nervous tension

And the nervous tension being now relaxed, they laughed heartily at the recollection.

I—perhaps— His hand closed over her fingers with the nervous tension that these last days of abstinence had brought him.

Besides, the fierce way he turned on the photographer shows his nervous tension.

An atmosphere, produced perhaps by unceasing nervous tension, forms a sort of halo, through which the world below is seen.

We sat in silent nervous tension for five minutes or more, observing our own sensations.