Sentence examples for been taut with from inspiring English sources

Our nerves have always been taut with the subconscious realization that many people undoubtedly have keys which would open our office, our apartment, our car, our filing cabinets, and our gymnasium locker.

Since Sunday's failed attack, the Dallas-area Muslim community has been taut with fear.

The show from the British designer was taut with tension.

Evoking late-30s Moscow or Warsaw, Ball's dystopian fairy tale is taut with dread.

Here we join a Human Rights Watch interview with a woman whose face is taut with anguish.

The prose is taut with the electric charge of internal rhyme, assonance and alliteration.

Today, Mr. Krylov's workshop is taut with activity as the craftspeople ply their trade with monkish solemnity.

In "Bridge," being shown tonight and tomorrow as part of the New York Film Festival, Saeko's face is taut with shame.

Mr. Vaira, whose Barolos are taut with tannin yet as fragrant as Burgundies, calls himself a modern traditionalist.

Her warm skin was taut, with few blemishes, and her full hips and thighs suggested a metabolism beginning to slow.

"The Curfew" is taut with dread as William attends a clandestine meeting of dissenters and then attempts to slink back to Molly.