Example sentences of "[art] carefully constructed " in BNC.

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1 The never-slow-on-the-uptake Miss Minogue was not about to lose control of the carefully constructed image she had worked so hard on and that was a victory which put many a sharp-practising lensman on his guard from then on .
2 Kylie believed that her image — the sound , the clothes the carefully constructed ‘ look ’ that millions around the world copied — belonged exclusively to her .
3 The sounds of night , picked out one by one , are imitated in the carefully constructed lines ; yet the pauses between the sounds are also conveyed in the slowness and tranquillity of the whole passage , so that the general effect is one of intense stillness , with the ear strained to catch the least noise .
4 It is extremely difficult to discover any coherent pattern to the oprichnina and , although it is true his victims included many boyars , Western scholars have had great fun exploding the carefully constructed ‘ class ’ explanations advanced by Soviet historians .
5 The Dickens study reports that the contribution of lay members on matters of industrial and practical knowledge are tempered by the carefully constructed legal framework within which unfair dismissal applications must be considered .
6 At once the carefully constructed cradle collapsed ; there was no longer any pattern , merely an ugly mass of tangled string hanging from his hands .
7 The more compressed style is of course more likely in the carefully constructed world of literary expression , but it lacks the dynamic punch of the conversational sequence .
8 Suitable , smart , the effect was an outward expression of the carefully constructed façade she showed the world .
9 A kind thought , but one which suggests that the ‘ fault ’ lies with the ‘ ignorant ’ official and no one else , that the whole affair was an exceptional accident rather than one product of a carefully constructed machinery which demands these attitudes in its operators .
10 The child at whatever age needs stimulation and assessment , competition against self and against others in a carefully constructed and sensitively handled framework .
11 It describes merely a carefully constructed dummy head , with hair on top and microphones inside the car canals .
12 He also had a role to play in public ceremonial and it is likely that a carefully constructed ceremonial relationship existed between king and temple to ensure mutual support in the eyes of the people .
13 All noblemen over the age of 15 were to register for service and proceed through the fourteen grades of a carefully constructed Table of Ranks ( 1722 ) drawn up for military , civil , and court service .
14 John Shepherd ( 1977 ; 1982 ) , by contrast , has used McLuhan to work out a carefully constructed theory .
15 A carefully constructed calorie-controlled diet , with eating plans and education , is a good way for you and your body to learn when to say no , and switch off the desire for food .
16 The Yale study was designed to obtain reliable statistical data , based on a carefully constructed random sample ( 2,134 cases ) , representative of the user population of a large library It was hailed as a standard model and projects with very large sample groups , numbering into the thousands , followed ; i.e. , Palmer , 5,062 , and Tagliacozzo , 2,681 .
17 Recently a German feminist art historian , Angela Rosenthal , ( who also writes on portraiture in the book ) has suggested that Angelica Kaufman 's paintings have to be read as a carefully constructed game of masking she claims that she is making , through her use of certain key subjects , for women 's artistic and intellectual intelligence .
18 Data relating to a carefully constructed sample of voters from selected townships within the count will be linked together and subjected to intensive computer analysis using software tools especially developed by the research team .
19 It was part of a carefully constructed plan to give the family an estate beyond the Liris .
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