All told, it is a tightly constructed, multilayered creation, its humor pierced by melancholy.
At times, Crime + Punishment proceeds like cinema vérité; at others, like a tightly constructed exposé.
"Capricious Maneuvers" is a tightly constructed garment — nothing capricious about it — and yet it breathes freely.
Rilke's poem, a tightly constructed sonnet, depicts the speaker confronting a broken statue of the god and ends with the abrupt exhortation "You must change your life".
But Jerry Zaks's production isn't just a star vehicle; it's a tightly constructed happiness machine, overflowing with parasols and dancing waiters and brassy Jerry Herman tunes.
Hartke's "The Greater Good" is a tightly constructed, vividly imagined piece that may mark the emergence of a major opera composer.
The book's power to grip even the resistant reader is the product of a tightly constructed narrative and a distinctive, strangely hypnotic verbal style.
Mr. Sides writes in forceful, dignified, obscenity-free language and creates the momentum of a tightly constructed nonfiction film.
I was surprised that what I had thought of as a tightly constructed seventy-line story — a story so tightly constructed that it had resisted the inclusion of that maddening leftover fact — was unharmed, or even improved, by greening ten per cent of it.
In Ernest Lehman's cleverly constructed script, a Manhattan adman (Cary Grant) is mistaken for a government agent by foreign agents who then frame him for murder.
It's a small, convincing, tightly constructed movie about an urgent, seemingly insoluble problem.
