Too much bitter-tasting coffee and unrelieved tension; not enough sleep.

Like its predecessor, the second volume of Klemperer's experiences as a Jew in Hitler's Reich is relentlessly filled with dramatic tensions unrelieved by knowing he survived.

Her eyes devoured his, and her smile, which had a mischievous quality, also suggested a rictus in its unrelieved tension and shape.

There is a sense of unrelieved tension, however, when the rhythmic stamping here is followed by the same in "The Black Trio."

His face twitched, and she could see the unrelieved tension in his thin, rather gangling body.

McKie studied the High Magister carefully, sensitive to the unrelieved tensions in the Wreave attendant.

Unlike the mass-murder attacks of Sept. 11, which produced horrific shock followed by mourning and grim determination, the near-daily shootings of individuals produce unrelieved tension.

The cacophony of people yelling seems constant; the jangly visual style mirrors the unrelieved tension and high-voltage impact of the story.

Every nerve was raw, and all his muscles ached with unrelieved tension.

The entire ordeal had been a drain, and now that the weeks and months of unrelieved tension were over, he was ready for some fun.