well-wrought
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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But it attains the weight of well-wrought drama as Yosef and his family consider complex questions of home and dislocation, and it’s put together with a strong sense of rhythm and composition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Here’s a rundown of some of this season’s more well-wrought titles — along with a few missed opportunities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
"It combines an extraordinary story, rich themes and the history of the last 40 years of South Africa in an incredibly well-wrought package," she said.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2021
Andrew Ferguson, a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, remembers once marvelling at Carlson’s ability to turn out well-wrought magazine prose, but he is not a fan of the show.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 3, 2017
Stonehenge, with its well-wrought stones and gigantic trilitha, is one of the latest of the stone circles, and was doubtless made in the Iron Age, about two hundred years before the Christian era.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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