well-turned
Example Sentences
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As adult as “Good Grief” sometimes feels, it also plays a tad thinly, plotted without too much attention paid to what makes sense, or what might warrant richer exploration beyond a well-turned line.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2024
"For his part, Depp delivers his lines in well-turned French, wearing fine powder and a stiff white wig, and yet he seems strangely uncomfortable in the role - adequate but not especially engaged," he added.
From BBC • May 17, 2023
Too disappointed by her husband’s self-deceptions and their ruinous consequences to miss him, Krystal quickly moves on, finding a new love interest she’s sure she can control with a well-turned eyebrow raise.
From Slate • Aug. 22, 2019
The effect is both piquantly engaging and dishearteningly synthetic, like a well-turned sound effect—one simulating the thud of a screenplay dropped on a desk.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 8, 2019
The members listened with surprise to the old well-turned sentences, the old masterly style; felt again the charm of the old ingenuous manner.
From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.
