"House Lights" is artfully constructed.
But Judge Leon's arguments, which were artfully constructed, will not be so easily dismissed.
In his studio are artfully constructed rooms, full-scale interior sets that could have come straight from a TV sitcom.
The play is artfully constructed, with flashbacks and twists and all those other gimmicks they teach in playwriting school.
All the stories in this collection are artfully constructed, but "The Next Life" is written so exactly that each sentence seems to contain a hundred more within it.
It's artfully constructed and highly detailed, as opener Lump attests, blooming from minimalist techno into a disorientating, disconcerting trip that might leave you feeling rather pie-eyed by the end of its six minutes.
But, for a start, it is artfully constructed: it seems entirely right that the hero should be striving to listen to Parsifal which is both a potent drug for the emotionally blocked, and a classic study of redemption.
The stories are artfully constructed and share a muted gothic tone marked by the same "heightened, crawling quality" that one of Mantel's narrators, a writer, finds at a moldering hotel.
Their eloquent monologues, interspersed with vicious verbal skirmishes, are artfully constructed, occasionally poetic expressions of pain, delivered in well-formed sentences that suggest the movie might have originated as a two-person stage drama.
Although many of her suits were artfully constructed, especially one in brown wool with a black corset worked into the jacket and others with festal ruffles scurrying around pant legs, they didn't yield fresh insight about the man-woman theme.
