The tensest moment during the demonstration came at about 12:10 P.M., with the heart of the march midspan on the Brooklyn Bridge.

That sense permeated virtually all of Mr. Bush's remarks in the interview, including when he was asked about the tensest moment of the year.

The Place Beyond the Pines never reaches a climax because it's always in one, distilling the lives of its characters to their tensest moments.

One of the evening's tensest moments came when bidding began for Robert Artschwager's "Train Wreck" (1967).

I thought she must have forgotten it, and just at the tensest moment of the scene I lost my head altogether.

The tensest moment of the day occurred when the real hydrogen mixture was pumped into the balloon.

Perhaps the tensest moment of the night came after 1 A.M., when most of the protesters had scattered and only a small crowd remained.

It was by far the tensest moment yet in Mr. Sharpton's three days of testimony, which began Monday.

The Mets should send Benitez to a sports psychologist to possibly determine why he has so much trouble in the tensest moments.

Mr. Gavin said that the blastoff from the moon was the tensest moment.