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.
