As a screenwriter and director — from "Fingers" to "Harvard Man" — he has been preoccupied with brutality, vanity and sexual conquest, and with the interplay between those elemental impulses and the refinements of art and culture.
And the refinements of style, for all their showiness and implicitly sexual flamboyance, are fundamentally matters of discipline, of an asceticism that comes with its own, purifyingly spiritual aesthetic.
The 19th-century English essayist William Hazlitt praised the felicities of style and the refinements of the prose of the British statesman Edmund Burke (1729 97) as "that which went the nearest to the verge of poetry and yet never fell over".
Prepared for by the systematization of the Sanskrit language by Pāṇini, the development of the great epics, notably the Rāmāyaṇa, and the refinements of prosody represented by the Pāli lyrics, there arose, in the first centuries ad, a Sanskrit literary style that governed canons of taste for a millennium and remained influential far later through modern Indian languages and their literatures.
The experimental results prove that the proposed metric outperforms previous metrics in the calibration, and the refinements of WCS reference can further improve the calibration accuracy.
In this paper, the class of K 0 -matrices, which includes positive definite matrices, totally positive matrices, M-matrices and inverse M-matrices, is first introduced and the refinements of Fischer's inequality and Hadamard's inequality for K 0 -matrices are obtained.
In this section we will formulate and prove the refinements of the aforesaid inverse trigonometric inequalities.
Note that the inequalities (4.2) and (4.3) are the refinements of (1.5) and (1.6), respectively.
The muscular, impeccable string sound in this orchestra, the individuality of each woodwind principal, the ferocity of the brass and the refinement of the horns, set this orchestra apart, not necessarily better but always different.
She offered a great sense of her familiar drama, with an all-over white feather cape lined in lace, but the striking thing about her dresses was the intimacy and the refinement of the details.
The cultural awakening encouraged the revival of national folk arts, particularly song, dabkah (the national dance), and zajal (folk poetry), and the refinement of traditional crafts.
