Sentence examples for most taut from inspiring English sources

In the most taut exchange, Mr. Kerry again deflected Republican questions about his votes on Pentagon weapons by calling them thinly veiled attacks on his patriotism.

Ms. Arbus allows this most taut and tense of Shakespeare's tragedies to weave its inexorable spell simply by letting the language breathe and the drama unfold at a quietly accelerating rhythm.

Hannah J Davies After perhaps the most taut moment of an impressive second series, and with the seemingly bullet-proof Peggy and Ed Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemonssomehowhow managing to live another day, you can't help but wonder whether the scene where they let the deadly assassin Hanzee escape could prove to be their eventual undoing.

After a sleepy performance from Sam Smith, the string-soaked "Earned It" was the ballad at its most taut.

From Carl Andre's checkerboard sculptures to Jean-Pierre Melville's stripped-down noir films, Frederick Barthelme's barely-there fiction to the total hypnosis of Steve Reich at his most taut and trippy, everyone finds some kind of joy in simplicity.

Bret Easton Ellis's Imperial Bedrooms is his tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho.

Action thrillers assail but rarely test us; this is the tautest, most provoking, and altogether most draining example ever made.

The film's 81 minutes, during which the locals try to question, intimidate and kill the stranger, are among the tautest, most expertly directed examples of Hollywood suspense.

Julian Symons, in The Times Literary Supplement, considered that it was Fleming's "tautest, most exciting and most brilliant tale", that the author "brings the thriller in line with modern emotional needs", and that Bond "is the intellectual's Mike Hammer: a killer with a keen eye and a soft heart for a woman".

Most punks made minimalism taut and punchy.

A solid cast manages to hold the tension taut for most of the 110 minutes.