11. So the tautly woven exclamations and provocations of Beethoven's " Eroica" 12. This game started out more tautly contested. 13. They descended a staircase, some limping, some wearing jerseys stretched tautly over their paunches. 14. His harmonica solos were tautly focused, too, with terse melodic phrases and syncopated chordal wheezes. 15. Howard's tautly written polemic is filled with anecdotes describing the triumph of rules over reason. 16. Brent Hanley's tautly constructed screenplay adds a clever twist by throwing in a generation gap. 17. The secrets, the violence, the edginess _ all escalate tautly , yet never seem unduly prodded. 18. The play offers the satisfactions of a tautly drawn mystery, yet it is by no means airless. 19. The sense of impending doom is tautly fulfilled as gunfire and a witness'scream announce the killings. 20. Raised, the well-lined top fits tautly and seamlessly and shuts out a lot of external noise.
