If anything, I'd have expected a more carefully composed message.

"I always felt he was carefully composing his face to go with the moment."

A carefully composed letter might take two or three days to write.

As an architect, I support the plan because it is carefully composed.

He was also known for his carefully composed abstract still life images.

He spent his first day of freedom carefully composing messages to the other small countries along the coast.

The answer to that question had been carefully composed, rehearsed, and was even largely true.

She had been very pale, but her flawless features were carefully composed.

Subjects were carefully composed and staged in order to capture better images.

He specialized in portrait photography and his works are carefully composed.