This campaign has gone on for a long time, and the more tight the race, the more taut the nerves.
As I lurch towards the stern, a trio of white yachts with matching indigo sails taut with wind race towards us, turn in perfect formation and slice away.
When the horses approach the starting gate to begin a mile-and-a-half journey that will affect racing history and the adrenaline starts rushing through his small, taut frame tomorrow, the jockey Mike Smith does not expect to be nervous.
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".
Morrison's 1986 play, Dreaming Emmet; Alice Walker William Faulknerr, for his exploration of race and madness, and his taut, poetic language.
In China, the formula worked perfectly with an exciting, well-balanced race, with overtaking, several pit stops and a taut competition for the lead.
The Age of Shadows Kim Jee-woon (mildly) tones down the ultra-violence of "I Saw the Devil" with this thrillingly taut and intricate 1920s spy yarn, which will represent South Korea in the Oscar race for best foreign-language film.
But she remained self-effacingly in the background, lurking behind the famous jockey whose name gave his taut and compulsively readable, if mechanically written, thrillers authenticity long after his racing career finished.
His long, angular face will be taut, fixed in a frown of concentration and lined with marks from his racing helmet and balaclava.
An excerpt from Robert Sher-Machherndl's "StrangeLands," set to music by Arvo Pärt, was performed with a haunting solo in which a taut, stretched ballet body crumpled frequently and without warning in between bursts of determined race-walking.
