Sentence examples for taut world from inspiring English sources

KINGSTON, Jamaica — There was no clock at the National Stadium, so Brad Evans had no idea that Friday's taut World Cup qualifying match had extended into added time.

An outline for the book, a taut World War II thriller, earned a £1,500 advance in England in 1977, about $2,600 at that time.

Benitez had blown the save in the first game of this taut World Series, in which every game was decided by one or two runs.

When they won Thursday night, 4-2, in what may have been the tautest five-game World Series ever played, Cone never appeared.

He added that the "band's grooves still sound taut, emotive and world-class".

WHEN "Faith Healer", Brian Friel's quietly taut recitative had its world premiere on Broadway in 1979, in a production starring the late James Mason, it closed within three weeks.

"Above the city, the sky was at war," the novelist Alan Furst writes in the opening passage of "The Spies of Warsaw" (Random House), the latest of his 10 taut and richly atmospheric World War II-era espionage thrillers.

The taut drama of the World Cup can be enjoyed only by teams that emerge from the more rugged slog of regional qualifying, and though the United States is a tournament regular now, having participated in the previous six editions, regarding qualification as a formality still feels like a taboo.

The result was tennis as taut and brilliant as a world heavyweight title fight of the highest quality.

This is the story of a tough, taut, bottom-kicking military man sent into a severely dangerous world.

Ted Sperling conducted the Collegiate Chorale, the New York City Opera Orchestra and stars from the opera and theater worlds in a taut, snappily paced rendition of "Firebrand," one of eight musicals Weill composed for Broadway.