Nor is it the same as being a "well-tuned engine.".    From Wordnik.com.  [This Explains It, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Of well-tuned harp brought sounds of common things.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward MacDowell] Reference

The talent is there, but not as well-tuned as in his later work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neuromancer by William Gibson « I Can’t Stop Reading!] Reference

An excellent workspace is one well-tuned to the needs of its occupant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crafter’s Attic | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

"They're really the most well-tuned machines I've ever seen," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Fee for Lenders to Get Artifacts Back] Reference

Effective range is approximately 20′ radius with well-tuned antennas.    From Wordnik.com.  [MacGyver Of The Day: Limor “Ladyada” Fried | Lifehacker Australia] Reference

Not in sports cars, where they're mainly well-tuned and aurally pleasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [LaCrosse gets by just fine on 4 cylinders] Reference

Properly inflated tires and a well-tuned engine will improve your mileage.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2005] Reference

The engine is well-tuned though and the wiper blades are brand spanking new.    From Wordnik.com.  [About those Christmas graveyard photographs.] Reference

My grandson who has lived here since he was 2 is well-tuned to the environment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dawkins and ID] Reference

The well-tuned boss vibrates in perfect harmony with the skill level of the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who's the Boss?] Reference

His muscles were well-tuned machines, free of cramps, and he won the race handily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stretching For Victory] Reference

The Gifford campaign worked early ballots for the primary like a well-tuned machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference

It keeps the machinery well-tuned, enabling me to be more proficient at paying work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-10-08] Reference

Nothing - NOTHING - beats a well-tuned CRT for contrast and dynamic range. — oldSchool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Is the Color of My True Love’s TV - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

How the music of those well-tuned instruments and voices caught us up and carried us away!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 06, June, 1890] Reference

The purr of a kitten, the feel of sunlight, or the sound of a well-tuned engine underseat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [on contentment...] Reference

The GOP has a well-tuned election day get-out-the-vote machine, probably more so that the Dems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Voting and Exit Polls - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference

He describes a bureaucracy as a well-tuned engine ready to respond to the Presidential throttle.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Explains It, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

China's banks, the story goes, are a well-tuned engine capable of lifting the Chinese economy up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undoing Chinese Bank Reform] Reference

Hyundai has standard and well-tuned ESC on the Sonata and it's standard on the Volkswagen Passat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stability control - Doing the right thing] Reference

I say we use the majority rule in passing everything that is needed to run a well-tuned government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Coburn: ‘I love gridlock’ because it means ‘we’re not passing things.’] Reference

What do you observe coming out of the tailpipe of a well-tuned 2008 Honda Civic on a 70 degree day?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Musing on mufflers: introducing aerobic respiration] Reference

Hyundai has standard (and well-tuned) ESC on the Sonata and it's standard on the Volkswagen Passat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stability control - Doing the right thing] Reference

DUPREY: Well, it's a very tight race, and both camps are running extraordinarily well-tuned campaigns.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Sunday Morning News: With Two Days Left Until Primary, Campaigning Gains Urgency in New Hampshire - January 30, 2000] Reference

But you are dealing with a machine as well, so how well-tuned and set up that race car is very, very important as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2004] Reference

Howard Dean and Blogger Jason Linkins provided some well-tuned analysis that Democrats and the White House should heed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shannyn Moore: Bad News, Good News: Coakley Loses] Reference

They were as an harmonious, well-tuned instrument, which gives no sound unless there be a skilful hand to move and act it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christologia] Reference

“Alexandrina,” he said, and his voice was well-tuned for the tender serious manner, had her ears been alive to such tuning.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Small House at Allington] Reference

Now he is up against a man who turned the skills he learned as a community organizer into a well-tuned, cash-flush campaign machine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference

Their manner, the words of each of them, betrayed something of falsehood to his well-tuned ear, to his acute eye, to his sharp senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nina Balatka] Reference

Patriotism has inspired him, and the ever well-tuned chords of his lyre ring out with bolder and more soul-stirring melody than of old.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

Still, the overall, the package is well-tuned for a 1.2 motor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

Effective range is approximately 20 'radius with well-tuned antennas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifehacker] Reference

School of Music students have priority over the well-tuned pianos in Sprague Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yale Daily News - Latest Issue] Reference