Note, too, the subtle tension between the two women.

Kantor noted the "subtle tension I had felt in that room."

Some early paintings have subtle tensions that are largely narrative.

There was, then, a subtle tension at the conference.

The juxtaposition between the older and the more recent past created a subtle tension.

He closed his eyes, and a subtle tension faded out of him.

There was a "subtle" tension between the two women.

They did not touch and their eyes seldom met, but mere was a subtle tension in them.

A subtle tension eased its grip on his human muscles.

There has always been a subtle "tension" between the two women.