tautly

1 His skin stretches tautly over muscles and protruding ribs.

2 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.

3 The rope was drawn taut.

4 The movie’s duration makes viewing an act of memory—its vision of freely wandering but tautly interconnected experience is reproduced in the viewing.

5 After the tautly spirited dialectic of Dickinson’s creative days, the scenes of her illness have a terrifying emotional splendor.

6 Her voice is tautly powerful yet quivering, a little like Fiona Apple’s — sometimes sultry, sometimes airy and wry.

7 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.

8 In such tautly pristine arrangements a lone chord can arrive like a thunderclap.

9 Her material is tautly written but not particularly risky, except for one joke that received the loudest laugh both times I saw her perform.

10 Like the writer's version of a no-hitter, "Shelter" is a marvel of skill and execution, tautly constructed and played without mercy.

11 He draws a couple reclining, man's hand cupping woman's breast, in tautly elegant line emboldened by passages of yellow and chalky pink.

12 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.

13 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.

14 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.

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

16 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.

17 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.

18 I fear that if I stretch this horror-film argument too tautly, it will snap back in my face.

19 Such immobility is tautly ranged against Rebecca Front's desperate, iridescent Tanya.

20 Potentially melodramatic, the story is tautly and concisely presented.

1 结构严谨

tautness

2 紧凑

well-knit tight tautness taut compactly tightness compactness

3 紧紧地

tight closely tightly

4 紧张

intense stiff lively tense tensile strained taut corded uptight strung screwed-up stressed-out atwitter tensional tensive tensely stress stretch strain tension fuss lather tightness intension tenseness tautness tonus tensity whim-wham fluster string key up on the strain tensed up tense up wound up stressed out wired strenuous charged tremulous unstrung nervousness collywobbles nerviness twitchiness rattle fray unnerve

5 紧张地

tensely

6 紧凑地

compactly

7 严格地

severely rigidly sternly austerely

8 严格

severely rigidly sternly austerely severity rigor rigidity harshness strictness Puritanism exactitude sternness severeness

9 绷紧

tight tautness set