All 12 Uses of
taut
in
The Bourne Identity
- His open shirt fell away from his taut frame, exposing the bandages on his chest and stomach.†
Chpt 1 *
- Her generous lips were parted, stretched over her white teeth in a false, tense smile; her wide eyes were two dark orbs, reflecting primordial fear, her tear-stained skin taut and pale, marred by the reddish splotches where he had hit her.†
Chpt 5
- His face was taut, his lips thin, his close-cropped hair thick, dark brown, and disciplined.†
Chpt 14
- The Lavier woman froze, her eyes wide, stretching the taut skin into scar tissue.†
Chpt 17
- The clerk's half-closed eyes widened until his skin was taut.†
Chpt 23
- They came together, touching, holding, closing out the abusive world that refused them peace, that kept them balancing on taut wires next to one another, high above a dark abyss; if either fell, it was the end for both.†
Chpt 23
- An envelope was slipped between the taut edge of the curtain and the blue felt of the frame.†
Chpt 25
- Yet there had been something, something that caused Jason's stomach to knot, the muscles taut and inflexible, a flat panel of hard flesh constricted ...by the darkness.†
Chpt 27
- Bourne pulled the automatic from his belt, keeping it between his knees He checked the silencer, twisting the cylinder taut.†
Chpt 30
- The beggar sank to the floor, the cord stretched taut, the phone still in his hand.†
Chpt 32
- He was prepared for that, every sinew taut, every muscle ready; his knees and feet, hands and elbows weapons, his eyes trip-wire alarms that would send signals to those weapons.†
Chpt 35
- The huge screen was pulled down from its bulging recess in the ceiling, drawn taut to the floor, the wide expanse of glistening silver a white-hot shield of ice-cold fire.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension
or: subjected to great tension