Sentence examples for tenseness from inspiring English sources
'tenseness' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is usually used to describe a feeling of tightness or strain in a situation or atmosphere. Example sentence: "The room was filled with a palpable sense of tenseness as the team members readied themselves for the presentation."
noun
The characteristic of being tense.
Amphetamines can produce undesirable effects, the most common of which is overstimulation, with restlessness, insomnia, tremor, tenseness, and irritability.
Harrowed though Carell is in these scenes, we don't really need them, because his comic tenseness has always depended on something — some disgrace or hurt — wadded down within his roles, and we latch on to Baum just by hearing him say to his colleagues, "I'm happy when I'm unhappy".
He mentions the sleeplessness that accompanies the days and nights of hard work of those times, and a tenseness and quickening of tempo in the performance of tasks.
Somehow there is a tenseness and a boredom about the day and they are both relieved when it is over.
It was the tenseness of someone who gets almost everything he wants very easily actually wanting something he's not sure he can get.
Tenseness and danger described.
I saw the tenseness in the other parents and coaches, then looked at their children and saw the jaws set and the brows furrow.
There is a wiry tenseness to Hille that makes her confession of the character's depression totally plausible.
Her way of dealing with more personal topics is to respond in a clipped manner that suggests either tenseness or her simply keeping things brief.
Occasional passages of great beauty capture the atmosphere of the nightly bombing of London: "Out of mists of morning charred by the smoke from ruins each day rose to a height of unmisty glitter; between the last of sunset and first note of the siren the darkening glassy tenseness of evening was drawn fine".
(Elsewhere, a bench is supplied with each morning's Baltimore Sun, emphasizing a Westian time frame of incessant present-tenseness).
