How To Use Tautly In A Sentence
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The symphony is played tautly; the introduction is broad and menacing, but the first movement proper (no exposition repeat) is done with grim fire.
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The banded masonry structure forms a robust base for the hovering lightweight steel roof plane held tautly above the tiers of seating below.
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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.
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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.
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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
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He was still sitting astride the bike, balancing it with his long, lean legs tautly encased in black leather.
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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
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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.
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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)
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He was still sitting astride the bike, balancing it with his long, lean legs tautly encased in black leather.
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There are exceptions to this, of course among them several "stringed" sculptures, which are exercises in material and formal tension achieved by tautly stringing cords across the forms.
An Intimate Moore
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Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly.
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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
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The ensuing investigation is described as a twisting, suspenseful character-study, tautly written to conceal a surprise ending.
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These tautly stretched lines consist of single strands of horsehair, arranged in an elegant composition that brings to mind the great horizontal tableaux of Barnett Newman.
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the rope was tautly stretched
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The second-topmost stage is queasiness, which is in some ways worse; I feel like I'm going to throw up because my stomach is spinning like a top and my entire body is shivering tautly, like a puppet with the strings being pulled in every direction, but I'm not quite sick enough to vomit.
The Ferrett's Stress Alert Level
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Within each bay, the thin membrane is tautly held between triangular steel trusses by a network of bracing cables and compression bars.
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The film —tautly directed by horror-meister Sam Raimi —is almost assured an Oscar nomination.
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These tautly stretched lines consist of single strands of horsehair, arranged in an elegant composition that brings to mind the great horizontal tableaux of Barnett Newman.
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Pianoforte, the variation of sound from quiet to loud, is set in motion almost instantaneously as steel strings tautly attached to felt-covered hammers feel the vibration.
Andrea Preziotti: Piano Treasures: The Gift of Hope
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A tautly told tale of psychological tension and chilling moral complexity, The Last Secret accelerates to a shattering conclusion as it explores the irreparable consequences of one family's crimes of the heart.
The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.