| 单词 | tautly |
| 例句 | The sleeves of his striped oxford shirt lay rolled to his elbows so that the hairs on his forearms showed; his back formed a long hard wedge of muscle against which his suspenders rode tautly. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I carefully pulled the blanket tautly over the three of us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The other young man, Joe Rantz, also a freshman, was nearly as tall, at six foot two and a half, but more tautly built, with broad shoulders and solid, powerful legs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The four vines tied to Alby below hung tautly around him. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Though tautly stretched at the end of the boat, it sagged a little in the middle; it made for three or four toilsome, bouncy steps. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Six harp strings broke at once, and the others strained so tautly they looked on the verge of snapping. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The result was something much more akin to a soap opera than to a tautly plotted mystery. Perry Mason Is Coming to HBO. Here’s What to Know About His History. 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Her material is tautly written but not particularly risky, except for one joke that received the loudest laugh both times I saw her perform. Critic?s Notebook: Female Comedians Are Confidently Breaking Taste Taboos 2011-11-15T21:38:24Z The guitarist Bill Orcutt has recorded in all sorts of configurations, from raucous punk to acoustic ruminations to tautly composed minimalistic electric ensembles. Jack Harlow Goes Deep on Race and Rap, and 8 More New Songs 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z He has reconstructed his films in the form of a brisk classicism, a tautly conceived and meticulously timed set of incisively written sketches that seem as breezy as they feel substantial. Noah Baumbach’s New Movie “While We’re Young” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z In other words, even the soapier subplots of “Lights Out” are sparingly written and tautly filmed, and the story never strays too far from the violence that is at its core. | 'Lights Out': With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring 2011-01-10T23:08:16Z Three years ago, after coming close to losing their label, the Timo Weiland designers decided to retrench, reducing their offerings to tautly edited selections of men’s wear staples. Want to Be the Next Big Thing in Fashion? Nah 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In their funk-driven set, the sisters harmonized tautly and did some dance moves while Mr. Jones and one daughter, Alexis, went rasp for rasp and shout for shout. Worlds and Rhythms Meet, in Euphoric Result 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Yet there are no soggy pieties in this tautly constructed group piece. Phoenix Dance theatre ? review 2010-12-01T23:40:00Z His own writing is invariably clear, his prose tautly built on nouns and verbs. Review | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a bestseller, but its author, Walter Tevis, was hardly a one-hit wonder 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z But Lim’s preternaturally poised and poetic, tautly exciting Rachmaninoff deserved the clicks. Review: Yunchan Lim, Teenage Piano Star, Arrives in New York 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z In such tautly pristine arrangements a lone chord can arrive like a thunderclap. Music Review: Ryan Adams at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-07T22:57:44Z Potentially melodramatic, the story is tautly and concisely presented. Jules Massenet: Thérèse – review 2013-07-18T20:30:00Z While not wildly original, his jack-in-the-box surprises are skillfully, tautly executed. ‘V/H/S/99’ Review: Death on the Way to DVD 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The superficial traits of each character are tautly established, and they stick. Theater Review: ‘Port Out, Starboard Home,’ by Sheila Callaghan, at La MaMa 2012-11-18T22:11:15Z I fear that if I stretch this horror-film argument too tautly, it will snap back in my face. A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex 2011-11-22T17:45:41Z Pop may have sidelined guitar-driven rock, but live musicianship and tautly structured songs endure. New Year’s Eve: A Procrastinator’s Guide to Music and Comedy Shows 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z The McQueen elongated coats and tautly fitted suits included exceptional feats of tailoring, as in suits with geometrical angles of pin-striped fabric. London Men's Collections: Glamour vs. Downtown 2013-01-11T11:17:42Z The big things are right in this tautly structured 60-minute piece in four parts: “Immigration,” “Factory,” “Protest” and “Fire.” Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The mystery behind the sudden disappearance of a Chinese-born mother from the life she shares with her American-born son in the Bronx propels Lisa Ko’s tautly written, geographically sweeping debut, “The Leavers.” Dear Match Book: Seeking Literary Page-Turners 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z The purling lyricism of Goines' clarinet playing, the sweetness of his tone and the tautly focused nature of his vibrato recall the work of master Sidney Bechet, but earlier Crescent City reedists, as well. Victor Goines gets a spotlight of his own 2011-03-12T15:49:00Z Serpentine yet tautly monothematic, Verdi's overture heaved with menace and excitement. Hall?/Elder - review 2011-02-27T17:47:54Z Most Dead songs have clear, sometimes tricky structures and passages that are tautly composed — sparkling ones, like “Scarlet Begonias” and “Slipknot!” on Friday, and majestic ones, like the “Terrapin Station” suite on Sunday. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z The symphonic response was magnificent, its full mass and strength tautly coiled. Review: Varga, in elegant form, leads SSO in inspiring program 2010-04-16T18:02:00Z Its tension seeps into your limbs, settles tautly in your solar plexus and does not leave. ‘Downstate’ Review: A Foulness in the Very Air They Breathe 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Music and dance meshed into an organically beautiful whole with “Music for Piano 4-19,” whose solitary notes and spare textures provided a haunting soundtrack for the tautly sensual, rigorous choreography of Cunningham’s “Suite for Five.” Music Review: For Composers, Bending the Notes for Cunningham 2011-03-21T21:36:32Z Told in flashbacks as present-day British agents interrogate Joan, the book tautly contrasts her quiet life as a jam-making granny with her long-ago education in the tradecraft of espionage. Crime fiction: Richard Jury’s return; an unsuspected spy 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z They borrow the most superficially grand, inflated and melodramatic elements of the art form, whereas opera is actually a richly varied and often tautly narrative genre of musical drama. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z The tale of Anita, a low-born Spanish girl whose desire to marry the noble soldier Araquil leads to murder, misunderstanding and madness, the tautly paced tale is set to gorgeous and evocative music. Music Review: With a Double Bill, a Return to Rarities 2010-10-26T22:26:00Z The tenor Lawrence Brownlee, Opera Philadelphia’s artistic adviser, was up for the challenge: He has one of the sweetest sounds in the bel canto world, and tautly ringing high notes. An Opera Festival That Keeps Faith With Shutdown’s Innovations 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The tautly structured story unfolds over a week in a summer villa in the French Riviera. Man Booker 2012: Shortlist at a glance 2012-09-11T15:43:40Z As played by Mr. Campbell with complete command and cool control, the music seemed an episodic yet tautly dramatic narrative. Review: Jay Campbell, the Cellist, Displays Strengths at Weill Recital Hall 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z The range of tones and moods, like the range of situations, characters, and actors, is so wide, so recklessly self-contradicting, that it turns a tautly crafted local story into a comprehensive vision. Bruno Dumont’s Self-Surpassing Inventiveness in “Slack Bay” 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Under the conductor Dean Buck, the orchestra gives a bold, tautly paced account of Britten’s powerful score, which shifts from frenzied agitation to stretches of mysterious delicacy. Review: In ‘The Rape of Lucretia,’ a Woman Done In by Self-Blame 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z As one gets closer, the mosque appears as a tautly composed jumble of shapes — spheres, cones and cylinders — wrapped in honey-colored sandstone or clad in matte gray lead. Cultured Traveler: Tracking Turkey’s First Starchitect 2012-06-08T18:10:50Z LeFanu makes huge demands on the small cast and orchestra in a tautly dramatic hour of intensely coloured, sinuous music. Cos? fan tutte; Dream Hunter; Commotio; Stephen Hough, LPO/Alsop ? review 2012-02-12T00:06:08Z They are small and tautly composed, with radiant colors and chiseled forms; the word “gems” applies with an unusual, unhackneyed precision. What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z And I promise not to give away any of the subsequent, gasp-worthy revelations in this drama’s tautly twisted 80 minutes. Review: Jennifer Haley’s ‘The Nether’ Explores the Dark Side of the Web 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The special showed some of what CBS’s cameras caught that night: young men in matching suits, delivering their tautly constructed songs while smiles were bounced among the band members. Critic’s Notebook: CBS’s ‘Grammy Salute’ Belongs to McCartney and Starr 2014-02-10T10:19:55Z His skin stretches tautly over muscles and protruding ribs. This Joker’s a Dancer, Too 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Last year's Don't Fight the Inevitable was tautly contemporary small-group postbop, this is a more ambitious venture with expanded brass parts, more complex narratives, and synthesised strings. John Escreet: The Age We Live In ? review 2011-07-07T20:03:01Z “Family Business” is also a work of graceful yet severe precision, distilling a wide range of experience into a tautly compressed style. What to Stream: A Rediscovered Short by—and Starring—Chantal Akerman 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Like the writer's version of a no-hitter, "Shelter" is a marvel of skill and execution, tautly constructed and played without mercy. Jung Yun's family drama 'Shelter' reads like a suspenseful thriller 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z “Redline” is a tense, tautly written two-hander by Christian Durso in which road rage and testosterone fuel the combustible reunion of an estranged father and son. The 99-Seat Beat: The play staged in the art gallery, Mary Zimmerman's 'Secret' and more picks 2017-11-03T04:00:00Z "Hawaii Five-0" is a big bag of dumb fun, with a story told as tautly and smoothly as the surface of a Polynesian drum. CBS' 'Hawaii Five-0' remake is a fun escape 2010-09-17T23:43:00Z Krushenick avoided explicit representation, but there is an often weird sense of narrative animation in his tautly frontal compositions of flat, primary-colored shapes defined by black cartoon lines. Art in Review: NICHOLAS KRUSHENICK: ?A Survey? 2011-10-13T22:00:35Z Between a tautly edited nighttime showdown in a rail yard and a cathartic final confrontation between Santo and the mafia boss, there’s no shortage of high-octane brutality. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Despite the project’s modest budget of $120 million, its tautly composed and thoughtfully laid out forms reflect the same intelligence and care found in most of Mr. Meier’s work. Architecture: Newark Project With Schools and Housing for Teachers 2010-05-03T22:57:00Z It’s a formal pose of resignation, but beneath that performance, the model’s attitude of tautly patient obedience is equally clear. Rodin From Every Angle: A Cornucopia of Shows for the Holidays 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z His tautly muscled body is there, repeatedly, in the figures of gods and heroes. John Singer Sargent’s Drawings Bring His Model Out of the Shadows 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z But the lyricism that was tautly, almost unbearably heightened in “Paul’s Case” felt a bit repetitive and listless over the broader canvas that followed. Review: A New Opera Tells an Original Story With an Open Heart 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z Horace Silver’s “Enchantment” is usually played as a tautly rhythmic samba, but the trio retrofits it, with Diehl putting the lush precision of his harmonies to work over a loose-limbed, shuffling beat from Sorey. The 1975’s Chamber-Pop Confessions, and 8 More New Songs 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Hasso is tautly controlled and offers shivers of righteous passion with minimal fuss. The Rarely Seen Ingmar Bergman Thriller That Bergman Himself Rejected 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Such immobility is tautly ranged against Rebecca Front's desperate, iridescent Tanya. Have you been watching … Grandma's House? 2012-05-23T13:49:02Z The rest of the play tautly unravels the mystery of the missing house deed, but the drama is as much about belonging and ambition as it is about racism, poverty and envy. Review: Racism fuels poignant 'Luck Of The Irish' 2013-02-12T03:16:05Z Up to that point in “Judy,” Zellweger delivers the shock of nervous energy and tense vulnerability, of jagged gestures and tautly tremulous voice, that are instantly identifiable with Garland. “Judy,” Reviewed: Renée Zellweger’s Transcendent Performance as Judy Garland 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z So it was left to Humphrys to pose more emotional takes on things, mentioning questions of morality in stirring language when Bermingham's focus remained tautly on the financial detail. On the Ropes 2011-03-23T08:00:07Z Law hyperventilated poetically, Firth internalised more tautly than ever, and Nicole Kidman offered some knowingly imperious grace notes – all in 1930s visual tones not so much sepia as old tobacco. Berlin film festival 2016 roundup: serious gems and stylish risks 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Never Rarely…, on the other hand, is tautly told and coldly realistic, painstakingly chronicling the hoops that Autumn jumps through in order to get an abortion. ‘Women's stories are seen as niche’: Eliza Hittman on her new film 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z Barb is tautly wired for suspicion and instantly feels that the police aren’t doing enough to find the culprits. Review: ‘American Crime,’ a Series Where Justice Is Far From Black or White 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Filling the ground floor of her home in Berkeley, Calif., the instrument forms a corridor of tautly suspended horizontal wires, 45 and a half feet long. A Composer and Her (Very) Long String Instrument 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z But, limiting its action to a stricken Indian Ocean cargo ship and the Copenhagen offices of its owners, it's far more tautly dramatised. A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order 2013-05-15T12:47:25Z Leading the Exploding Star Orchestra, Mazurek offered a more tautly structured, muscular account of "63 Moons" themes, though the band's profoundly improvisational character means this music changes dramatically from one performance to the next. Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra brings celestial sounds to the Green Mill 2011-01-08T15:53:00Z It was as impressively composed as the earlier programmes: fluid, compelling, and tautly told. Radio review: Veterans 2010-09-28T07:00:00Z The superior execution of "Poker Face" through its tautly rendered one-and-done hours is likely to throw kindling on that fire, especially if it becomes the show that finally enables Peacock to achieve liftoff. Rian Johnson on the charisma of "Poker Face" star Natasha Lyonne in his throwback mystery series 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The book is compassionate, tautly synthesized, packed with unfamiliar details about familiar people. Review: Siddhartha Mukherjee’s ‘The Gene,’ a Molecular Pursuit of the Self 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z This colorful work, given a tautly focused rendition here, is a fine example of Mr. Lieberson’s communicative style. Music Review: Tactus, Student Ensemble, at the Manhattan School of Music 2012-02-08T22:58:19Z This tautly constructed play does suggest demonic possession. ‘Hand to God’ Melds Gore and Giggles, Each Often Elicited by a Puppet 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The coordination of separate body parts is exquisite — notably in tautly rhythmic phrases when he elaborately extends right hand and right foot in different ways, then does the same with left hand and left foot. Dance Review: Indian Dances at the Erasing Borders Festival 2013-08-16T22:24:56Z With its august tradition of theatrical excellence, Britain has long been exporting its top-tier thespians to our shores, and this talent has cultivated a taste for language tautly delivered and wit served extra dry. Tony Awards 2015: Yet another British invasion of America 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z While it doesn’t venture far from its evident stage roots, neither does “What We Do Next,” a sinewy, tautly calibrated morality play, ever stray from the decidedly contemporary issues at its complex core. Review: The path to redemption is murky in taut political thriller 'What We Do Next' 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Things went tensely and tautly, the goals all but walled. With a roaring World Cup moment, Morocco rolls to the quarterfinals 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The boy’s stomach was distended and his skin was stretched tautly over a skeletal face. Gang Warfare Cripples Haiti’s Fight Against Cholera 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z But along with the tautly drawn mouth, they communicate an unmistakable intensity and resolve. Perspective | I don’t know Corneille de Lyon. I just know his portraits are alive. Carmichael’s direction is confident, and “On the Count of Three” is tautly paced and efficient, energized with the use of music and editing for comedic effect. Review: Jerrod Carmichael makes a confident directing debut with 'On the Count of Three' 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Reading it, you can see why; it’s that rare mystery that’s both tautly suspenseful and unexpectedly charming. Our readers recommend these book series featuring a female detective 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The film, tautly directed by Roy Ward Baker, drew excellent reviews and elevated Mr. Kruger’s cachet in English-speaking cinema. Hardy Kruger, actor in international adventure films, dies at 93 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z It’s also a fine visual metaphor for the way the strands of this story are pulled tautly, inexorably together. Review: 'Power of the Dog' reasserts Jane Campion's mastery and reveals a new side of Benedict Cumberbatch 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z As if her stomach had been pulled so tautly it would burst. Nil-by-mouth foodie: The chef who will never eat again 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z His camera is nervous, jumping tautly from scene to scene. A Movie Torn From the Pages of His Life 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Robert K. Massie, 90, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer who wrote gripping, tautly narrated and immensely popular books on giants of Russian history, died on Monday at his home in Irvington, New York. This week’s passages 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z The treatments kept her tautly tethered in what she began to call her 10-mile radius. Column: When cancer closed in, a photographer turned to Los Angeles to help see her through 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Titled “Libraries,” Auerbach’s exhibition consists of 11 tautly stretched tapestries that depict full bookshelves. What do these books on a shelf say about their owner? And what does your answer say about you? 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z But for the most part, this is a tautly constructed exercise in suspense, set among striking-looking snowbound fields and farmhouses. Review: Slow to take flight, thriller 'Knuckleball' proves effective - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Even once the basic scenario becomes clear — sometimes via startling reveals the audience will absorb before the characters, and sometimes via tautly directed action — there’s still a lot about the world left to learn. Freaks is a thrilling science fiction film worth knowing nothing about 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z This is partly due to his pitiless prose, tautly translated from the German by Michael Hofmann, its simplicity and calmness adding to the menace of his images. Peter Stamm, looking just beneath the surface 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z The re-creations of the flight are tense and tautly directed, the kind of action sequences that lure curious viewers through the door. Clint Eastwood's Sully is as competent, efficient, and modest as its subject 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Even the fluttering of wardrobes perfectly complements the tautly percussive music. Martial-arts filmmaking master bends light and arrows to his will 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Term Life” is cleanly plotted and tautly paced, but it’s never as fun as it should be. Forgettable 'Term Life' doesn't pay off 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The film is tautly drawn, yet Coppola nevertheless allows himself small flourishes that echo the jazz Harry plays on a sax while listening to records in his unadorned apartment. Francis Ford Coppola to be honored with footprint ceremony and screening of 'The Conversation' 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z The specters of "Slumdog Millionaire" and "City of God" haunt the Rio garbage dumps instrumental to "Trash," an intensive, propulsive political thriller representing a tautly executed return to form for director Stephen Daldry. 'Trash' transcends Rio's garbage dumps to become an intense political thriller 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z My parents never shot home movies and they took family photos only rarely, on ceremonial occasions when everyone was compelled to smile tautly and mask what was really going on inside them. Remembrance of Things Lost 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Solid stagecraft, tautly quirky writing and crackerjack acting distinguish this compelling Los Angeles premiere of playwright Sharr White's celebrated 2013 study of a neurologist who may be descending into dementia. Critics Picks: Critics' Picks: Feb 27 - March 5, 2015 - Los Angeles Times 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z But the tautly made “Ida,” a period film that plunges into a dark chapter of Polish history of German occupation during World War II, emerged as one of the critical hits of 2014. ‘Ida’ wins Oscar for best foreign language film 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z But the tautly made "Ida," a period film that plunges into a dark chapter of Polish history of German occupation during World War II, emerged as one of the critical hits of 2014. 'Ida' wins Oscar for best foreign language film 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z Bernice Gordon, a doyenne of the crossword whose tautly constructed puzzles appeared for six decades in newspapers across and down the United States, died Jan. 29 at her home in Philadelphia. Bernice Gordon, whose crosswords appeared in newspapers across and down the U.S., dies at 101 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z According to the Lombardi biographer David Maraniss, the anxious coach knotted his necktie so tautly that morning that he later had to snip it off. Before the Bowl Was Super 2015-01-24T05:00:00Z “American Sniper” is quintessentially Eastwood: a tautly made, confidently constructed examination of the themes that have long dominated his work. Review: ‘American Sniper’ is quintessential Eastwood 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Drawing from that repertory, Hopkins went around and around with Bear in a state of tautly maintained détente, discouraging wand-blows but not throwing any punches himself. Bernard Hopkins, Boxing’s Oldest – and Most Cunning – Champion 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z It took a little getting used to - you set the stencil down so that it stretched tautly across the ink pad, but then the machine took over. The importance of being a 'normal' 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It was a crisp game, wrapped tautly around a few key plays. Mets 2, Yankees 1: Mets Win Opener Light on Fans and Runs 2013-05-28T02:25:27Z The book, tautly crafted by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, pieces together different shards from the numerous characters’ narratives to provide a mosaic impression of a dancer’s life. | New Jersey: A Review of ‘A Chorus Line,’ at the Paper Mill Playhouse 2012-10-14T03:00:02Z Gossamer threads stretch tautly between branches across makeshift trails. City Room: Spring Time: Insect Discoveries, Delightful and Disturbing 2012-05-17T15:45:52Z She was adroit and he remained unaware that she had pressed herself tautly against him. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z The unity of impression is firmly and continuously centered in the portrayal of Timmy Zimmerman's character, and it is that which tautly holds the reader's attention in leash. Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories 2011-12-01T03:00:20.193Z The two halted, tautly drawn up as if the point of the blade touched their own flesh. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z The Yale Repertory Company’s production — tautly directed by Robert Woodruff, incisively translated by Michaël Attias and superbly acted — is crackling with emotion, but it’s also unapologetically brutal. | Connecticut: ?Battle of Black and Dogs? at Yale Repertory 2010-05-01T01:08:00Z She sat there with the basket on the puncheon floor at her feet, and her fingers twisted themselves tautly together. The Law of Hemlock Mountain "Did you ever hear anyone speak words like that?" asked Inspector Pierce Campbell, leaning tautly forward for the answer. The Door into Infinity The walls of the small tent around Endlich sagged, where they had bulged tautly before—showing that there was now a firm and equal pressure beyond them. Asteroid of Fear Ferrell's body jerked upright, and the muscles in his face stood out tautly. One-Way Ticket to Nowhere "Earlier this evening you said I was a man of action," he told the savant tautly. The Time Mirror The Warden cleared the pattern from the floor, and now a long line of wool stretched tautly from his hands to those of Mrs. Dashwood. The New Warden Hunched over the throttles, peering tensely ahead, he was tautly estimating speed and direction. The World with a Thousand Moons Jacques stood tautly erect, impassive, while his mind reeled on a hairline balance between defiance and submission. The Executioner And Scott, sitting tautly in his chair, felt glad those eyes were not on him. Feline Red But the skin of her face and her bare upper body was a warm color, and tautly filled. Star Performer He sat tautly while the girl thought it out. Conquest Over Time Leaning forward, tautly, "But how do you expect to do this?" The Sensitive Man He found his gang in the terminal, two dozen engineers and rockjacks clumped tautly together. Industrial Revolution Trellises are of the same general style for commercial vineyards; namely, two or three wires tautly stretched on firmly set posts. Manual of American Grape-Growing A Valkyrie fire glowed in the dark eyes of the young woman and her hands clenched themselves tautly. The Roof Tree An exceedingly small boat shot out from the side of a yacht of rather diminutive proportions, but tautly rigged for her size, and bearing an outrigger astern. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland With scarcely a second look at her he drew himself up tautly and said he must be going. The Rhodesian The state of a top-sail yard when it arches in the centre from hoisting it too tautly. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When the second dawn came, the Bunch were all tautly and wearily alert again, peering ahead, across dun desert. The Planet Strappers Joe’s jaws clamped tautly shut at the grim ideas that came into his mind. Space Platform Presently the cover was in place, and tautly secured. Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Her twisted fingers clenched themselves more tautly and had passion not enveloped Stuart in a red wreath of fog he must have refrained from adding to the acuteness of her torture just then. The Tyranny of Weakness With nerves as tautly drawn as fiddle strings, she remained very still. The Secret of the Storm Country It now encircles the gold thread which the left hand draws out rather tautly, and then returns by the same hole to the back, pulling the metal thread through with it. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving Gordon grinned tautly, stepped through, and pushed the blade against the inner plastic. Police Your Planet I have drawn the line, for example, squarely and tautly on burglars. The Opinions of a Philosopher His hands gradually closed, then tautly clenched themselves. A Pagan of the Hills Now on either side of his tautly held body crouched one of the black-and-white lions with which Lumbrilo had identified his own brand of magic throughout the year. Voodoo Planet The stout rope that stretched tautly from the coil passed over a wooden wheel, and disappeared through a broad-framed aperture into the bowels of the earth. Foes in Ambush Her two hands clutched tautly at his shoulders and her eyes gazed into his. Destiny And in the end he did sleep, deeply, dreamlessly, as if the touch of Terra's soil was in itself the sedative his tautly strung nerves needed. Plague Ship She quivered to that like a tautly strung lyre touched by a skilful hand. The Day of the Beast Rose watched breathlessly, hoping the maneuver wouldn't go wrong;—for no reason in the world but that the man, there at the footlights, was so tautly determined that it shouldn't. The Real Adventure From the dome-like crest of the windmill stretched a number of wires tautly drawn and leading away to some point beyond his range of view. The Brighton Boys with the Submarine Fleet If he spoke at this moment he must speak in violent passion and bitter denunciation, and so with his hands tautly clutched at his back he held his counsel and paced the floor. Destiny After I let loose a tautly drawn bolt, I drag myself along on this stinking foot. Philoktetes His nerves were getting a little too tautly strung, that was all; he was listening too intently for that expected step upon the stair, for the opening of that door he faced. The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale The alertness was especially noticeable; every soldier was tautly at 'tention when the boss warrior hove in sight. All-Wool Morrison Her mother would have kept a firmer hand upon the helm if I had not always spoken up for the lass, and said, 'Let her have her head; don't check the sheets in too tautly.' When London Burned : a Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire Puffs of wind that whipped the tautly bellying sheets lashed her dark hair about her face. The Call of the Cumberlands But then he saw the rope, rising tautly from the floor and over the lip of the sill. Highland Ballad These tapering structures bore aloft long, tautly drawn wire cables, spanning the gorge and supporting great buckets which soared at regular intervals back and forth, bearing concrete for the work below. The Ne'er-Do-Well You are sitting erect now, with every muscle tautly strung. After a Shadow and Other Stories |
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