well-turned

Example Sentences

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"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

Still, Harding persisted, following up “Tinkers” with a well-turned, more conventional novel about a grieving father, 2013’s “Enon.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 24, 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

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)