Sentence examples for tense setting from inspiring English sources

He buried his face in a wet towel and he tried to remain calm in a tense setting.

Ms. Mijanovic also gave a lovely, quietly emotional reading of Johann Christoph Bach's dark, tense setting of lines from Lamentations and Psalm 38, "Ach, dass ich Wassers g'nug hätte".

Philip Kaufman's film about a doctor who wants to live without commitments was an art-house favorite, with its distinguished cast, including the phenomenal Day-Lewis and Binoche, intoxicating scenes of passionate coupling featuring the stunning Olin au naturel, and a tense setting all contributing to its potent effect.

Somewhere in the middle of it all there's a twisty, Twilight Zone-style knot of an idea struggling to get out, and Buried director Rodrigo Cortés knows how to stage a tense set piece, even as things spiral into increasing silliness.

I love Nancy Meyers' intrepid heroines and Kathryn Bigelow's tense set pieces and Ava DuVernay's human moments.

Prior's earliest calculus of tenses (set out in 'Diodoran Modalities') was the system produced by adding the following axioms, rules, and definition, to the ordinary propositional calculus.

The one exception to the state of calm has been a tense set of discussions about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.

Amir's participation in the case opens up a discussion of the history of Islam and its tenets that becomes a tense set-to when he reveals some unexpected sensitivities.

He had the fist-bump that is compulsory in doubles but, more importantly, he had the presence that consoled Jamie in the most trying moments in a victory only achieved after four tense sets.

Still, as long as gripping gun-fights and tense set-pieces kept us firmly on the edge of our seat, we didn't criticise 24 unduly – and for the very same reasoning, Blacklist also gets a pass.

However, he blew set point, handed two more back to Nishikori and struck his final shot disappointingly wide to conceded what had been a ragged, tense set after an hour and 25 minutes.