Word: tautly
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...views of ruins swarm with gloomy shadows and tiny human figures scrambling ignorantly through the broken fragments of a past civilization. So much did he yearn for a picturesque rustic appearance that he painted his temperas on taut goatskins. Again and again he pictured tumultuous storm scenes along the seacoast...
...Monynahan's favorites is "The Lion," which he says cures colds even for people who don't do Yoga regularly. It consists of sticking out your tongue very hard and glaring. "It makes the neck muscles taut and sends the blood rushing like crasy around your throat," he explained...
Accompanied by a burly, beetle-browed "manager," the group has had little chance to fraternize with Americans. But as they push on toward Chicago, Laramie and points west, they can be sure to find friendly ears anxious to hear their taut, well-tempered sound...
...rides home from court to try to tell him why she did it, her unhappy history is reviewed in flashbacks. Here, the prose narrative becomes a burdensome, bookish device, but Director Georges Franju finds visual poetry in sharp contrasts between the gentle Bordeaux countryside and the taut, terrible stillness of Thérèse's face. Actress Riva never fails him. On her wedding day, "the wild force seething inside," she stands in church like someone paralyzed by news of disaster. Her disaster is Bernard-superbly played by Philippe Noiret as a prudish bourgeois lout whose only concerns...
Through the years, his stark and commanding image of the bridge, its cables arranged in sparkling prisms and its diagonals portrayed as the taut rippling of dynamic muscles, became all that people wanted of him; he painted it over and over. But Stella was an energetic explorer of other styles, and current Stella exhibitions at two Manhattan galleries and the Whitney Museum of American Art show how many other bridges he might have crossed...