Sentence examples for tense survival from inspiring English sources

Better received, however, was All Is Lost (2013), in which he played a sailor whose yacht is struck by a shipping container; the tense survival drama featured little dialogue, and Redford was the only actor in the movie.

Toward the end, as the dramatic story of Cesira and her daughter Rosetta's survival tenses up, Tutino becomes more lyrical, balancing the brutality of rape and murder with the melancholy of popular songs ("Unlucky is he who hopes and dreams... ..), a wartime pop hit and village waltzes -- musical themes that in fact are woven throughout the composition.

"It is very tense," says Sarah Shenker of Survival.

Now Naughty Dog is moving away from cheesy one-liners and globe-trotting treasure-hunting with The Last of Us, a tense, taut post-apocalyptic survival story.

Then there's ZombiU a tense, often truly terrifying survival horror game from Ubisoft, which is about as un-Nintendo as you're going to get on a Nintendo launch day.

The movie is a tense, tight (90 minutes) survival story of two astronauts (Bullock and George Clooney) dealing with the aftermath of a space disaster that threatens their chances of returning to Earth.

DayZ is a thrilling evocation of zombie fiction, but what it can't capture in the same way as linear media like The Walking Dead or Day of the Dead, is the interplay between survival groups – those tense moments when one set of desperate people meets another.

Ealing kept alive their slim hopes of Championship survival with a tense 25-23 win over fellow strugglers Jersey.

Still only available as an early alpha build on Steam, but already immensely popular, Dean Hall's bleak, utterly unsentimental zombie survival game is unbearably tense and atmospheric.

A large picture with a spiky palm tree and a tense, young East Ender, Harry Diamond, comprises a poignant drama about survival, Interior in Paddington 1951.

Locals who had been hunting for generations, and relied on the seal trade for their survival, felt threatened by Greenpeace, and in a tense standoff shown in the film, Bob Hunter is forced to give up the dye.