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
A sympathetic, well-wrought story of a brilliant young woman’s slow crawl toward self-understanding after her life is upended by a horrible accident.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 19, 2022
"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
The Apollo missions were genuine acts of daring—and were also, as everyone knew at the time, scripted television programming, with well-wrought lines delivered live.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 20, 2020
But the well-wrought ship did not obey the rudder, but kept ever on her way beyond rich Peloponnesus, Prince Apollo lightly guiding it by the gale.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
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