Vagin's tightly composed gouaches show crowds, but the bustle doesn't come through.

The "Los Alamos" pictures, by contrast, are more painterly, more narrowly focused and tightly composed.

She had a strong face, sharp lines, and hard angles, tightly composed to neutrality.

They are tightly and economically composed and in terms of color, which he deploys judiciously, absolutely spot-on as far as nature is concerned".

Mr. Reich's tightly composed music, with intricate layers of rhythms overlapping like fish scales, is not focused on harmony.

By now hip-hop, like jazz, spans the range from the purely improvised to the tightly composed.

Each subunit is composed of a protein chain tightly associated with a non-protein heme group.

Everything is tightly composed and buoyantly amusing, but not what you would call hair-raisingly visionary.

Perhaps her failure to do so had haunted her, somewhat, had made her the aloof, tightly composed creature she was now.

Mark Harris of Upstart Magazine commended the production quality, saying it was "the most tightly composed material the duo has ever created".