That is why "Soft Power" begins with a tightly argued explanation of the tridimensional nature of power.

It is tightly argued, richly documented and crammed with new ideas.

"Simulacra and Simulation" is a tightly argued manifesto against a world in which humans increasingly appear as props in front of a computer-generated backdrop.

The problem with many recent opinions is not that they are tightly argued but that they hardly bother to argue at all.

The encyclical, "Redemptoris Mater," or "Mother of the Redeemer," is a tightly argued analysis of the Virgin's identity and her significance to the modern church.

It also meant adhering to a tightly argued and narrow aesthetic philosophy; sticking to one discipline (painting or sculpture); and, not least, being a white male.

His writing is full of irrelevances, asides and colloquialisms, reading like the conversation of a raconteur rather than a tightly argued thesis.

The history of the court is loaded with tightly argued decisions that have since been repudiated.

But I wonder what Roth, who died in 1998, a proud, obstreperously independent man, someone allergic to all kinds of artistic pigeonholes, would have thought about his work being enlisted in such a tightly argued exhibition.

"The Democracy Trap" is anything but a tightly argued, well-researched and historically grounded effort to predict the future by studying the past.