How To Use tautly In A Sentence
- The symphony is played tautly; the introduction is broad and menacing, but the first movement proper (no exposition repeat) is done with grim fire.
- The banded masonry structure forms a robust base for the hovering lightweight steel roof plane held tautly above the tiers of seating below.
- The Narrows is an intelligent, tautly written thriller, and should only serve to heighten Connelly's already exalted stature as one of today's leading crime writers. The Narrows: Summary and book reviews of The Narrows by Michael Connelly.
- This tautly wrought dénouement to Dipped in Shadow serves as the foundation for Harris's latest volume, She, a novel in poetry about the depths of a woman's consciousness.
- A young, tautly handsome, clean-shaven face dominated by deep-set clear blue eyes in which the pupils were strangely large, fierce. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
- He was still sitting astride the bike, balancing it with his long, lean legs tautly encased in black leather.
- The effect of the false normalcy is to twist the building tensions of subsequent abnormalities all the more tautly. Rodney Punt: Turn of the Screw Gets a Stunning New Turn at LA Opera
- Sparely and tautly written, this brilliant memoir of a daughter's longing for an elusive mother is a gripping read, but also something much more: a powerful disquisition on family life, full of hurts and love.
- And they have that trademarked Ron Goulart writing style--who else would continually refer to Vampi as "high-breasted," or note that her the strrips of her costume made of satin in the books "thrums" tautly against her body? VAMPIRELLA 3: DEADWALK by Ron Goulart (Warner 1976)
- He was still sitting astride the bike, balancing it with his long, lean legs tautly encased in black leather.