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Example sentences for: well-turned

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The kinds of things Johnson reveled in--locker-room talk and stiff belts of whiskey, the "muted grays" of the Senate's well-turned compromises, even his own hard-earned influence and wealth--were the kinds of things against which the Harvard-educated Kennedy defined his very identity.
Our judgments may hinge on a well-turned phrase, a beautifully nuanced sentence, a word-image that flashes across our gray matter reminding us of childhood.
Indeed, the scholarly journals have been overflowing with turgid prose for decades, and it is particularly refreshing to know that comment on virtually any aspect of language can still be offered in language that, glowing with respectability, cleaving to the well-turned phrase, punctuated by the provocative pun, can be so engagingly presented.