But, for the most part, his essays also lack inner tension.

You would have lost that inner tension of the story, the passion and eroticism.

It arises when you cannot resolve inner tension or a crisis.

"It's all right," she said, trying to mask her inner tension.

Whatever the inner tensions, Natchitoches has tended to get along.

His genius was to use his inner tensions in the service of art.

But from the writing one knows nothing of the inner tensions, the family relations or even the political path taken by the man.

Hand's inner tensions came, at least in part, from his heritage.

Reggie found the appropriate words to ease their inner tension.

And now, with my inner tension, it was an added burden.