make tense

"People make tense music now because it feels sincere," Stevenson said.

Unfortunately, no one seems to want to make tense little movies any more, least of all Irwin Allen, who has prospered with the likes of The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno, in which potentially amusing premises were so heavily encrusted with "human interest" subplots that they sank of their own weight.

The patrol can make tense situations worse, explains Oktibbeha County Sheriff Bill Harpole.

Because the activity of muscle-fibre consists in the change from contraction to expansion, and the reverse, gymnastics must use a constant change of movements which shall not only make tense, but relax the muscles that are to be exercised.

But the forces which tend to contract the chest and drive the air out of the lungs would be ineffective if there were not simultaneously the power of closing the sound-pipe; this we shall see is accomplished by the synergic action of the muscles which make tense and approximate the vocal cords.