| The ensuing investigation is described as a twisting, suspenseful character-study, tautly written to conceal a surprise ending. |
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| Within each bay, the thin membrane is tautly held between triangular steel trusses by a network of bracing cables and compression bars. |
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| The banded masonry structure forms a robust base for the hovering lightweight steel roof plane held tautly above the tiers of seating below. |
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| 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. |
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| These minimum distances are to be set with a flexible tape held tautly along the outer surface of the vehicle. |
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| An aeolian harp — a line strung tautly between the shack and the compound, amplified by a tomato-juice can — keened like a Martian opera. |
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| 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. |
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| The all-aluminum skin stretches tautly across broad flanks and finishes in blunt, squared-off corners. |
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| Simple decorative stitches become pulled-thread stitches by pulling the embroidery thread tautly. |
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| The novel is a tautly paced thriller, but it also packs a searing satire of the much-ballyhooed modern world we live in. |
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| This tautly written, tightly plotted time bomb of a fiction covers two generations and 50 years in under 90 pages. |
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| The rolled-up sheet had been held in place by thread that was tied to the switch for the headmaster's reading light so tautly that when he turned it on, the thread snapped and the caricature was unfurled. |
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| The tautly tuned suspension handles every curve with sporty ease. |
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| The realist tradition in British cinema continued to bear fruit with Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, a gripping drama about bleak lives on a housing estate, told observantly and tautly, without moralizing judgments. |
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| Raising the skin fold in this way tenses the tissues and a Dermoid Sinus will be pulled tautly between its skin attachment in the top midline and its attachment in the muscles below. |
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| The puma sat there for several minutes in the oblique honeyed light, tautly upright, looking like a Lalique ornament as it gazed lakeward into the rising sun. |
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