Sentence examples for a delicate refinement from inspiring English sources
A starter of squid bonbons is a delicate refinement of Thai curry, the three little paquets filled with a lush dice of squid and vegetables set off with a softly tangy, balanced coconut sauce.
It is endowed with a delicate refinement of the discrete dynamics based on temporal parameters.
Every now and then he will break off from a generally percussive style of playing and toss off a phrase, or maybe just an ornament, with a disconcerting air of sweet, delicate refinement.
But the prose has little of Proust's delicate refinement.
He also allowed the orchestra to occasionally overwhelm the delicate refinement of soloist Arabella Steinbacher's playing in Brahms's Violin Concerto, which was frustrating.
The Pierrot of the songs is both hero and fool; the drama contains excitement and pathos, naïveté and violence, and the mood shifts between delicate refinement and populist liveliness.
Druckman's great gift was his ability to infuse his modernist impulses with the gamut of sensuality, from the most delicate refinement to the utmost crudeness, in startlingly vivid instrumental hues.
Tsai Ming-Liang's film is a deeply engaging meditation on the ideas of love, absence and loss, with a delicate, seriocomic tone and real refinement of feeling.
Being gay no longer confers sensitivity or refinement or a delicate, precocious sensibility that skips around the dull, obvious, straightforward representation preferred by the straight world.
Ms. Anderson has plenty of screen charisma but little of the refinement to be convincing as a delicate beauty undone by priggish, sometimes piggish, operators in a closed and rarefied world.
