well-pressed

Christopher Kimball et al. walk viewers through recipes and techniques with a sense of well-pressed assurance, so even if you are unlikely to use store-bought pizza dough to make bagels in a steam oven, portrayals of expertise are their own kind of reward.

He has logged thousands of miles in recent months crisscrossing the country like a well-pressed salesman trying to win over cops, veterans, teachers, anyone who might pass his booth in this disquieting republic.

China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, a dapper man in well-pressed suits, keeps up a relentless travel schedule, more than 30 countries so far this year, to places big and small: island nations in the Pacific, Central Asia on China’s western periphery and, often, Africa.

Behind all the floor-to-ceiling glass, pert, well-pressed salespeople tinker with clothes in empty stores, with security guards poised blankly at the gilded doors.

The building is trim and efficient and perhaps intentionally bland in a corporate way, but manicured like a well-pressed uniform.