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The critics can't say enough about her tight, honed prose: She gets the speech patterns just right ("a stunningly authentic voice," declares Michael Knight in the Wall Street Journal ), she writes "sentences whose specific gravity mysteriously exceeds their size" (Walter Kirn, New York ), and her characters have an "absolute authenticity" (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). (Listen to this CBC interview with Proulx.)
The Boston Symphony was honed and polished by the Russian exile Serge Koussevitsky, who conducted 100 concerts a year for 25 years until 1949 and was midwife to the creation of great works by Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Copland.
And why do those pictures always feel as if they've been honed with the help of focus groups in suburban shopping malls to ensure that no aspect will be jarring to the middlest of middle-class viewers?
Elsewhere Kurtz comments, "It was a carefully honed media strategy--alternately seducing, misleading, and sometimes intimidating the press--that maintained [Clinton's] aura of success."
While in college, they honed their skills playing regular volleyball--not a sport that pays its own way on campus.