Sentence examples for tightly if from inspiring English sources

The choreography fits together tightly, if not always coherently, and it's streaked with beauty.

In other words, people (and banks) may cling to cash more tightly if they are spooked.

Yet despite rising prosperity, a relatively free press and multi-party elections, Moroccans have grown increasingly sceptical of a political process that remains tightly, if elegantly, circumscribed.

"Cyberweapon" is retained here, both because it is tightly if imperfectly defined herein, but also because it provides an opportunity to engage with the substantial literature that already uses the term.

The sticking point appeared to be how tightly, if at all, the first stage -- the evacuation of the three Gaza settlements -- would be linked to the subsequent three stages in the wording of the proposal the government is to consider.

There are arguments against affirmative action, some of them principled, but in the tightly (if not always plausibly) plotted Race, Mamet's animus against it emerges in a succession of revelations that suggest that one of the reasons for its badness is that it can lead to cynical, perniciously race-conscious decisions on the part of both hirer and prospective employee.

If the ball is squeezed too tightly or if it is pushed too hard, it changes color as a warning signal; if the force becomes too high, it eventually pops.

Don't be afraid to speak up if she is measuring you too tightly or if the extra boning she is putting in is sticking into your ribs.

This is a very tightly conceived, if literal-minded, show.

Those super-duper powers would be tightly regulated, if not banned outright.

Sharp Teeth's plot is tightly constructed, if nothing new: rival dog packs fighting over control of drugs, money, power.