He's far less adept, at least at this stage in his career behind the camera, at developing and sustaining tension throughout the narrative. (austinchronicle.com)
Powered by the simmering, expertly sustained tension both between and within the two species. (flicks.co.nz)
Israel's history too is a story of sustained tension between her own perversity and the purpose of God: hers, too is a history which she herself understands to be supported only by the grace of God, and his purpose for her declared of old that in her all the families of the earth should be blessed. (religion-online.org)