tautness

1 When jellyfishes move, their tissue alternates between these states of tautness and gooeyness.

2 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.

3 Mr. Langrée’s tempo in the slow movement was on the quicker side, which brought out the tension and tautness of the music.

4 Their 2012 debut, Oshin, was the taut, propulsive, and coolly dour antidote to the prog-pop maximalism of late 2000s indie-rock.

5 A tautness comes over us as we watch it, a brace-your-body fear.

6 I think of Philip Roth’s “Everyman,” the tautness by which it re-creates the life of its protagonist.

7 He crushes on evasion and ambiguity, but his own prose has always been distinguished by its tautness and agility.

8 In the “Pathétique” Mr. Gergiev brought an organic tautness to the opening of the first movement; the music emerged in staggered, heaving phrases.

9 In Schubert’s “Ständchen” the long melodic arcs flow with wistful grace while never sacrificing tautness.

10 The one near the ceiling had lost its glossy tautness.

11 Their tautness demands complete concentration and so, after reading one and being immersed in its world, letting go is a piece of cake.

12 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.

13 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.

14 And because the audience is expecting, even hoping, to be frightened, its attention has a tautness that’s sustained throughout the play.

15 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.

16 His entire body hungered for keen sensation, something exciting and violent to relieve the tautness.

17 Even when the speed picked up, the pacing needed energy and tautness.

18 Bowers’ works typically create a vivifying tautness between the individual and the group.

19 “The voices on the telephone showed strain and tautness,” she said.

20 The taste is ripe and lush, but there's a tautness and minerality to the Chenin Blanc/Sémillon that brings it all into balance.

1 结构严谨

tautly

2 紧凑

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3 紧张

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4 绷紧

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