Meanings of continuous present in English

A mid-sequence shift to the continuous present tense sustains the tension.

Updike settled on a continuous present tense for his Rabbit novels.

The narrative, in the intense continuous present, has the manner of a camera reporting the action.

The man who lives there has taken refuge in cinema's continuous present, its endlessly unfolding stories.

As Tuomey puts it: Without getting too theoretical, the most important thing in architecture is the feeling of the continuous present.

Told in a simple, first-person narrative, largely in the continuous present tense, it is the story of one young German soldier's experience of war.

Written largely in the continuous present tense, this deceptively buoyant, dark book explores fear with that engaging humanity typical of Isherwood at his best.

But for those of us who have lived through the period of the North's troubles, it still lingers like a kind of interminable, continuous present.