Sentence examples for violent tension from inspiring English sources

Elvira, daughter of a Protestant Orangeman, is loved by Catholic Arturo, with the violent tension around them manifest from the beginning of the overture.

Class and race figure into much of Mr. Reygadas's work, often as a source of palpable, violent tension that simmers and simmers until it erupts without explanation or, at times, evident reason.

Moreover, when the Būyids made known their adherence to the Shīʿite branch of Islam, there was further, often violent, tension between their supporters and the Sunnites, who were in the majority.

Stirring emotions that date back 40 years to days of violent tension between African-American Muslims and the police, a Harlem community board is weighing whether to name a street after a police officer who was shot in 1972 inside a renowned Harlem mosque.

I asked him: "Are you seriously saying the Greek state is pursuing a secret strategy of creating violent tension?" "It's not exactly a secret strategy," he says.

Angel choirs and teeming hordes of devils, scenes of peaceful domesticity and episodes of violent tension – Berlioz's The Childhood of Christ, combines the 'celestial' beauty of an oratorio with operatic flair and dramatic instinct to create one of the composer's most exquisitely lovely works, home to the much-loved Shepherds' Farewell.

Violent tensions over water are certainly nothing new, but they are on the rise.

Irish miners here, who adopted the name in tribute to those rebels, were caught up in violent tensions that pitted miners against mining bosses, Catholics against Protestants, and Irish against Welsh, English, Scottish and German immigrant workers.

He appeared to be referring to a tape by a conservative activist group, Project Veritas Action, which recorded a Democratic operative talking about the sometimes violent tensions at Trump rallies.

Diski had, from an early age, always escaped into fiction to block out the violent tensions of family life in the flat in which she lived with her parents in Tottenham Court Road.

The jet, a MIG-29, was one of a number of Sudanese warplanes dropping bombs on South Sudan's oil-rich Unity State, a South Sudanese military spokesman said, a region that has been at the epicenter of violent tensions along the border between Sudan and South Sudan.