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 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

But as postmodern crime yarns go, this one is pretty spry, and especially well-turned when it comes to Risto’s struggle to reconcile the crime he’s solving with the violence he witnessed in his youth.

From Washington Post