Sentence examples for tense way from inspiring English sources
In a tense way, Yaz actually smoked cigarettes in the dugout, and to relieve the tension he would rush to after-game beers in the clubhouse.
George Shackelford, the museum curator who organized the decorative arts section of the show, said: "Mr. Brock believes that when an object treads the balance between asymmetry and symmetry in the most interesting and tense way, that is when we find it most beautiful.
If the patient moves in a tense way, attention is given to make the patient aware of how muscles may become dysfunctional, and how this may be maintained, and possibly worsen the condition.
His legs were extended in that languid-yet-tense way of young athletes.
Patty McCarthy, 20, says the ship feels tense, the way it did before the last outbreak.
They respected one another but also eyed each other up in a tense, cynical way.
The first two-thirds of the picture, which seem to exist in an elastically stretched present tense, give way to urgency and imminence.
In a tense three-way contest in the Security Council, the United States pressed today for rapid approval of its tough draft resolution to disarm Iraq while France and Russia presented their own informal texts designed to moderate the threat of military attack.
Readers familiar with Saramago's prose — the shifting pronouns, perspectives and tenses; the way dialogue and exposition are wedged together; the long, agglutinative sentences with their chains of spliced clauses, mischievous qualifications and omniscient interjections — will not be surprised by the writing.
Based on Christopher Hampton's play, significantly entitled The Talking Cure, this dramatises the birth of psychoanalysis as a tense three-way relationship between Freud, Jung and patient-turned-lover Sabina Spielrein, whose contortive hysterics fire the attentions of both doctors.
When Barack returns, a tense four-way conversation begins, and Barack smoothly finesses this boss's objection to the violence that concludes the film, suggesting that it was a safety valve and that the aggressor would have anticipated the existence of an "insurance policy" to minimise damage.
