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What about a hypothetical tense Thanksgiving dinner?
Now she had gotten a prolapse from a cervical disc, giving her radiating pain of a tense kind, out into the right arm.
"Danzon No. 2." (Music) (Applause) Despite a serene sunset on the Dnipro river, the mood is tense for the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
Richard Pyle: When you start talking like Donald Duck, there's no situation in the world that can seem tense.
These stories take the reader through war zones and villages of rural China, and into modern marriages and tense gatherings around the dinner table.
If a gust of wind comes at you, which muscles should you tense and by how much so that you don't get blown off?
A few years ago, I visited Mexico from the U.S. The political climate in the U.S. at the time was tense, and there were debates going on about immigration.
After all the tense moments of conflict in all the conflict zones of the world, there's one photograph from a much quieter place that haunts me still, much more than the others.
Then things get tense.
AWiP tries to be funny, scary, tense, and romantic ... and fails in every respect.
This may be due to some features that place it close to the slasher genre, murder, murder, kill, kill, gallons of blood, a tense sexual relation between the main characters etc.
Later, the woman finds out an old boyfriend is coming back from jail and its tense between them, leading to a down and out fist fight in the café.
This film started off really tense when a poor young boy is set upon by a pack of savage dogs.
However, when the little kid's dreaming of falling in "blood" and when he finds the leg, these are clearly intended to be tense.
The subtle tense atmosphere of the original remake are no where to be seen.
The plot is very far fetched seeming to want to combine three or four stories into one ultimate Trek adventure, but it ends up an unfunny when it tries to be, not tense when it wants to be and not action packed like it tries to be mess of inconsistencies.
This turned out to be more of a women's romance-soap-suspense film than what I hoped it was....simply a tense thriller.
the opening scene was actually pretty tense, but from there it's all downhill.
Poor attempts at scaring the audience range from blurred coats that look like people to building the tense music up for a cat running out of the shadows.
Seemingly all of the tense parts could be completely predicted, and did not seem to hold any bit of the audiences attention.
The episode opens tense and atmospherically on a remote Missourian road, where a black man is hunted down and eventually killed by a menacing monster truck with seemingly no driver behind the wheel.
His men are jolly tars, for the most part, competent at their jobs and always ready with a joke when things get tense.
Although we spend the first third of the movie getting to know these people while they're on leave, after that things get tense quickly.
I just watched the DVD version of BORN BAD and found it to be tense, gritty and, near the end, too graphic for the faint of heart.
Rendition presents a very topical matter in the form of a very tense thriller.
This is a very tense and effective film, and it's remarkable considering just how little action there is in it.
Nonetheless, there are some tense and interesting points here and there, the surprise meetings with German soldiers and Gestapo agents, where Dietrich does a great palm reading and Milland nearly as good faking one, and a dinner party of Germans of various stripes at which the announcement comes over the radio that Germany had been attacked by Poland and everyone stands and does a stiff arm salute.
Just watched this movie and it's not bad; there are a few tense moments and not a lot of long dialog strings.
"Black Water" is one of the most tense films I have viewed in a long time.
The acting and directing and cinematography is fantastic; it all keeps the film clastrophobic and tense and passionate.
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