In the bunker, the air was full of a crackling tension, louder to the nerves than the burning forest was to the ears.

A crackling tension radiated from the clearing.

She seemed totally unconcerned by the crackling tension in the atmosphere.

Although the numbers in the streets were large and were spread across much of the central city, they lacked the crackling tension evident on other recent nights.

Then he hunched his shoulders, rolled his head from side to side; she could sense the crackling tensions leaving him.

There had been something, she admitted grudgingly as she recalled the crackling tension in the air when they had gone over a passage time and time again.

There is a crackling sexual tension to the formal patterns and shifting ranks through which the piece weaves.

Where the room previously had the crackling tension of a group of trained professionals about to embark on a complex mission, now ops felt almost like a mausoleum.

Nog, Dax, Bowers, and Bashir still looked concerned, but the crackling tension of the immediate crisis had returned.

The first type, which occurs when the leading actors court and spark during shooting, can succeed if the director can capture their crackling sexual tension.