taut造句

Instead Australia's economy has been stretched taut.

She was thin without the taut look of wiry people.

Occasionally he'd approach, lips taut, exposing a nervous smile full of chattering teeth.

Scarlett's taut nerves almost cracked as a sudden noise sounded in the underbrush near them.

The gray-brown tuft of a tail has the screwed-tight appearance of a taut knot.

They exhibit an underexpression of emotion, relaxed brows, relaxed eyes, and less taut mouth and cheek muscles than straight women.

But the best of these late poems-taut lyrics with lacings of humour-are deft and crisp.

Rupp used translucent Japanese mending papers stretched taut over the bones to create skulls that look eerily real.

The problem is exacerbated once the stitches are taken out because the edges of the tissue get pulled in different directions by the taut surrounding skin.

The new inspiration brought more taut and tailored clothes but above all the drapes, which ended in folds like a horn of plenty at short skirt hems.

The Mozart "Requiem" with the Vienna Symphony, is from 1956 and is superb: taut, muscular, dramatic, and in very fine mono sound.

Such is not the case with Martin Scorsese's taut psychological thriller "Shutter Island," a movie that keeps you guessing to the end and then — miraculously — makes the guessing pay off.

This was vintage Lauren, both in the finesse of his work and in the dark romance of the Edwardian era, which brought puffed shoulders on taut velvet jackets as well as the dark flowers.

It was dusk: the contrasts of the colors were fading into a vibrant chiaroscuro; the lunar fields and woods were now just barely visible contours on the taut surface of the shining globe.

That is, until I picked up right where I'd left off in high school, when I fell for the taut, just short of scrawny, skater and drug dealer types.

The other big ticket this season is "a Steady Rain", a taut, one-act, two-character play by Keith Huff about a couple of tough Chicago cops with a tragic story to tell.