Replacing them is the graceful logic of the perfectly crafted popular song.

The result, Barbara Kingsolver said here last year, is stories "perfectly crafted and thematically rich."

Banville is considered by critics as a master stylist of English, and his writing has been described as perfectly crafted, beautiful, dazzling.

He is able to switch back and forth effortlessly between perfectly crafted English and street talk.

Picard lifted the top of the squat figure to reveal the many small figurines inside, perfectly crafted 12,000 years ago.

The Guardian described the book as "perfectly crafted" and a "quietly extraordinary meditation on family".

It's loaded from beginning to end with perfectly crafted, modern, rock songs that will work at your local cafe, or your nearest stadium.

His music is fervid yet controlled, perfectly crafted if generic.

It has been called "a paradigm of an Ashton ballet, perfectly crafted with a complex structure beneath the effervescent surface."

And North Beach played its part, delivering perfectly crafted scenes in return.