Sentence examples for artistic refinement from inspiring English sources

He also gained special fame as an artist who, regardless of subject matter, could meld grandeur and artistic refinement with realism in both public monuments and in small-scale bronzes for the home at a wide range of prices that the middle class could afford.

The movie is a comprehensive vision of monstrosity under the veneer of civilized artistic refinement.

** The Popular Front saw artistic refinement as a mark of bourgeois élitism, and so did Guthrie.

Welhaven sought to promote national progress by means of education and artistic refinement.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, services were designed to accompany what had become an important tea-drinking ritual and consequently reached a high degree of artistic refinement.

Teaching in the daigakuryō gradually shifted in emphasis from Confucianism to literature, since the kuge set a higher value on artistic refinement than on more spiritual endeavours.

The higher artistic refinements occurred whenever time appeared to stretch.

The theory and the artistic refinements of tactical media fell away from the radicality of their politics".

Yet he was also capable of artistic genius and aesthetic refinement.

The producer's devotion to fostering the work of serious directors emerges from his overall identity as a man of aesthetic refinement and artistic commitment; his public and private lives are one (which may be why, when his business is about to collapse, so does he — not merely his business but his self-image is menaced).

Mr. Giulini's tenure, 1978-85, was replete with artistic depth and refinement.