Sentence examples for was rather tense from inspiring English sources

One day when Mr. Merritt was rather tense because his little girl had been ill, he allowed himself to tell Gladys that she would never be an artist.

"The situation was rather tense when we did not have rain for over 50 days," said Tian Qi Zhu, a wheat specialist at Shandong Agricultural University in Tai'an, in western Shandong.

Having been at the Open, I can attest that the atmosphere was rather tense toward the beginning of the week.

1.22am BST 16 mins So this is rather tense early on, and you suspect set pieces and attendant errors will play their part tonight.

The situation is rather tense, but we are not taking any risks to lay ourselves open to Milosevic, because if we did, we would give him an alibi for a fifth war in the Balkans".

Short of putting the Jaguars on a carpeted turntable, with a spotlit ministerial red box in the back seat, the message could scarcely be clearer.I found myself guessing that the mood might be rather tense: a defensive leadership, fighting off a surly activist base.

(Prior himself was critical of Reichenbach's analysis of the tenses, and described it as having been 'in some ways a hindrance rather than a help to the construction of a logic of tenses' (Prior 1967a: 13, Reichenbach 1948).) Scott's tense logic was rather different in style from Prior's.

Verbal Constructions Third person plural: is rather than are, and was rather than were mustn't have + past participle, rather than can't have + past participle Past tense: come rather than came, and done rather than did.

The atmosphere was now rather tense, and I glanced at him to see how conscious he was of it himself.

"So it was a rather tense conversation between the two of us in February of '11, and I heard later from others that he left not very happy with the approach I took," Mr. Christie recalls.

It's getting rather tense.