Exempel på tenseness

• A tenseness gripped Lisbon as people waited to see what would happen.

• He feels tenseness and may think that it is difficult to cure this so-called 'simple' problem.

• There was a fair degree joking in order to take the tenseness out of the situation.

• A massage takes the tenseness of the day away.

• He could feel the tenseness of her fingers, as if she was clutching at crystal straws.

• She could tell from the tenseness in his body that there were moments when he had to fight his feelings.

• Permanent tenseness had withered her neck slightly.

• Suddenly she released all the tenseness from her muscles and he relaxed his hold slightly.

• I was conscious of an aching tenseness in all my muscles.

• Kloeke actually argues that the term 'final consonant devoicing' is inaccurate because the feature in question is tenseness, rather than voice.

• It is not implausible to think that children may begin by commanding one feature before the other, that is, tenseness before length, length before tenseness.

• In the phonetic transcription, we code separately errors of tenseness and phonetic length.

• The warmth and intimacy of her gesture is utterly inconsistent with the publicness and tenseness of the social context in which it occurs.

• The rowdy boys scarcely moved; the whole audience seemed bound by a mutual sympathy and interest which charged the air with emotional tenseness.

• In the phonetic transcription, we code separately errors of tenseness and phonetic length.

• There appear to be two alternative ways of expressing long-short contrasts among low vowels in the absence of a tenseness specification.

• Figure 5 summarises the vowel-insertion pattern in different contexts, cross-classified in terms of the tenseness of the pre-final vowel and the voicing and place of articulation of the final stops.

• Some of us had to bear that burden for five years; he has borne it at the same tenseness for ten.

• It was not tenseness and self-imposed misery that enabled us to win the last war.

• We shall be dealing with millions of votes, with tens of thousands in many individual constituencies, and there is great pressure and tenseness on the night.

• Tenseness is a phonemic feature in syllables with unaspirated initials.

• However, this familiarity subsides almost as quickly as the tenseness of the opening, giving way to a dramatic brass melody.

• One feature or the other may be considered redundant, and some phonemic analyses prefer to treat it as an opposition of tenseness.

• Vowels are also categorized by the tenseness or laxness of the tongue.

• Birds affected by strychnine poisoning exhibit wing droop, salivation, tremors, muscle tenseness and convulsions.

• There is correspondence between tones in tonal dialects and tenseness in non-tonal dialects.

• Because voice is not involved, this is explained as a contrast in tenseness, called a fortis and lenis contrast.