hypercontrolled en · ADJ
Etymology
From hyper- + controlled.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Very tightly controlled.
The paintings are hypercontrolled in one sense and yet pleasantly unpredictable, pitting different notions of trompe l’oeil against abstraction, and idealized modernist flatness against one kind of specificity or another.
2007 July 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times: