tenseness

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.”

These incidents leave “an underlying anger and tenseness in people,” Holz says.

“One Friday in April” evokes, as vividly as any book since William Styron’s “Darkness Visible,” the ongoing present tenseness — or present tension — of suicide, which Antrim describes as a condition in and of itself.