By the middle of the movie, in fact, the dramatic tension came not from the question "Who will make it to the end?"

With little enough dramatic tension in the second act, I'm not about to give away the ending.

In this version the dramatic tension takes time to rise.

Is there a show on Broadway with this much dramatic tension?

Somehow the dramatic tension of their dance began to build.

Yet there is dramatic tension in his approach, and every note speaks.

Her hair was long and coppery, she held herself with a certain dramatic tension.

The fact that he never did invested his interpretation with dramatic tension.

I was pulled in by the dramatic tension, the details and the descriptions of the events.

Each seems jealous of the other, in a way, and that creates dramatic tension.