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  • n  the physical condition of being stretched or strained
  • n  lack of movement or room for movement

  • This concern for each painting gives the collection its tautness and also its excitement, particularly when we come across such an oddity of technique as Two Figures in a Landscape .
  • Labor has won some big concessions from the Wage Board and removed some of the psychological tautness from the guidelines, thus diminishing the original sense of urgency created by .
  • With baseball games, greatness lives in the details and the intangibles: the little cheering guys in the stands, the tautness of the pitcher-batter duels, the wonkish rotisserie .

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