Word: tautly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seeks tracks for its life force to reunite with the cosmic force of the impersonal universe, in "the hollow darkness outside the stars and the dark hollow in the atom." The nerves of his writing are taut under elemental strains?the strain of the Pacific against its granite boundaries, of a mountainous coast verging on earthquake, of oil tanks about to explode and consume themselves, of brains splitting with a dasmon. His greatest word...
...have carried out in this rich and lustrous color such subtleties of detail, combined with breadth and solidity of form. Examine it closely and note these subtleties- the unevenness of the skin; the differences in the texture of the flesh, how here it sags and there it is drawn taut over the bones; the folds about the eyes; the slightly swollen lids, somewhat bloodshot; the inhaling nostrils; the puffy lower lip; even separate hairs of the beard are drawn out, and the hair, loosely combed off the forehead, would wave gently if blown on. Then move away...
...fruition of the financier's plot, the murder of the innocent by rebel-general De Castro (Felix Krembs). "President Parkman's son killed," shriek press headlines, cinema reels, radio announcers. The cinema is interpolated into the second act, revealing the wheels of propaganda at work, affording respite to taut nerves in the audience. Martin Henderson is filmed "Enlisting with Uncle Sam at a dollar a year." In the end, young Parkman turns up, only wounded. The band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" to a happy curtain...
...silken ribbon, taut and quivering, stretched last week across the end of the Boulevard Haussmann. Blue-capped Parisian policemen held back a crowd...
...made an electric driller bend sidewise, for the sake of an esthetic curve, above his drill, instead of holding the drill in front of him where it could get the full thrust of his body. Better even than the workmen, admirers of Mr. Kalish liked his Christ, a taut figure in grave clothes...