Still, in a tight, polished performance, even a work this stylistically diffuse might have made a strong effect.

But here was a polished performance (almost overpolished at the start) that looked for depth in all the right places.

After a more polished performance the group still loses.

But these expose a rank amateur like me to the architecture of the music in a way a polished performance never could.

Republicans say the President gave a polished performance throughout the trip and avoided gaffes.

At times, the concert was moving in a way a more polished performance could not have been.

It was polished performance from both dancers with a new tough edge.

The company, for its part, turns in an unusually polished performance.

An already polished performance from the entire cast was capped by a human triumph.

From Washington came polished performances in a pre-emptive attack on public opinion.