Each of its 10 taut yet messy episodes was like a tiny, perfectly crafted American indie film.
"Rank" is as thorough an examination of the sport as you could hope to squeeze into 90 taut, well-organized minutes.
Ms. Hosokawa, who is 53, taut, convivial and married to a retired Internet company chief executive, has been to El Monte Sagrado four times in the last 10 months.
In a series of 19 taut and well-constructed scenes, Mr. Jaworowski plots the course of five seemingly unrelated lives that are gradually revealed to be closely interconnected and that will be irrevocably altered through circumstance and coincidence.
"Above the city, the sky was at war," the novelist Alan Furst writes in the opening passage of "The Spies of Warsaw" (Random House), the latest of his 10 taut and richly atmospheric World War II-era espionage thrillers.
Dry River Martinborough Pinot Noir, $95, ** ½ 2008 Taut and reticent with flavors of dark fruit, minerals and menthol lurking underneath.
Table 2 Words chosen by 30% and more of subjects in the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) VIP%PACAP38%8 % Placebo % Boring 44 Boring 56 Boring 41 Annoying 31 Sharp 31 Tender 41 Taut 38 .
It is a monadic deontic logic, since its basic deontic operator is a one-place operator (like ~, and unlike →): syntactically, it applies to a single sentence to yield a compound sentence.[10] SDL is just the normal modal logic "D" or "KD", with a suggestive notation expressing the intended interpretation.[12] TAUT is standard for normal modal systems.
But such critics sometimes acknowledged that Hammerstein's intentions were noble, since "Ol' Man River"' was the song in which he first found his lyrical voice, compressing the suffering, resignation, and anger of an entire race into 24 taut lines and doing it so naturally that it's no wonder folks assume the song's a Negro spiritual".
However, hyperosmolarity can regulate the expression of target genes by several different mechanisms; for example, the transcriptional decrease in mRNA levels of CFTR [43] and TauT [42], and induction of IL-8 through activation of NF-κB in a p38-kinase-dependent manner [8], [10].
