In Stoppard's plays, the messy and diffuse complexities of history, science, philosophy, and art are tied into neat and compact parcels.

And he folded his clothing into a neat parcel and cleared his locker.

I thought the whole thing was all wrapped up in a neat parcel for the police.

Now he handed it to Maggie the Colour who carefully opened up the neat little parcel to reveal the plate for a one hundred pound Bank of England note.

The lunch was packed into two neat parcels.

But the fact remains that neat parcels were what Rattigan specialized in, and seen today, the strings that shape his works are all too visible.

With nimble fingers, Eleanor put the remaining flowers in place before rolling the newspaper into a neat parcel which she carried into the vestry.

I have just received some overwhelming news, in the form of a neat parcel, addressed to myself.

He wrote that cause and effect in historical movements are just designed to make it easy for historians to package our past into neat little phoney parcels.

No days, even at Bookham, were happier than those on which the afternoon post brought me a neat little parcel in dark grey paper.