tenseness

We had expressed ourselves freely about who we voted for, and well, because of the tenseness, people associated with the government were transmitting things to us, not good things.

“I can feel the tenseness, don’t put too much stress on yourself. You have people all around you.”

Even if he doesn’t call it anxiety, he admits he sometimes has trouble focusing, and there’s a tenseness in his body that can be hard to shake off.

“I understood the frustration of the community, that tenseness and the build up of the community. I didn’t agree with the way it was carried out, but I understood it,” he said.

“Her physique is tightly knit, her style, although often surprisingly delicate, has a tenseness, a dynamic potential” that produces “excitement rather than unalloyed lyricism.”