Tautest

The Sixth Symphony is Bruckner's shortest and structurally the tautest, and it is the only symphony that the composer was satisfied with from inception. ❋ Robert Battey (2010)

He is a writer whose colloquial approach masks both a rather uncolloquial feeling for the tautest way of getting his point across and a word connoisseur's desire to show off his collection. ❋ Schwartz, Sanford (2009)

When nerves on both sides of the wire were stretched tautest, Brigadier General Arthur W. Vanaman turned up at Stalag Luft III. ❋ Donald L. Miller (2006)

Here is one of the tightest, tautest stories of interplanetary adventure in a long while: ❋ Keith Laumer (1959)

The jib, mainsail, and gaff topsail are hauled up to their very tautest; finally, the cable is slipped, and then old Sandy for the first time looks around. ❋ Various (N/A)

This I managed as follows: The moment the chain was at its tautest -- at its greatest tension -- I gave it a violent blow with a big axe, and it parted. ❋ Louis De Rougemont (1884)

She was indeed a proud ship, with the tautest masts and the squarest yards of any ship in the British navy. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

She recommends an expensive programme of Botox, lip fillers, laser skin resurfacing and glycolic peels for maintenance, all of which, administered well, promise to keep even the tautest 23-year-old looking like a 30-something with a year-zero face. ❋ Eva Wiseman (2011)

Watch Live League, in its third season, has followed its tautest script yet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His hands were finely boned but exceedingly strong, and it is said that he can pull the tautest bowstring in the army. ❋ Military History (2010)

Papelbon in the tautest, arguably tensest game of the year for the Red Sox. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ascend in the elevator and be amazed: with some of the tautest velvet ropes in town, the clientele is scarily chic; inside the Red Lounge sharp-suited city boys rub shoulders (and sometimes more) with stick-thin model types, while elsewhere celebrities and their groupies enjoy the flattering lighting emitted by the lanterns dotted around the pool. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chennai: The Indian Premier League, in its third season, has followed its tautest script yet. ❋ Unknown (2010)