The fairy tale is meticulously shaped — and heavily dependent on casting.
Dee's gifts are often dazzling and his material meticulously shaped; the piling up of improbabilities is clearly deliberate.
Claws are meticulously shaped, teeth cleaned.Some handlers apply mascara and eyeliner; a few are said to attach hairpieces, which is not allowed.
In a cellar in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Robert Parker meticulously shaped champagne cork wire, matchsticks, old fuses, coins and bits of plastic and metal into tiny, glittering chairs.
Banishing showy effects and cheap scares, the Ecuadorean director Sebastián Cordero has meticulously shaped a number of sci-fi clichés — from the botched spacewalk to the communications breakdown — into a wondering contemplation of our place in the universe.
Now there are six houses and studios, including the greenhouse, and outdoor gardens that have 700 meticulously shaped boxwood shrubs lined up with a precision an engineer would admire.
The pioneers of the well-shaped self are represented by the first printed edition of St. Augustine's "Confessions," from the 15th century, and by the first printed edition of that book's 18th-century secular heir, Rousseau's "Confessions" — narratives that are meticulously shaped to make certain points and stake certain claims.
The onigiri at Rice & Nori are meticulously shaped packages of rice, often still warm, wrapped with sheets of nori.
Hollywood editors typically toil far from the limelight, huddled over digital consoles in dark rooms as they meticulously shape movies and TV shows into their final forms.
I don't think the program rights holder, the BBC, would risk its most valuable IP with any studio that wanted to go big and bold with a character so strictly controlled, so meticulously shaped over several hundred episodes, be that BioWare, Telltale, or anyone else.
