Sentence examples for undercurrent of tension from inspiring English sources

As it was, Miller's presence caused an undercurrent of tension.

Stores foster an undercurrent of tension in her.

The melodramatic beats feel flat, though, compared to the horror movie undercurrent of tension.

On a night typically associated with feel-good humor, there was an undercurrent of tension.

And this is what gives the film an undercurrent of tension: La Jetée does not speak.

Ms. Batiashvili played that movement with a warm, rich tone and a faint but palpable undercurrent of tension.

These undercurrents of tension deepened in 2007.

Cheesy speeches and awkward undercurrents of tension slowly give way to violent encounters between men and women, confessions of yearning and cruel humiliation.

Mr. Gergiev seemed to be trying to capture the undercurrents of tension in this dramatically restrained scene, but his roomy tempos and the imprecision of the playing had the music sounding static.

Mr. Cogeval has turned up various family dramas, including Vuillard's role in arranging his sister's unhappy marriage to his philandering friend, the painter Kerr-Xavier Roussel, which Mr. Cogeval believes accounts for undercurrents of tension and misery he sees in some pictures of the family silently gathered together.

The combination of voice and orchestration sustains an undercurrent of erotic tension fraught with foreboding.