Translations for „well-turned“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

well-turned ADJ

well-turned

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English

I also love a well-turned limerick.

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He was not an artist but a craftsman who saw the efficient beauty in a well-turned paragraph.

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You can always do a fun shoe and display a well-turned ankle.

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It is a bit like living with an elegant and well-turned out aunt, who you love very much but who doesn't approve if your shirt isn't ironed.

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The best of the genre can simply be an elegant natural history essay, a nicely writ sports piece, or a well-turned profile of a bar band and its music.

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Uncover no more than a well-turned calf, and that only if absolutely necessary.

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He laughed, softly, at this well-turned phrase, while the students took notes.

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A well-turned out dish doesn't hurt, either.

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Through rooms of well-turned metalwork we walked past occasional plants of blue-flowered salvia and emerged by a small garden shed at the end.

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But it's not enough for a major party leader simply to toss out some well-turned phrases on an issue as divisive and complicated as this.

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