Sentence examples for taut silence from inspiring English sources
The taut silence of the room broke in a gust of relief.
It is a glossy white-marble bar much like the other one, with motionless men scattered about, some with heads, some without, faint barroom sounds fading away to a taut silence.
Colm Tóibín's taut language and sense of silence work for me.
But there was dead space in the silences, not a taut sense of expectation.
He is reticent, taut, controlled: a master of his silences, and prosecutor of other people's.
It is this ambiguous seesaw of sympathies – between our relief at Lucy's escape and furious compassion for her past and our feeling for her mother, left behind in sky and silence – that makes this beautifully taut novel so compelling.
Then, after weeks of silence, the graduate student with the taut abs e-mailed him, and they agreed to meet at a local bar.
The quest for the missing father through clues and contacts, in London, Geneva and Cairo, has the feel of one of Brian Moore's later books – The Statement, or Lies of Silence – where character and depth are streamlined into taut, fast thriller mode.
Lee watched in silence, leaning forward with her arms crossed and mouth taut.
Kitty Empire Shellac: Dude Incredible (Touch and Go) By now, fans know what they're getting from veteran trio Shellac: taut, interlocking bass, drums and guitar whose ratio of insistence to silence varies over a number of sculpted tracks.
Tears, trembles, taut neck.
