Melancholy, ingenious, beautifully paced and plotted, with every word considered and characters more vivid than most real people, the 20 novels add up to a single story.

Quindlen understands thrillers, and her story is well constructed, beautifully paced.

It's beautifully paced, often diverting you away from the chambers and into the belly of the laboratory itself among crumbling walls, steel girders and thumping pistons.

The whole thing only lasts 47 seconds, but it is beautifully paced.

This is, of course, the structure of practically every video game ever designed, but it makes for a beautifully paced and consistently surprising movie.

The yearning melodic lines of the Minuetto were beautifully paced and very touching.

His phrasing was smooth, beautifully paced to the orchestral performance and his sound glowed.

It's beautifully paced, shot and acted, attuned to both the opportunities and frustrations of gaining entry to the States.

One digs in one's heels, dreading to be pulled into so painful a world, but Mr. Varone's beautifully paced and performed solo is resistance-proof.

This felt like a clear-sighted attempt to look at a generational predicament; it was beautifully paced and orchestrated, and didn't embarrass its subject.