It did her career no harm at all: Skyfall proved one of Adele's biggest successes, winning an Oscar and cementing the perception of her as a polished chanteuse whose craft owes as much to Dionne Warwick as childhood heroes Lauryn Hill and Alicia Keys.
The show is polished and beautifully crafted; his voice is mesmerising.
His lies are not polished and cunningly crafted, nor are they a regurgitation of his communications team's spin; they are impulsive, more often than not, self-sabotaging, and most important, genuine.
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Given our limited time, our goal wasn't to craft a polished finished product, but was instead to create a functional, proof-of-concept model that replaced the act of walking around the screens with an equivalent mouse or trackpad action.
Drawing on the work of earlier Mississippi blues artists, notably Son House and Skip James, as well as on techniques learned from various recordings, Johnson crafted a polished, fluid guitar style that was widely emulated by later blues and rock musicians.
Inside, the wood-panelled cabins are covered in marquetry, with floral motifs delicately crafted from polished veneers of boxwood, sycamore and walnut.
Rolling Stone gave the album four stars for the first time since the band's self titled debut, commenting that "Era Vulgaris is Homme's fifth Queens album, and like the others, it's intricately crafted, meticulously polished and ruthlessly efficient in its pursuit of depraved rock thrills".
