While I, Casey, wear extremely tight, low-slung bluejeans and deep-V-neck T-shirts out of which my abundant cleavage swells, or tank tops that ride up to show my taut midriff, my partner, Josh, and the other guys I work with wear neckties, button-down shirts, and boxy suits.
I size up my taut-framed opponent as he limbers up against the ropes and I think of the Woody Allen quote from Play It Again, Sam where he laments his recent whooping: "I snapped my chin down on to some guy's fist and hit another one in the knee with my nose".
After three hours of drinking beer and doing khat-bumps every 30 minutes my neck was taut, my jaw was tightened, and my left leg was twitching.
I did have concerns about this beforehand, but I examined the situation indoors, where the sun could not bless my body with light, meaning I could not fully comprehend quite how see-through my visibly taut yoga pants were going to get.
I feel an implausible fury, then thirst, my teeth bared, my neck as taut as piano wire.
My belly does not stretch taut from my rib cage to my hips.
My wife, a chronic "Oh-my-Godder" in taut games, did not lift the mood chez nous, and who can blame her? DeGrom, giving up a few walks and a couple of doubles, allowed base runners in each of the next four innings, all to no avail.
I pulled the sheet over my head and lay there, every muscle of my body strung taut.
I heard rather than saw it take the popper, and I can still remember my father shouting at me -- in a friendly way, of course -- to keep the line taut, my rod tip up and not to let the fish go under the boat.
My line went taut and zig-zagged.
The water was the coldest I had felt since I had left Maine — and the fish, about as long as my hand, was taut and muscular.
