| Simple decorative stitches become pulled-thread stitches by pulling the embroidery thread tautly. |
| Leinsdorf shows unwonted impetuosity in his approach to tempos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, while not consistently as refined as it could be, plays the music tautly. |
| An aeolian harp — a line strung tautly between the shack and the compound, amplified by a tomato-juice can — keened like a Martian opera. |
| This tautly written, tightly plotted time bomb of a fiction covers two generations and 50 years in under 90 pages. |
| Within each bay, the thin membrane is tautly held between triangular steel trusses by a network of bracing cables and compression bars. |
| These tautly stretched lines consist of single strands of horsehair, arranged in an elegant composition that brings to mind the great horizontal tableaux of Barnett Newman. |
