All 5 Uses
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Dreaming in Cuban
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- I cried when I saw him bandaged in white, his arms taut in midair like a sea gull.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- Ivanito imagines the vines and tendrils, taut and violent as a killing rope, snaking along the floor to his bed, wrapping him in place, tighter and tighter, choking off his breath while his sisters sleep.†
Chpt 1.6
- Every tendon is straining, stretched taut like the muscles of cows at the butcher shop that had died in fear.†
Chpt 2.8
- Our father's face was hung with slack ugly folds that dragged down his eyes until the rims showed red, that dragged down the stump of his nose and his misshapen ears, dragged them down until his skull was taut and bare.†
Chpt 2.8
- Then, with the sixteen cowries, he touches Felicia's forehead, her hands, and her knees so that the gods may learn of the aching between her legs, of the hunger on her lips and the tips of each finger, of her breasts, taut with desire.†
Chpt 2.10
Definitions:
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(1)
(taut) pulled or drawn tight;
or: subjected to great tension - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)