well-turned

Since Dante is a compendium of the middle ages, bringing together its theology and philosophy as well as its poetry, liturgy and music, this was more that a well-turned phrase.

Prof. Otto A. Bird, requiescat in pace 2009

Mainstream comedy was more reliant on the well-turned gag, but – in the words of old-school doyen Frank Carson – "it's the way I tell 'em" that made the comedy funny.

Standup has grown up – but that doesn't mean it is great literature 2011

Beyoncé would come out and lead all who performed — spoken and sung — in a well-turned “America, The Beautiful”, with Stevie chiming in on harmonica and everyone else assembled, including many on the Mall proper filling in “We Are The World” style in unison.

Archive 2009-01-01 2009

Since Dante is a compendium of the middle ages, bringing together its theology and philosophy as well as its poetry, liturgy and music, this was more that a well-turned phrase.

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: 2009

Reading other writers has had the most impact on me: I still thrill at a well-turned sentence.

“I don’t understand the vogue for stripped-down sentences.” « PubliCola 2010

Beyoncé would come out and lead all who performed — spoken and sung — in a well-turned “America, The Beautiful”, with Stevie chiming in on harmonica and everyone else assembled, including many on the Mall proper filling in “We Are The World” style in unison.

Every Voice Lifted And Singing 2009

Now Mr. Dubus chronicles the desperation of his own hardscrabble upbringing in the post-industrial mill towns of Massachusetts, where he brawled away his youth before he realized that a well-turned sentence offered more satisfaction than a cleanly landed right cross.

Bareknuckle Beginnings Gordon D. Marino 2011

Since Dante is a compendium of the middle ages, bringing together its theology and philosophy as well as its poetry, liturgy and music, this was more that a well-turned phrase.

Art and Literature 2009

He had total recall for dialogue, and launched into long, louche stories about his social experiences, spinning off in colourful tangents "There's a subtext here you may not know about", always coming back, as in a well-turned essay, to his narrative – very funny, wildly indiscreet but never, ever malicious.

My hero: Victoria Glendinning on John Gross 2011

Since Dante is a compendium of the middle ages, bringing together its theology and philosophy as well as its poetry, liturgy and music, this was more that a well-turned phrase.

Education 2009