| 单词 | tautness |
| 例句 | The land would move once more, the sea-anchor ropes would snap to tautness, and the roller coaster would start again. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Hours later, he felt a tautness in his stomach when he heard Master’s car: the crunch of gravel and the hum of the engine before it stopped in the garage. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His entire body hungered for keen sensation, something exciting and violent to relieve the tautness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As the adoption made me feel more secure, the tautness in my stomach relaxed, and I found that I was interested in new foods. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I put a hand on his arm, surprised at the tautness of his body, like a wolf raring for a fight. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “The voices on the telephone showed strain and tautness,” she said. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Without that clarity and tautness, the performance relaxed into an all-too-common spectacle: a black singer performing spirituals alongside a white conductor and an overwhelmingly white orchestra in front of an overwhelmingly white audience. Music Review: American Hymns, Both Classic and Reimagined 2011-05-11T20:49:08Z The one near the ceiling had lost its glossy tautness. The Gimlet Eye: Lorenzo Martone, Now Party of One 2010-09-29T23:07:00Z The tautness of her earlier stories is largely missing. An Artist Whose Comics Tell Us What It’s Like to Be Depressed 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z Fans of “Breaking Bad” will be accustomed to the tautness, tension and emotional force of “Five-O.” 'Better Call Saul' Recap: I Broke My Boy 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z In the “Pathétique” Mr. Gergiev brought an organic tautness to the opening of the first movement; the music emerged in staggered, heaving phrases. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-10-07T21:24:21Z Slow movements were slower than is today's fashion, and though shape, tone quality, and volume were carefully graded, an absence of tautness made you aware of the movements' lengths. Music of the Baroque left them shouting in the aisles 2011-05-24T16:14:47Z He led the brass blasts at the start of the fourth act, each of which recedes into quiet unease, with a tautness and weight that revealed their debt to the opening of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.” Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z But there's also a tautness of musical gesture that embraces the anti-Wagnerian methodology of Brahms and a sense of organic, evolutionary progression that pre-empts Sibelius. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z The orchestra accompanied him with crisp warmth, expansive in the slow movement without losing tautness. New York String Orchestra Presents Mozart at Carnegie Hall 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z The last time I saw the band, in March, the first set was the thing, where the group found its tautness and energy and started to hover; the second set was about stretching out. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Though Valadon contours her son beautifully, capturing the tautness of his belly and the turn of his foot, even conveying the childish smoothness of his skin, the line itself is slow and thick. Revolutionary Model Turned Uncompromising Painter 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Instead Mr. Stiefel channeled his energy into a marvelous tautness and torsion. Dance Review: Ethan Stiefel’s Farewell to Ballet Theater at the Met 2012-07-08T22:20:06Z And Lloyd Mayor and Lauren Newman tempered tautness with a loosening of the joints. Review: In ‘Excavation Site: Martha Graham U.S.A.,’ a Bond Is Shared 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z The production lacks tautness in key spots, including the convent scene, where the acoustic quality of a voice-over undercuts its intended effect. Review: In ‘Little Thing, Big Thing,’ a Nun, a Criminal and a Social Conscience 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The singers were intense in their back and forth, but the long, arching melodic lines that hold this scene together are in the orchestra, and Kim brought them out with tautness and full-bodied sound. Review: In Her Met Debut, a Conductor Leads a Fresh ‘La Bohème’ 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Holmes described the book as Grisham's most human novel and the ultimate courtroom drama, with a tautness that made it suitable for adaption for the stage. John Grisham's 'Time to Kill' adapted for Broadway stage 2013-09-16T23:18:57Z Paul Iacano brings much to the film’s arch flavor as Tanner’s gay best friend, Brent, while a sharp supporting cast adds extra tautness to director Darren Stein’s superb comic tone. ‘G.B.F.’: a light, winning gay-best-friend teen comedy 2014-01-23T23:53:02Z Sometimes those crowd-pleasing antics competed against the musical tautness of songs like the deadly serious "Because the Night," as if entertainer and musician were two separate beings. Bruce Springsteen delivers rousing show in Vancouver, B.C. 2012-11-27T19:09:04Z As she shifted from agitation to trust, her body grew more elongated through her trailing arms, the tautness of her hips and the elasticity of her back. Review: American Ballet Theater’s ‘Swan Lake’ Adds Drama to Romance 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z In Thomas’s hands, it had a brilliant moment-to-moment tautness that made you forget the expanse of Schubert’s canvas, in which fine-honed details can sometimes get lost. Michael Tilson Thomas Revels in the Present With the New York Phil 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He crushes on evasion and ambiguity, but his own prose has always been distinguished by its tautness and agility. Wayne Koestenbaum’s Cerebral, Smutty Essays Playfully Disobey the Rules 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z Yet the resemblances to Cunningham are equally salient: particular coordinations, a tautness of line and a complex multiplicity of action. Review: Taking a Chance on Merce Cunningham 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z And because the audience is expecting, even hoping, to be frightened, its attention has a tautness that’s sustained throughout the play. ‘Man Cave’ Review: Things That Go Bump in the American Night 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z Ms. Chien-Pott, all contrasting tautness and curves with a hint of a wicked smile, revealed those emotional extremes as she slithered through the space wreaking havoc at every turn. Review: Martha Graham Dance Company in an Intimate Performance 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Sorey’s ability to devise lengthy, spontaneous improvisations with the tautness and logic of a composition was on display last month during a residency at the Stone, in the East Village. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Despite a translation that struggles to render the tautness and lyricism of Andras’s prose, the intensity of both Iveton’s principles and the political moment he’s embroiled in still manages to shine through. He Planted a Bomb That Never Went Off. He Was Executed Anyway. 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z However, Mark E Smith would surely approve of their tautness and musical mischief. Darker My Love: Alive As You Are 2010-08-12T21:30:00Z Even in the smaller first piece, Noseda’s Mozart had some tautness but was also warm and full: a contemporary orchestral approach that disregards some of the hallmarks, not to say cliches, of historically informed performance. Review | Homage to the Classical: NSO offers Mozart, jolly Stravinsky and Josefowicz 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Pinsky's verse, collected in several volumes including "Jersey Rain" and the recent "Gulf Music," has been noted for its musicality, its rhythmic progression and tautness. Former poet laureate sees jazz everywhere in American culture 2010-10-12T20:39:00Z Possessing just enough variation, and refreshingly sans cute devices, the group's tautness indicates that, with more songs in the vein of the persuasive "Fascinated," bigger things await. Pitchfork in review: Odd Future plays nice 2011-07-18T04:27:00Z Pairing her with Paul, who brings a hardened soulfulness to Caleb, freights their adventure with palpable tautness. Assimilate us, "Westworld": With humanity this horrible – onscreen and off – just let the robots win 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z In “Agon,” the masterful 1957 collaboration between Balanchine and Stravinsky, a performance of the first pas de trois — with India Bradley, Taylor Stanley and Meaghan Dutton-O’Hara — was mesmerizing in its tautness. Standing (and Dancing) Strong at New York City Ballet 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z In Schubert’s “Ständchen” the long melodic arcs flow with wistful grace while never sacrificing tautness. Marian Anderson: A Voice of Authenticity and Justice 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Where Alsop's no-nonsense tautness was a welcome change in over-familiar music like the New World, both these symphonies need different approaches. Dvor?k: Symphonies Nos 7 & 8 2010-05-20T21:30:00Z Mr. Langrée’s tempo in the slow movement was on the quicker side, which brought out the tension and tautness of the music. Louis Langrée and Richard Goode Featured at Mostly Mozart 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z I think of Philip Roth’s “Everyman,” the tautness by which it re-creates the life of its protagonist. A new novel by Nobelist J.M. Coetzee, 83, is a masterclass in the 'late style' at its best 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Bowers’ works typically create a vivifying tautness between the individual and the group. Review: At the Hammer Museum, Andrea Bowers' art becomes an act of nonviolent civil disobedience 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z But in a feat of literary archery, Branum’s lyrical prose hits its mark again and again, rich but never overly ripe, delicate but with a tautness that propels the narrative. Review | ‘Defenestrate’ is a stylish debut that brims with suspense 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z There’s a tautness to the music that undercuts the slick production, real drama and conviction in the vocal delivery that shifts from rage to a kind of joy at the coming of judgment day. Bob Dylan's 50 greatest songs – ranked! 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z His works shared the tautness and wit of carefully observed short stories. Paul Taylor, prolific modern dance choreographer, dies at 88 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Get into the new Miata and take a corner and its tautness and fluidity speak to that. Mazda's future is hidden in these completely mad vintage race cars 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z The “Whiplash” filmmaker Damian Chazelle also did a script pass, which appears to have increased both the sharpness of the dialogue and the tautness of the pacing. J.J. Abrams says he wanted to turn the genre mash-up machine to 11 in '10 Cloverfield Lane' 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z When jellyfishes move, their tissue alternates between these states of tautness and gooeyness. Jellyfish "Gooeyness" Could Be a Model for Self-Healing Robots 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z There are too many other factors driving wages, she argues, making their growth an unreliable benchmark of job market tautness. It’s Hard to Lift Wages if the Fed Doesn’t Make It a Priority 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z The taste is ripe and lush, but there's a tautness and minerality to the Chenin Blanc/Sémillon that brings it all into balance. Wine review: 2013 Alheit Vineyards Bush Vines 'Cartology' 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z You might reasonably worry that this larger, showier space and production would rob the show, again directed by Jennifer Senior, of some of its tautness. Disgraced review: a stirring Greek tragedy that'll put you off dinner parties for life 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Covering the period from Watergate through the 1976 Republican convention, The Invisible Bridge lacks the narrative tautness of its predecessors. Book Review: Perlstein's Invisible Bridge 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Some of the tautness went out of the game – with Germany confident of the points and Holland as convinced of a now inevitable defeat. Holland 1-2 Germany 2012-06-13T20:58:29Z But he quickly saw that his experience — “a year of complete boredom punctuated by these very intense moments” — lent itself to the tautness of verse. 2010-02-08T16:18:00Z In her man’s saddle, she sat almost rigidly erect, and the gauntleted hand that held the reins of the heavy cavalry bridle clutched them with unconscious tautness of grip. The Key to Yesterday Finally the guide's mouth line relaxed from the straight tautness of whatever emotion had caused that stiffening of posture, and the lips moved in low speech—almost drawlingly soft of cadence. The Tempering An upholstered chair, sunk in the room's pool of darkness, trembled on its own tautened springs, and the woman trembled of that same tautness and leaned farther out. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole He hurled himself to the out-swung support and seizing the stern line began hacking at its tarred tautness as he bellowed ghastly laughter and blasphemies. The Portal of Dreams Their faces held a quiet tautness, and General Ohlmsted's hand, holding a cigar, was shaking a little. Call Him Savage As he climbed to his chair over the plotting tank, he noted with satisfaction the controlled tautness of the men's faces. Generals Help Themselves His nerves were already keyed up to such a tautness that it seemed they must break and it took only seconds to twist his mind along the paths required. The Sensitive Man When the proper tautness was obtained, he fixed the pelt to another board with pegs of wood, and hung it to dry. The Wilderness Trail To me, strung up to a tautness of sensation that almost frightens me, this silence of the Mate is horrible. An Ocean Tramp By having cut the cords, around which the chain had been passed, he had relieved the tautness, and was now able to do what he promised. The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire Conscious of the tautness of his own nerves, strung like quivering violin strings. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 Dalgetty, poised in a nervous tautness that could explode into physical strength, felt a clutch of fear. The Sensitive Man His own too-pale, too-thin lips were curved in a ghost of a smile; his face had lost all its dangerous tautness, but the greatest change of all lay there in his eyes. Once to Every Man He stood with a strained tautness, staring feverishly at the chronometer. Competition All at once the tautness went out of her, and Sira leaned against the wall, divided between laughing and crying. The Martian Cabal His face and skull were nothing but bone, the eyes deeply sunk into their sockets, the dull-brown skin like parchment in its tautness, drawn and shriveled down onto the nose and jaw. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Parish Thornton was breathing his words through lips that scarcely moved as he bent forward with the tautness of a coiled spring. The Roof Tree Claire was conscious of tautness of the cords of her neck in front; of a pain at the base of her brain. Free Air He could see the vibrant tautness of her whole body, exemplified in the rigidity with which she held her crossed knees, one crushed upon the other. No Clue A Mystery Story When no reed is used the warp threads are not so evenly placed—they are not so parallel to one another for there is nothing but their tautness to keep them in position. Ancient Egyptian and Greek Looms Brother Ned slipped his own bow from his shoulder, strung it, tested its tautness and rigidity, and took six arrows from the boy who waited upon the patrons of archery ground. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea They were keen about life at the front, but they talked of their experiences in a way which gave one a feeling of tension, a tautness of muscles, a kind of ache in the throat. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France Neither did he have enough tautness of conviction concerning certain terrible doctrines to meet the emergency of her dogmatic needs. A Circuit Rider's Wife She had the same appearance now as then, the same tautness of body, the same flat, constrained tone. No Clue A Mystery Story She felt again the muscles of his forearms snap into tautness as he stood silent under her father's insults. The Tyranny of Weakness These are formed of two long wooden screws, fitted with movable nuts, which adjust the width of the frame and the tautness of the stretched work. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving One should have a sense of the firmness or tautness of the abdominal muscles and not of flabby relaxation. How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science His fingers gripping the chair arms threatened to betray him by their tautness and he could feel cold perspiration dripping down his body. A Pagan of the Hills The stranger was a large schooner, and the tautness of the spars and rigging showed that she was in beautiful order. With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire It is this tautness of the bow-string, this knotting of the muscles, this contraction before the spring, that makes an audience feel—almost see—the reserve power in a speaker. The Art of Public Speaking Two receivers clicked and Kenny, remembering that he could not definitely locate Joan until six, felt the tautness of his control slip dangerously. Kenny And at the time when the front of every woman's waist fell far below her belt in a copiously blousing sag, Mrs. Marshall's trim tautness had in it something horrifying. The Bent Twig "I don't know what made ye do hit, but I knows what ye done, Bud," said Alexander and her rich voice trembled under the tautness of her effort at control. A Pagan of the Hills And in the mean time," said the captain, testing with his foot the tautness of the hawser that moored the Persévérance to the quay—"in the mean time they are busy at Cherbourg and Toulon. The Isle of Unrest "He will?" she repeated, like one marvelling, in the tautness of every nerve and muscle, that she had the power of speech. Over the Pass There was a tautness in the lines that made one feel they would twang with delicate music if the wind swept its hand more rapidly across them. A Prisoner in Fairyland The mother gave a sigh of relief, but she did not interrupt, nor did she relax the tautness of her body. Kennedy Square |
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