Bob Hope eyeballs us with well-honed unctuousness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Portrait of the Illustrator] Reference

It's well-honed by the time a yeshiva boy reaches his bar mitzvah, I think.    From Wordnik.com.  [Presidential Candidates To Address AIPAC] Reference

The well-honed and all-too-familiar machinery was up and running in a nanosecond.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Harris: IHH: International Hyperventilated Hypocrisy] Reference

I'm sure she'll have a well-honed, focus group tested answer to spit back at them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Hillary Comes Out Against Giving Driver's Licenses To Illegal Immegrants] Reference

Someone is applying well-honed skills to expertly raise the blood pressure of riders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suzette Standring: Skyway Robbery] Reference

Maybe we should blame Democrats for displaying, once more, their well-honed cowardice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Cubias: Immigration Reform: An Unbridgeable Gap?] Reference

(UNITA) partly because of well-honed morale but also because of the element of surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But they have a well-honed electoral apparatus that has proven its ability to win close elections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerald McEntee: If They Win] Reference

His magnificent body, lithe and well-honed, with not an ounce of superfluous fat, captured her eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [At The Spaniard's Convenience]

This didn't make sense, since Kit had exhibited a well-honed sense of style in our previous meetings.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti'] Reference

They have a well-honed instinct for how candidates will be received in their own states and districts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Dems Evenly Split On What Super-Delegates Should Do] Reference

He played from the gut, he liked to say, as if a well-honed intellect wouldn't strengthen his instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Wasn't Wrong, It's Just That the Whole Country Is Crazy] Reference

Reporters are supposed to have well-honed critical thinking skills -- assume nothing, question everything.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Alderman: Mariah Carey Surpasses Elvis — But The Context is Missing] Reference

Clients have responded well to the new services because of Mr. Chewey's well-honed message, says Mr. Gould.    From Wordnik.com.  [New and Improved] Reference

A longtime grassroots activist, Winograd has well-honed expertise on issues ranging far beyond war and peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Final Stretch: Linda Milazzo's "Conversation With Marcy Winograd"] Reference

Digital China isn't government-owned, but it has earned Beijing's trust because of its well-honed connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than A Middleman] Reference

Hawke, coming on strong to Maggie Q, gets politely graphic in selling his own well-honed skills with the G spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: New York, I Love You] Reference

The Daley Democratic machine, well-honed over decades, is primed for the very political machinations of the IOC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago's Olympic Sponsors] Reference

Your reference to "a well-honed machine run like IBM at its peak, not a hungry, innovative startup" is a bad thing?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barack's Boring Website] Reference

And a number of existing investors, citing his track record and well-honed strategy, say they are ready to back him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fund Manager Will Go to Well Amid Upheaval] Reference

Make sure you have some well-honed lines, including jokes, in every debate, because that's what people will see on CNN.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Neffinger, Drew Westen and Rachel Sklar: GOP Des Moines Debate LiveBlog] Reference

That is one of the twin pillars of the Clinton firewall — a well-honed strategy aimed at maximizing "the Race Chasm.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clinton Firewall] Reference

Making no effort to chase him down, either because the producers told him not to, or he has a well-honed sense of karma.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane McGivney: Top Chef: Into the Wild] Reference

The voice behind him was respectful to the point of being obsequious, and yet had a cutting edge like a well-honed knife.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Leper of Saint Giles]

My family and dining partners are usually happy to pick up my leavings - my skills of bread/crust separationare well-honed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great News for Bread Crust Lovers!] Reference

But Thomas credits the well-honed people skills of Clive Davis, "because you're dealing with enough egos to choke a horse.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Smooth As Santana] Reference

Repurposing her well-honed sales patter, she hawked her novel in beauty parlors and barbershops and to street book vendors.    From Wordnik.com.  [IT'S GANGSTA LIT] Reference

While it is likely that Baker will do more than simply deliver an ultimatum, his well-honed bargaining tools will be blunted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Baker's Biggest Test] Reference

Equally dangerous is the tendency -- hardly unique to physicians -- to place too much faith in one's own well-honed instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning To Respect A Patient's Intuitions] Reference

Since then, left-wing groups have played a constant role in Korean politics, with their well-honed tool of mass demonstrations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beef Protests Put South Korea Cabinet Into Turmoil] Reference

The goal of arriving at well-honed policies puts a premium on rationality and past performance and results often in a "top-down" flow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Rothman: Defining 'Change'] Reference

For decades Germany has been Europe's locomotive, a well-honed machine that exported not only fine products but prosperity to the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Problem] Reference

But whatever the backdrop, it's Smith's well-honed wordplay and the alcohol/adrenaline rush accompanying each salvo that adds character.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - anecdotes] Reference

Throughout the 19th century, composers drew on the latest writing for well-honed plots, full of drama, tension and contemporary resonance.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Notes] Reference

In fact, if you truly were a human rights movement, and based on your well-honed methods, you'd be organizing another flotilla as we speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Harris: To the Free Gaza Movement] Reference

A grown up band, with grown up problems, concerns and observations; capable of distilling all life's frustrations into a well-honed phrase.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNet - suntanned, torn shirtsleeves] Reference