tightly drawn
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His smile is both practiced and ingratiating; his eyes seem darker than this film’s eerily black ocean, like velvet curtains tightly drawn.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
The same is true of thunderstorms, which can form over tightly drawn areas and miss nearby areas—sometimes within a mile—altogether.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2019
To be a boss lady is to reject society’s expectations that women look and behave within tightly drawn boundaries.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2018
Yet for any interpretation of this tightly drawn work to fulfill the play’s deepest intentions, it must be above all a double portrait of its incandescently noble leading man and its equally extraordinary villain.
From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2018
Its rays had no more warmth than the rays of the cold Winter moon, but its light pierced through the tightly drawn lids.
From The Snow-Burner by Oyen, Henry
