Words similar to taut

Example sentences for: taut

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"Ol' Man River" was the song in which he first found his lyrical voice, compressing the suffering, resignation, and anger of an entire race into 24 taut lines and doing it so naturally that it's no wonder folks assume the song's a Negro spiritual.
As a ferocious skinhead in last year's American History X , Norton was taut and ropy, his long torso curled into a sneer; here, he's skinny and wilting, a quivering pansy.
Waifish and vulnerable, Heche doesn't have an extra ounce of flab on her, and you can read how high the stakes are in her taut body and hungrily searching eyes.
The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.
The pay hike is being driven by taut labor markets and the revival of inner-city industry.