His foreign policy credentials could hardly be more polished, and his recent hiring of influential strategists like Tim Miller, who specialise in the very type of social media outreach spurring the revolutions, underscores his savvy in this realm.
Exhausted, shaken, embarrassed, he hardly paused to observe the polished sea before removing his coat and vaulting over the ship's railing into the foaming wake.
Three people who spoke on condition of anonymity to avoid being drawn into an investigation said that Mr. Kennedy, who sometimes used the nickname "Flash," hardly resembled the sort of polished operative depicted in novels by Ian Fleming.
This piece was written for the Arditti String Quartet, not the Juilliard, but the Juilliard and Mr. Carter go back a long way, and a composer could hardly have wanted a more polished or electrifying performance.
In addition to the aforementioned Boult version--noble, darkly intense, if hardly the last word in polished execution--there is the even more massive (and roughly executed) one by the Sinfonia of London under another celebrated Vaughan Williams interpreter, Sir John Barbirolli (with music by Elgar, Angel 7537, CD only).
The new Grill feels darker and more polished: polished wood, polished silver, polished people.
Eisenhower or Patton can be imagined striding these polished floors, but they would hardly recognize the technology that has been injected throughout the palace.
Don't fuss too much unless it's official documents or polished writing for publication––it's hardly likely to endear you on a forum or in a chat room if you start pointing out the problems with your fellow chatter's punctuation.
But if "Weathered" is too polished and professional, "Beginnings Forever Lost" feels hardly formed, as if Mr. Thompson's ideas needed to simmer for a good deal longer, so that the work's didactic message and slippery choreographic logic might find a better meeting point.
