Much of Astaire and Rogers' work portrayed social dancing, although the performances were highly choreographed (often by Astaire or Hermes Pan), and meticulously staged and rehearsed.

The speech was a carefully scripted, meticulously staged performance designed primarily to halt the widespread criticism of Mr. Bush's failure to respond more quickly to the tragedy.

"Black Hawk Down" wants to be about something, and in the midst of the meticulously staged gunfire, the picture seems to choose futility arbitrarily.

Each murder has been meticulously staged to appear as an accident.

In 1993 this meticulously staged Ailey Company premiere at City Center (131 West 55th Street, Manhattan) left some in the audience complaining that they had seen it all before.

Here it's the meticulously staged homicide of three friends who costumed themselves as 18th-century bacchants and went into the woods on Midsummer's Eve to party.

Instead, like much of the rest of "The Devil's Rejects," the meticulously staged final shootout is a triumph of style alone.

Ms. Clarke draws from the peculiar visual essay of Tiepolo and the French 19th-century illustrator Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, known as Grandville, to fashion these meticulously staged tableaux.

Matrix" Reloaded" is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian) for strong language and languorous, extended bouts of the slow-motion, meticulously staged violence that has fans trembling with excitement.

Isn't it ironic that "reality TV" is anything but, it's more farcical and meticulously staged than the avarage episode of Poirot.