In a review for The New York Times, critic David Dobbs said Bottle of Lies "is an invaluable expose, a reportorial tour de force and a
well-turned epic."
But they really prefer a
well-turned out, well-spoken young man who plays a bit of rugger.
Well-turned dialogue serves to revive the voices of Elsie and Frances, sweetly recounting their story in words that recall their ages.
GERARD Butler was at Hampden yesterday and the usually
well-turned out A-lister copped some flak for his appearance.
Devoted fans will uncover a few
well-turned treasures in the surprise release of Lena Dunham's college diary (or parts thereof), "Is It Evil Not to Be Sure." Her detractors, on the other hand, may find the slight volume to be just more self-indulgent musings.
Koether drives the point home in her artist's statement (and in a different version of this text published in English in Texte zur Kunst in June, just before the show closed), when she quotes Pierre Klossowski--idiosyncratic Nietzsche scholar, elder brother of Balthus, and a painter himself--invoking the vicious circle between action and idea and between painting's history and its possibilities: "Each thought should be considered a gesture." This
well-turned phrase, however, is not found in the standard English version of Klossowski's major text on Nietzsche.
"Beauman's zest for everyday comedy and a
well-turned sentence is as evident as ever from the first scene.
Was his observation anti-American or simply a
well-turned statement of fact?
Last Sunday, though, its handpicked consort of young voices delivered a well-constructed programme of some of our greatest composers from the Elizabethan period, sacred and seasonal offerings interspersed with
well-turned offerings from the fascinating fretwork.
For one, there's Southcliffe, and then this fantastic if a little hard-hitting fact-based drama about 19th-century England is so
well-turned out that it knocks the socks of its BBC competitors.
For all its shrewd observations and
well-turned phrases, however, First Family is highly derivative of so many of Ellis's other writings.