What a way to blow off the steam from all that tense negotiating.
Hillary Clinton, a skeptic at first, paid attention to the other women (putting aside that tense moment during the '08 primaries when Power called her "a monster").
BRUSSELS — If there are two words that tense the jaws of European policy makers and prompt a concerned sucking of teeth, they are "treaty change".
The Zimbabwean sections are told with great ebullience and linguistic brio, rich with dark comedy, before Darling leaves Paradise, her shantytown, for Detroit, that tense symbol of America's lost Edenic hopes.
In any narrative of the deliberations of this jury, that tense, critical moment on Thursday, March 25 -- when Ms. Jordan said that she did not think that the prosecutors had met their burden of proof -- will figure prominently.
Mild, precise, self-doubting, and ironic, brimming with undemonstrative rapture at little noticed things (a lunch-partner "silently stretch[ing] her large mouth over the bulging tiers of a sandwich," man-of-war birds that tense their wings "like wishbones, till they tremble"), she has all the best qualities, and they are all on display in "The U.S.A. School of Writing".
DURING that tense moment between the now-traditional serving of chicken potpie and the announcement of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners for 2011 on Monday night, while the designers of the 10 nominated labels sat anxiously in their seats, Diane Von Furstenberg walked over to the table where Joseph Altuzarra was sitting and pinched the designer on his cheek.
That's why I was not all that tense.
It turns out that tense and modal logic are formally very similar and that both require double-indexing for expressive adequacy.
Translated into a situation semantics (Klein himself talks about topic times, rather than topic situations), Klein's explanation is that tense relates utterance situations to topic situations, which do not necessarily coincide with the situations described by the main predication of a sentence.
