We must imagine a brilliantly gifted, unhappy boy, the pride of his school, who reels off alexandrines in an exam and wins prizes but who leaves behind his dull home and religiously oppressive mother in Charleville to go to Paris and become a Parnassian, a poet of pure polished forms, a role for which he was supremely gifted.
Princeton figures to be a different team by then, far more polished team with clearly defined roles.
The new Grill feels darker and more polished: polished wood, polished silver, polished people.
It's the juiciest role in a polished, mainstream show, and a canny career move.
This outpouring of polished rhetoric played an important role in the formation and control of public opinion in the limited circles where opinions mattered and occasionally served as a vehicle of genuine political controversy.
Yes, her hygiene is questionable and her manners less than polished, but she is otherwise a role model, her brash sexual and professional self-confidence a perpetual rebuke to the insecurity that lurks behind Ashburn's buttoned-up competitiveness.
She is the director and choreographer of the production that opened last night, with the movie actor Craig Bierko making a studiously polished Broadway debut as Harold Hill, the role that made Robert Preston a star.
In Trump's America, women are hungrier than ever for female role models beyond the polished perfection of entertainers like Beyonce or the corporate gloss of Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg.
Kristine Miller is competent in the brief role of the victim, but Ann Sothern, who turns in a polished portrayal, seems out of character as the worried villainess of the piece.
Susan Louise O'Connor is a delightfully polished screwball in the small but crucial role of an inept maid.
