Sentence examples for rather polished from inspiring English sources

"Fear Myself" (Gammon) is a rather polished portrait of the artist — Mark Linkous, of the rock band Sparklehorse, has dressed up a set of raw-nerve demos as orchestral pop.

The taxon name comes from the Latin limatulus, "rather polished" or "refined".

In fact, in response to an editor from a rather polished gentleman's magazine who snuffed out my Sandcastles pitch, insisting the topic was a tad childish, I decided to prove him wrong.

The reasons why are complex and relate to deep-rooted issues in the U.S. about race and poverty, but suffice to say, Detroit is still plenty raw - if changing - while Berlin has been rather polished since the Wall fell.

Nowadays it faces rather more polished rivals.

And process rather than polished product is the prevailing emphasis.

That explains the titbit-length chapters, the chatty rather than polished prose, and the glibly humorous tone.

Some firms have started to look for potential rather than polished new hires, and to sponsor the education of the most promising.

For those who prefer marble, he recommended a finish that is honed, rather than polished, to help disguise any etching that acidic liquids might cause.

And Affleck probably has a right to be irritated that The Batman is already getting bad press given his own film-making credentials are rather more polished than those of Snyder (or Ellis himself).

The Ertebølle industry, named after Ertebølle, Den., where it was first recognized, is classed as a Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) industry because its people used chipped, rather than polished, stone tools and because they were hunters and fishers rather than agriculturists, who used polished stone tools in the developing agriculture of the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age).