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

However furious, they are also ingratiating, emphasizing familiar situations, comic personalities and well-turned put-downs.

From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2020

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

Then he began to speak, quietly, in even, well-turned sentences, so that one could see the speech had been carefully thought out.

From The Making of a Saint by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)