He had been progressively aware as he talked of a tense emotion building up in the being who towered above him in that night-black room.

It was a moment of tense emotion, and that emotion gripped Joan Randal as she clung to Captain Future.

The admissions emerged during an afternoon of tense emotions and short tempers.

By channeling tense negative emotions, such as anger, jealousy, or greed, into the Force, individuals can attain powers of the Force more easily, but at a consequence.

Father and daughter speak in short, staccato dialogue, underscoring the tense emotion of the confrontation.

He splinters phrases into little segments and fills the silences between them with tense emotion.

The robot seemed to be radiating tense emotions.

The admissions from the lawyer, Willard Byer, emerged in his own cross-examination during an afternoon of tense emotions and short tempers.

"We've gotten proof that most of them are alive, but--" Nechayev waved his explanation to an unexpected stop, her carved face tightening with an emotion too cold to be anger and too tense to be irritation.

A sense of tense, controlled emotion expressed in elaborate symbolism and allegory, and an ideal of female beauty characterized by elongated proportions are features of this style.