nervous tension
Example Sentences
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Act Three offers a performance at a point when nervous tension, romantic fury and artistic demoralization bring the production to a nervous breakdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2025
And then, with just 13 minutes left, one of those moments of calamity that have characterised Chelsea far too often punctured the atmosphere of elation and transformed it into nervous tension.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
I’ve always liked Plath’s nervous tension; she’s essentially always writing about anxiety.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2022
“One, there’s an enormous amount of nervous tension involved — even when you’re playing just for yourself,” he told the Dallas Morning News in 1999.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2017
“But now I found myself gripping the controls with a nervous tension I hadn’t experienced since that first combat mission.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
