finely judged

The timing and price of the bid were also seen as finely judged.

Gradually I was won over, however; then, in a finely judged scene, the story really began to bite.

She glanced up at him, shrugged with finely judged disdain, and bent to lift another rock.

The new sports tourer features some finely judged revisions.

Michael Kitchen played Billy with some finely judged deliberate accent slippage.

It turned a finely judged arc and rode its bow wave to a halt at the foot of the ladder.

However Mercer stayed with Joking Apart and rode another finely judged race.

The structural problem lies not in the overall placing, which is finely judged, but in an occasional lapse into spasmodic (Latin American?) rubato.

Marcello Mastroianni gives a sensitive, finely judged performance as Enrico, a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945.

(Daily Express) "For the 90-minute duration of William Scoular's finely judged production, you're held in thrall."

He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage.

It was Mata's finely judged forward pass that allowed Ashley Cole to cross from the left for Sturridge to head Chelsea ahead with his fourth goal of the season.

Besides, the projection surfaces had altered the acoustics of the hall, tragically deadening Yefim Bronfman's finely judged reading of Bartók's third piano concerto in the first half of the programme.

Actually, the RHUL principal has called the proposed move "a finely judged reconfiguration of our academic portfolio", which seems to me to absolutely take the biscuit on what the author Steven Poole would call Unspeak.

The Harbison, conducted by Yehudi Wyner and beautifully sung by Margaret Lattimore, a mezzo-soprano, was especially rewarding, with its finely judged mix of heartfelt lyricism and entertaining Handelian tone-painting.

Murray's cross from the right in the 67th minute was precise and evaded everyone except McCoist, whose header was turned towards Dykstra's right-hand post and was as finely judged as the ball that set up the chance.

David had justified Nick's confidence in the seamanlike manner in which he had taken the Golden Adventurer's twin anchors out and dropped them a cable's length offshore, at a finely judged angle to give the best purchase and hold.

He has rarely given a more finely judged performance than he does as selfish, pathetic William Dorrit, cadging his "testimonials" from new arrivals in the Marshalsea, reverting to his Marshalsea self (but has he ever escaped from it?)

The size of the bond seems to have been finely judged, since when the Attorney General prosecuted the Sheriff in the Star Chamber he was fined £200 and Penruddock was awarded a further £100 in damages; but the Sheriff was also sentenced to a year's imprisonment.