It was Mr. Posen's most polished performance to date.
Ms. French offers the most polished performance as the women's rights activist Amanda Ripley; Amanda is the no-nonsense, yet quietly loony, archetype of the characters Ms. French would later play in the BBC sketch comedy series "French and Saunders" and the sitcom "The Vicar of Dibley" (both are available on DVD).
It was not Ronaldo's most polished performance, but he still managed to help Real clinch a handsome win.
The deputy prime minister, who delivered one of his most polished performances at the end of a week in which he has seen off a series of challenges from the left of his party, signalled another broader strategy in his speech: a plan to topple Britain's system of two-party politics.
On the three tracks that feature Mr. Astbury — on the fourth, Boris's female guitarist, Wata, sings the old Cult song "Rain" in a little-girl voice — he doesn't deliver his most polished vocal performance; he sounds a little grizzled as he punctuates his lines with "yeah!" and "no!," depending on the context of the first-person narrator, conquering hero or fatalistic philosopher.
They gave you plenty to work with: on their early recordings and tours the playing was energetic and trim, but it could also be cautious and prim, as if only the most finely polished performances were acceptable.
In a "coming-out" speech at the Ronald Reagan Library near Los Angeles on Nov. 19, George W. Bush won good marks for what most experts considered a polished performance.
That probably explains the evident care the orchestra took in preparing its account of Falla's "Three-Cornered Hat," Suites 1 and 2, the closing work on the program and by far the most rhythmically vital and finely polished performance of the evening.
But even the most conventionally formal moments — the finely polished performance of Angélica Negrón's "Gran Caleidoscopio" by Face the Music, an energetic student new-music ensemble, conducted by Jennifer Undercofler — had a freewheeling spirit, most notably in their percussion scoring.
That match was played at night in strong winds and heavy rain but conditions should be more favourable at Wembley and that could spell trouble for the Bati after the Kangaroos produced their most-polished attacking performance of the tournament against the Tomahawks.
So far the most polished team in Pool A. In perhaps the best individual performance of the tournament so far, David Pocock made 16 tackles, won three turnovers and scored two tries against Fiji.
