well-turned

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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

A mass of rich brown hair, on which the sun was playing, fell over her neck and on her shoulders, and half concealed her round, well-turned arms as they plied their busy task.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume I by Lever, Charles James