"I was constantly looking at this house up on the mountain, the highest-elevation home in Rancho Mirage," says Smith, who notes a kinship between Sunnylands and Ichpa Mayapan in their "clean lines, broad roofs, and green lawns--a great refinement and opulence in the middle of this harsh wilderness".
An automatic air pressure shut off switch and regulator can be salvaged from a worn out store bought compressor rig and really is a great refinement.
In the last 20 years of the 18th century there was a tendency toward greater refinement, lightness, and delicacy in furniture design.
Five years on, City will have to show they are a club of much greater refinement.
This winter season has made her a stage artist of greater refinement, authority and precision.
The level of male dancing seems higher than that at City Ballet; and even Ballet Theater's constellation of male stars does not stop San Francisco Ballet from appearing a haven of yet greater refinement.
If the sobaliers seem to seek ever greater refinement of an ostensibly simple formula (noodles traditionally made with three basic ingredients, served cold with a small amount of dipping sauce), then the rameniacs (to borrow the name of a ramen-loving Web site) seek extreme variety, bold innovation, daring new creations.
Mr. Pearson's new work continues in this vein, but rather than developing in wilder and crazier ways, the trend is toward greater refinement and, one fears, a certain conservatism.
And Mr. Mendonça's instrumental writing, scored for chamber orchestra and played by the Asko|Schönberg ensemble under Etienne Siebens's leadership, too often results in an amorphous background of sonorities in need of greater refinement.
Cissé could also reflect on two efforts being disallowed for offside when the game was 0-0, though it should not blur the fact that Benfica played for long spells with the greater refinement and had enough chances to make it a far less stressful evening's work.
