All 14 Uses of
taut
in
Call It Sleep
- Then his features grew taut when his eyes fixed on Yussie.†
Book 1 *
- David who was watching his mother as she stood above her husband serving him, saw her bosom swell up slowly as though responding to minute increments of pain, and then without response, exhale tautly her muted breath and look off blankly and resigned.†
Book 1
- The taut, pale planes of her cheeks seemed to have slipped the chin-bone, overlapped it.†
Book 1
- How long would it be, he wondered, before those knots appeared above his own elbow and those tough, taut braids on his own forearm.†
Book 2
- Drowsiness slowly cobwebbed the taut, impassive face.†
Book 4
- Popeyed, taut with excitement, Kushy hauled in the slack with infinite deliberation.†
Book 4
- Let worlds heave and freeze, he remained the same-always the thin inscrutable mouth, always the harsh pride of taut nostrils, heavy lidded eyes.†
Book 4
- The slight, taut snapping of a stretched string.†
Book 4
- But her face was strangely thin and taut as though a weight where her apron bulged were dragging the skin down.†
Book 4
- And the walls were green, and the white curtains, hanging from taut strings across the window-frames, sere with too much washing, and the flowered linoleum, scuffed like his own.†
Book 4
- ...Grimacing so violently his black beard twitched in several places simultaneously, twitched and caught the sunlight in a skein of drawn pitch, pin-point glints and iridescence, the dumpy, ageing Jew stopped at the corner of Avenue C and Ninth Street, looked west into the sun when he meant to go east, and opened the trigger-taut button on his dull alpaca coat.†
Book 4
- Mary, joikin'—" smudge of rose, staining the stem of "Nawthin' t' do but climb—" the trembling, jagged "Show culluh if yuh god beddeh!" chalice of the night-taut stone with "An' I t'rows de fuck'n' rivet."†
Book 4
- S-s-s. (Eee-e-e-e And in the white, frosty light within the red iris, a small figure slanted through a desolate street, crack-paved, rut-guttered, slanted and passed, and overhead the taut, wintry wires whined on their crosses— E-e-e-e-e. They whined, spanning the earth and sky.†
Book 4
- Before him stood his mother, looking tense and startled, her hand resting on his father's shoulders, and below, seated, bis father, cheek on fist, eyes lifted, sourly glowering, affronted, questioning with taut and whiplike stare.†
Book 4
Definition:
pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension
or: subjected to great tension