Sentence examples for polished delivery from inspiring English sources

At one time, a polished delivery might have been good enough.

RICHARD ROBINSON is an outspoken, smooth-talking ex-Yale man -- Yale was "an aberration," he said, and will add nothing more -- with a polished delivery and sharp, coolly presented opinions on his love: magic.

But then Mokoena suddenly snapped out of it and exclaimed, with perfectly posh and polished delivery, "I also went to a private school, [expletive]!" This is not an unusual gag.

And those attacks appear to have had a demonstrable effect, even with Iowa Republicans bowled over by the polished delivery that helped vault Mr. Perry to six straight victories in Texas statewide elections.

By his own admission he is "a bit rusty" when it comes to debating, and he has said he hopes he will be able to "hang in there" with the other candidates, including Rudolph W. Giuliani, the sharp-tongued former New York mayor, and Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, who is known for his polished delivery.

Sally Matthews's velvety soprano and polished delivery brought Minna to life, not least in her big solo scene that began with a prayer for Troïl and concluded, following news of her father Barlow's safe return from the sea, with a bouncy cabaletta.

So when the left-handed Takahashi gets on the mound Saturday in his only start of the spring, it could be the last opportunity for a while to see his full catalog of pitches — a half-dozen honed and polished deliveries, all of which he throws in any given game and in any count, all of which he throws for strikes.

Although they are supposed to be opposites (the lean, swarthy Tulio is the practical one, and the blond, eye-batting Miguel a flighty, romantic scatterbrain), Mr. Kline's and Mr. Branagh's too-similar, too-polished deliveries make them sound like nearly identical peas from the same pod.

The dancers laughed silently, looked at an invisible object up to one side, grieved, stirred unseen pots — all with that polished French delivery that shows you what a tremendous favor the performers are doing you with their energetic charm.

Dimpled and curly-haired with an ingenuous smile, Boy Scout manners and a polished vocal delivery that slides comfortably between theatrical belting and intimate pop crooning, Kane Alexander, a 23-year-old Australian singer, exudes a perky professionalism that is slightly unnerving coming from one so young.

Of course, put any politician in a room full of people and you're likely to get a polished, canned delivery.