These (albeit successful) attempts by businesspeople like Natalia Rose and Jenna Jones to legitimize what is a polished facade for an eating disorder are utterly appalling; as women they should be ashamed.
Peer-to-peer sales for pre-owned luxury watches on the internet have been common since the 1990s, but only more recently have companies entered with a polished facade and assurances of a more reliable and safe consumer experience.
Lily is determined to maintain a polished facade, and Amanda is determined to shatter it, especially after Lily reveals how much she loathes her stepfather (Paul Sparks), a surly prick who flaunts his wealth so as to remind Lily and her mother (Kaili Vernoff) that they are beholden to his patriarchy.
Surrounded by some of Sydney's most expensive real estate, where foreign tourists mill about and snap photos of the Harbour Bridge and Opera House, it is an incongruous smudge of black protest on a rigorously polished facade.
There is also a rough quality to the excellent Kirov Chorus; with round, Russian-tinged vowels bringing a warmth and depth to its dramatic reading, it conveys throughout a sense of many human voices rather than a single polished facade.
Being able to give a polished 30-second summary of your vision, mission, competitive advantage and positioning statement will help you secure a meeting with a potential donor.
But despite the polished facade, and her penetrating timbre, there was a hollowness at the core of her voice, particularly in her opening number, "Il segreto per esser felice" from Donizetti's "Lucrezia Borgia," which was colorless and hard to hear.
Some conceal their perceived inadequacies and flaws behind the polished facade we have come to expect of "great" leaders, a bit like the Phantom from Andrew Lloyd Webber's epic musical The Phantom of the Opera.
A fundamental problem here is that we don't — not when their polished facades are in place, and not when a river of expensive wine exposes their true colors.
The essence of Hitchcock's smartest thriller is distilled into a snappy animated sequence, with credits moving smoothly into place on the polished facades of skyscrapers: and finishing with Hitchcock himself running for a bus.
