"Always a pleasant, blameless moment to the journalist; a round in the chamber, boots polished, reporting for duty".
Stinky, in stylish black jeans, her hair thick and loose on her shoulders, detached herself from a cluster of friends and gave a clear, polished financial report, using spreadsheets decorated with a cartoon of coins tumbling into a cute-faced piggy bank.
They don't expect to see a polished final report; they're expected to see first-draft quality," Buckley said, later pointing out that the word processor tool is not going to result in significantly better writing if the student is not already fluent in expressing his or her ideas.
But the players (authors, agents, actor Dan Stevens) turn in polished, cheerful reports of their revival of a literary and sporting tradition.
There's no denying that WikiLeaks have done a great service in terms of exposing some of the more blatant war crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, crimes that would have been otherwise omitted from the highly polished news reports if it weren't for Assange and his sources.
A screenshot of what seemed to be a later, slightly more polished version of that report was posted on the blog Moon of Alabama, which is edited by a German engineer who writes as Bernhard.
The situation sounds familiar, as do the periodic television news bulletins featuring a woman with a polished English accent breathlessly reporting the latest developments in the crisis.
