The weights keep the tension on the wire constant in all weather, so that even if the fence posts shift with changes in temperature, the tautness of the wire will not be affected.
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Motivic tautness also characterizes the deeply expressive fourth symphony ( 1952 ), as well as his rather cooler later works, including the fifth symphony ( 1964 ) and fifth string quartet ( 1970 ).
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Dancing with a new assertiveness, she combined her special mystery with forceful technique, especially in pirouettes and fast chaine turns; she projected her ethereal long-legged images without losing any tautness of line.
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The kitchen looked as if it hadn't been touched, except for the occasional leftover, set in a small bowl on the kitchen counter with plastic wrap stretched to tympani tautness over the top.
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Fine motor skills such as movements with the fingers and eyes are affected most, since any lack of tautness within the muscle spindle hinders its ability to detect the amount of stretch through the sensory endings.
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Margaret Tracey and Peter Boal took wonderfully to the tosses and tautness of the second movement's pas de deux, while the third movement began with Wendy Whelan and Nilas Martins in a more sinuous duet.
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With all dramatic tautness excised from the film, what purports to be an introspective ethical voyage of self-discovery and loss-of-naivete winds up an unsuspenseful and truncated trip toward very little at all.
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The ride is a compromise that falls somewhere between performance stiff ( little body roll in corners with nice side-to-side tautness ), and highway soft ( a gentle back to front rocking while cruising ).
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In these sculptures, Meyers works with elasticity and tautness, impressing viewers with the calculation involved, and the anxiety that the black basket of rocks to which the corners of the cloths are tied may crash on them.
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There was a certain tautness to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's face Tuesday, a vague twitch of impatience, as he stood next to the recently released Chinese dissident, Wei Jingsheng, in the Blue Room of City Hall.
