Just as he was about to speak, he grew aware of a peculiar tension in his friend's stance.

The most effective moments involve reflexive voyeurism, a peculiar tension between inclusion and exclusion.

But there was a peculiar tension in the ImpSec chief today.

This, of course, was not at all true, but it made Rebecca giggle, and the peculiar tension in the room sifted away.

She wondered if she was the only one to be aware of the peculiar tension that seemed to hang in the air.

Citywalk, too, embodies the peculiar tension between a homogenized view of the city and social fragmentation.

His face had lost the peculiar tension of the Hunter's trance.

Yet the day hummed with a peculiar tension, and the wind from the south was singing a low, sad song of death.

And the room lacked the peculiar spatial tension of a person in hiding.

She'd sensed a peculiar tension between them.