supple, propulsive, suspenseful, riveting, sinewy, engrossing, sinuous, limber, melodramatic, talky, lithe, visceral, stagy, con brio, songful, incantatory, overfamiliar, pulsating, contrapuntal, overlong, unshowy, snaky, overwrought, punchy, slinky, enthralling, muscular, uninflected, digressive, fugal, coiled, spellbinding, sinew, rhapsodic, lugubrious, unshapely, textured, pointillistic, sensuous, nerved, gorgeously, unaffecting, lustrous, angular, ponderous, hitchcockian, cadenced, elegiac, artful, beethovenian, elastic, sturdy, moody, inexpressive, stagey, silken, claustrophobic, expressive, captivating, steely, balletic, nabokovian, improvisatory, resonant, noirish, entrancing, ruminative, dostoevskian, hypnotic, gartered, throatier, jangly, languorous, graceful, evocative, imagistic, featherlike, lumpish, virtuosic, thrilling, kinked, beguiling, revelatory, stringy, mise en scene, bladelike, snappy, unmodulated, tremulous, mesmerizing, uncoiled, climactic, spiky, declamatory, draggy, upswept, implosive, unsensational, whiplike, whispery, ropy, rawboned, stretched, flabby, twisted, thin, chiseled, shapely, lifeless, looped, pinched, puckered, relaxed, shrunken, slack, tense, clenched, corded, shrivelled, wrinkled

., bow, coping saw, drumhead, firm, head, lax, loose, pluck, slack, slackness, stringed instrument, tauten, tautly, tense

drawn, tight