel and Poroshenko on the other.
In recent days there have been two symbolic events that run the danger of igniting hostilities in an already tense neighborhood of the Caucasus.
Georgia remains tense since the 2008 war with Russia; separatists threaten hostilities in the regions of Nagorno-Karabakh and Trans-Dniestr.
Audrey is a typical Halle Berry character: a tense, tightly wound woman who regards the world with a wary, fearful hostility; hysteria lurks just under the surface.
Throughout the tense diplomatic activity since the attacks, the United States has worked to tamp down hostility between the neighbors, which have nuclear arms and have fought two major wars since 1947.
Tense, fearful and beset by self-doubt, the French seem in a state of defiant hostility: towards their president, political parties, Islam, immigrants, the euro, globalisation, business bosses and more.
A tense calm prevails, but the two sides remain wary adversaries, poised for a resumption of hostilities at any time.
The juxtaposition of cultures has often been incongruous, even tense, but I can't recall more than a handful of instances where it has broken out into overt hostility or cultural jingoism.
Mr. Blitzer, who has spent weeks preparing for Tuesday's debate with Sam Feist, CNN's Washington bureau chief, said the hostility from some candidates — combined with the raucous and sometimes jeering audience — can add pressure to the already tense atmosphere of live television.
