It sounds as if the artist's usual tensions and themes - domestic, sexual, religious and psychological - will be in full cry.

This gentrification is engendering all the usual tensions and turf battles, magnified by Paris's skyrocketing real estate market.

But a legal aid lawyer who visited the Atlanta prison said he detected more than the usual tension.

The result is a narrative with the usual tension and release of classical music, but using a completely different language.

First, there was the usual tension because Petrioli and her boss, Paolucci, have been at each other's throats for years.

So, instead of the usual tension surrounding the final game, there was an atmosphere more like that of an exhibition match.

Complicating the usual economic tensions surrounding auto contract negotiations was a unique situation.

"There is the usual tension, but I know Anna loves her mother."

The thought that one day he could inherit his father's throne exacerbated the usual Oedipal tensions between father and son.

Also, friends of the couple said, there was more than the usual tension among family members, some of whom disapproved of the match.