Or maybe he just didn't like the tension level in the room.

"Then why is the tension level so high in here?"

He could feel the tension level rising in the room.

"But there does seem to be a higher level of tension in the country than usual."

He relaxed, or at least moved into a different level of tension.

I'm not sure they believed me, but the tension level started to drop almost immediately.

Tonight was complicated enough without this level of sexual tension.

At a high level of tension, the outside position becomes the most desirable.

"I think the level of tension is up," he said.

Children seem most interested in texts with, for example, significant levels of tension.