well-turned

Example Sentences

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Revelations that in another time might have been put to rest by a well-turned apology brought the curtains down on several acts.

From New York Times

Just like the well-turned out government filing clerk that he was, Olaiya always carried a pen in his breast pocket.

From BBC

And yet Pinegrove harnesses, perhaps more effectively than any other band of its era, the power of a well-turned musical confession.

From The New Yorker

"The Desert Bride" is nothing complicated, but in its unforced humanity, visually poetic landscapes and agreeably metaphoric storytelling suggests the intimate pleasures of a well-turned short story.

From Los Angeles Times

Capitalism’s “ecological hoofprint”, to use food scholar Tony Weis’s well-turned phrase, has become radically globalised ever since.

From The Guardian