well-turned-out

Her response is to clam up, presenting “a terminal face—nothing in it, nothing behind it, a well-turned-out nothing” that “I thought would bemuse the gossips, confound them.”

Sitting in its bow window were RAF Maidsend’s gaunt and weary squadron leader and a bespectacled well-turned-out civilian in a tweed suit.

On a drizzly evening in March, a well-turned-out crowd of several hundred alighted upon the Museum of Modern Art to sip prosecco, schmooze and Instagram snippets of Piper’s immense body of work.

Another has the well-turned-out polish of a painting desperately trying to be a Rothko’s Rothko, obeying all the rules, deviating in nothing essential to good behavior.

It’s hard to say this broadcast was far from what it might have been when so many elements were as well-turned-out as they were — not just Sykes’s, Hudson’s, and Baillio’s performances, but also Ariana Grande’s, redefining her nascent pop-star image as a game day-player.