Ms. Allen shares with her partners a rough edge that gives their work alluring tension.

But he was not averse to dissonance, which he used effectively to give his text settings tension and depth.

The cold war gave us genuine international tension.

Yes, it's getting harder and harder to give a series believable sexual tension that lasts longer than a few episodes.

Proprietary closures are also available which give still greater tension, usually by means of an over-centre mechanism (see photo below).

To fix this, the staff often writes in guest characters to give tension to the episode, occasionally having them die.

"With the dancers switching characters from scene to scene, it gives the piece an unusual edginess and tension," he said.

This projection of feeling onto a structure is often given the generic term 'tension'.

To give the string more tension, two small wooden frets are inserted beneath each strings near the ends.

The abstract nude females present in Large Bathers give the painting tension and density.