The balance is right here, between polish (the show is tightly constructed) and looseness, pinging punchlines and tenderness – which is played sweetly, and not exclusively for laughs.
The seven stories in "The Accusation" are tightly constructed and closely observed; together, they paint a devastating portrait of life in North Korea in the late days of Kim Il-sung's reign, which ended in 1994.
Expecting Rain, one of the Internet's premier Dylan fan sites, has generally favorable feedback on its message boards; one reader notes that the song is "tightly constructed, intimate, dark, and lustful".
The performances by Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as the repressed would-be lovers are exquisitely modulated; the narrative is tightly constructed (it is, at 86 minutes, Lean's shortest picture); the black-and-white cinematography of Robert Krasker is eloquent, its crispness a neat reflection of the painfully sharp perception the lovers share in their fleeting afternoons together.
When there are tightly constructed rhyming lines, as in the very Prince-like "Whatcha Gonna Do" ("Whatcha gonna do with those beautiful fingers / When you stroke me like that, I get a thrill that lingers / Even after you take your hands away / The feel of your touch seems to stay and stay"), they almost serve to detract from the mantric mood.
Man and Boy isn't Rattigan's most heralded play, but it's tightly constructed and raises interesting questions about the nature of power and emotional paucity.
What makes the American team unusual, even in curling, is how tightly constructed it is.
Having no spoken dialogue it was perforce tightly constructed and allowed of no interpolation or alteration".
Later musicals that were as tightly constructed as Show Boat were Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!
With a smaller volume of air, and if the home is very tightly constructed, mechanical ventilation may be needed to replenish fresh air and avoid headaches or other symptoms of poor air quality.
