Kitty Empire, in her three-star lead review for the Observer, decided that Uptown Special "feels and sounds like a Ronson album, expertly engineered to be retro, bouncy, eclectic and rather good in parts".
A functional shooter latched to a semi-decent story, with limited challenge but coercive enough to keep you progressing, this is an exemplary expression of expertly engineered mediocrity.
The subject is always love, the poetry and music deftly and aptly interwoven, and the sound, on a CD from RCA 7843-2RCC) expertly engineered.
Your calendar might say 2012, but you can walk down the street and step into a restaurant that's been expertly engineered to feel like 1936, or 1957, or 1973.
Nor on an evening in which sharp, funky, expertly engineered live bands backed all but one of the night's performers, and turned what could have been a laptop-DJ-backed nod-fest into a genuine musical experience.
This is a rare example of racing fun for the masses and the maestros, one that's expertly engineered and polished to a level that would make a Concours d'Elegance winner envious.
A wall of cantilevered shelves (seemingly weightless but expertly engineered) in the living room organizes books, vases, bowls and the ritual objects that LaRosa has been designing for several years, one of which will be featured in an exhibition at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in September.
How Alto's Adventure plays isn't anything new, really, expertly engineered though it is.
The way Robby talks about these games makes them seem pretty simple – expertly engineered, no doubt, and above the pack, but ultimately bound by a set of rules to be understood before any bending of them can be undertaken.
And you can bet the company's ready for the new challenge – a freemium approach is unlikely with Nintendo's reputation, so hopefully we can look forward to some expertly engineered affairs of characteristic charm and universal accessibility.
It seemed that the conditions had been expertly engineered to nullify the senses and pacify the mind.
